By Mark Edmunson
Who is the common reader now? I do not think there is any way to evade a simple answer to this question. Common readers—which is to say the great majority of people who continue to read—read for one purpose and one purpose only. They read for pleasure. They read to be entertained. They read to be diverted, assuaged, comforted, and tickled.
The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia will give the keynote address at a University of Virginia School of Law conference on Friday. Timothy Heaphy, a 1991 law school graduate, will make his remarks at 5 p.m. in the Purcell Reading Room as part of the 12th Annual Conference on Public Service and the Law. The two-day conference is open to the public, who may park in the law school lots after 2 p.m. Friday and all day Saturday. The conference focuses on public interest issues in the legal community.
Get your notebooks ready, green thumbs! Two good opportunities coming our way: Eliot Coleman is coming on Sunday to Hereford College for a lecture and workshop. In our household, Coleman is, well, a household name. He's the author of Four-Season Harvest, the book that got us interested in winter gardening, using cold frames and low tunnels.
Researchers at the University of Virginia say the reported death rate of college students due to drunken driving is grossly overrated, according to a study released Tuesday. Dr. James C. Turner, executive director of UVa Student Health, and a team of researchers have spent more than three years studying data from colleges across the state. Their work suggests drunken driving caused only a fraction of the deaths of college students in 2007, the year they studied. Turner’s findings, which appeared in a recent Journal of American College Health (JACH), show that DUI-related death rates amon...
A new exhibit at the University of Virginia honors the past, present and future presidents of UVa. The exhibit is called "Students, Scholars, Leaders: The Academic Lives of the University of Virginia's Presidents. It was created in honor of UVa's newest president, Teresa Sullivan, who will be formally inaugurated on April 15, during Founder's Week. The exhibit focuses on depicting the university's presidents as students. It depicts their high school years, and illustrates achievements including graduate research.
Paul Jordan
A former U.Va. wrestler
Jr. Bulldogs enjoy terrific turnaround
Asbury Park Press | Feb. 7,
Richard “Vance” Lynch
He earned a master of teaching degree for secondary science education in 2002 from the Curry School
Covington High School names teacher of the year
NOLA.com | Feb. 7
Qian Cai
Director of the demographics and workforce group at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Northern Va. leads way in population growth
Inside NoVA | Feb. 7
Jonathan Haidt
A professor of psychology
Social Scientist Sees Bias Within
New York Times | Feb. 7
and
Social Psychologists Consider Bias Against Conservatives
Inside Higher Ed | Feb. 8
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Is John Ensign a Political Zombie And He Just Doesn't Know It?
TIME | Feb. 8
Martha Sites can envision a time when the vast materials in the world’s libraries are simply a click away. As an Associate of Production & Technology Services at the UVA Library, Sites has spent her career trying to make reading and learning more accessible. And she wants UVA to be at the forefront. ... So when UVA announced its participation in the Google Book Library Project in November 2006, it was cause for celebration. UVA joined Harvard, Stanford, the University of California, Oxford and the University of Michigan, among other prominent libraries around the world, to make its rare ...
The University of Virginia rotunda is the center of attention on grounds but it needs a little help to stay in good shape and that help won't come cheap. The university is hoping the state will chip in to prevent leaking and water damage. The ultimate goal is to put a new roof on the rotunda. The total cost of renovations will be $50.6 million, which includes a new copper roof for the building. UVA is asking the state to budget in $2.6 million this session to help out with repairs.
When students from the University of Virginia visit the Innovations memory care unit at RoseWood Village at Greenbrier Drive in Charlottesville, things really come to life. Each week pairs of students play games and even bake desserts to help engage residents suffering from memory loss including Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Perry Ellis and Cary Hastings are first year students in the Curry School of Education's communication disorders master's degree program. "For me it's just an awesome opportunity to work with a great group of people and learn how to interact with an older generati...
A woman is more attracted to a man when she is uncertain about how much he likes her, says a new study. On the one hand, a lot of psychological research has found that person A usually likes person B about as much as they think person B likes them. "If we want to know how much Sarah likes Bob, a good predictor is how much she thinks Bob likes her," said the authors of the paper published in Psychological Science, Erin R. Whitchurch and Timothy D. Wilson of the University of Virginia and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University.
U.S. scientists say a woman is more attracted to a man when she is uncertain about how much he likes her -- no word yet if this works the same in men.
Study authors Erin R. Whitchurch and Timothy D. Wilson of the University of Virginia and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University say they studied 47 female undergraduates were told the study was to determine if Facebook could be used as a dating site.
Economic setbacks like unemployment or mortgage woes are linked to big declines in marital happiness, but a minority of married Americans say the recession has deepened their commitment to their spouse, according to a new report.
The study, compiled by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, concludes that the recession has both “stressed and strengthened” American marriages.
Americans without a college degree bore the brunt of the recent recession, and so did their marriages, according to a new report by researchers at the University of Virginia. The "Survey of Marital Generosity," conducted on behalf of U-Va.'s National Marriage Project, found that 29 percent of couples reported that the 2007-09 downturn had put financial stress on their marriages.
They’re furry, fun loving and could be the key to getting your sedentary teen off the couch, finds a new study on dog ownership and adolescent physical activity. “You can think of your dog not only as your best friend, but also a social support tool for being active,” said John Sirard, Ph.D., the study’s lead author and an assistant professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
According to a 2006 study by sociologists W. Bradford Wilcox and Steven L. Nock from the University of Virginia, the level of a husband's emotional engagement matters most when it comes to a woman's happiness. The study, titled "What's Love Got to Do With It? Equality, Equity, Commitment and Women's Marital Quality," was based on a survey of over 5,000 American couples. Wilcox and Nock found that more than anything, married women care about how understanding and affectionate their husbands are and the amount of quality time they get to spend with their husbands.
In one of the first such studies, reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry last month, alcoholics with two specific variations of a gene related to the neurotransmitter serotonin were able to cut their alcohol consumption significantly using the drug onadansetron. ... "Imagine this scenario: You go to your doctor and say, 'I'm drinking and I need help," says Bankole Johnson, chairman of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia and the study's lead author. "The doctor can do a blood test and if you qualify, you can get tablets the next day and t...
Don Carlo-Clauss
Attended U.Va. on a wrestling scholarship and earned his bachelor's degree in anthropology in 2002
Meet four local mixed martial arts stars
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | Feb. 5
Jason Barclay
A Law School graduate
Forty Under 40: Jason Barclay
Indianapolis Business Journal | Feb. 5
Luis Fortuño
A Law School alumnus
Puerto Rico's miracle man
Atlanta Journal Constitution | Feb. 7
Peter Kaye
Kaye received his BS from the U.Va.
Peter Kaye Joins Honest Tea as Vice President of Marketing
Benzinga | Feb. 5
David M. Nicol
He earned his doctorate in c...
Richard B. Parker
In retirement, he was a diplomat-in-residence at the University of Virginia, where he taught classes on foreign policy in the Arab world and served as an editor of the Middle East Journal.
Joseph R. Stringfellow
A third year medical student