University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan said Wednesday she has been talking with people within and outside the university to reassure them the institution is strong and moving toward the future. Sullivan said a strong leader depends on a solid team and that she has been fortunate to have a strong team at U.Va. She added that strategic planning efforts have gone well this year and that she's making a "systematic effort" to ensure stakeholders are heard.
The key for party switchers "is whether the ideology and voting record can stay stable after the switch," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.
Bob Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, criticized NCTQ’s reliance on course materials as a “very, very thin and indirect determinant of what the students who take that course actually learn.”
There is a similar mission in protecting US corporate data from theft as there was in defending the nation as a Marine. Like most of the professionals working in the digital forensics/incident response (DFIR) field, I believe that this work is important and it makes a difference.
"BIOMASS will be a hugely important instrument for global environmental science research in the coming years, and its observations will be the basis of significant environmental policy in the areas of carbon cycling and global warming," Hank Shugart, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia and member of the BIOMASS advisory committee to the ESA, said in a statement.
A coalition of over 100 student body presidents and leaders including U.Va. Student Council vice president Alexander Pawlowski, representing more than 1 million college students, will deliver a petition to lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday to demand that Congress find "a long-term solution" to the student loan crisis before July 1, and take immediate action to prevent interest rates on key government loans from doubling.
Gary Gallagher, a leading Civil War historian at the University of Virginia, argues that the long-reigning emphasis on slavery and liberation distorts our understanding of the war and of how Americans thought in the 1860s.
A new agreement between the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia and the Virginia Community College System, including Germanna Community College, will guarantee admission to the school’s RN to Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. The part time, 21-month program is designed to make it easier for full-time working nurses to get their BSN.
Could 2013 be the year of the noodle? “It’s the right time in the marketplace for noodle stations,” says Brent Beringer, resident district manager of the University of Virginia Dining/Aramark, where its In the Nood concept has become the crown jewel of the new dining hall.
The states’ decision to reduce the amount of permitted pollution “sent a strong signal to the market that the states have the political will to make this effective,” explains University of Virginia public policy professor William Shobe, who studies carbon markets. (Shobe was involved in the initial auction design, in writing a report on design possibilities in 2007.)
No player on the United States' U-19 men's basketball team is taller than Mike Tobey, the University of Virginia's 6-foot-11 sophomore.
James Vance, a professor at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, is tracking the elk's movements to see what habitat they prefer and how the new herd will impact the one already established on the mountain.
"The vast majority of states are deeply red or deeply blue, and they reflect that," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Governors used to be the most bipartisan group, but now they're as divided as everybody else."
"The immigration bill is a big plate of vegetables that they don't like," says Kyle Kondik, a congressional elections expert at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Photo and recipe: In the Nood, University of Virginia Dining/Aramark
The connection between ticks and meat was discovered by Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, an allergy researcher at the University of Virginia, who noticed that some cancer patients who exhibited allergic reactions to the drug cetuximab had antibodies to alpha-gal, which is also present in the drug. Platts-Mills discovered that only patients from the southeastern “tick-belt” had allergic reactions, and he began routinely asking about tick exposure.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, puts it more bluntly. "Who wants this baggage? Answer: No one."
The voyage of the spaceship Biomass is a five-year mission to peer into the Earth's forests and count carbon mass in hopes of keeping the world cool. A University of Virginia researcher helped the European Space Agency develop the radar-bearing satellite designed to help scientists better understand how trees and vegetation function in storing and recycling carbon.