A Greene County principal is back from a trip to India and sharing his experiences. William Monroe Middle School Principal Kyle Pursel was chosen by the Curry School at the University of Virginia to go to Delhi for a conference of principals. Pursel was struck by how much more responsibility principals in India have, and came back appreciating what he has here.
High school seniors from all over the country are at the University of Virginia for the Leadership Education and Development program with the Darden School. The three week course is business boot camp where students take classes with Darden professors. This year's focus is social media; students are building websites and consulting with entrepreneurs.
More than 50 Albemarle County students are in a boot camp of sorts for the next two weeks. It is called the M3 Algebra Readiness Program, and it is geared towards preparing black male students in Albemarle to succeed in upper level math. ... "We're trying to capture those boys who, with a little boost, they can become above average," explained Robert Berry of the University of Virginia Curry School of Education.
The Halifax County Industrial Development Authority (IDA) on Friday morning adopted a resolution of support for a 2011 $5 million application by the IDA and Dominion Virginia Power to the Research and Development Program of the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. ... [U.Va.] will work with both Dominion and the manufacturer through its Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering and its Department of Systems Engineering ...
Ten UVA engineering students are interning this summer at a Rolls-Royce jet-engine factory in Indianapolis. Next summer, the same internship may be much closer to home ... Rolls-Royce’s $500 million Crosspointe jet engine factory, currently under construction, is one of several research facilities created from the business’ partnership with UVA. ... UVA engineering professor Barry Johnson helped write the proposal that convinced Rolls-Royce to build the center in Virginia, and says he is excited that his students and colleagues will be linked to “some of the most advanced aer...
Donald T. Cowles
Alumnus
Ex-Reynolds executive is here to lend a hand
Richmond Times-Dispatch / June 21
Daniel McKinney
College of Arts & Sciences, rising third-year
Work wanted: Summer jobs hard to come by
Martinsville Bulletin / June 20
Leo Wolpert
Law School, rising second-year
Heads Up No Limit Hold’em Championship Starts Today at the WSOP
Poker Room Review.com / June 18
Joseph P. Allen
Psychology professor
Peeking at the Negative Side of High School Popularity
New York Times (Shortcuts) / June 18
Malcolm Bell III
Art history professor
Cleveland Museum of Art's Apollo sculpture is a star with intriguing past
The Plain Dealer / June 20
Hal Burbach
Professor emeritus of education
Push for charter schools reignites: Officials disagree about system's value
Staunton News Leader / June 20
Dr. Anita H. Clayton
Psychology professor
Drug for Sexual Desire Disorder Opposed by Panel
New York Times / June 18
Claire Kaplan
Director of sexual and domestic violence serv...
Three local companies rooted in research conducted at the University of Virginia have been named by a national organization as among the country’s top university-related businesses created based on federally funded research. The Science Coalition, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of 50 public and private research universities, featured Adenosine, ContraVac Inc. and Directed Vapor Technologies in an article describing ways in which federal funds lead to innovation and jobs. ...
... The Texas flood “is a potential analogue for what we see on Mars,” says Alan D. Howard, a geomorphologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville who has studied the geology of Mars. The majority of bedrock on the Red Planet ... is basalt deposited by lava flows ... “It doesn’t take millions of years to create an impressive channel,” Howard notes. “Flowing liquid can do a lot of work in a short period of time.”
... While the Norris' have not come up with a name yet, they already have plans for her. They have season tickets for the University of Virginia and hope she will be a Cavaliers fan. ...
The coolest project approved, in my opinion: $35,000 for a bike-sharing program at the University of Virginia, called "Ubikes."
The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership hosts national and local stars at its annual conference Tuesday and Wednesday at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. ...
On a quest to find a new project for the University of Virginia School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, clinic director and law professor Deena Hurwitz headed to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in early May with a delegation of lawyers to research gender-based violence. ...
On Saturday, Alicia Garza was one of a dozen Albemarle High School juniors to attend the first Jamie Escalante Leadership Camp at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. For many, including the bubbly 16-year-old, it was the first time anyone from their family had stepped foot inside a college classroom. ...“It gives the local high school students from working-class backgrounds a national peer network, which will initiate them into conversations about college that they may never hear at their home,” said Paul Harper, director of Darden&...
... In fact, children most likely to spend a lot of time on social media sites are not the least well-adjusted but the healthiest psychologically, suggests an early, but accumulating, body of research. ... Adolescents are largely using social networking sites to keep in touch with friends they already know, not to converse with strangers, says the author of that research, University of Virginia psychologist Amori Yee Mikami.
Thanks to new technology from the University of Virginia, men will have a more accurate and affordable way to test their sperm count from the comfort and privacy of their own homes. ... This test, dubbed SpermCheck Fertility, received approval from the Food and Drug Administration in May and will be available online in July, and in pharmacies later in the year. "One of the impediments to male fertility testing is that men are reluctant to go to the doctor or to deal with the whole question of their fertility," says John Herr, inventor of the test and professor of cell biology at the ...
Over the years, Timothy Salthouse has tested more than 8,000 people in his lab at the University of Virginia, assessing their memories, problem-solving skills, and other mental functions to see how the brain fares with age. The results have been predictably dismal: after age 25 or so, it’s pretty much all downhill. ... But something bothered Salthouse about the results ...
Law alumnus Stephen W. Haynie, a supervisory assistant U.S. attorney in the Norfolk office, will coordinate the new "defense procurement fraud initiative" for Hampton Roads.
By Billie-Jo Grant, a Curry doctoral student