Qian Cai
Director of the Demographics and Workforce Group at U.Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
As Asians Flock to Northern Virginia, Laws and Palates Collide
New York Times / April 19
Dewey Cornell
Youth violence researcher, clinical psychologist and professor in the Curry School of Education
Roundtable: Lessons Learned From Virginia Tech
Security InfoWatch / April 19
E.D. Hirsch
Professor emeritus of education and humanities
Talking pineapple question on state exam stumps ... everyone!
New York Daily News / April 19
Kyle Kondik
Analyst at U.Va.'s Center for Politics
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Residents of the Martha Jefferson neighborhood breathed a sigh of relief when the CFA Institute announced its decision to move into the site of the former hospital last year. Now, UVA is moving toward opening a Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) clinic in the building, bringing more diversity to the site and a new program to Charlottesville.
It's surgery without a knife, and a clinical trial at the University of Virginia Medical Center has found that it could be a new way of stopping tremors in patients with Parkinson's Disease.
IBM announced that its World Community Grid has partnered with the University of Virginia to launch the Computing for Sustainable Water Project. The Computing for Sustainable Water Project is an effort to simulate and forecast the environmental and economic effects of agricultural, commercial and industrial decisions over the next 20 years in and around the Chesapeake Bay, America's largest estuary. The World Community Grid is a kind of public supercomputer created and funded by IBM, who are providing the necessary computational power free of charge.
The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra will be concluding its concert season this weekend on a high note – with some low notes. The tuba will trade the brass section for the spotlight when principal tuba player Seth Cook serves as soloist for Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Concerto in F minor for Bass Tuba and Orchestra.”
Dozens of job seekers showed up to the Charlottesville officer of the Virginia Workforce Center Thursday for an invitation-only job fair. U.Va. was one of the employers conducting interviews.
Students from the University of Virginia met Thursday evening at the Pavilion for a rally. It was followed by a march that ended with a vigil at the McIntire Amphitheater for the annual "Take Back the Night "program, aimed to help end violence against men and women on college campuses.
Students from the University of Virginia helped celebrate Earth Week by holding an Eco Fair on grounds. Students who attended the fair were able to learn about sustainability initiatives.
Thursday U.S. Senator Mark Warner remotely addressed the University of Virginia's fourth annual Venture Summit where he talked about his personal achievements in business and his efforts on Capitol Hill to turn ideas into businesses more efficiently.
Scientists know that an excess of nitrogen and phosphorous is damaging the Chesapeake Bay – and they know it’s coming from sewage treatment plants, farms and urban runoff. What they don’t know is how changes in human behavior and climate will impact the bay. The University of Virginia came up with a computer simulation to answer those questions – but there are so many possible scenarios that it would take decades for the university to crunch all the numbers.
Students at the University of Virginia found a creative and less expensive way to take aerial pictures. Faculty members with the Scholars' Lab hoisted the balloon outside of the Charles L. Brown Science and Engineering Library Thursday evening.
The University of Virginia launched its fourth Venture Summit on Thursday inside Old Cabell Hall on Central Grounds in an effort to connect faculty and students with venture capitalists and investment managers from around the country.
The Virginia Film Festival announced today that it is expanding its acclaimed Community Outreach and Education programs to include a new high school filmmaking competition. The Virginia Film Festival is presented by the University of Virginia’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
The process to select a new chancellor for the University of Virginia’s College at Wise is moving forward, after the selection of a 15-person search committee. The committee, which is made up of UVa-Wise faculty, staff, UVa-Wise board members, a parent, a student and representatives from the University of Virginia, will meet for the first time April 25. That’s the same day the college’s new convocation center will be dedicated in memory of the late chancellor David J. Prior, who died unexpectedly in February.
With federal and state funds for higher education falling, many schools are turning to faculty inventors to find profitable solutions to the world's medical, social and technical problems. Professors, their departments and their universities can all make money with what's called "Tech Transfer" — moving innovations from academia into the mainstream.
Austin Peay State University’s Gay Straight Alliance will host its Night of Noise Glow Party on Friday, April 20, following the national Day of Silence. Begun in 1996 by students at the University of Virginia, the Day of Silence protests the harassment of GLBT people across the United States and around the world.
Wednesday staff members and volunteers at the Emily Couric Cancer Center made comfort kits for more than 200 patients undergoing chemotherapy. The kits include socks, lotion, water, and an activity pad.
Frank E. Stevenson II (Law '80), a partner in the Dallas office of Locke Lord LLP, has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas. He will take office during the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting to be held June 14-15 in Houston and will serve as chair until June 2013.
Geoffrey Mearns (Law '87), provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Cleveland State University, is the new president of Northern Kentucky University.