Conserving and restoring seagrass meadows may reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon stores, according to a new study. Paper co-author Karen McGlathery, a scientist at the University of Virginia and NSF's Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research site, comments.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan, in her first international trip on behalf of the university, plans to visit east and southeast Asia, according to a news release from UVa.
James Bassett
1982 alumnus, School of Law
Council OKs Lynch nominee to N.H. Supreme Court
Boston Globe / May 24
Katie Couric
1979 alumna, College of Arts & Sciences
Katie Couric is back with launch of her own show
WJLA ABC-7 (Arlington, Va.) / May 22
Zeke Healy
1990 alumnus
Generations of Music
World Journalism Institute Times Observer / May 21
O. Whitfield Broome
Kaulback Professor Emeritus of Commerce and Professor of Law
Virginia Society of CPAs Announces Outstanding Member of the Year, Top 5 Under 35
Virginia Society of CPAs / May 15
Jonathan Haidt
Psychologist
Jonathan Haidt looks at 'moral psychology'
San Francisco Chronicle / May 24
Douglas Laycock
Law professor
Sixteen Words: Experts Assess the Current State of Religious Liberty in America
May 23 / Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law
Mike London
Football coach
Police Honored With A Different Badge
WCAV CBS-19 / May 23
Myron Nordquist
Associate director of the C...
"The predicted probability of divorce for those who rarely had couple time was 21 percent for both wives and husbands, but only 14 percent for wives and 10 percent for husbands who reported having couple time almost every day," wrote researchers from the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project.
Dr. Bankole A. Johnson, chairman of the department of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia, conducted a study in 2007 that showed that topiramate, an anti-seizure medication, not only reduced the urge to drink, but helped lower liver enzymes and blood pressure.
The Virginia Heart Attack Coalition held its annual meeting at the University of Virginia's Newcomb Ballroom in Charlottesville Wednesday. The event brought healthcare providers from across state to talk about ways to get care to heart attack victims more quickly.
In her remarks at the University of Virginia's Final Exercises on Sunday, U. Va. President Theresa Sullivan observed that Thomas Jefferson was a “family man," and she also noted several instances of graduates with family connections. Article describes graduation May 20.
John Simon at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and colleagues identified eumelanin in this fossil in a form very similar to the ink found in modern-day cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, that live in the Mediterranean, Baltic and North Seas.
Dewey Cornell, forensic clinical psychologist and director of Virginia Youth Violence Project, discusses meanness and cruelty and what causes kids to use such tactics against each other. He has been studying that question for almost 30 years. His findings are now the basis of anti-bullying efforts at thousands of public schools.
The University of Virginia is hosting a delegation of 22 women from Afghanistan this week as part of the UVA Center for Politics's Global Perspectives on Democracy Program. They are lawyers, representatives from Afghanistan's Ministry of Justice, and nonprofit directors who are leading their country toward democracy and learning about American politics and law through firsthand experience.
By James W. Ceaser, professor of politics
Political constitutionalism must assume the principal role in any campaign for a constitutional revival. The dominant understanding today is shaped by legalistic constitutionalism, which has become the nation's "epistemological" default option. Until the meaning of political constitutionalism can be recovered, calls for a return to the Constitution will be to little avail.
Over the past half-century, the amount of time college students actually study — read, write and otherwise prepare for class — has dwindled from 24 hours a week to about 15, survey data show. ...At Sweet Briar College, a private women’s school in Virginia, students reported 19 hours of study in an average week. Weekly study among seniors averaged 18 hours at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 17 hours at the College of William and Mary, 16 at the universities of Maryland and Virginia and Catholic University, 15 at American University and 13 at Howard University.
...University of Virginia football coach Mike London was the luncheon’s featured speaker. London opened his remarks with a clip of UVa football highlights, and announced that during the last four semesters, the football team has had the highest academic grades since the mid-1990s, news that brought a round of applause from the audience.
... "They had a perfect reply," said Myron Nordquist, associate director of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia. "Who is the U.S. to come and tell us to abide by a treaty to which you are not a party?"
... Historically, the argument over defense versus domestic spending has been settled with more money for each, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
... among other things, the report says that a continued ebb of the sun’s field could lead to a “mini ice age,” of the sort that last happened in the 17th century. According to a 2002 study by Michael Mann, then of the University of Virginia, the Little Ice Age appears to have been a 400-year period between the 16th and 19th centuries in which the Earth cooled 0.6 of a degree Celsius, and is concurrent with the last drop in solar wind.