Imagine spending the night with Berber Nomads in the Sahara desert, till the sun rose, getting lost in a rickshaw in India or breaking down cultural barriers to the tunes of Justin Bieber and Britney Spears. University of Queensland Primary Education student Claire Mulligan did all this and more during a four-month Semester at Sea study abroad program travelling the world on a seven-deck, 179-metre ship.
The change in board leadership at the University of Virginia is “reason to hope” that the governance crisis there has ended, but the American Association of University Professors said it plans to continue to monitor the dispute.
NASA Langley Research Center has joined the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, a consortium of manufacturing companies and universities conducting advanced manufacturing research in Prince George County. The University of Virginia, Virginia State University and Virginia Tech are founding members of CCAM.
As recently as last month the trend for delayed adolescence was roundly condemned by Meg Jay, assistant clinical professor of psychology at the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia. Jay identified a tendency among twentysomethings to tread water and achieve little, because they regard the decade leading up to 30 as a time to kick back. “Twenty is not the new 30,” said Jay. “When you tell a twentysomething that they have 10 more years to figure their lives out, you are robbing that person of their urgency and ambition.”
One treasure is the head and extremities of a Morgantina acrolith. Acroliths were statues generally made with wooden trunks and marble heads; dating from 530 to 520BC, this is one of the oldest in the Western world and is widely believed to have been looted from the ancient Greek site of Morgantina in Sicily along with another acrolith. A collector later donated the acroliths to the University of Virginia’s Art Museum, which returned them to Italy in 2008.
This morning, the National Institutes of Health awarded $12.7 million to nine academic groups to test potential medicines for diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and schizophrenia that drug companies had abandoned because they were viewed as too risky or not lucrative enough. Zibotentan (ZD4054) will be studied by University of Virginia researcher Brian H. Annex, M.D., for patients with symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). He will test zibotentan’s ability to improve blood flow in PAD patients’ legs, and help patients walk furthe...
Extradition is a generally complicated process, one that does not happen overnight and could take months or even years, said Ashley Deeks, a University of Virginia law professor and former State Department adviser on matters of extradition.
"You can scratch potential presidential candidate right off the list. Bob McDonnell is not going to be running for president, at least not seriously," Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told WTOP Tuesday. "And I don't think he'll be seriously considered for vice president either."
A recent book, “Academically Adrift,” by sociologists Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia, both of whom do research about education, concludes that despite increasing tuition costs and that a bachelor's degree is now required for entry level jobs, the fact is a large number of students are not really learning anything in college.
Kyle Kondik, with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, agreed that the change to the bill is probably a response to criticism over Franks’ remarks. Kondik said Republicans have struggled to articulate “their views on abortion in a way that doesn’t make them the target of ridicule.” “I think that’s what Franks wasn’t able to avoid the other day,” he said.
Are MBAs inveterate job-hoppers? They certainly have that reputation—so much that Dean Robert Bruner of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business was moved to give the graduating class a finger-wagging commencement speech on May 18. In it he noted the oft-repeated claim that MBAs tend to stay with their first post-MBA employer about 18 months before moving on to greener (as in dollars) pastures.
Far better – and much snappier – advice was given by Stephen Colbert to students at the University of Virginia. The satirist started by ordering everyone to make sure their cellphones were turned on: “Take a moment to follow my Twitter feed in case I tweet anything during my speech.” I hope the graduates took heed: I felt chastened when I just watched it on YouTube.
A research team from the University of Virginia, hoping to increase our collective understanding of the sinister salts, compiled data about its use and effects for the latest issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine. The researchers, led by addiction medicine specialist Dr. Erik W. Gunderson, found that the drug’s effects are similar to those of cocaine and amphetamine, though the compound may be slightly different. Short-term “acute toxicity” has led to both suicides and homicides, and in the long term, the drug does appear to be addictive.
By Barin Kayaoglu, a doctoral student in history at U.Va. and a visiting fellow in International Security Studies at Yale.... But without the $123.7 billion in foreign investment that Turkey attracted in the last 10 years, it is doubtful whether the economy could have grown as it did. Without Western backing in the crucial 2007-2008 period, when a military coup and the AKP’s shutdown by the Constitutional Court were real possibilities, it is doubtful whether democracy in Turkey would have survived.
A recent local road race to support the national Wounded Warrior Project raised more than $100,000, race organizers said Tuesday. The third annual 4 the Wounded 5-kilometer race held June 1 featured an estimated 1,400 runners and walkers and raised $106,400. The race was sponsored by the University of Virginia Foundation and the Charlottesville Track Club and took place at the UVa Research Park.
"The bill strengthens (Republicans) with their pro-life constituency, but that base is already secure," said Larry Sabato, politics professor at the University of Virginia. "This can't help the GOP broaden its appeal among women, independents, and the young."
"We have found that the metabolic syndrome manifests differently between males and females and among various racial-ethnic groups," study co-author Mark DeBoer, MD, associate professor at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, said in a statement. "Because current diagnostic criteria for the metabolic syndrome do not consider gender and race, some high-risk individuals are not meeting the criteria for the metabolic syndrome."
A partnership between the University of Virginia Press and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, you can read more about this massive undertaking at Prologue: The Papers of the Founding Fathers Are Now Online
As the University of Virginia law professor Paul Stephan has noted, this view of customary international law holds that "state practice entails not the observable behavior of states, which is messy and often lawless, but rather what states assert as norms." "In other words," he writes, proponents of this view "mean not what states and their agents do, but rather what they say."