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Katya Bachrouche
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Alecko Eskandarian
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Chris Aldrich
A third-year engineering student
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Jessica Stamelman
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Marva A. Barnett
An English professor and editor of "Victor Hugo on Things That Matter: A Reader,"
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin
A law professor and author of "Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement."
Book Awards
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Daniel J. Cox
A professor in the Department of Psychiatry
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Gary Gallagher
Cavaliers' Distinguished Teaching Professor & Nau Professor of History
David Blight goes on TV, is famous
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Erika James
A professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business
Mark Edmundson
A professor of English and the author of “Why Read?”
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published a study in Science on their identification of tens of thousands of short extrachromosomal circular DNAs in mouse tissues and human cell lines. These 200- to 400-base pair long microDNAs are derived from unique non-repetitive sequences, and their generation "leaves behind deletions in different genomic loci," the researchers write.
The City of Charlottesville hired 32-year-old Sarad Davenport last month to head the City of Promise initiative, a federally funded, from-the-ground-up project that aims to guide underprivileged kids in Westhaven, the surrounding 10th and Page and Starr Hill neighborhoods and ultimately all of Charlottesville through life from birth to adulthood. The city was one of 15 communities nationwide selected for a Promise Neighborhoods grant at the end of last year, and Davenport is tasked with shepherding the project through to implementation stage, with help from a coalition of contributing agencies...
In a long-term study, University of Virginia scientists have discovered that teens that engage in discussion (that is, good arguing) are more resistant to peer pressure. Kids that back down from arguments with their parents quickly are more vulnerable to pressure to drink or use drugs later in life.
One of the toughest challenges healthcare professionals face is deciding when prematurely born babies can safely go home. With the help the Go! grant from the National Institute Of Child Health and Human Development, research done by the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the College of William and Mary can help alleviate some fears.
An award-winning mobile application, developed by University of Virginia students, could give new meaning to the term "buddy system." Ashutosh Priyadarshy and Duylam Nguyen-Ngo won a student startup competition at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas with their WalkBack app.
Monticello High School students are welcoming 30 South American teenagers from Chile and Argentina to spend a week in Charlottesville. The teenagers will discuss how schools and students can get more involved in their community. The Center For Politics at the University of Virginia helped make this worldwide learning experience possible. Members will take part in workshops about leadership and civic engagement.
Asia is in the "early phases of an arms race," with many nations increasing their military forces as dangerous disputes on land and sea pose potential flashpoints, Australian Ambassador Kim Beazley warns. Mr. Beazley, speaking this week at the University of Virginia\'s Center for International Studies, praised the Obama administration for preparing for future conflicts with a new Asia strategy. The United States and Australia agreed in November to deploy 2,500 U.S. Marines to a military base in northern Australia.
A one-day conference brought folks from around the world to the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business to exchange ways we can keep our communities more sustainable. The American Council on Renewable Energy joined forces with the embassies of Germany and Denmark for a program called "Sustainable Ways to Community Prosperity."
Betsy Sholl, a former poet laureate of Maine, will be the featured writer at Coffee Night, a reading and performing event dedicated to the poetry and prose of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and its community.
"How can we move beyond protecting what we 'know' to embrace what we don’t even know we don't know?" Among some two dozen other inquiries scribbled on the whiteboards at the new OpenGrounds studio, this question encompasses the spirit of U.Va.'s new initiative, challenging the boundaries of disciplines and proposing collaboration across borders.
This year's Spring Dance Program will bring original contemporary works by student and faculty choreographers and two special guests. The University of Virginia Dance Program's annual event can be seen at 8 tonight and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday in Helms Theatre. Visiting choreographers Danah Bella and Susan Wiesner will join Kim Brooks Mata, U.Va.'s interim dance program director, and the students for the performances inspired by the change in seasons and the ways in which people emerge from their own winter cocoons and revive their spirits.
It started with an aria. Shortly after arriving at U.Va. five years ago, music professor Bonnie Gordon was searching for a score to "Cara Sposa" from George Frideric Handel's opera Rinaldo. Thomas Jefferson's own copy of the aria, it turned out, was sitting nearby in U.Va.'s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. There was only one problem. "I didn’t have enough credentials to actually look at the music," said Gordon.
U.Va. officials say this fall's entering class of first-year students could be the most highly qualified ever. The University has offered admission to over 7,700 applicants and hopes to enroll 3,360. The average SAT score is 1396 on a scale of 1600. Just over 95% are in the top 10% of their high school graduating classes. UVA says those are the highest numbers ever. The students offered admission have until May 1st to decide.
Two concerts will explore the soundtrack of the Sage of Monticello during Harmonious Blacksmith will perform with members of the Baltimore Consort and University of Virginia violin professor David Sariti at 8 tonight in Cabell Hall Auditorium. The performers will play music from violinist, music lover and third president Thomas Jefferson’s collection on period instruments.