Meadowbrook Drive on Augusta's south side might seem like an unlikely place to spend spring break, but for 18 University of Virginia students, it's exactly where they want to be. … On Monday morning, the gently sloping roof of 2607 Meadowbrook Drive was crawling with college students in T-shirts and jeans, rapidly removing old shingles. On the ground, seven Augusta/CSRA Habitat for Humanity "Geezers" supervised. "They're a great group of guys," said Rosa, now spending his second spring break with the Augusta volunteer retirees.
Private endowment money will now help pay for renovations to the Rotunda at the University of Virginia. Those funds will pay for a new roof, which could cost about $4.5-million. That money is typically considered off limits to capital improvement projects. The university had requested $13-million from the commonwealth, but that didn't happen.
Dr. Nathan Larson, economist, University of Virginia, said water crisis in agriculture had wider social and economic ramifications. Currently visiting Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Nathan said the current project of the Department of Economics and Sociology, PAU, on the role of social networks in the adoption of water saving technologies helped farmers more efficiently use water.
John Thomas, director of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
“Alcoholism is not one disease; it's many diseases,” explained Bankole Johnson, MD, PhD, chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, in an interview. ...scientists have identified a variant of the serotonin transporter that is associated with heavy drinking and that appears to predict the response of alcohol-dependent patients to a therapy targeting these transporters. Johnson and his colleagues categorized 283 patients with alcohol dependence ...
Manuel Lerdau, professor of environmental sciences
...We take a look here at the top 5 programs from [the most recent Bloomberg Businessweek ranking of undergraduate business schools] and the ways in which they are preparing students for eventual careers in the global economy: ...
2. University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce
...The School has partnerships with institutions in multiple countries abroad such as China, Denmark, England, France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore, and Spain (three programs) and 18 percent of undergrad business students elect to add an international component in the third year of the school's integrat...
... In April, the University of Virginia will open the doors of its new $74 million Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center. And thanks to U.Va.’s partnership with CRH, the new center will certainly benefit Culpeper residents struggling with cancer. We are encouraged to see such a fine facility erected right here in our own backyard.
... The claim that admissions rates, at least, differ greatly between the best and worst colleges for on-time graduation rates seems beyond question. In 2009, the most recent year that data were available, the University of Virginia -- which ranked as the highest non-military institution on the MoneyWatch list for best on-time graduation rates -- turned away 14,341 of 21,109 total applicants, or about 68 percent of the pool of hopefuls.
The popular "Tripes" sculpture was returned to its home outside Peabody Hall on University of Virginia grounds Tuesday morning after undergoing weeks of repairs in Manassas.
Book lovers are gearing up for a big week in Charlottesville. The Virginia Festival of the Book gets underway next Wednesday and, as Sandy Hausman reports, some big-name events are still open to the public.
... “This is a community problem,” says Dr. John Schmitt, the division head of Obstetrics & Gynecology (OBGYN) at UVA. “People have to realize this and start very early in girls’ lives. ... Since 2009, the UVA clinic has eliminated blood test requirements for pregnancy screenings, and implemented clinic follow-ups with mothers who miss appointments. UVA also operates a Spanish-language clinic (“La Clinica”) to serve the local Hispanic population, which has more than doubled in the last decade. ... A group of UVA Family Medicine doctors is currently working o...
... Dr. Barry Farr, a professor emeritus in the Department of Medicine at the University of Virginia , is one such nonbeliever. Farr's research and that of his colleagues in the 1980s concluded that zinc "has no effect at all" on colds.
...In his book, 'Strangers to Ourselves,' Timothy D. Wilson of the University of Virginia writes that the human mind can take in 11 million pieces of information at any given moment. The most generous estimate is that people can be consciously aware of forty of these. “Some researchers,” Wilson notes, “have gone so far as to suggest that the unconscious mind does virtually all the work and that conscious will may be an illusion.” The conscious mind merely confabulates stories that try to make sense of what the unconscious mind is doing of its own accord.
The University of Virginia is often recognized for its cutting edge work, but Tuesday it was an assistant biology professor that received the honors. Dr. Sara Kucenas was awarded a $150,000 Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Award grant from the March of Dimes to fund her research in genetic analysis of the human nervous system. She studies Zebra fish and their birth defects.
... Nationwide, some colleges and universities have reported early boosts in recruiting and hiring, compared to the past few years. ... The University of Virginia welcomed 14 percent more companies to fall career fairs and has filled to capacity its new, spring semester small-group career counseling sessions for job-hunting seniors. ... Instead of focusing solely on scoring a dream job, UVA's [Kendra] Nelsen prods her students to be open to positions in fertile industries that use similar skill sets as their ideal position might.
Features Ervin Jordan, a special collections research archivist and the University’s records manager, and an internationally recognized Civil War and African-American history scholar. His segment starts at 29:00 in full episode.
"The school board is making a bet that the Supreme Court will overrule that decision," said Douglas Laycock, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
...With a light touch and refreshing candor, [U.Va. alumnus Conor] Grennan in "Little Princes" tells the story of how a good-looking University of Virginia grad with wanderlust ended up risking his life to find, then reunite, children with their families in Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world.
... Change of heart at two Ivies: Both Harvard and Princeton are bringing back their early admissions programs. ...The University of Virginia, another prestigious institution that had eliminated its early-decision program several years ago, decided to offer a nonbinding early-action option last November.