James Rubright, Law School alumnus
[Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.] exited bankruptcy proceedings this summer, and Rock-Tenn Chief Executive James Rubright pounced in December when Rock-Tenn advisers approached Smurfit. Discussions continued this month and negotiations were finalized over the weekend. … Smurfit exited bankruptcy proceedings this summer, and Rock-Tenn Chief Executive James Rubright pounced in December when Rock-Tenn advisers approached Smurfit.
Prior to his tenure in the Senate, Mr. Bayh, 55 years old, served two terms as the governor of Indiana. He holds an undergraduate business degree from Indiana University and a law degree from the University of Virginia.
A group of students in the University of Virginia's materials science program are raising awareness of their field, putting on interactive lessons for kids at the Virginia Discovery Museum.
A group of University of Virginia students braved the cold Saturday to unearth one of the area's hidden treasures.
Richard Bonnie
Professor of law
Mental illness unlikely to clear shooting suspect in court, experts say
Los Angeles Times / Jan. 23
Howard Ernst
Senior scholar at the Center for Politics
Clean water goals in danger
Delaware News-Journal / Jan. 24
Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics
Welcome for Baby Doc shows Haitians' desperation
Mail & Guardian / Jan. 24
Dr. Nathan Fountain
Professor of neurology
Wake-Up Call: On Epilepsy
WNRN-FM / Jan. 23
Dr. Daryl R. Gress
Associate professor of neurology
Giffords Scheduled to Move to Houston Rehabilitation Center
Medscape Today, / Ja...
The Abraham Lincoln Association will celebrate President Lincoln’s 202nd birthday with two days of programs on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 11-12. Presentations will focus on the theme of Lincoln and the Civil War. The Abraham Lincoln Symposium will begin at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at Brookens Auditorium at the University of Illinois Springfield. Michael Holt of the University of Virginia will give the keynote address.
Those involved with the Charlottesville Women's Four Miler presented the University of Virginia Cancer Center with a check for $335,000 on Friday. The 2010 race raised more money than ever before.
Researchers from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, concluded that the biofeedback system could make it easier to walk the fine line between controlling blood sugar levels in order to minimize the condition's chronic complications and risking those levels falling too low, a state called hypoglycemia.
Alcoholics who were given a medication approved for quelling nausea were able to cut back on their alcohol intake, researchers reported. The medication, ondansetron (Zofran), could become a readily available therapy for helping some alcoholics become abstinent. The study was led by Bankole A. Johnson, chairman of the department of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia, and an expert in medications used to treat addiction.
However, a recent study says that young children do not actually learn from baby DVDs that market themselves as educational tools. The researchers also found that parents who liked the DVD tended to overestimate how much their children learned from it. The study was published recently in the journal Psychological Science. "We found that young children seem to learn not very much from being exposed to baby media," said Judy DeLoache, University of Virginia psychologist and study co-author.
In a welcome development, scientists have determined the structure of the protein package that delivers the genetic material of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to human cells. The study was carried out by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Virginia.
A film highlighting the importance of bee keeping hit the big screen Sunday evening. A number of Charlottesville area organizations, including University of Virginia's Food Collaborative, teamed up for the feature presentation of "Queen of the Sun" at The Haven on East Market Street.
The University of Virginia Art Museum is handing over the canvas and encouraging families to enjoy art together.
University of Virginia students who sit down to a bowl of cereal for breakfast will be fighting the war on hunger.
Student athletes at the University of Virginia are fighting drug and alcohol abuse on grounds and in the locker room. More than 250 college players and coaches from across the country stepped off the field this weekend to figure out how to prevent substance abuse in their teams and universities.
The 12 students in the Innocence Project Clinic at UVa’s law school searched for improperly withheld evidence in the case of Justin Wolfe, who was convicted in 2002 of murder-for-hire. They are now waiting for the ruling of a Norfolk federal judge after a Nov. 2 hearing during which the shooter in the incident recanted his prior testimony that Wolfe hired him to commit murder.
For a paper in Psychological Science, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Virginia looked at 750 pairs of American twins who were given a test of mental ability at the age of 10 months and then again at the age of 2. By studying the performance of identical versus fraternal twins, the scientists could tease out the relative importance of factors such as genetics and the home environment.
[Hurley High School football coach Greg Tester] took a redshirt year for the Hokies and then made another choice, a decision that would turn out to be rather wise. He transferred to the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and quickly became the workhorse in the backfield for the Highland Cavaliers. His return to Southwest Virginia was a triumphant one.
The New Year has seen an urgent call for accountability in higher education with the much anticipated release of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning in Higher Education, written by sociologists Richard Arum of New York University and the Social Science Research Council and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia. The book, released Tuesday and drawing a great deal of media attention in the days following, is based on a longitudinal study that draws primarily on results from the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA). … At a time when we’re asking more of our institutions of hig...
The country’s most successful soccer college, the University of Virginia has one of the most celebrated sports clubs, the Virginia Cavaliers. This soccer college is the home to several successful programs, including Virginia men's soccer. Virginia has played in 15 out of 19 ACC Tournament championship matches, winning ten titles