Susie Bruce
Director of the Center for Alcohol and Substance Education
Potent alcoholic beverages concern Va.
Richmond Times Dispatch / Nov. 2
Carolyn Engelhard
Assistant professor of public health sciences and health policy analyst
Fact-Checking Health Reform
"Virginia Insight" on WMRA Public Radio / Nov. 1
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Scenarios: Election trends could be evident early
Reuters / Nov. 2
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Virginia, SC may offer early clues on election night
McClatchy Newspapers / MiamiHerald.com / Nov. 1
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Big three prognosticators - ...
By Jason Hickel, a doctoral student in anthropology who teaches courses in African studies
The past few years have seen a dramatic up-tick in American diplomatic efforts in Africa, which has coincided with a decisive shift in political rhetoric about the continent. At first glance this might seem like a positive development, reflecting a more progressive attitude toward what has long been considered an unimportant global backwater. But a closer look reveals that American diplomacy in Africa is less about serving the good of African people than it is about securing the interests of private Ame...
… We've all seen it. It's halftime at your favorite football game and someone has to punt or pass to win big. For Logan Gates it could mean paying his tuition and allowing him to help others around the world. Logan Gates doesn't play for the Cavaliers but his arm could pay his way through college. Gates is competing for $123,000 in scholarship money as part of the Million Dollar Tuition Giveaway contest sponsored by Dr. Pepper.
According to a report published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, a grant-funded program tailored to provide advanced minimally invasive surgery skills to young, underrepresented minority surgeons, is helping address shortages of minority faculty members at US medical institutions. ...stated Paris D. Butler, MD, MPH, the study's lead author and surgical resident at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville.
A new report by three early childhood researchers provides a blunt assessment of what they see as the ineffectiveness of current strategies for improving pre-k quality and makes suggestions for a new approach. The report [focuses on] two professional development programs— the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) at the University of Virginia and Texas Early Education Model (TEEM)... CLASS was developed by Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.
... For example, he cites what he terms the "visionary heuristic," which he theorizes evolved from a time when hunter-gatherers had to conserve energy and which may influence how we view physical obstacles such as height, slope and size. A recent University of Virginia study suggested that people consistently perceive hills as steeper than they are, and steeper still if they are weighed down by a pack. So, he suggests, our brains conclude: Why begin the climb at all?
This week we are joined by Darden Professor Ken Eades, who discusses looking at the nation’s economy through the eyes of Chief Financial Officers. In the headlines: “Sustainability – Cradle to Cradle,” “Innovations and Trends in Healthcare,” and “Value Investing.”
A college education could be closer, cheaper and easier than you think. That was the message spread by local college guides Monday during College Night at the New College Institute. ... The college guides are recent graduates of the University of Virginia who work directly with students who are planning to attend college or any other form of continuing education after high school...
By Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?”
... A stronger type of study is one in which no one--the kids, the parents, or the experimenter--knows whether the snack the child ate was sweetened with sugar or with aspartame. (A research assistant keeps track.) More than a dozen such studies have been conducted, and they show that sugar does not cause hyperactive behavior or behavior problems, even when the researchers make a point of testing kids whose parents say they are sensitive to sugar.
Sugar has also been tested for its im...
The University of Virginia is giving one of its older buildings an environmentally friendly face lift. Pavilion IX is being renovated to meet LEED standards for green construction. It is the first Thomas Jefferson-era building to be revamped in this environmental way.
Dominion Virginia Power will use a $5 million grant from the Virginia Tobacco Commission to help build a pilot photovoltaic power plant in Halifax County. ... The other project participants are the University of Virginia's Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering and an advanced energy-storage manufacturer...
Anne Coughlin
A law professor
Executors dispute killer's inheritance from victim mother
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) / Nov. 1
Carolyn Engelhard
An assistant professor of medical education and a health policy analyst
Small Business Owners Divided Over Health Care
NBC 29 News / Oct. 31
Gerald P. Fogarty
A Jesuit priest and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religious Studies and History
Conference at Brown studies work of Pope Pius XI
Providence Journal / Oct. 29
Dr. Bruce Greyson
Carlson Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies, ...
... Rob Sheffield, who writes for Rolling Stone, feels otherwise. His second memoir, “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,” published by Dutton in July, not only contains important observations about the Go-Go’s, Tone Loc and New Kids on the Block. It also explains why a literate suburban teenager might become a major fan of both rock ’n’ roll and regular Catholic Mass — how those sacred experiences are not opposed, like Satan and God, but united by one sensibility.
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. — Fran Crippen was remembered as a swimmer whose “passion and dream” was to represent the United States in the Olympics. Those closest to him also want Crippen’s death to serve as a reminder that the way he died should “never happen to anyone else.” Hundreds of mourners attended a 2-hour funeral mass at Saint Matthew Catholic Church in suburban Philadelphia, where he was buried later in the day. ...He was an 11-time All-American and two time Atlantic Coast Conference swimmer of the year while competing at the University of Virginia. Virgini...
By Gary Gallagher, a professor of history
Given the realities of electoral politics in 1860, it is almost impossible to imagine how Abraham Lincoln could have lost. It is even more difficult to say what the election of Stephen A. Douglas — the only one of the other three candidates who stood even a remote chance of success — would have elicited in the way of responses across the nation.
... According to a report by Richard Bonnie of the University of Virginia, there were 11 reported suicides at Virginia colleges in the academic year 2008-2009 and 86 reported suicide attempts.
More than 100 pre-teens from as close as Prince George County and as far away as Washington, D.C., converged on the Virginia State University Saturday for a unique program that gives children an opportunity to learn and explore scientific career paths in a university environment. The program, Kids' Tech University, is a prototype of an education program organized in Germany eight years ago by two German journalists who wanted to provide a "university experience" for children 8 to 12. ... The first part of the day included a lecture by Dr. Boris Kovatchev from the University of Virgin...
For the last three months, National University of Singapore (NUS) student Sneha Iyer has been attending classes on board a former cruise ship on the high seas instead of at Kent Ridge. The second-year business student has with her 600 classmates from all over the world on board the MV Explorer, which is stopping at a dozen cities as its passengers take part in 'Semester at Sea' (SAS), a semester-long study-abroad programme. She counts Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu among her lecturers, and has had the opportunity to have breakfast and conversation with him.
... Late last year, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville and the University of Virginia’s ecoMOD project unveiled an affordable, energy-efficient house that sits across Elliott Avenue from the undeveloped city acreage.
The UVA Medical Center played a standby role in the visit of President Obama. The plan included the designation of specific treatment rooms, ancillary support rooms, family areas, operational areas for federal officials, and arrangements for the President should he have needed to receive care.