Valerie Ackerman
1981 alumna
Hopewell's Ackerman still at head of class
The Times of Trenton / June 13
Rick Carlisle
Alumnus
Think you know everything about the Mavs?
foxsportssouthwest.com / June 12
By John Portmann, associate professor of religious studies, in response to New York Times' Room for Debate opinion page query: "What's Wrong With Adult Sexting?"
... Freud thought that word play could, if imaginative enough, qualify as sex. I disagree.
I find it useful to think of adultery in old-fashioned terms. I am also old-fashioned enough to consider adultery a sin, something really, really bad. I do not think Anthony Weiner has committed adultery, unless there’s more going on than he has confessed to. ...
Given all the harm one spouse can to do one another, is his Inter...
By Robert Pianta, dean, Curry School of Education, in response to New York Times' Room for Debate opinion page query: "Who's Ready for Kindergarten?"
I receive more calls from reporters, parents, school board members and state officials about kindergarten entry than any other topic. Entry-age debates generate angst and opinions and too-often are not grounded in facts.
If pre-school programs were more effective, maybe I wouldn't receive more calls about kindergarten entry than any other issue.
Here’s the rub: children really differ from one another in skills and interests as t...
It may be one of the biggest medical advances since the scalpel: Doctors have discovered a way to treat non-cancerous tumors with sound waves instead of surgery. ... the procedure may one day be used to battle cancer and other diseases. ... The technology is called focused ultrasound.
"It offers a treatment option that doesn't involve radiation or cutting. That is a huge breakthrough," said Dr. Alan Matsumoto, chair of the UVA Radiology Department.
Around 7,000 fibroid patients have been treated with focused ultrasound. As many as 90 percent of women in clinical trials reported sympt...
Many economists and sociologists have warned of the social dangers of a wide gap between the richest and everyone else. Now, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, adds a psychological reason to narrow the disparity – it makes people unhappy.
Over the last 40 years, “we’ve seen that people seem to be happier when there is more equality,” says University of Virginia psychologist Shigehiro Oishi, who conducted the study with Virginia colleague Selin Kesebir and Ed Diener o...
... Using data from 2006-07, [U.Va. researchers] found that characteristics such as the size of a school and the poverty rate among students are strongly associated with suspension rates. But they still couldn't explain nearly half the variance between schools. Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist and education professor who worked on the study, said much depends on the disciplinary philosophy of the school administration and the resources available for alternative approaches. He added that a related study found a strong correlation between suspension and dropout rates, suggesting that suspe...
... Healthy older adults, between age 50 and up don't have to lose independence and mobility from muscle atrophy. The drug MK-677 has been explored by University of Virginia researchers to help elders maintain muscles. A compound in apple peel has also shown promise for promoting muscle growth. ...
Though Great Britain was neutral during the American Civil War, there were “compelling reasons” for Britain to support the Confederacy, according to a University of Virginia historian.
“The American Civil War posed an obvious dilemma to British politicians,” said Richard Floyd, an author and lecturer at UVa. “One immediate issue was that both sides — both the Union and the Confederacy — tried to secure a formal alliance with Great Britain.”
Floyd said the British perspective of the Civil War was “very complex” during a lecture Sunday ...
Women's Health Virginia held their 14th annual Conference on Women's Health at the University of Virginia Friday, focusing on female athletes. This year, the group devoted the conference to the "gains and pains" of women who take the field and how they can avoid game-stopping injuries.
Nearly 89 percent of members of the General Assembly have earned at least a bachelor's degree, ranking Virginia second among the states in the educational achievement of its lawmakers. That's according to a report by The Chronicle of Higher Education, which undertook the study to examine whether college experiences have an impact on legislative priorities. ... About 53 percent of Virginia's 140 lawmakers — 40 senators and 100 delegates — went to colleges in the state, and most also attended public schools. The University of Virginia has the highest representation, with 24 alumni in...
A group of first year students at the University of Virginia's Medical School want to make sure you know whether or not you're at risk for diabetes. Volunteers offered free screenings and diabetes counseling at The Haven in downtown Charlottesville Saturday. The goal was to increase awareness about the disease and make sure people do their part to prevent the worst complications from happening.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors has passed a $2.5 billion budget for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. In a historic decision, the board voted for the first year-to-year decrease in the budget for the academic division. But, there were some budget increases; the UVA Health System received a 10.3 percent increase raising their spending plan to $1.1 billion.
BLOG EXCLUSIVE: Answering today’s OFF-SET questions is Ken Hughes, a researcher with the Miller Center’s Presidential Recording Program.
... The federal government has now declassified the infamous Pentagon Papers. The Nixon Presidential Library & Museum will release the complete documents on June 13, 2011–forty years to the day that The New York Times published excerpts as a front-page story. ... In this interview, Hughes says: "Richard Nixon was gleeful and fearful when the Times started publishing the Pentagon Papers. ..." Hughes also says: "Why do we allow ...
University of Virginia officials agreed Friday to try to cut the school’s greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2025. The cuts, which are measured in tons of carbon dioxide or its equivalent, will be based on 2009 figures, the university’s Board of Visitors was told at a Friday meeting.
Chief Facilities Officer Don Sundgren said that the program will require university community members to aim higher than past efforts. ...
The University of Virginia's Tayloe Murphy Center, housed at U.Va's Darden School of Business, has seen "a lot of different iterations" in nearly half a century, including providing demographic studies to the state, said Gregory Fairchild, its executive director. Now its focus, Fairchild said, is "helping grow jobs in low-income communities."
Breast-feeding is already known to provide a slew of benefits to mother and baby, and now one more positive can be added to the list: it reduces the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, a new study says. "There's lots of reasons that breast-feeding is the best form of feeding infants," said study researcher Dr. Fern Hauck of the University of Virginia. "This study provides even further reason to breast-feed."
Roger Chevalier
Astronomy professor
Shattered Expectations: Ultrabright Supernovae Defy Explanation
Scientific American / June 8
Josipa Roksa
Assistant professor of sociology
College just isn't what it used to be
The Daily Progress / June 9
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director, Center for Politics
Voter ID bill easily passes House
Charlotte Observer / June 10
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Gingrich's loss could be Perry's campaign
Houston Chronicle / June 10
Jerry Stenger
State climatologist
Farmers lament as drought grips Eastern Shore
The Virginian-Pilot / June 10
Robert Turner
Law professor and co-founder...
Andy Chairisi
College of Arts & Sciences, East Asian Studies and design art alumnus
China: The New Assertiveness
Forbes.com / June 9
Mike McCormick
Alumnus
Mike McCormick joins his father in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
Daily Press / June 9
Emily Melville
College of Arts & Sciences biology alumna
Sharp Elegance: Emily Melville's timeless designs
Bohemian.com / June 8
Almost 23,000 people in Virginia are living with HIV today, thirty years after the first cases popped up. ... According to the Virginia Department of Health there are more than 300 people living with HIV in Charlottesville and Albemarle County ... Between 2004 and 2008 there were more than 5,000 new infections reported in Virginia. ... But there have been major advancements. University of Virginia researchers recently revealed the entire outer structure of the virus and other research shows early medication can be extremely important.