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.
... In the last 15 years, scientists have vigorously researched whether and why hurricanes have become more powerful. ... Researchers at University of Virginia looking at historical wind speeds also determined that water temperatures of 83 degrees Fahrenheit might be a tipping point for major hurricane development (Category 3 or higher) and concluded that “rising sea surface temperature will act to increase the percentage of major hurricanes” — although not necessarily the ultimate intensity of the storms, which is a result of other complex factors.
... Data over the past 33 years show the planet has warmed about 1 degree while Virginia has warmed about 1.5 degrees, said Jerry Stenger, director of the University of Virginia's climatology office. The trends are revealed in analyses of global and state warming that Stenger prepared for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "They are very real, very significant trends," Stenger said.
... The idea of government-backed proof-of-concept projects has plenty of proponents, including W. Mark Crowell, a University of Virginia executive and past president of the Association of University Technology Managers... Mr. Crowell, at the University of Virginia, participates in proof-of-concept review sessions, where academics and investors evaluate ideas. He says several projects that attracted $100,000 seed grants from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Research Partnership have generated commercial licensing deals. Among them is a project called HemoShear, which is developi...
Francis E. Warnock
Associate professor at the Darden School of Business
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
...The University of Virginia's McCormick Observatory recorded a high temperature of 100 degrees Thursday, edging out a record of 97 degrees set in 1914, said Jerry Stenger, director of the state climatology office.
...The solution to a less politicized military can be accomplished via dilution, but for this to happen more political centrists and liberals would have to join the military. I doubt this will happen. According to tens of thousands of surveys conducted by University of Virginia social psychology professor Jonathan Haidt, politically conservative individuals disproportionately value both respect for authority and loyalty‚ values that perfectly align with military culture. By contrast, those on the political left disproportionally value caring for others and fairness. These are admirable p...
... With the help of friends and relatives, [Alicia Almanza and her daughter Courtney] started a nonprofit organization in 2007 called Attack ACC. Three years later, through a variety of fundraising efforts, the organization has donated $67,500 to the University of Virginia Cancer Center in Charlottesville, the primary facility in the United States dedicated to [adenoid cystic carcinoma] research. ...One expert who has been investigating this cancer for the last 10 years is Dr. Christopher Moskaluk, a professor in the pathology, biochemistry and molecular genetics departments at the University...
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 potential financiers of the project and technical experts such as Potters for Peace. ...After...
Dr. Bruce Hillman
Professor of radiology, who wrote an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine warning of how CT scans expose patients to dangerously high levels of radiation.
"The school district was chosen four years ago to be part of the Partners in Leadership Excellence program under the University of Virginia..."
The Good Samaritan Society will receive more than $8.1 million the next three years for a project involving more than 1,000 seniors in five states... It will be used in a sensor technology project called LivingWell@Home, which involves installing non-invasive wireless sensors throughout a senior citizen's home. ...The sensors are part of a system called WellAWARE. ...The WellAWARE system was developed in collaboration with the University of Virginia and is one of a kind...
Elizabeth Clark
Rising fourth-year
Larry Sabato
Professor and director of the Center for Politics
Rand Paul flips, seeks money from bailout senators
Associated Press / June 22
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Nikki Haley's star rises
Washington Post (The Fix blog) / June 23
Richard Santen
Professor of medicine, endocrinology and metabolism
ENDO: Society Calls for New Look at Hormone Therapy
MedPageToday.com / June 22
Teresa Sullivan
U.Va. President-elect
UM Raises Tuition 1.5%, Budget Grows 6.75%; Depending on state appropriations, mid-year hike possible
Ann Arbor Chronicle / June 2
A rotorcraft that resembles a catamaran has taken the top prize in a NASA aeronautics competition for college students to develop a multi-purpose aircraft. ... 28 undergraduates from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville placed third. ... Cash awards ranged from $5,000 for first place to $3,000 for third place. ...
An international DNA testing company has bought Charlottesville-based MicroLab Diagnostics, a company specializing in DNA extraction and testing solutions, according to the University of Virginia Patent Foundation officials. ...
June 1970. Confusion reigned in Pasadena schools. At that time the PUSD practiced its version of the Pasadena Way by keeping kids in poor and primarily minority neighborhoods away from kids in wealthier neighborhoods. In a 1995 article published by the University of Virginia's history department, Julie Salley-Gray described the dichotomy. ...
... Charlottesville has the University of Virginia, a European style downtown mall, sushi bars, coffee shops, interesting used bookstores and art galleries. ...