... 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.
... 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...