A University of Virginia professor gave a history lesson Thursday on how the idea of vampires originated. Demonologist Stan Stephanic teaches a class at the University of Virginia about the history of Dracula and vampires. "All demonology is, in essence is the study of demons. It's a subset of mythology," said Stephanic. During his course, students are able to learn about mythology, folklore, demonology, ritual theory, diseases and Gothic literature.
While Halloween always brings an increase in phone calls to the University of Virginia Health System Blue Ridge Poison Center, the most common call has nothing to do with candy. According to Kristin Wenger, an education coordinator at the Poison Center, the call most often handled by the center's certified poison experts at Halloween is exposures to the liquid from light sticks. The poison center is open 24 hours a day every day for free, confidential help and can be reached at 800-222-1222.
The University of Virginia announced Tuesday that it is moving toward a decentralized internal finance model that vests responsibility for revenues and expenses with individual schools and colleges rather than the university as a whole, a move designed to drive deans to find additional revenue streams and operate their units more efficiently. The model is commonly called Responsibility Center Management, Revenue Responsibility Management, or Activity-Based Budgeting.
Charles Hamm
U.Va. College of Arts & Sciences' Music dept. alumnus
Chas H. Rittenhouse
Drama
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School
At a time when the case study method of teaching is being criticised, Robert F Bruner, dean, Darden Business School, University of Virginia, believes it is the right way to prepare an MBA for the world of business. A finance professor for 24 years before assuming charge as dean at Darden Business School in 2006, Bruner tells Praveen Bose that management education is all about making businesses work better. ...
... As the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia notes, "Persistent sub-replacement fertility eventually translates into fewer workers relative to retirees, which puts tremendous strains on public coffers and the economy as a whole." W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the project, quotes a recent finding that almost half of the recent run-up of public debt in the West can be attributed to rapid aging over the last 20 years.
... Jobs and economic growth top the list of many peoples' concerns. Mine too. So consider this: a University of Virginia [Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service] study has determined every public cost-share dollar spent on conservation in Virginia spins off $1.56 in local economic activity. These cost-share programs could generate more than 11,700 new jobs. ...
Caroline Preston may just have invented a new art form: the scrapbook novel. ... Preston, who has also written “Jackie by Josie,” “Lucy Crocker 2.0” and “Gatsby’s Girl,” is a former archivist and keen collector of printed ephemera ... The writerlives in Charlottesville, Va., where her husband, novelist Christopher Tilghman, teaches at the University of Virginia ... This location provides her with some particular benefits. “In the U.Va. library, they have complete runs of Vogue,” Preston says. “You learn so much by looking through old ...
Former Vice President Dick Cheney will be at the University of Virginia in November to talk about his new book. He will be joined by his daughter, LizCheney, who co-authored the book, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir.” Cheney will be speaking at the Miller Center of Public Affairs on Nov. 16 at 11 a.m.
Women are more likely than men to be badly injured in similar car crashes, according to a study led by Dipan Bose, a research scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Applied Biomechanics. He recommends changes in car design and safety testing to reduce the dangers to female drivers.
Decades before his famous "Last Lecture" in 2007, delivered less than a year before cancer took his life, Randy Pausch was a child growing up in Columbia. There, in a ranch-style house on Dartmouth Road, the teenager, who would graduate from Oakland Mills High School, nurtured a mind that would later teach computer science at the University of Virginia and Carnegie Mellon University.
Carnegie Mellon will be taking two pieces — the elevator and a painting of a rocket ship — and placing them in a multidisciplinary studio named in Pausch's honor... The remaining paintings wi...
Some Charlottesville students are getting a jump-start on college life. About 40 sixth graders left Walker Upper Elementary Wednesday to spend a day on grounds at the University of Virginia. ... The students spent about three hours touring the University of Virginia lawn, the dining hall, and taking part in college-level science experiments in the chemistry building Wednesday. This semiannual field trip is a part of the Day in the Life Program ...
... expert entrepreneurs do not believe in trying to predict the future. Instead, theyprefer to co-create with people who self-select into the process by making specific commitments to the project at hand. Instead of beginning with somevision of a great opportunity, the effectual entrepreneur simply begins with her means - who she is, what she knows and whom she knows. By starting withmeans already within your control, you are free to act. You can get startedright away. You don't have to quit your day job. Highly profitable companies such as eBay and Waste Management were started by entreprene...
Rita Dove is a Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate, and she’s also a competitive ballroom dancer. A professor at the University of Virginia, Dove now has another credit to her name: editor of the new Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry. ... “To me the anthology is all about the poem and less about the poet,” Dove said ... “In the end, all that remains is the poem, it is, as Dickinson says, that letter you write to the world without expecting an answer.” ...
Dr. Robin Hamill-Ruth
A pain management specialist in the Health System
Hot shower led to Marine's fatal overdose at hospital, Navy says
Virginian-Pilot / Oct. 26
Christopher J. Ruhm
Professor of public policy and economics
7 Ways the Recession Is Making You Healthier
Fiscal Times / Oct. 25
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Lagging in polls, Perry pitches (optional) 20% flat tax
USA Today / Oct. 25
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Americans tune out of presidential race
ABC News "World Today" / Oct. 26
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Obama loses magic for young voters
Financial Times / Oct. 26
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The University of Virginia Medical Center recently participated in a clinical study for a new way to screen for Down syndrome in unborn babies. The DNA prenatal blood test is non-invasive and is also more accurate than many other testing procedures previously used. Dr. Devereux Saller is the director of maternal-fetal medicine at UVA Medical Center. He says screening for Down syndrome in unborn babies has existed for some time but this new blood test is promising to be more accurate.
Because children in poverty face increased risk for poor language skills, that means kids with low skills are often clustered together, said Laura Justice, professor in the School of Teaching and Learning at Ohio State University and formerly on the faculty at U.Va.'s Curry School of Education. She conducted the study with Yaacov Petscher and Christopher Schatschneider of Florida State University and Andrew Mashburn of the University of Virginia Curry School. Their findings appear in the new issue of the journal Child Development.
Dr. Laura Horst Rosenberger, a research fellow in the department of surgery at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, said in an American College of Surgeons news release. The bacteria that cause the infections are opportunistic, Horst explained, targeting people who are already very ill and are less likely to survive because of other factors.
Kulwant Rai, research director of the Tayloe Murphy Center, studied several low-income communities in North Carolina and Virginia before and after credit unions targeting that population opened and found crime had indeed dropped as a result.