A student at the University of Virginia is making a world of difference for soccer enthusiasts in Scottsville, thanks to her hard work as a girl scout.18 year old Porter Dickie is a third year at UVA and longtime Girl Scout member. Over the last two years she raised $40,000 to build a full size intramural field in Scottsville. Sunday she cut the ribbon at the new field and received the Girl Scout gold award for her efforts. Dickie says earning the highest award in girl scouting is a dream come true.
Tinkerers such as Thomas Talhelm, for example, have come up with homemade air purifiers designed to improve indoor air quality.Talhelm isn't an engineer by trade — he's a PhD student in cultural psychology from the University of Virginia whose area of focus is China. But last year, mystified about why air purifiers on the commercial market cost so much, he designed one of his own using a fan, a strap and a HEPA filter he bought online.
... As an earthly remembrance of Shelley’s rare brilliance, we have set up an endowed scholarship at the University of Virginia through the Jefferson Foundation. A beneficiary of a Jefferson Scholarship herself, Shelley was always humbled that she was chosen to receive this extraordinary gift when so many others were as deserving. With this in mind, we have established the Shelley Goldsmith Memorial Scholarship. When fully funded, it will be awarded to a candidate from Southwest Virginia who did not ultimately receive a Jefferson Scholarship but who did make it to the final selecti...
Seconds after Virginia quarterback Greyson Lambert took a knee and the clock expired, fans rushed David A. Harrison III Field at Scott Stadium to celebrate U.Va.’s 23-21, upset victory over No. 21 Louisville on Saturday afternoon.“We enjoyed the moment,” Virginia head coach Mike London said after the game.It was Virginia’s first victory over a top-25 team since it beat then-No. 23 Florida State, 14-13, on Nov. 19, 2011.
University of Virginia redshirt sophomores Matt Johns, left, and Greyson Lambert were best friends before they came to share the job of quarterback.
The Charlottesville Move2Health campaign is back at it this fall with a new initiative to get people eating healthy.Representatives from ACAC and the University of Virginia baseball team, who are both sponsoring the initiative, hit the downtown mall Friday during the last Fridays After Five to get people involved in the program. They say the new push comes on the heels of their last successful effort."The first campaign that we had, we exceeded what we wanted to accomplish in everybody being physically active,” said UVA baseball Coach Brian O'Connor. “Now we want to move f...
Denny McCarthy's 8-under-par 64 and Bryson DeChambeau's 9-foot birdie putt on the 18th green for a 71 clinched the Eisenhower Trophy for the USA, which staved off a charge of Canada to win the World Amateur Team Championship (WATC) for the 15th time. The 2014 amateur event took place at Karuizawa 72 Golf East in Japan."It was very exciting right down to the last putt," USA captain Jim Hyler said. "I'm so thrilled for these three young men, they played really hard all four days. We had different people count each day and it is a team event and I think the way it worke...
A pilot study at the University of Virginia that used focused ultrasound to treat 15 patients for essential tremor showed promising results. A larger study is underway. “Focused ultrasound has the potential to impact millions of lives a year,” said Dr. Neal Kassell, founder and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation and professor of neurosurgery at UVa.“We’ve started two clinical trials of Parkinson’s disease,” Kassell said. “But Parkinson’s disease is like cancer, it comes in multiple flavors.”
Most of us have endured the commercialization of a favorite song, and it’s the subject of a new paper in the journal Psychology and Marketing. University of Virginia marketing professor Cynthia Fraser showed 81 college students five different ads, some with familiar background music (like that VW Beetle Super Bowl ad with the tiny Darth Vader, which featured the Star Wars villain’s theme) and others with unfamiliar music (like an AT&T commercial featuring “Fanfare for the Common Man,” a classical work by composer Aaron Copland).One week later, she brought the studen...
The protein known as Ral, can drive tumor growth and metastasis in several human cancers when it is active state, including bladder, colon, lung, pancreatic and prostate cancer. However, drugs that block activity of the protein are not yet available.Recent findings published in the journal Nature provide a novel approach that targets activation of Ral proteins."When you want to keep an alligator from biting you, you can tie its mouth shut. We took another approach - we put a stick in its mouth to hold it open," said lead study author Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, professor of Urology and...
The University of Virginia Center for Politics last week adjusted its earlier outlook and said Republicans appear to have an increasingly better chance of tying Democrats for control and maybe even wresting the majority from the Democrats by a narrow margin.
SocialSphere Inc. designed and directed the survey, interviewing 917 likely voters in the states and districts with the most competitive Senate and House races, as ranked by the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
The University of Virginia unveiled a plan to deal with sexual misconduct Friday, the last of three days of meetings of the Board of Visitors.A new reporting policy, several educational outreach programs and a survey on campus culture are all part of the university’s multi-pronged approach to dealing with the problem.
The University of Virginia says it's launching several new initiatives this fall to combat sexual assaults on campus. U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan and others on Friday told members of the Board of Visitors about a new reporting policy, along with public awareness campaign and prevention efforts.The university says it has addressed three areas described in a report issued by a White House task force in April for higher education institutions. That includes plans to conduct a "climate" assessment next spring.
Virginia's Attorney General Mark Herring visited the University of Virginia to discuss major initiatives he wants to see in the commonwealth.The UVA Women, Gender and Sexuality program welcomed Herring to the podium in UVA's Newcomb Hall. More than 50 students and faculty members attended the event to learn more about what an attorney general does and exactly what areas of Virginia politics Herring plans to target for change while in office.He spoke to students about a slew of issues including sexual assault on campus, in-state tuition hikes, and gay marriage.
... Such degrees (one-year masters in management (MiM)), long popular in Europe, have become more attractive in the US as the financial crisis prompted undergraduates to reassess the value of taking two years off to earn an MBA. ... Recruiter demand for liberal arts students with a strong business foundation encouraged Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business to launch its programme in 2009.The economy also drove University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, whose inaugural class graduated in 2009.“Starting with such a [bad] job market had its advantages in the recr...
Over the next 100 years, scientists estimate the sea level along Virginia’s coastline will rise between 2 and 5 feet.And researchers at the University of Virginia say the rise — and the climate change driving it — will cause major problems for coastal communities.The university has received $3.5 million in federal grants to investigate the effects of climate change on those communities and to look at ways to prepare for rising sea levels.Over the next century, residents can expect not only higher sea levels, but more frequent storms, said Karen McGlathery, an environmental sc...
Summary translation by Justin O’Jack, director of U.Va.’s China Office:The article is almost entirely about the UVa honor code. The last paragraph underscores how UVa has one of the highest standards of personal integrity for students and that our University website highlights that international exchange students are held to the same standards as American students, the author pointing out the unique implication expulsion would have for international students by losing their visa status. It ends on this serious note but the piece overall is positive and fact based.Based in Guangzhou...