It started with an aria. Shortly after arriving at UVA 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 UVA’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. That lack of access may have thrown a wrench into her research at the time, but it led to a much larger project, which ...
... The collaboration proposed by IMPACT “will require additional time and coordination between local organizations, resulting in delays that may be unworkable in this quickly evolving and changing field,” wrote R. Edward Howell, vice-president and CEO of the UVa Medical Center, in a letter to IMPACT. He also noted that the center has spoken with PVCC and National College to explore ways to provide training for local residents. “We hope to build on the momentum of those conversations and in the coming months to create effective training programs for our community,” Howe...
While most state employees have gone without an increase to their base pay since December 2007, some universities have tapped institutional reserves to boost salaries for targeted faculty members. ... The University of Virginia maintains a $6.26 million pool from non-tax funds for salary increases, which this year average $7,375, the university said. That pool includes funds from unrestricted endowment income, gifts, grants and tuition. UVa awarded bonuses to 78 faculty members that totaled $948,235. ...
... With Virginia’s faculty salaries lagging by national standards, university presidents lobbied hard this legislative session to warn lawmakers that another year without a state pay increase jeopardizes the staffs they have built.
“We had heard from about every college president that that was their No. 1 goal,” said Del. M. Kirkland Cox, R-Colonial Heights.
Virginia is at a historical low in the goal set by the General Assembly to raise salaries for faculty at public universities to the 60th percentile of their peer institutions nationally. Those salary averages systemwide ...
Help is now available online for children struggling with a frustrating soiling disorder known as encopresis. Created by researchers at the University of Virginia Health System, the “online intervention” at UCanPoopToo.com offers children with encopresis an individually tailored, multi-week training program designed to help them overcome this problem. ...
... The findings shed light on which infants may be mature enough to leave the NICU, showing that postnatal age seems to be an indicator of maturity, but birth weight or gestational age at birth are not. The article ... appears in the current edition of the Journal of Applied Physiology, published by the American Physiological Society. ... The researchers collected data from the bedside monitors of 1,202 infants cared for in the University of Virginia NICU from January 2009 to June 2011.
... A 2007 study, by Russell A. Barkley of the Medical University of South Carolina and Daniel J. Cox of the University of Virginia Health System, concluded that young drivers with ADHD are two to four times as likely as those without the condition to have an accident, meaning that they are at a higher risk of wrecking the car than an adult who is legally drunk. Researchers say that many teenagers with attention or other learning problems can become good drivers, but not easily or quickly, and that some will be better off not driving till they are older - or not at all. ...
Q&A with Darden Professor Ed Hess
... Entrepreneurs are, by nature, idea people. But not all of them are people people, which makes this transition perhaps the trickiest part of an entrepreneur's evolution. "The entrepreneur personally has to continually evolve and grow as the business grows," says Ed Hess, author of "Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses." ... His research has shown that as businesses grow, successful entrepreneurs go through stages: from owner to manager to leader to coach. ...
Although women continue to lag behind men in pay, the gender wage gap has narrowed considerably since the 1960s. Now a new University of Michigan study is thefirst to quantify the impact of the pill on women's labor market advances. ... Published online this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research as a working paper, the study was conducted by U-M economist Martha Bailey and colleagues Brad Hershbein at U-M and Amalia Miller at the University of Virginia.
Ralph Allen
Environmental sciences professor
New Study Shows Toxic Dumping Affects Virginia Waterways
WVIR NBC-29 / March 23
Dr. Jeffrey Barth
Neuro-psychologist
Thoughts on the Afghan killings (letter)
Mississippi Press / March 25
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Law professor
Book on the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta Wins the Bancroft Prize
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Bernard Carlson
Professor of science, technology and society
'Hunger Games' exposes myth of technological progress
Mother Nature Network / March 24
James Coan
Neuroscientist
The Brain on Love
New York Times (blog) / Ma...
I hadn’t planned on two breaks in one week ... It just worked out that way. The first was a cool, foggy weekend at Rehoboth. The second was a warm, sunny, two-night excursion by train to Charlottesville. ... I went down, because my niece graduates from the University of Virginia in May. I hadn’t seen Monticello in 50 years. ... While everyone was an organic gardener in Jefferson’s pre-chemical-spray era, his practices of using native species and fertilizing with rich organic materials to encourage growth and prevent disease are foundations of sustainable practices today. ...
By Neil Snyder, U.Va. professor emeritus
... I'm not arguing for or against attacking Iran. I'm simply pointing out that in the universe of "credible experts" there exist more than a few people who believe that attacking Iran before they travel too far down the path toward nuclear weapons is a very good idea.
... Thomas Jefferson effectively won the debate by successfully founding the University of Virginia, which embodied a civic ideal for higher education but not a political program. ...
... When reviewing the websites of schools like the University of Maryland, the College of William and Mary and the University of North Carolina, students will find that while they list current tuition rates, they have not yet posted the costs for next year. Other schools, like Towson University and the University of Virginia, provide estimates for next year's expenses, but not final prices.
... In their calculations, Ms. Lawson's parents have to consider that tuition at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary would be covered by money they set aside in a Virginia prepaid-tuition plan back in 2001. ...
Orange County grew less than 1 percent in the 2011, according to the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. This estimated growth is on par with the surrounding counties of Madison, Louisa and Culpeper, but is far behind the 3.5 percent growth estimated for neighboring Greene County.
... The center is forecast to generate a $50 million financial impact during its first five years of operation and attract an estimated 75,000 annual visitors, according to a study by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Two University of Virginia engineering students designed a mobile-phone app that this month won a student startup competition at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. The WalkBack app was designed by Ashutosh Priyadarshy and Duylam Nguyen-Ngo to create a safer community on campus.