A Charlottesville business is sharing its successful model of working with veterans with other central Virginia employers. Shine Systems and Technologies is hosting a Virginia Values Veterans training day at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business on Wednesday. The event is for employers.
Getting algae to wipe out pollution in a cost-effective way from, say, a coal-fired power plant is where the real challenge lies. "The reason that we don't have algae ponds next to all our power plants is that the devil's in the details," said Andres Clarens, who researches carbon management as an assistant professor with the University of Virginia's civil and environmental engineering department.
In his Aug. 1 analysis, Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center on Politics in Charlottesville, pointed out that generally speaking, the president's party pays a price for holding the White House and that like other parties of presidents, the Democrats may be in a weaker position in the states, as well as Congress, when President Barack Obama leaves office in 2016.
Keeping health science research discoveries flowing down the laboratory-to-market pipeline requires sustained federal funding, a local biotechnology executive told a congressional subcommittee. Brian Wamhoff was one of three people invited to testify recently before the House Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
In previous studies, Professor Bankole Johnson and his team at the University of Virginia have shown that variations in genes that encode the serotonin transporter, a protein that regulates the concentration of serotonin between nerve cells, can significantly influence drinking intensity. They have also shown that the effectiveness of ondansetron therapy among people with alcohol dependence is influenced by variations of the serotonin transporter gene.
At the University of Virginia, economist Amalia Miller calculated that for every year a woman delays motherhood, she makes about 9 percent more in lifetime earnings. A decade of delay could mean nearly doubling her income, Miller has extrapolated — a windfall that makes it much easier to buy all those diapers.
When faculty at the University of Virginia Women’s Center were brainstorming new ideas for programs to help university women, Edith “Winx” Lawrence had an idea that would take their efforts beyond the campus and into the community. “I suggested maybe the best way to help college women would be to teach them to help younger women feel good about themselves,” Lawrence says. Those discussions led to the creation of the Young Women Leaders Program, which Lawrence cofounded with Kimberly Roberts in 1997.
Minus the two-a-days, the IV drips, the soft tissue muscle pulls and the fatigue, Chris Long has actually become a fan of training camp.
(NOTE: Republishing to reflect headline corrected by media source) Noelle is a perpetually pregnant mannequin who lives at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing. She has a heartbeat and blood pressure, eyes that open and close, joints at the hip, knee and ankle, a womb, a baby who’s been delivered thousands of times – and thanks to various computer programs, she talks. Noelle is one of seven high-tech mannequins at UVA. She cost $60,000. A male model, who sweats, has seizures and is wireless, cost $90,000. But the lab’s associate direc...
The study also looked at national return on investments. Ranked number one is the Georgia Institute of Technology, with an $836,000 return on investment. State University of New York at New Paltz takes second with a $644,500 return followed by the University of Virginia with $620,900.
What is unclear, however, is whether the 2013 recess will lead to the explosive exchanges of 2009 and 2010 that helped Republicans win a landslide during the president's first midterm election. "I don't think the country is in the broiling mood it was in 2009. Times are a little bit better. I don't necessarily think we are going to see the kind of fireworks that we saw four years ago," says Kyle Kondik, a congressional election specialist at the University of Virginia.
Gerald D. Starsia has been named senior associate dean and chief operating officer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
"It's an easy thing for Democrats to caricature in their attacks on Cuccinelli," says Kyle Kondik, analyst for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "If the Democrats win this election, it will probably be because they have painted Cuccinelli as too out of the mainstream, particularly on social issues."
U.Va.’s School of Nursing makes the five-school list.
Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist who reviewed Castro's interrogation, later testified that Castro had no "mental illness whatsoever" and had been methodical in keeping the women captive and avoiding detection.
Obama has to pass through another congressional election in 2014, and his losses may well pile up. Because, as a new study from the University of Virginia Center for Politics proves yet again, "the president's party almost invariably pays a price for holding the White House, a price that can be measured in the loss of House representatives, senators, governors and state legislators."
Kim Innes, a Kundalini Yoga practitioner and a clinical associate professor at the University of Virginia, recently published a study on how yoga may benefit people who have a variety of health risk factors, including being overweight, sedentary, and at risk for type 2 diabetes.
Married college students are an anomaly today. The median age for a first marriage has risen over the years, according to the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. A generation ago, most couples married in their early or middle 20s. Today, women usually tie the knot at 27; for men, it’s 29. Noting that trend, some campuses have done away with family housing.
The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors convened Thursday afternoon for a new year. The meeting represented new beginnings in a lot of ways: there are three new board members and a new rector.
Dr. Greg Saathoff, a U.Va. forensic psychiatrist who often works with the FBI, said Castro's crimes were "completely unprecedented" given that his victims were unrelated and that they were kept in a neighborhood setting for so long.