“Turning our schools into fortresses is not going to solve the problem,” University of Virginia safety expert Dewey Cornell, told Washington Post reporters Donna St. George and Lyndsey Layton for a story on school safety in Tuesday’s Post.
Neuroscientists have for the first time shown individual mouse brain cells being switched on during learning and later reactivated during memory recall. We store episodic memories about events in our lives in a part of a brain called the hippocampus, said Brian Wiltgen, now an assistant professor at the Center for Neuroscience and department of psychology at UC Davis. (Most of the work was conducted while Wiltgen was working at the University of Virginia.)
A Charlottesville judge on Tuesday sentenced Joshua Peter Gomes, a man who broke into the University of Virginia registrar’s office to alter his law school transcript, to 10 years of good behavior.
Virginia Union University no longer is under the sanction that has dealt a blow to the reputation of the University of Virginia. Their accrediting agency this month removed the warning on VUU at the same time it imposed the sanction on U.Va.
“We are already using a lot of dexmedetomidine in ICUs. This study adds to our comfort level that dexmedetomidine is cost-effective,” said Marcia Buck, a clinical pharmacy coordinator at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital. “With the downsides of using propofol in terms of its toxicity profile, it is good to have this kind of data available.”
Late last month, Kyle Bass, managing partner of Hayman Capital, shared his thoughts in a video at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Investing Conference with Professor Ken Eades.
Practice Qigong: This Chinese mind-body exercise combines breath control and slow movements to reduce stress and improve focus, but it may also help combat colds. Twenty-seven varsity swimmers in a University of Virginia study learned qigong, and during their seven-week training season, those who practiced it at least once a week got 70 percent fewer respiratory infections than swimmers who used it less.
University of Virginia forensic clinical psychologist Dewey Cornell expects the shooting at Sandy Hook to reinforce the need for door locks and other security measures at schools, or even prompt additional procedures. But Cornell, a leader in developing assessment guidelines to identify threatening individuals that are now used in schools across the nation, worries about going too far.
(By Bob Gibson, director of U.Va.'s Sorsensen Institute for Political Leadership) Friendly young leaders from 25 nations have inaugurated one of the best new ideas to be adopted by the University of Virginia since women were admitted to the College of Arts and Sciences in 1970. A dozen woman and 13 men met to discuss democracy building with folks from U.Va. and experts from the university's new partners in international diplomacy from the College of William & Mary and the presidential homes of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe.
Once more, this year The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has completed its survey of admissions offices at the nation’s highest-ranked research universities. ... The largest decline was at the University of Virginia. The journal cautions that a change in the way that the U.S. Department of Education collects data on the race of undergraduates may lead to a significant undercounting of African-American students at asome unversities.
The College Commission of SACS has put the University of Virginia on a warned status for the next twelve months. It will then determine if the number one ranked public institution in America should be penalized further or freed from the bite of a relatively toothless accreditation body.
“Any culture is coarse when you’re living in it,” insists University of Virginia professor Paul A. Cantor. “The culture Shakespeare lived in was spectacularly coarse." Cantor believes pop culture is almost always vulgar, so the goal of smart media consumers should be to find the “people who work within the coarse culture, but work to elevate it.” The good news is that his new book, “The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture,” seeks to do just that.
What if you could take your driving test without getting into a car? Well, now the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles are teaming up to make that happen.
The University of Virginia will host its annual gathering of legislators Wednesday at noon in the Rotunda’s Dome Room. Legislators scheduled to participate include Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath County, Del. Rob Bell, R-Albemarle County, Del. R. Steven Landes, R-Weyers Cave, and Del. David J. Toscano, D-Charlottesville.
It's a cell-eat-cell world in there. And apparently, that's a good thing, too. "In the body, almost any cell can eat other cells," Kodi Ravichandran told BioWorld Today. Ravichandran, who is at the University of Virginia, and his colleagues have demonstrated that in the lungs, epithelial cells that eat their apoptotic neighbors play a critical role in tuning the inflammatory tone, through secreting anti-inflammatory cytokines as they eat their brethren.
Bloomberg examines the highest-compensated people on American college campuses.
Virginia hospitals are getting a taste of what industry officials fear may lie ahead for them if the state doesn’t expand its Medicaid program in the face of capped or reduced payments for the care they provided to uninsured patients.
(Commentary by Wade Gilley, a retired university president living in Reston who served as Virginia’s secretary of education from 1978 to 1982 ) Virginia, perhaps subconsciously, has attempted to make up the difference by encouraging U.Va. to act like a private research university without providing the funds or the governing structure that would facilitate that transition. There are a few simple solutions to this critical problem. First, create a partial privatization of U.Va. with a totally independent governing board, coupled with state assistance/scholarships for Virgini...
Professor David Matsa of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Professor Amalia Miller from the University of Virginia studied the impact of gender quotas for corporate board seats on corporate policy decisions. They looked at Norway's 2006 decision to require at least 40 per cent of directors of listed companies to be women, comparing affected firms to other Scandinavian public and private companies that were unaffected by the rule. The researchers found that firms affected by the quota undertook fewer workforce cuts than comparison firms, increasing rel...
Also named in the study was (U.Va. grad) Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of the non-profit global venture capital Acumen Fund. Novogratz has 423,566 followers on Twitter, the highest among all CEOs.