First-term Virginia U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith will be among the speakers at the fourth annual Energy Technology Summit at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise on March 21.
The Virginia Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case dealing with whether Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) can subpoena e-mails and records from the University of Virginia dealing with the work of a former university climate scientist.
The effect of upheaval in the Arab world on fuel prices will eventually moderate, but democracies and the current autocracies will have the same long-term positions about oil, said Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations after a presentation at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
With their eyes glued to a piece of paper and their bodies swaying vertically and horizontally, University of Virginia law professor Molly Bishop Shadel said, students often hold onto the podium like it’s the last rail of the Titanic when they’re giving a speech. But after a few tries, Shadel said, the students begin to loosen up.
Lighting up villages in the remote areas of East and West Champaran, Muzzarpur, Sitamarhi and Lakisarai in Bihar is the Husk Power System (HPS), a company set up by electrical engineer Gyanesh Pandey together with his friends Ratnesh Yadhav, Manoj Sinha and Charles Ransler, and with support from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
Food hubs are one of the success stories of the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative, USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan said. She described a food hub at the University of Virginia that sells to the university, the food-service company Sysco and to other large buyers.
Pity the architects who've tried for almost 200 years to follow the genius of Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia. Their efforts bring to mind Fitzgerald's remark regarding the dearth of second acts in American lives. In Charlottesville, though, we're talking about the life of one of the nation's finest master plans -- and the mostly lackluster structures that have proliferated around it.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has decided it will hear an appeal in state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s battle to get the University of Virginia to turn over documents related to a climate change scientist. Cuccinelli, a climate change skeptic, has been investigating whether scientist Michael Mann, who worked at UVa for years but is now at Pennsylvania State University, committed fraud. The investigation relates to thousands of e-mails written by climate research scientists, including Mann, that were leaked from a British university. Skeptics have claimed that the e-mails showed the ...
Aerospace engineering researchers and students at the University of Virginia are helping to create a hypersonic "scramjet" engine that can travel at five times the speed of sound - or 3,700 mph. That's about twice the speed of a bullet, and it's technology that could one day allow a plane to fly from New York to Los Angeles in just 40 minutes.
There's something that her former players come to realize about coach Debbie Ryan. When they think back on the biggest successes in their careers at Virginia, Ryan seems a bit in the periphery, as if always letting them have the glory. But when they think about difficulties and challenges they faced, Ryan is front and center. Because she was always there to help them.
Billy R. Williams took the pictures of his head in a halo to church with him Sunday to share the news of his miracle. The halo was fastened to his head at the University of Virginia Health System two weeks ago as Williams became the first patient to undergo scalpel-free brain surgery using focused sound waves to relieve symptoms of the essential tremor that has plagued him for nearly a decade.
Darius Smith
A first-year student at the University of Virginia's College at Wise
Jonathan Haidt
A professor in the Department of Psychology
Liberal Bias in Academia Reaches New Levels
NewsMax.com / March 9
Josipa Roksa
a sociologist at the University of Virginia
Education community should re-evaluate itself
The North Wind / March 10
Saras Sarasvathy
An associate professor at the Darden School of Business.
Why entrepreneurs and corporate chiefs make bad bedfellows
Globe and Mail / March 10
Robert Sayler and Molly Bishop Shadel
Law professors and authors of "Tongue-Tied America: Reviving the Art of Verbal Persuasion"
How to end fear of public ...
More Virginians are identifying themselves as multi-racial, according to the U.S. Census. … The Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia has a overview of the multi-racial population here.
And the Virginia Festival of the Book, set for March 16-20, soldiers on, beleaguered by dwindling financial support as another chief source of funding, the National Endowment for the Humanities, takes its own funding hits. This year, the five-day event has 30 fewer programs than last year, but organizers don't see a mere 130 public events as necessarily a bad thing. "Last year people complained that there were too many choices in some time slots," says Nancy Damon, book festival program director.
… Using the University of Virginia's Valley of the Shadow digital archive as a guide--and funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for financial support--Spielvogel developed an online reenactment and multiplayer role-playing simulation that takes place during the American Civil War.
A University of Virginia professor will serve on a presidential panel formed in the wake of the revelation that U.S.-supported researchers deliberately infected people with syphilis in Guatemala in the 1940s. John Arras, the Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics and a professor of philosophy, was one of 15 experts selected for the new panel.
Most people take clean water for granted, but for some third world countries the lack of clean water continues to cause disease and unsanitary conditions. Sargent Solutions focuses on a major effort underway at the University of Virginia, which is working to provide clean water to a province in South Africa. For the past four years Associate Professor Garrick Louis has been working with fourth year students to design a water filtration and sanitation system to bring clean water to Limpopo, a province in South Africa. The lack of clean water is causing and spreading disease.
Meadowbrook Drive on Augusta's south side might seem like an unlikely place to spend spring break, but for 18 University of Virginia students, it's exactly where they want to be. … On Monday morning, the gently sloping roof of 2607 Meadowbrook Drive was crawling with college students in T-shirts and jeans, rapidly removing old shingles. On the ground, seven Augusta/CSRA Habitat for Humanity "Geezers" supervised. "They're a great group of guys," said Rosa, now spending his second spring break with the Augusta volunteer retirees.
Private endowment money will now help pay for renovations to the Rotunda at the University of Virginia. Those funds will pay for a new roof, which could cost about $4.5-million. That money is typically considered off limits to capital improvement projects. The university had requested $13-million from the commonwealth, but that didn't happen.