Recently published work with colleagues from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Institute of Aerospace, University of Virginia and University of Missouri could be particularly useful in the design and manufacture of nanostructured composite materials.
A University of Virginia study says a record 1.21 million students attended the state's public schools in 2009-10, and projections for the next five years show that about 50,000 more students will be enrolled in 2014-15. The elementary grades will see two-thirds of that increase.
The Ron Brown Scholars program is among those rare entities that boasts a 100 percent graduation rate. The University of Virginia History Department's Explorations in Black Leadership features a standards-based curriculum and volunteer mentors to provide student groups with the tools to develop projects to help serve their local communities.
Larry Sabato
Director Center for Politics
High Court's Gun Ruling Won't End Local Skirmishes
AOL News / June 29
Jerry Stenger
Climatologist
Scientists debate humanity's role in warming
Virginian Pilot / June 29
Isaac Wood
Media Relations Coordinator, Center for Politics
Obama’s good for GOP, Boehner says
Boston Herald / June 29
Daniel Willingham
Professor of Psychology
... Newly released to the market is ShaToBu - short for shape, tone and burn - a calorie-consuming body shaper making the claim to whittle your middle, butt and thighs as you move. the garment was tested under controlled scientific conditions at the University of Virginia and energy expenditure increased significantly during treadmill activity, which means more calories were burned...
On June 17, the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) distributed $21.9 million in grants throughout the state as part of its Transportation Enhancement Program. Of the total, a small part—$35,000—went to a novel bicycle program called Ubikes, currently being studied at the University of Virginia by the Office of the Architect and UVA Parking and Transportation.
... On tiny, 120-seat Court 6, in the shadow of historic Centre Court, an unknown Englishman named Dominic Inglot finally made his nonfictional mark in the game. It was in the mildly entertaining [movie] Wimbledon, you see, that the 24-year-old Inglot shot all the scenes over a three-month period as the tennis double for prominent British actor Paul Bettany. Until this week, it was the only time that Inglot, who resembles Bettany, had ever played on the world’s most famous grass courts. In the second round of the men’s doubles on Saturday, however, Inglot and countryman Chris Eaton...
Gerald Fogarty
A professor of history and religious studies
Vatican Criticizes Raid on Belgian Church Offices
New York Times / June 25
James Loeffler
A professor of history and author of a new book, "The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire"
On the Bookshelf: Gambling, speculating, and other numbers games
Tablet Magazine / June 28
Paul Mahoney
Dean of the Law School
Law Jobs Will Be Harder to Come By
U.S. News & World Report / June 25
James McBride
Executive director of career services
Class of 2010 Hopeful For the Future
West Islip Patch (N.Y.) / ...
... The Centre for Abrahamic Religions at Huron hosts the annual conference of the Society for Scriptural Reasoning from June 27-30. According to organizers, scriptural reasoning is "the practice of Jews, Muslims, and Christians meeting in small groups to study each other's sacred texts." The practice was founded by Peter Ochs, a professor of modern Judaic studies at the University of Virginia, who said the tradition grew from a desire to foster friendship and peace in times of inter-religious conflict.
... Virginia estimates that far less of its costs will disappear. Without the overhaul, for example, the state expects to pay about $1.3 billion over the next 10 years to help cover the costs of caring for the uninsured at the hospitals at the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University. With the law, the state assumes it will recoup less than 10 percent of those costs.
...Drifting cancer cells are not unlike invading bacteria, says Edward Nemergut, an anesthesiologist at the University of Virginia (U.V.A.) Health System in Charlottesville: "They spread when cancer is resected [removed], and you need a functioning immune system to take care of them. When the immune system is suppressed, it's less effective at doing that." ... Results from a 2006 study in Ireland and the U.S. suggest that patients who undergo surgery to remove breast or prostate cancer might be less prone to recurrence if they are administered regional anesthesia during their procedu...
... Researcher Manuel Lerdau, a professor at the University of Virginia, doesn't know whether kudzu in and around Athens is affecting the city's air quality now, but the study isn't about now - it's about the future, he said. "We're identifying it as a problem before it actually occurs," Lerdau said. He is one of four scientists who authored the kudzu study released last month.
... [Jeffrey] Dew's statistics tell him that consumer debt is deadly for marriage. It is an "equal-opportunity marriage destroyer," he wrote in an article for the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project.
According to a new study conducted by University of Virginia psychologists, well-adapted youth with positive friendships tend to use social-networking sites to further enhance the positive relationships they already have.