UVA astronomers, with the help of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), have confirmed the discovery of a new star. According to UVA Today, this star is a cool brown dwarf star. These stars are characterized by a mass so small they are unable to burn hydrogen into helium, which leads them to burn out over time.
“Our findings highlight an intriguing potential link between two common and clinically important complications seen in patients with kidney transplants and with CKD: mineral and bone disorders and anemia,” said lead investigator Csaba P. Kovesdy, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and Chief of Nephrology at Salem VA Medical Center in Salem, Va.
Money is a common source of conflict in many relationships and is often the cause of divorce. One would think that difficult economic times would increase quarrels over finances and ultimately lead to heightened divorce rates. In fact, the opposite is true. An article written by the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia indicated that from 2007 to 2008, divorce rates dropped from17.5 per 1,000 married women to 16.9 per 1,000 married women.
In the absence of computerized baseline testing, doctors diagnose concussions based on the existence of symptoms, said Dr. [Julian] Bailes [chairman of West Virginia University's department of neurosurgery and an adviser to the National Football League Players Association], meaning coaches and medical personnel need to take precautions when dealing with a possible concussion. Research from the Army and the University of Virginia has made progress toward a blood test that would identify a concussion with a pinprick, [Jon] Butler [executive director of Pop Warner] said.
Hinting at potentially more growth of the local intelligence community, the man who is overseeing the relocation of more than 800 Defense Intelligence Agency employees to Albemarle County said he expects the transition to be completed by March. … Roberts briefed city, county and University of Virginia officials at a meeting of the Planning and Coordination Council on Thursday.
In January, when Dr. Teresa Sullivan became the first woman selected to become president of the University of Virginia, expectations were that the noted sociology professor and provost and executive vice president for student affairs at the University of Michigan would ease into her job in bucolic Charlottesville. When she took over in August, however, the scene was anything but peaceful.
By Nicole Gugliucci, Ph.D. astronomy student in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
With every new astronomical instrument that comes online, scientists are able to explore further and deeper into our universe. But sometimes, they find things that have been lurking nearby all along, as is the case with this ultra-cool brown dwarf discovered with several infrared telescopes.
"Universally available preschool programs are likely to narrow achievement gaps between children who are poor and those who are not poor, and also between racial groups," said study author Daphna Bassok, an assistant professor of education policy at the University of Virginia, in a news release.
One of the documentaries that premiered at this year's Virginia Film Festival is all about a Virginia teacher and the board game he created. It's called the World Peace Game. As Thomas Pierce from the program With Good Reason reports, teaching peace early has many advocates.
#34: The White Spot. If you can get over the pause-worthy, Jim Crow-ish name, White Spot is the quintessential late night burger joint in Charlottesville.
[A report by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity concludes that], “Perhaps reform must start as a movement of university presidents who lead schools of both nationally prominent athletics and academics,” the center’s report reads. “As leaders whose institutions carry much sway with both communities — schools such as the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, Stanford University, Duke University, etc. — if they agree to a series of reforms, ...
Inspired by former University of Virginia All-American defenseman Ken Clausen’s famous “fingerstache” tattoo -- the permanent marking of a handlebar mustache on the inside of his left index finger -- the event calls on lacrosse teams to sport mustaches and generate funds donated to cancer research.
After bouncing around the NFL to four teams in four years, Jeff Otis says he saw the writing on the wall for his professional football career — and it didn’t spell longevity. … Now, as the former QB gets set to graduate next year with an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School, he realizes that the lessons he learned on the field are identical to those taught in b-school.
Robert Bruner,
dean of the Darden School of Business
Corporate Mergers Work Well If Companies Master The Fine Points
Investors Business Daily / Nov. 12
John Knapp,
senior economist at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Bob McDonnell says Virginia has gained 60,000 jobs since he became governor
Richmond Times-Dispatch & PolitiFact.com / Nov. 17
Larry Sabato,
politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
12 in 2012: Pence's Focus, Delivery of Message Has Supporters Looking at White House
Fox News / Nov. 17
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Sarah Palin poised to run for president in 2012 &nda...
A recent tour of World War I battlefields in France was the latest in a series of initiatives launched by the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library to build recognition of the central role of President Wilson during the war. … The eight-day tour was co-led by Edward Lengel, a University of Virginia historian who has written the definitive history of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, and William Walker, a presidential library trustee and scholar of World War I.
[Michael] Holt, a scholar of 19th-century political history at the University of Virginia, was given the unenviable task of describing and assessing a president universally regarded as a dangerous failure. He has succeeded admirably.
On Wednesday, the official dedication of the University of Virginia's Health System's Transitional Care Hospital took place. The facility will provide care for patients with serious conditions that require a longer hospital stay.
Mentions Rome Reborn, part of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, and Valley of the Shadow, part of the Center for Digital History.
Keeping the University of Virginia community safe brought students and police together on grounds Wednesday night. The UVA Student Council held a safety forum with police to talk about security efforts on grounds.