As noted in a January 1994 review by David Aubrey of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Robert Dolan of the University of Virginia: “Siesta Key's stability and low erosion rates are linked both directly and indirectly to the Big Sarasota Pass ebb shoal's capacity to shelter the key from high energy waves and storm forces, as well as the sand transport that occurs in conjunction with the shoal, the pass and the key. If the dredging planned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is carried out, this will modify the wave and storm protection, and alter the sediment supply to the ...
Gardner R. Hathaway, a former CIA chief of counterintelligence whose nearly four-decade career with the agency took him to Cold War focal points ranging from Berlin to Moscow and placed him at the center of many espionage episodes, died Nov. 20 at the Vitas hospice in Vienna. He was 88.
Just 57 seconds into Sunday's NCAA Round-of-16 game against Marquette, Virginia defender Matt Brown was hit with a red card, leaving UVa to play a man down for the rest of the game. Virginia didn't let it affect them. Thanks to goals by Scott Thomsen, Darius Madison and Todd Wharton, the Cavalier men’s soccer team defeated Marquette, 3-1, in front of a crowd of 1,126 at Klockner Stadium.
The greatest challenges of portables may be transition periods and logistics, said Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. “Facilities matter,” he said, “but they don’t trump a solid program and solid people delivering that program.”
Malcolm Bell III, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia who is co-director of excavations at Morgantina, a site near Aidone, Sicily, from which the silver is believed to have been looted, said: “The flaw in the agreement, from the Sicilian point of view, is that during the period when the silver goes back to New York, there is nothing in its place at the little Aidone museum. But when the silver is in Sicily, Italy must lend the Met works of equal beauty and value.”
UVa is somewhat at the mercy of forces beyond its control. The escalating costs of its generous aid program cannot be sustained. It must slow those increases down — so that the program can continue to help students, if not quite as generously, for many years to come.
"Remember, four months ago, Syria was going to be the key issue in 2014, then it was the shutdown, now it's Obamacare," said Larry Sabato, a political-science professor at the University of Virginia. "I have no idea what will dominate the fall, and neither does anybody else."
The subject at the Aspen Strategy Group was “The Future of American Defense.” The speakers were Michelle Flournoy, a former under secretary of defense for policy, and Philip Zelikow, a professor of history at the University of Virginia. Not until time was running out on this otherwise interesting review of American defense policy was a question raised about the future of American policy towards China. Both speakers quickly leaped at the question, labeling it, in no uncertain terms, as the most important strategic question facing the Obama administration.
Micron said it is working with Georgia Tech, the University of Missouri, and the University of Virginia to develop new applications for Automata. Although the company has not announced a date for final products, a software development kit is slated to come out next year, along with simulation tools.
In recognition of Virginia Board of Education president David Foster’s contributions to education through public service, the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education Foundation has selected him to receive its 2013 Distinguished Service to the Commonwealth Award.
Annual rates for general liability coverage can reach well into tens of thousands of dollars at large institutions, said Kenneth S. Abraham, a law professor at the University of Virginia. He said the Penn State case could encourage schools to rethink their liability coverage. "It may be that they take another look at it and buy some more coverage. That's certainly a possibility," said Abraham, a scholar in insurance law. "I don't think there's necessarily a wholesale race to buy more coverage."
After a final round of interviews Saturday morning, Charlie Tyson, a senior at the University of Virginia, was certain of one thing: He had no chance of winning.
A University of Virginia student organization is raising money for the restoration of the Rotunda with an online auction through next week. RestoreUVa aims to raise at least $20,000 during its auction, which ends Dec. 5.
Students in a University of Virginia School of Commerce class are giving back to the community in a huge way this holiday season. They have collectively raised more than $25,000 for 15 charities in the Charlottesville area through a class assignment.
Experts say there is no need to be discouraged because hiring is happening. Underwood says some of the hot jobs in Charlottesville are at University of Virginia football and basketball games. They provide steady seasonal work and the pay is above minimum wage.
Unless the president reverses this course toward increasing distrust and credibility, those hoping to ride his coattails into the November 2014 elections may be in for great disappointments. Although still a year away, pollsters and readers of the political tea leaves, John Giokaris at PolicyMic.com and Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, have started to weigh in with their prognostications for various Senate races.
But if Americans are sorting themselves into like-minded communities, are they doing so on purpose? In other words, are people voting with their feet by consciously moving to states or counties that reflect their own partisan preferences? Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Southern California suggest that, yes, they may be.
A graduate student at the University of Virginia is representing the next generation of international academic cooperation in disease research. Lufuno Mavhandu, 31, is visiting UVa’s School of Medicine from her home University of Venda in South Africa as she works toward completing her Ph.D. and furthering her research on HIV.
The University of Virginia is hoping to get more philanthropic support for its financial aid program, President Teresa A. Sullivan said. In a recent interview, Sullivan talked about the future of AccessUVa and rising costs that could lead to further tuition increases.
Robin Felder, associate director of clinical chemistry at the University of Virginia, US, welcomes the advance. Looking ahead, Felder anticipates that ‘aptamer technology promises to revolutionise the scope of continuous clinical analysis in personalised medicine. Wearable sensors will report critical health issues on a minute-to-minute basis allowing for therapies that are tailored to the individual and their personal challenges with health.’