The University of Virginia School of Medicine is participating with researchers from around the world to create the largest computer model of human metabolism to date.
Political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia pointed out that "it took people about 10 seconds to say he had the surgery because he knew he had to get in better shape to run for president."
Founded in 1993 by the George Washington University’s South Asian Society as a very small event in the university’s cafeteria, Bhangra Blowout is now held in the prestigious Warner Theatre in downtown D.C. and has embodied the growth and popularity of Bhangra in America. Naina Ramrakhani, co-director of Bhangra Blowout 20, which took place April 13 this year, said she believes these events bring out the best of the collegiate Bhangra circuit. The University of Virginia won first place at this year’s competition.
“The problem with your own writing is that it’s very difficult to blame it on anyone else,” said Larry Sabato, the political handicapper at University of Virginia. “In both cases [Cuccinelli and McAuliffe], it’s foolish but they’ve done it. They have said what they wanted to say and they’ll suffer for it to some degree.”
In pursuit of both prestige and tuition revenue, often to make up for declines in other forms of income, many four-year colleges and universities are making it more difficult for students from low-income backgrounds to afford a college education, according to a report released today by the New American Foundation.
(Commentary) The students responded to a call that came across campus list-serves last year – a new contest, funded by the Peterson Foundation and dubbed Up to Us, under which students from 10 colleges would devise ways to “educate and engage” their classmates about the national debt and the threat it poses to their generation. The prize for the team with the most effective proselytizing: $10,000 and the chance to attend Clinton Global Initiative University, the annual youth-oriented counterpart to the former president’s huge philanthropic confab for grown-ups. The gold...
Gil Siegal, a physician and law professor at the University of Virginia, said the risks of cyanide contamination of transplanted organs does seem low, and "I think the public health risks have to be substantial to create a real imperative to run after these recipients" and inform them of that. "If there are no actionable items that will stem from the notification, notification is completely in vain," he said.
Alumnus Tommy Nicholas was part of a team that launched Coffitivity, a website that mixes the ambient noise of a coffee shop – conversation, clinking glasses and such – with a user’s music to create just the right amount of background noise. The site was named Monday as one of Time magazine’s 50 best websites of 2013.
A US professor and expert in maritime laws and security issues called China’s nine-dash line concept “preposterous” and not in Beijing’s interest. “The nine-dash line has absolutely zero basis in international law and ocean’s law” and is “defenseless,” said John Norton Moore, Walter L. Brown law professor and director of the Center for National Security Law and of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant has named a new president, to start this summer. The college’s board of trustees selected Steven E. Titus as the new president, officials announced this week. Titus has a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Virginia.
James Smith, professor of environmental and civil engineering at the University of Virginia called the new work “promising and exciting” but foresees problems with the filter’s production in countries like India and Africa. “The method involves both strong acids and bases and likely would not allow for manufacturing in a developing-world setting,” Smith commented via e-mail.
(Commentary) Why keep the surgery secret? Nationally respected political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia said it has been the norm for politicians for a long time: “They like to project the image of strength and they worry about seeming weak. President Grover Cleveland managed to keep cancer surgery secret in 1893 by having it on a ship, pretending he was on vacation.” New Jerseyan Woodrow Wilson had a stroke, the severity of which was hidden by his wife. “He should never have been president then,” Sabato said.
Everyone knew Monick Foote was something special, long before the Wilmington native led Sanford School to the 1994 state championship, before she was named the Gatorade national high school girls basketball player of the year and a Parade magazine first-team all-American, before she set an NCAA record while playing for the University of Virginia.
Hedge fund legend and billionaire Paul Tudor Jones rarely gives interviews, but last night he appeared on "60 Minutes" to discuss his charity, The Robin Hood Foundation.
History professor Elizabeth Varon was a guest, discussing the aftermath of the American Civil War.
"The Internet has made it easier and cheaper for entrepreneurs to start businesses and it makes it possible for those businesses to reach customers globally,” Ed Hess, a professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, said by email.
On the grounds of the University of Virginia, 69-year-old Jerry Reid may look like a beloved professor. But he's actually a flag-football playing, debate team arguing, cigar-smoking fraternity brother getting his undergraduate degree.
“For most startups, the best course of action is still to start small and prove that you have something customers will buy. If possible, keep your day job and do a learning launch part-time,” says Ed Hess, a business administration professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. “See if you have something that customers value as being so meaningfully different than the competition that they will buy it.”
Even the best comedy film has its moment of terror. Just ask the director. Ax-wielding maniac on the loose? Nope. Brain-slurping zombie shambling into view? Wrong. The most nerve-numbing fright delivery system is the audience at a test screening for the film to which you've just devoted months or even years of your life. "You truly don't know until you put it before an audience whether you're funny or not," Tina Gordon Chism said. Chism directed the Tyler Perry-produced comedy "Peeples," which will open Friday in theaters across the country.
University of Virginia students up late at night studying for finals the next couple of weeks might be more alert after University Police receive an anonymous report about a sexual assault that happened early Friday morning.