Students are taking advantage of the University of Virginia’s new UBike system on grounds. The program launched at the beginning of the spring term and has been doing pretty well. UBike is available at more than a dozen stations on grounds, and each bike can be monitored with via GPS. "People are taking the trips downtown to the downtown mall, we've seen trips to dormitory areas that are not within the station maps. It gives you that mid-day mobility,” said Rebecca White, UVa Parking and Transportation Director.
Bicycle sharing on the UVA Grounds. It’s a new way to get around called UBike. Members have an account number or a coded membership card to unlock a bicycle from a special rack. They can ride it anywhere and return it to a UBike rack. There’s an extra charge if the bicycle is not returned to a station or if the bicycle is kept beyond a 90-minute limit. UVA director of Parking and Transportation, Becca White says it’s not like a sharing program in the city several years ago where all the bicycles were stolen. White says the bikes have electronic locks and are equipped with GPS...
Although Virginia was one of the first states to pass legislation mandating the human papilloma virus vaccine for sixth-grade girls, the Commonwealth has fallen behind the national average of the number of girls actually getting vaccinated. Now researchers at the University of Virginia want to know why. The human papilloma virus (HVP) vaccine is three shots series that can prevent a deadly disease. "It's the only vaccine we have to prevent cases of cancer," said UVa assistant professor Jessica Keim-Malpass.
The University of Virginia issued a health warning to students about one confirmed case of the Mumps and four other suspected cases. As of right now the cause of those four other cases has not been confirmed. However, the director of General Medicine at the Student Health Center on grounds says it’s not uncommon to see cases of the Mumps on college campuses. Dr. Meredith Hayden also says Influenza A, this year’s flu, shares similar symptoms with the mumps, including swollen parotid glands and a high fever.
With the left-wing Syriza political party now leading a ruling coalition in Greece, there are concerns about whether Athens will continue to make good on its more than $260 billion economic bailout and austerity agreement with the so-called “troika” — the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. “You’ve got this real tension in that nobody is really empowered to provide the safety net that allows a country to get through a recession — or in Greece’s case, a depression,” said William Antholis, a foreign p...
E.D. Hirsch was an educational conservative before educational conservatives were cool. Now a retired professor of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, Hirsch has been arguing for a back-to-basics approach since the 1980s. In a series of bestselling books that include "Cultural literacy: What every American needs to know" (1987) and "The schools we need and why we don't have them" (1996), Hirsch has called for grounding K-12 education in facts — in the history, literature, science, geography, art and knowledge of their own country and cultu...
Cavalier Daily Editor-in-Chief Julia Horowitz was one of three student panelists on the hourlong show, discussing recent news developments on American college campuses.
The number of students applying to Virginia’s law schools seems as scant as last year. Midway through the application season, school administrators are continuing to deal with a dramatic drop in applications and enrollment. An expansion of law schools and a contraction in legal jobs have contributed to fewer students viewing a career as a lawyer as a sure path to lucrative employment. “Our university does not use our law school as a cash cow. We are financially self-sufficient,” said Paul Mahoney, dean of the University of Virginia law school. The law school keeps its tuition...
The beheading of a Japanese journalist does not represent Islam. Saddam Hussein did not represent Islam. Bashar al-Assad does not represent Islam. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya did not represent Islam. The regular beheadings in Saudi Arabia for ‘crimes’ such as adultery do not represent Islam. Nevertheless, it is probably true that in the late 20th century a high percentage of the world’s violent conflicts took place inside the Muslim world or against non-Muslims. Today, Professor John Owen of the University of Virginia argues in his new book, Confronting Political Isl...
(By Shira Lurie, in the first year of her PhD in Early American History at the University of Virginia) The 80/20 rule is an economic principle that asserts 80% of outputs are the result of 20% of inputs. It is occasionally referred to as the Pareto Principle, named for an Italian economist who proposed that 80% of the country’s wealth was held by just 20% of the population (I like to think of him as the original Michael Moore). As a historian, percentages and words like “outputs” tend to confuse me, but the important thing to glean from the 80/20 rul...
The Super bowl broke records with amount of viewership for the game and the commercials. One University of Virginia student made it into one of those well watched commercials. Brad Jaeger is a racecar driver that made it into the Nissan commercial, the one that ran for just about 90 seconds during the Super bowl. He had a behind the scenes role in the shooting and just barely made it onto the screen.
After being thrown into the national spotlight on sexual assault issues, a University of Virginia graduate is driving home her organization’s campaign promoting “better conduct among college men.” The organization, called the “Network of enlightened Women (New),” was started 10 years ago by Karin Agness, a lawyer and graduate of U.Va.
A breakthrough at the University of Virginia School of Medicine could help save cancer patients' lives. Researchers at UVA discovered a specific protein that allows lung cancer cells to spread throughout the body. “We basically took lung cancer cells and manipulated them in a way that they showed metastatic properties,” said Marty Mayo, associate professor in biochemistry and molecular genetics.
The University of Virginia is the highest-ranked public university on the Princeton Review’s “best value” colleges list. The Princeton Review released its book “Colleges that Pay You Back: The 200 Best Value Colleges and What it Takes to Get In” on Tuesday. The editors of the book looked at a number of factors, including financial aid for students and salary data and job satisfaction for graduates.
Public-high-school health-education classes would be required to include lessons about preventing sexual assaults and relationship violence under a bill introduced by Sens. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) Tuesday morning. Kaine met with student leaders at the University of Virginia in December, following national attention being drawn to the issue of rape and relationship violence on campus.
The University of Virginia is launching a bikeshare program in which participants can grab a bicycle for a quick trip across Grounds and leave it at one of several designated locations for the next potential rider. The UVa program asks members to sign up in advance and receive a special code that will unlock a bike at one of several stations. Ride time is limited to 90 minutes per day per user. There are a variety of rates, ranging from $5 per day to $80 per year.
A University of Virginia study is asking why so many Virginia girls are not getting vaccinated for human papillomavirus. About 28 percent of adolescent girls in Virginia received all three doses of the HPV vaccine last year, compared with 38 percent of girls nationally. This is a major concern because HPV is often a precursor for cervical, anal and oral cancer, said Jessica Keim-Malpass, an assistant professor in the university’s School of Nursing.
A student group at the University of Virginia has helped create legislation that could stop sexual assaults before they happen. One Less was often at the center of the Rolling Stone article controversy, giving a voice to survivors of sexual assault. Now they have taken the next step to help craft legislation that they believe could get to the root of the issue.
Students from across the world visited with members of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. Dozens of Chinese students are learning about the inner-workings of the American business community. This is part of a series of activities arranged by the University of Virginia to help broaden the students' understanding of the United States and improve their English-language skills.
Pittsburgh-based RTI International Metals Inc. has become a member of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, or CCAM, a public-private research consortium based in Prince George County. CCAM now includes 28 private industry, government and university members. Some of the industry members are Alcoa Inc., Canon Virginia Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding, Rolls-Royce Plc, and Siemens. Academic partners are Old Dominion University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Tech.