Research and development spending by universities rose 5.8 percent in fiscal 2009, with private industry chipping in a small but growing share of the money, according to the latest National Science Foundation survey of R&D spending. U.Va., with $218 million, is listed 48th in a Chronicle of Higher Education chart.
The University of Virginia now has a contract with NuRide. The Internet company provides an online service which rewards residents for not using their vehicles. Those that use the program will be rewarded with points when they carpool, ride a bus, walk, or telecommute. The site also helps to set up carpools. Points received can then be redeemed for discounts at national and local vendors. The University of Virginia is the first University to sponsor the program. The program has about 50,000 members in 10 markets.
Education experts spelled out clearly on Thursday that teaching students at a young age, even before they start school, is crucial to their success. Robert C. Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, made a presentation at UVa to a crowd of local educators, elected officials, business leaders and others on the progress of the local Smart Beginnings initiative to improve childhood readiness for school. In 2007, the Charlottesville/Albemarle Partnership for Children, the United Way — Thomas Jefferson Area and the Curry School, along with community and b...
John Dressler Hartz
Attended U.Va., then opened a restaurant in Bethesda before starting his construction business
Michael Haykin
Earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and lived and painted for 20 some years in Key West, Fla.
Haykin career highlights
Helena Independent Record | Sept. 30
Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain
Holds a master's degree in judicial process from the U.Va. Law School
O’Scannlain Named Head of International Judicial Group
Los Angeles Metropolitan News-Enterprise | Sept. 29
Sanjay Rupani
Earned a bachelor of economics from U.Va.
GW School of Business Names Chief Strategy Officer
Business Wire | Sept. 29
Paul Cantor
Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English
Cultural critic Paul Cantor assesses the politics of the new TV season
Charlottesville Examiner | Sept. 30
R. Edward Howell
Vice president and CEO of the U.Va. Medical Center
Martha Jefferson to merge with Sentara
Charlottesville Daily Progress | Sept. 30
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Obama in Richmond: More backyard than barnstorm
San Francisco Examiner | Sept. 29
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Agency spin part of politics, analysts say
Washington Examiner | Sept. 28
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O'Donnell: 'God's Keeping Me in the Race'
CBN News | Sept. 30
William Sh...
The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) announced today a panel session of globally renowned clinicians for the upcoming Wireless Health 2010 conference, where researchers from leading global institutions including MIT, the University of Edinburgh, UCLA, and the University of Virginia, will share research findings and explore significant advances in wireless health technologies with thought leaders from academia, medicine, government and industry. The conference is scheduled for Oct. 5-7, 2010 at Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines.
In an interview with DW, Philip Zelikow, [White Burkett Miller Professor of History] involved with reunification for the White House, talks about Germany's reduced role since reunification and the peculiar painting he received from an East German diplomat.
Biographer Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life is prompted by the "Papers of George Washington," a research project that has been ongoing at the University of Virginia since 1968.
The University of Virginia is holding information sessions to mark Cyber Security Awareness Month.
A group of University of Virginia researchers is working on a way to help you save a load of energy at home without making a bunch of upgrades. The research is about redirecting the energy you are not using, and aiming it at the spots in your home where you need it. The technology - a series of sensors - would show you your energy use when you are there, when you are out, and when you simply walk from room to room.
The University of Virginia dean of students sent a safety message to students Tuesday urging them to use caution after three recent attacks near campus. One female student was sexually assaulted, and authorities believe the same suspect attempted to assault another female student, wrote Allen Groves, associate vice president and dean of students. The third student, who was punched in the neck, was believed to have been attacked because of his sexual orientation, according to the message.
A student e-mailed University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan last week saying she and her sorority sisters didn't feel safe walking home after the bars closed at 2 a.m. She'll look into it, Sullivan said she told the student, but added some advice: "Not to sound like your mother or anything, but I don't think you should be walking alone at that time in the morning no matter how safe you feel," she said.
Sullivan spoke of her first two months on the job in an interview yesterday with members of the Richmond Times-Dispatch news and editorial staffs, and student safety was amo...