... A partnership between the University of Virginia and INOVA Fairfax Hospital has received a $2.5 million federal grant to set up a center that will study older drivers and passengers.
University officials say the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration grant will establish an Engineering Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network Center. The grant will help U.Va.'s Institute on Aging continue to focus on research that will promote independent living for aging Americans.
State Sen. Tim Barnes, D-Adams, returned home last week after being named one of 50 state lawmakers from across the country to the 2010 Program for Emerging Political Leaders, sponsored by the State Legislative Leaders Foundation and the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia recently debuted "Faulkner in Virginia," a website that offers audio recordings of the lectures, Q & A sessions and—dare we?—the sound and fury of UVA's first Writer-in-Residence, William Faulkner.
Newsweek and NPR weigh in on the site, which launched last week. You can also read a preview article about the site published in UVA's Arts & Sciences blog, in which a UVA alum recounts photographing the Nobel Prize winner as he emerged from the ABC store on Main Street. Give it a listen.
... Dominion will ask property owners, environmental organizations, natural resource managers, community leaders and other local stakeholders for their input prior to the design and engineering of a solution. They are working with the University of Virginia's Institute for Environmental Negotiation, who will serve as a facilitator to help Dominion and the community stakeholders assess the situation, develop opinions and propose options for enhancing the electrical system.
The University of Virginia welcomed five new employees to its facility management division. To earn the job, the employees put in four years and 8,000 hours of on-the-job training as part of UVa's apprentice program.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli yesterday sought to clarify the reason for his demand for documents related to the climate-change research of former University of Virginia scientist Michael Mann.
... The University has worked with CBORD (a provider of campus and cashless card systems, food and nutrition service management software, nationwide student discount and off-campus commerce programs, housing and judicial process management software, and integrated security solutions) for years on providing students and staff with a one-card solution. The University of Virginia Identification (ID) Card had combined many features ...
... The weeklong camp was created by a California company, internalDrive, for children ages 7 to 17 who love technology. The program began in 1999 as a way to promote technology education, and camp events have been held in Charlottesville each summer for the last several years.
... Cuccinelli has been going back and forth with the state university for weeks over a civil investigative demand he issued to the school in April, demanding research documents and e-mails related to the work of climate scientist Michael Mann, who was employed at the university until 2005. Mann's work concludes that the earth has experienced a rapid, recent warming -- a conclusion Cuccinelli rejects.
Called "exceptional" by New Yorker theatrecritic Hilton Als, 2002 Jefferson Scholar alumna Lear deBessonet conceived and directed the play, "On the Levee."
For many people in isolated areas of Far Southwest Virginia and surrounding regions, this is the weekend they will finally get the dental and medical care they need but cannot afford. It's the annual Remote Area Medical – or "RAM" – program.
Top-rated University of Virginia sold $190 million of 30-year Build America Bonds yesterday to yield 4.9 percent, the lowest on record for that maturity, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The university, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, became the first borrower to offer a 30-year Build America Bond with a 5 percent coupon since the federal government created the subsidized taxable municipal securities last year, Bloomberg data show.
Virginia's coordinating body for higher education wants to boost salaries for college faculty members over the next two years.
Alli McKee, College '09 and McIntire '10
After winning an art contest a recent University of Virginia graduate is taking what she learned in business class and marketing her artwork with drink coasters. They sell for $15 and although it generates little profit, it's allowed her business to grow.
Homeowners in Charlottesville's Martha Jefferson neighborhood are one step closer to protecting its past. The Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review (BAR) gave its neighborhood association the green light for a conservation designation. … "It's the best of both worlds because it is going to preserve the major features that define the neighborhood, that are historic, but also allows for things to change," explained Lydia Mattice Brandt, a University of Virginia architecture PhD candidate.
Ed Freeman
Olsson Professor in the Darden School of Business
Wall St: Better Times Ahead
CNBC / July 20
Dr. Christopher Kramer
professor of radiology and medicine
Myocardial fibrosis amount predictive of long-term survival after aortic valve replacement
Cardiology Today / July 20
Larry Sabato
politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Senate Clears Way to Extend Unemployment Benefits in Victory for Democrats
Voice of America / July 20
Patrick Tolan
professor in the Curry School of Education and director of the Center for Positive Youth Development.
ADHD meds help, but many p...
Virginia Intermont College has named E. Clorisa Phillips its 17th president.
The board of trustess met this morning and unanimously agreed to hire Phillips, who currently serves as associate provost for institutional effectiveness at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She was introduced to about 100 members of the VI faculty and staff at a morning news conference.
The Getty Research Institute is receiving grant money from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a joint project that involves the digital archiving of German auction catalogs from 1930 to 1945. … Among the other organizations receiving money as part of the overall grant are the University of Virginia, for its partnership with Germany's University of Paderborn to develop an open source encoding standard for music notation…
Philanthropic giving to American education is likely to rebound to pre-recession levels, according to a survey that forecasts fundraising results for the 2010-2011 academic year.