With the heat index expected to be at or above 90 for Virginia’s football game with VMI at Scott Stadium on Saturday afternoon, UVa has activated its heat management-operating plan.
It costs a lot of money just to go to a University of Virginia football game, but some UVa. students began offering services to fans that are filling up their wallets. … Ashley Taylor and his roommates are offering 13 parking spots at their house at the cost of $20 each -- a business plan that helps their bottom line.
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Commentary: Boy summits Colorado parking ramp / Republicans detect bad meat quicker than Democrats
Vail (Colo.) Daily / Sept. 24
Elizabeth K. Meyer
Associate professor of landscape architecture
Meet 'Em in St. Louis / Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates wins major competition to transform grounds around Saarinen icon
The Architects Newspaper / Sept. 24
Dr. Norman Oliver
Director of the U.Va. Center on Health Disparities
Federally subsidized health center sought for city
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Sept. 27
Michael Rodemeyer
Lecturer, Department of...
The new multi-university–industry Photonic Integration for Coherent Optics consortium — which is to focus on basic research to develop photonic technology for communications and sensing applications — is one of four consortia that has been chosen for funding by the US Defense Advanced Research Program Agency out of contenders from around the USA. DARPA is providing just over $2m annually, with the university and industry partners providing about the same amount. The consortium is led by University of California Santa Barbara and also includes researchers from the Massachusett...
Story features research from U.Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center for Pubic Service.
Scientists are just beginning to explore the complex pathway that can repair the breaks in double-stranded DNA that have been linked to breast, pancreatic, and other forms of cancer. … The Yale team, in collaboration with researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the University of Virginia, describes how the large tumor-suppressing protein PALB2 enhances this repair process.
The science of DNA analysis to identity individuals has led to a revolution in law enforcement, and the FBI, as well as the US military, would like to see the development of portable "Rapid DNA" kits that authorised personnel could take into the field or use at booking stations to immediately have human DNA-based samples, such as blood, analysed to determine identity. ... An effort led by Lockheed Martin in partnership with ZyGEM's MicroLab Diagnostics laboratories in Charlottesville, Va., may yield one of the first "Rapid DNA"-styled kits for government review by next year...
The back story on how the Leander McCormick Observatory came to reside on a hill overlooking the University of Virginia is not without mystery.
Talk about being an overachiever. Even before the large Leander McCormick telescope, with its 26-inch lens, had been assembled and shipped to the University of Virginia, it made a major contribution to the field of astronomy. … This year marks the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the university's Leander McCormick Observatory.
Dean Mosher’s canvas just got a whole lot bigger. The Fairhope artist is accustomed to “working large,” and come November he will have a venue worthy of the scale of his artwork. Thanks to Nance Fleming and Jim Wilmoth of Patina Gallery, Mosher’s oil-on-canvas painting “The Battle of Flamborough Head” has been purchased for $100,000 by billionaire philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones II, founder of Tudor Investment Corp., who donated it to the University of Virginia. The 8-by-10½-foot painting of the 1779 sea battle will be installed at the university&rsqu...
Henry County Schools’ national award-winning Project Parallax is beginning its second year. The project, a collaboration between faculty at the University of Virginia and the school system, aims to identify and develop talent in elementary students in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Teachers undergo training at U.Va. to develop instruction that covers not only what’s required for state Standards of Learning, but also incorporates more critical and creative thinking and problem-solving, said Catherine Brighton. Brighton is co-principal investigator for Projec...
With black fabric veiling the columns of the University of Virginia rotunda, students, staff and faculty gathered Friday to reflect on campus violence and discuss ways to prevent it, nearly five months after the killing of women's lacrosse player Yeardley Love. The "Day of Dialogue" was not meant to provide definitive answers, according to U-Va. President Teresa Sullivan. Rather, she said, it was a way to develop questions that would keep safety issues that can negatively affect a campus at the forefront of conversation.
Somdev Devvarman
Former NCAA tennis champion, will represent India in Commonwealth Games
Will Somdev Devvarman be lord?
Times of India / Sept. 24
On Wednesday, Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage sent an e-mail to a group of UVa students, admonishing them for their behavior. According to the e-mail, a copy of which was obtained by The Daily Progress, the students used vulgar language, which included negative references to members of the Wake Forest team.
Larry J. Sabato
Politics professor and director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics
GOP pledge has its limitations
McClatchy Newspapers / Sept. 24
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Will Obama’s youth movement return for crucial midterm vote?
France24 / Sept. 23
Referencing studies compiled by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, Votaw said that the name at the top of a ballot is 3-5 percent more likely to win than candidates lower on the ballot. Votaw said the current system is unfair, especially when voters are unfamiliar with the candidates.
After developing a plan to raise Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) test scores, including becoming involved with the University of Virginia Turnaround Program, South Elementary School became one step closing to getting out of school improvement by meeting Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for 2009-2010.