University of Virginia students Atlee Webber and Anna Karnaze ... The students are part of a growing club at UVa called Campus Kitchen that collects unused food from the university’s dining halls, as well as produce from the Local Food Hub, and cooks up meals for Charlottesville-area residents in need.

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Willingham is a psychology professor and author of "Why Don't Students Like School?"

Jennifer Ackerman's book, "Ah-Choo!  The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold," about participating in a U.Va. cold study, is excerpted here.

University of Virginia researchers found that 3-year-olds placed more trust in information they are told than information conveyed to them without words.

The University of Virginia will work with Dominion Power and the manufacturer through its Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering and its Department of Systems Engineering to conduct all its research related to this project in the county.

The University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs co-hosted a panel along with the Campaign Finance Institute on the impact of the Supreme Court's landmark decision allowing unlimited campaign spending by corporations. It might be offset by expanding the electorate and encouraging more small-donor contributions rather than imposing campaign spending limits, panelists said.

On the morning of May 6, 1957, Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner dropped by the school to talk about the writing profession. The writer in residence at the University of Virginia had graciously agreed to share part of his morning with the young writers.

Thanks to a collaboration with the University of Virginia's Med Lab, the physicals are one stop shopping for the entire fire department.

University of Virginia dining and housing got some special recognition on Monday for going green on grounds. ... This is the first time a school in Virginia has earned an honor this high from the Virginia Environmental Excellence Program.

In a new study in the journal Psychological Science, researchers from the University of Virginia, led by psychology professor Judy deLoache, and Vanderbilt University tested 72 infants aged 12 to 18 months for how many new words they absorbed after repeated viewing of a popular educational DVD. ... the children did not learn any more words from their month-long exposure to the educational DVD than their control counterparts. In fact, the highest level of learning occurred in a no-video environment in which parents taught their children target words during everyday activities.

"A cappella was kind of dormant," said Michael Winters, president of the University of Virginia Hullabahoos, a men's group known for wearing colorful robes during concerts and throwing huge after-parties. "Then, all of a sudden, it's something everyone knows about."

U.Va. alumnus Chris Farina stars in the documentary, "The Parking Lot Movie": In other documentaries this week, a keen insight comes to the slacker culture of the overeducated parking-lot attendant in Meghan Eckman's "The Parking Lot Movie," chronicling life at a lot across from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. It makes its debut on "Independent Lens" (WGBY, Tuesday, 10 p.m.; CPTV, Tuesday, 11 p.m.).

A freshman at the University of Virginia, she took her first trip when she was 15 as a People to People Student Ambassador with about 40 others.

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As per the recent review performed on three-year-olds, by Vikram K. Jaswal, from the University of Virginia and his apprentices, namely, Alison R. Setia, A. Carrington Croft, and Caitlin A. Cole, discovered out that immature children have formed a favoritism to deem what they are conveyed.

In the August issue of the journal Applied Developmental Science, University of Virginia and George Washington researchers who studied preschoolers adopted at birth by lesbian, gay male and heterosexual couples concluded that the sexual orientation of the parents has nothing to do with the psychological health of the child. It's the quality of the parenting that counts.

Although players predicted they'd feel much better after they retaliated, the reverse turned out to be true. The researchers measured their mood on a seven-point scale (with 7 being extremely satisfied) and found that avengers scored 1.5 points lower than other players who didn't get a chance to retaliate, according to results published in 2008 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Colgate University conducted the studies with colleagues at Harvard University and the University of Virginia.

The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics announced Friday the publication of "Get in the Booth: A Citizens Guide to the 2010 Midterm Elections," a collection of essays by experts from academia and the media that provide insight into the political, social and economic issues playing a role in the Nov. 2 midterm elections.