On Monday, Mike Scott was voted to the All-ACC First Team. The 6-foot-8 forward from Chesapeake is the first Virginia player to be voted to the team since Sean Singletary in 2008.
It would flutter to the ground, like a leaf. If it did strike you, it would feel like being flicked in the forehead — "but not even very hard," said Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia. And he should know. He recently used wind tunnels and helium balloons to replicate the fall of pennies from skyscrapers. When experimental pennies struck him, it didn't hurt. "I think one bounced off my face once," Bloomfield told Life's Little Mysteries.
For about 25 percent of patients suffering from epilepsy, medications do not effectively control the disease and stop seizures. For some, epilepsy surgery is the best answer. In the past, epilepsy surgery meant a craniotomy, which requires a surgeon to open the patient's skull to remove the brain lesion causing epilepsy. To determine whether a noninvasive surgery could effectively treat patients with a certain type of epilepsy - mesial temporal lobe epilepsy - University of Virginia School of Medicine neurologist Mark S. Quigg, MD, is helping lead an international clinical trial examining the ...
Pointing makes kids believe you. And it may convey an air of authority to adults, too. That's the finding of a pair of psychologists at the University of Virginia. In a new study probing how young children make inferences about what other people know, co-authors Carolyn Palmquist and Vikram Jaswal found that adults can convince a 4-year-old that they know something simply by pointing while delivering the message.
President Barack Obama will be coming to the Rolls-Royce aircraft engine plant in Prince George next week to talk about the economy. ... A public-private research center is also taking shape alongside the Rolls-Royce Crosspointe aircraft engine factory. The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing recently began work on a $12.9 million, 60,000-square-foot facility. CCAM is a research-based collaboration among the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and manufacturing companies from around the world, including Rolls-Royce.
A collaboration between The Cardboard Company, a group of studio art students, and New York artist Tom Burckhardt, “The Brooks Natural History Museum C. 1900: A Creative Interpretation,” opened at Ruffin Gallery on February 24. The installation is a whimsical re-imagination of UVA’s defunct natural history museum, which occupied Brooks Hall from 1877 through the 1940s, constructed of brown cardboard (60 percent recycled), black paint, and the creativity of the collaborators. Burckhardt, the 2011-12 visiting artist chosen by the student-run UVA Arts Board, made the show’...
Jessica T. Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), has been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. The Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership, the highest honor awarded by the university, recognizes “achievements of those who embrace endeavors in which Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third U.S. president, excelled and held in high regard.”
Edmund Brodie III, professor of biology and director of U.Va.'s Mountain Lakes Biological Station, was part of a team of science researchers who have discovered that snakes of different types in Central and South America and Asia have evolved the resistance to a deadly neurotoxin that exists at a genetic level similar to other snakes. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation. Findings appeared in the March 5, 2012 online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
How, exactly, does a 22-year-old multimillionaire go about donating $100,000 to his alma mater, if he’s so inclined? Show up at the administrative offices with a sack full of money? Write a check made out to the University of Virginia? ... "They made me who I am today," Hultzen said. "I wouldn't be anywhere without the University of Virginia, so I just wanted give them a token of my admiration. All of the money I’ve run into, they deserve a lot of it."
By Sheena Chestnut Greitens, a fellow at U.Va.'s Miller Center.
What kind of deal do you make with a 20-something who just inherited not only a country, but also the mantle of one of the world’s most sophisticated crime families? When Kim Jong-un, who is thought to be 28 or 29, became North Korea’s leader in December after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, he became the de facto head of a mafia state.
It took an extra period but Virginia clinched the fourth seed in the ACC Tournament with a 75-72 win at Maryland in the regular season finale. Mike Scott scored an ACC-career high 35 points and pulled down 11 rebounds.
Maryland wins the ACC crown while five Virginia wrestlers advance to the NCAA Championships.
Thurgood Marshall Jr.
Graduated from the Law School in 1981.
Thurgood Marshall Jr. on Genesco board
The Tennessean | March 2
William Gamble
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration alum
Greece and the probability of reform
Personal Finance Magazine | March 5
Jennifer McIntyre
Earned her bachelor's in Russian studies and is Consul General of the U.S. Consulate General in India
The march of history
The Hindi | March 5
Mike Melis
A law school alum and Virginia assistant attorney general
Virginia Tech trial seeks accountability
Roanoke Times | March 4
Salima Burke
A law student and member of the class of 2012 is the winner of the 2012 Oliver White Hill Law Student Pro Bono Award
Daniel Bluestone
A professor of architecture
Belmont Bridge’s future: Winning design faces obstacles
Charlottesville Tomorrow | March 5
Robert Fatton
A professor of politics and expert on Haiti
Miami bribery probe focused on former Haitian president
‎Bellingham Herald (WA) | March 4
Douglas Laycock
Alaw professor
Archdiocese defends firing of gay St. Louis County Teacher
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | March 3
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Virginia's economic recovery key to 2012 race
‎WFMZ Allentown (PA) |March 5
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Pointing may be an important way to help young children learn and comprehend the world around them, according to researchers at the University of Virginia.
Evidence of this paradigm shift abounds in a recently released book, "Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement Is Changing the Way We Eat" by Tanya Denckla Cobb. She will be discussing her book and signing copies at 1 p.m. Saturday at Barnes and Noble.Booklist Online recently named Cobb’s book one of the top 10 books on the environment for 2012. It lauded the "ingenious approaches to solving health, social and environmental issues, including community-supported gardens, urban farming and the raising of backyard chickens and goats," the author covers in th...
The University of Virginia is working with high school students from across Virginia to figure out how to fight insurance fraud.
Since 2000, Cynthia Lorenzoni has directed the Charlottesville Women’s 4-Miler race. Through the funds raised at the event, more than $300,000 annually has been donated to the University of Virginia’s breast care center programs in the past few years.
Published diaries can be illuminating, not only about the writer but also the times in which they were written. Such is "Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter in Queen Victoria's England: The Travel Diary of Ellen Wayles Coolidge 1838-1839" (464 pages, Massachusetts Historical Society and Thomas Jefferson Foundation, distributed by University of Virginia Press, $45).