North Carolina State University will lead a national nanotechnology research effort to create self-powered devices to help people monitor their health and understand how the surrounding environment affects it, the National Science Foundation announced today. ... It is a joint effort between NC State and partner institutions Florida International University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia’s Ryan White Program is having its annual benefit to help those affected with HIV and AIDS. The dinner will be held at Orzo’s in Charlottesville at 5:30 pm on Monday.
The Charlottesville City Police are turning down the volume on people who make too much noise. They are giving out fewer warnings to people exceeding maximum sound levels when it comes to noise and music.
For the week’s segment of UVa Today, Edward Gaynor visited the Newsplex to discuss a new exhibit to celebrate Charlottesville’s 250th anniversary.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors’ summer retreat cost the school nearly $35,000 documents released Wednesday show. Roughly one-third of that came from the cost of employing the meeting’s facilitator, Terry MacTaggart.
PLoS One backs a validation initiative that will duplicate experiments. ... According to Brian Nosek, associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of Virginia and a member of the Reproducibility Initiative's advisory board, the system aims to address exactly those issues by shifting incentives away from "getting published" to "getting it right"
A pair of events Sept. 12 will examine the University of Virginia’s future. President Teresa A Sullivan will give a talk called “The Way Forward” at 11 a.m.
Michelle TimmonsPrincipal – St. Timothy School, San MateoTimmons has served for 10 years at St. Anne School, San Francisco as first grade teacher and primary level coordinator. She said she is a “daughter in a military family, raised in many parts of the United States” and has been in the Bay Area for 13 years. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in commerce.
George Gartley Lipsey, MD, born in Memphis, TN, October 11, 1934, one of thirteen children to John Wright Lipsey and Lillian Turner Lipsey, died September 5, 2012 from complications related to Parkinson's disease. ... He completed his Medical Residency in Anesthesia at The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA in 1971.
A Colorado university is announcing today that it will give full transfer credit to students who successfully complete a free introductory computer-science course offered by the online-education start-up Udacity. ... CS101 is Udacity's first course and includes appearances by the company's co-founder, Sebastian Thrun. The course, which is open to beginners, is taught by David Evans, an associate professor of computer science who is working for Udacity while on leave from the University of Virginia.
Sept. 13 marks the 161st anniversary of Maj. Walter Reed’s birth. Born in 1851 in Belroi, Va., ... Reed, the youngest of five children, completed his medical degree at the University of Virginia in 1869, two months before he turned 18 (then the youngest graduate in the history of the university's medical school).
The five winners of the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards range from a seafood company on the Eastern Shore to a cafe in the Shenandoah Valley. The awards, presented by the Initiative for Business in Society at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, recognize companies that have overcome significant economic obstacles to grow and create jobs in their communities.
It's going to be a bit noisy over the next couple of days at the University of Virginia. Work to remove river rock used as ballast atop the UVA bookstore is underway.
"You can't legislate good governance," said David Toscano, a democrat from the 57th District. "A lot of what happened is a function of the personalities involved in this dispute. At the same time there are some changes we could make in how we select the visitors to the UVa and we'll look at some of those in the next few months and potentially come up with legislation to deal with that."
An op-ed by Christopher Sprigman of the School of Law and Kal Raustiala of the UCLA Law School, authors of "The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation."Apple's big victory over Samsung underscores a central economic issue: What is the right balance between competition and copying?
Preservation Durham has named Wendy Hillis, a preservation architect, as the organization’s executive director. ... She has a master of architecture degree from the University of Virginia and a master of business administration degree from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Three University of Virginia nurses and a nurse practitioner traveled to southeast Africa in May to open a clinic and distribute medical supplies. On Tuesday, nurse practitioner Lucy Goeke and nurses Erin Donnelly, Rebecca Thornton, and Megan Veasey spoke to the UVA community about what they did to help those needing medical care in Malawi.
An innovative after-school program started in South Carolina to help kids control their tempers and make good choices expanded Tuesday to two schools in Atlanta. This year, researchers from the University of Virginia are to begin a four-year, randomized $2.8 million study of the program's impact.
Professors from Old Dominion University presented a sea level rise report to Virginia Beach council members Tuesday evening. ... Another rising sea level report conducted by the University of Virginia said that Virginia Beach will likely lose 43,000 acres of land over the next 100 years.
INDIANAPOLIS — The 2012 R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture will be at the Indiana State Museum on Sept. 12 at noon. Renowned Civil War scholar Gary W. Gallagher will speak on “A Mighty War for Union: Reality, Memory, and America’s Greatest Conflict."