John Kerry is no Hillary Clinton – and he’s OK with that. In the three weeks since Kerry succeeded Clinton as secretary of state, he’s already sent unmistakable signals of his independence with a more assertive, proactive and risk-taking stewardship of America’s foreign policy – with a more sustained focus on the Middle East and Europe than his predecessor, according to current and former administration officials.
America’s duties and ambitions overseas are too important to shortchange, even in a time of tight budgets, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Wednesday in his speech at the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s first secretary of state.
Oysters were once plentiful on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, but their numbers have fallen dramatically over the last century, due to overfishing, pollution and disease. Scientists and watermen are working to bring them back, and the partnership has led to a unique course at the University of Virginia – one taught, in part, by a man who has no PhD but could easily write a dissertation on his beloved bivalves.
The Anthropocene isn’t anything new, they argue. It kicked off thousands of years ago. For the past decade, that’s been the contention of William F. Ruddiman, a climate scientist at the University of Virginia. As he proposed in a famed 2003 paper, human beings – armed with a powerful new tool called agriculture – burned, plowed, and seeded enough land to cause real, if modest, climate change millennia ago. And Ruddiman went further still: Not only did farming cause warming; it also, in effect, saved human existence. It prevented, he said, a slide into the next ice ...
Attorneys for the University of Virginia's rector and board of visitors called a $100,000 civil lawsuit filed against them by a tenured professor "frivolous" and asked that it be dismissed in a response filed Tuesday in Albemarle County Circuit Court.
(By Daniel B. Berch, professor of educational psychology and applied developmental science at the University of Virginia) Recently, a science commentary by David Sloan Wilson appeared in the newspaper, Education Week, entitled “Teaching Evolution and Using Evolution to Teach” (December 22, 2011). Although the meaning of the first phrase of this title is immediately obvious, how evolution can be used for teaching is much less apparent.
The University of Virginia will build a new 30,000 square foot, $25-million medical center building along Lee Street, school officials told the Board of Visitors on Wednesday.
Faculty members at the University of Virginia have formed a new chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
The culture and history of a city cannot have one definition, but it has many aspects all of which make it into a distinct entity, said noted literary critic Mehr Afshan Farooqi while talking about her forthcoming research project on the city of Allahabad during a conversation with Asif Farrukhi at T2F on Wednesday evening. Ms Farooqi teaches Urdu and South Asian Literatures at the University of Virginia.
An extraordinary guy died Tuesday. His name was Clifton A. Woodrum III, but friend and foe alike knew him as "Chip." He was an honest and caring state lawmaker, a fount of wisdom who brilliantly represented the Roanoke Valley's interests for 23 years in the Virginia General Assembly, a partisan Democrat, a talented lawyer and always a gentleman. (He was also a graduate of the U.Va. School of Law.)
University of Virginia Medical Center Emeritus of Pediatric Endocrinology professor Alan Rogol said, "Current treatment options for these conditions are limited and we believe that the availability of an oral form of testosterone replacement therapy could offer significant advantages for patients and their families."
Instead of the professor putting on a performance that students might be afraid to interrupt, students can prepare their questions at home and have more interaction with the teacher, which many studies, including those by the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning, say is “the key to quality classrooms.”
Lois Shepherd, an expert on biomedical ethics at the University of Virginia, said an examination by an OB-GYN is about as vulnerable as a patient can get and, if the allegations against Levy are true, would represent a terrible violation of trust. "We take pains to teach techniques about how to drape patients so they feel comfortable, so they don't feel exposed," she said.
The UVa engineering department has a lab with seven 3-D printers and students are using them understand and develop the technology. David Sheffler, a UVa Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Professor, said, "You can imagine in the next five years or so the speed of these printers really increasing. Increasing to the point where you could really consider mass production as a viable process for 3-D printing."