A consortium of universities led by Virginia Tech is helping advance the field. The group, which includes the University of Virginia and Morgan State University in Baltimore, opened the Connected Vehicle/Infrastructure University Transportation Center in January 2012 with $13 million in federal, state and university money. The work involves a close partnership with the Virginia Department of Transportation.
In separate interviews last week with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan and Rector Helen E. Dragas reflected on issues they’ve faced this past year. Sullivan chose a phone interview; Dragas opted to respond by email.
Last June’s dismissal and eventual reinstatement of University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan is changing the way the school’s Board of Visitors does business.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan sat down to talk to reporters today about her forced resignation and reinstatement from about this time last year.
“They are big, fat, juicy balls of food,” T’ai Roulston, research professor at University of Virginia and curator of the State Arboretum of Virginia says. “From dogs to pretty much all wildlife, like mice and other insects, mostly everything will eat them.”
A section of Interstate 66 in Fairfax County is being used in a research project on traffic. Gov. Bob McDonnell launched the project with the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech on Thursday.
Arjun Sastry will be the subject of applause during his graduation ceremony Sunday as he officially accepts the title of Broad Run High School’s 2013 valedictorian. The 18-year-old says he’s excited for the title; he worked hard to earn it. But he speaks more passionately about the positive mark he will leave behind at Broad Run after he’s gone. Arjun’s hefty 4.7 GPA earned him a spot in University of Virginia’s prestigious Echols Scholars Program. He plans to dual major in pre-commerce and biology.
A young man who drank a quart of soy sauce went into a coma and nearly died from an excess of salt in his body, according to a recent case report. The 19-year-old, who drank the soy sauce after being dared by friends, is the first person known to have deliberately overdosed on such a high amount of salt and survived with no lasting neurological problems, according to the doctors in Virginia who reported his case.
In the past year, University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan has been booted from her office, rallied around, rehired and gotten back to the job at hand. But with budget issues and politics still leaning on her, it has not been an easy year.
A group of University of Virginia alumni spent Thursday - the 69th anniversary of the D-Day invasion - in Normandy reliving history. The group is as close to D-Day history as you can get – spending the day touring the Omaha and Utah beaches.
(Commentary by Brian Richter, an adjunct faculty member in the Architecture and Engineering schools) Two weeks ago, hundreds of my fellow environmental scientists gathered in Bonn, Germany, for a conference on Water in the Anthropocene. You may not yet be familiar with this term “anthropocene.” It was coined by scientists to make the case that the influence of human behavior on the Earth’s atmosphere in recent centuries is so significant as to constitute an entirely new geological epoch. When I heard that the Bonn conference participants had issued a new “De...
Professional photographer Stacey Evans took pictures of some famous sites around the city. Then she experimented with some new technology to blend the past with the present. In the current edition of The University of Virginia Magazine, online visitors can play around with history, and about 28,000 already have.
The group also has talked to Maryfrances Porter, research scientist and associate director for Program Evaluation and Community Consultation with the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. She is the Youth-Nex program evaluations leader, conducting community-based research and managing evaluation contracts at the local and state level on youth development-related projects.
Additionally, University of Virginia law school professor Brandon Garrett told The Washington Post that a deluge of DNA samples into crime databases could limit the effectiveness of the technology. With more samples to check against, the system could gather even more gunk to slow it down.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, who recently ranked Walker the top contender for the GOP presidential nomination, says there would be some advantages to Walker being free of gubernatorial obligations, but they would be outweighed by the drawbacks. “The argument for not running is that you have a completely free schedule, you can campaign 100 percent of the time. But the minuses are you don’t have an entourage, people don’t have to cater to you. You have no ability to make things happen.”
The division sought input from parents and staff over the past year before selecting environmental studies over programs in fine arts, media studies or information technology, Giaramita said. School officials plan to partner with the University of Virginia and Piedmont Virginia Community College to develop the program and discuss opportunities for high school students to gain hands-on training through research and internships, he said.
According to Curd, the decision to hire a lawyer to investigate the dispute was based on a consensus of the board and not the outcome of a formal vote. That decision conflicts with the proper operational procedures of securing an attorney, according to Bob Gibson, executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia and Jim Campbell, executive director of the Virginia Association of Counties.
A Department of Justice study estimated that around 900,000 requests for biological screening, mostly DNA testing, were backlogged nationally at the end of 2009. The large numbers of kits from routine arrests may be making the problem worse, argues University of Virginia law Prof. Brandon Garrett. "As taking more DNA from arrestees has increased, the backlogs have increased at the expense of testing DNA from actual crime scenes," he said.
(Commentary) In an interview for its June issue, Virginia Business interviewed University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan about Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). University professors are teaching six MOOCs this year. On the positive side, Sullivan said, the experience is changing how the professors are teaching their classes on the Grounds and promoting the UVa brand around the world. But there’s one knotty issue the university hasn’t worked out yet.
The Charlottesville, Albemarle County and University of Virginia emergency communications center has updated its mass notification system. Registrants will receive recorded phone messages, text message alerts or email messages in case of emergency. The system is also compatible with existing technology for the hearing impaired.