A company with ties to the University of Virginia plans to start a business in Danville that could bring 127 jobs to the Southside city. The Virginia Tobacco Commission this week approved a $2 million research and development grant to Fermata Energy LLC, a Charlottesville-based corporation created by UVa researchers. Fermata is developing vehicle-to-grid bidirectional chargers that will enable electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids to provide energy storage, according to documents posted on the commission’s website.
May is Tick Borne Disease Awareness month and you may be aware of diseases such as Lyme disease which can result from a bite. But researchers at the University of Virginia's School of Medicine say they have found a connection between multiple bites from lone star ticks, which despite its name can be found in the Mid-Atlantic, and a red meat allergy. Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, with the University of Virginia's School of Medicine, believes an unknown substance in ticks' saliva can make some people allergic to the alpha-gal sugar, which is found in red meat.
As is common with parasites, the fly larva may be triggering a mechanism that already exists in the host species, according to the study, by the University of Virginia’s Rosemary L. Malfi and her coauthors. Young bumblebee queens, having mated, normally dig an underground hibernaculum to wait out the winter, and they emerge again in the spring to start a nest. But worker bees aren’t supposed to dig, and they never get to emerge.
Rather than view rap lyrics as fictional or poetic, judges and prosecutors often treat them as literal statements of fact or intent. Now, in the face of recent opposition by the government, legal scholars from the University of Florida, the University of Virginia and Pennsylvania State University are urging the Supreme Court to hear Anthony Elonis’s case, U.S. v. Elonis, so the Court can decide how posting rap lyrics to a social media site affects the analysis of threats cases — and, in the process, provide clarity to “true threat” jurisprudence, an important area of th...
A new study finds about one third of children in Virginia are living in or near poverty. The study by the University of Virginia found 13 percent of kids lived in poverty and another 18 and a half percent lived near it.
U.Va. Innovation, an ambitious research and business wing of the state's flagship university, was recently honored with an IP Champions Award by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Intellectual Property Center. By maintaining a steady pipeline of ideas from lab to market, U.Va. Innovation has made Charlottesville into a magnet for tech startups, with dozens of new firms generating nearly $200 million since 2010. In a way, U.Va.'s embrace of intellectual property is a return to its roots. ... Two centuries later, Jefferson would be proud - and institutions nationwide would be wise...
A new fast-track training program for high school graduates and GED recipients could generate the entry-level workers needed to fill gaps in the fields of pharmacy and surgery. ... Piedmont Virginia Community College, Martha Jefferson Hospital and the University of Virginia Health System are working together on the initiative, with plans to start the pharmacy tech program in January and the processing tech program next summer.
More than 1,300 University of Virginia employees, who have put in at least 10 years of service, are being honored for all their hard work this spring. At the top of that list is a 93-year-old accountant in the department of urology - still very much dedicated to her duties.
Sutherland Middle School (Albemarle County Public Schools) principal Dave Rogers said the work was part of a partnership with Buford Middle School in the city of Charlottesville and with the University of Virginia. Sutherland has also been named the third “Smithsonian School” in the nation.
By Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s Global Public Square, from his commencement speech at Sarah Lawrence College on May 23, 2014.At its essence, a liberal education is an education to free the mind from dogma, from controls, from constraints. It is an exercise in freedom. That is why America's founding fathers believed so passionately in its importance. ... Thomas Jefferson's epitaph does not mention that he was president of the United States. It proudly notes that he founded the University of Virginia, another quintessential liberal arts college.
Standing in top-ranked Michigan’s way is the University of Virginia, who sits at No. 2 in the national poll. The Cavaliers haven’t been able to catch the Wolverines in the men’s varsity eight race this year, losing in a pair of meetings. ... Now in its fifth year on Lake Lanier, 274 men’s and women’s entries among 65 clubs across the United States will compete this weekend. It’s the largest turnout in event history.
Matthew Crawford, a senior fellow at U.Va.’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and author of “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work,” spoke to a mostly white-collar crowd Thursday about the joys of skilled blue-collar trades. Crawford was the keynote speaker during the 11th annual Economic Summit organized by the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce.
In the USA, free speech offers broad protections. Only a few, narrow exceptions would apply to censoring speech, such as a message that would incite immediate, unlawful conduct, said Leslie Kendrick, a law professor specializing in the First Amendment at the University of Virginia Law School. "Our doctrine on this says that we are more worried about the risk that the government will censor messages that it doesn't like than we are worried about civility and crackpot ideas," Kendrick said.
...creating a bandwagon for Democratic women might make a big difference — and make it harder for Republicans to win Senate control. "They just have to get that base excited," said Kyle Kondik, analyst at Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.
Via email, Robert O'Neil, former president of the University of Virginia and law professor, and author of Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University, said it is extremely rare in his experience for a professor to sue a student.
Oregon is staunchly Democratic, but the rollout of the state’s Obamacare website was such a mess that some pundits give Ms Wehby a chance, albeit a small one. Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia says that “If you’re a Republican in Oregon you have to run a perfect race in a perfect year [to win].”