To call Jennifer Cromwell's summer a whirlwind would be an understatement. Cromwell, a 2006 Sammamish graduate, kicked off her summer by helping the University of Virginia women's rowing team capture their first NCAA Championship on May 30 in Gold River, Calif.
Could some emotional illnesses be adaptations that evolved to serve a useful purpose? J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D. - clinical psychiatrist and staff member, Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, discusses with host Tom Graham.
Tom Guterbock, directer of the Center for Survey Research at U.Va., joins Coy Barefoot in the studio. Topics include the results of immigration research in Prince William County, police rating in that county, and Arizona Immigration Laws.
There were health screenings, a music and martial arts exhibition, storytelling and more at Chihamba’s 21st annual African-American Cultural Arts Festival on Saturday at Washington Park in Charlottesville.
June 25, 2010 | Worldpress.org
Unsustainability in Today's Sustainable Development
By Robert Pillers and Jeffrey Tyler Matuella, leader of the U.Va. Social
Enterprises Team that worked with international and local partners in
Bluefields, Nicaragua
... During this past year, a project team from the University of Virginia
has worked with the city government and a local university in Bluefields,
Nicaragua to try to establish a ceramic water filter enterprise that would
combat the serious problem of contaminated drinking water. They set up an
international support network that included...
On the observation deck atop City Hall, 26 teachers from 16 states listened as the history of Richmond was laid out before them. "You can watch time unfold," said Ed Ayers, the University of Richmond's president and a scholar who this day was teaching the teachers. Ayers is a former dean of U.Va.'s College of Arts and Sciences.
Lucy King's passion for the trombone was too big to fit on a college application. So she traveled to the College of William and Mary last month to tell someone about it in person. "You can't really beat having a face-to-face communication," said Lucy, 17, a senior from Carlisle, Mass.
Kneedler is a University of Virginia Law School graduate
Jordan Dods, a 2010 University of Virginia graduate, has received a privileged education over the years. And now the 21-year-old former Culpeper resident and 2006 Woodberry Forest School graduate plans to make a difference in the lives of those less fortunate. Dods will begin teaching science in Charlotte, N.C. on Aug. 25 through the Teach For America program.
Ponder the difference between the comedian and the musician. Both create and perform works to entertain audiences, but they go about protecting that work in different ways. The notoriously litigious music industry often resorts to the legal system to protect itself from pirates and samplers. But comedians don't. So why hasn't the joke well gone dry? That's the question asked by a forthcoming book chapter from the University of Chicago Press called "Intellectual Property Norms in Stand-Up Comedy." Written by two professors from the University of Virginia School of Law, the chapter off...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn recently signed off on the state's first "sexting" law in an effort to clarify the terms of infractions involving minors. The law’s pretty clear that the dissemination of child pornography warrants serious criminal charges. But what if it’s minors who exchange nude photographs and illicit messages through text and social networking sites? Curry School of Education professor Patrick Tolan talks about this phenomenon.
The Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning author William Faulkner died in 1962 but his voice can still be heard today thanks to some rare audio tapes made during his time at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia President John Casteen is handing over the reigns to new President Teresa Sullivan. Casteen has been the president of UVA for 20 years and will officially step down as president on Sunday. However, the legacy he's leaving behind will continue into the university's future.
Teresa A. Sullivan, the former provost of the University of Michigan, will become the University of Virginia’s eighth president today. Sullivan’s appointment is the first of a coming wave of changes at the top echelon of U.Va.’s leadership.
Meredith Cavalier considered remaining in Charlottesville this summer. Instead, the rising University of Virginia sophomore swimmer honored her commitment to coach in the Rappahannock Swim League. One 10 year-old boy in Stafford County is certainly grateful.
University of Virginia moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt delivered an absolutely dynamite talk on new advances in his field last week. The video and a transcript have been posted by Edge.org.
Ken Cuccinelli was at his desk past midnight, laboring over calculus homework, when he heard a long, loud scream. It came from an adjacent basement bedroom in the group house he rented with some friends that summer of 1989 in Charlottesville, where he was a student at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia destroyed nearly 15 tons of documents Thursday. Records Management Day is a way for the university to get rid of files and documents that are no longer needed.
Medical volunteers from the community are hosting a health fair Saturday that will provide free screenings and information on a host of dangerous ailments. The third annual Charlottesville Community Health Fair will be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday as part of the Chihamba’s African-American Cultural Arts Festival at Booker T. Washington Park.
The first thing we're taught to do when we get in a car is buckle up. Now, a University of Virginia team of researchers has received more than $2 million in federal grant money to study how elderly drivers react differently in a crash.