A former Charlottesville resident is working on a device that could one day “print” skin cells onto burn patients with the hopes of cutting healing time in half. Kyle Binder, a 2002 graduate of Albemarle High School and a 2006 graduate of the University of Virginia, is working on a process called bioprinting at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Emily Frost is taking up home construction and bicycling as two new summer hobbies and, like anyone embarking on a new activity, she plans to start slowly. She’s going to help build affordable homes while pedaling on a three-month cross-country bike ride. “OK, I’m really not a serious biker, but I know how to ride a bike,” the 24-year-old University of Virginia graduate and employee laughed. “And I know what a hammer looks like.” … Ms. Frost will join UVa students Sharif Morad, Will Paradis and Derrick Thiel on the ride along with others from around t...
Kathryn Laughon
Associate professor of nursing and expert in intimate partner violence.
UVa Today: Domestic Violence
WCAV-TV/CBS19 / May 13
Jim McBride
Director of career services
Unpaid intern divide: Experience vs. exploitation?
The Virginian-Pilot / May 16
Larry Sabato
Professor of politics and director of the Center for Politics
GOP hopes holding convention in Tampa translates into votes
Tampa Tribune / May 17
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Joe Hallett commentary: There won't be much positive about campaign for governor
Columbus Dispatch / May 16
Brad Wilcox
Associate professor of sociology and director of the Na...
In essence, the rational mind wants change. The emotional mind wants comfort.
The tension between the two is captured best by an analogy used by the University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt in his book, "The Happiness Hypothesis." And the brothers openly adopt this as their model. Haidt contends that "our emotional side is the Elephant and our rational side is its Rider. Perched atop the Elephant, the Rider holds the reins and seems to be the leader, but the Rider's control is precarious because the Rider is so small compared to the Elephant."
Dr. Chris Holstege says he'll never forget the child with terrible, unexplained stomach pains in the University of Virginia Health Center's emergency room. Holstege directs the Division of Medical Toxicology at U.Va., and he's called in when accidental or intentional poisoning is suspected.
Dr. Earl Trevathan was known as a “lifelong learner” even before he was given that label during an ocean voyage around the globe last fall. But the retired pediatrician will tell you the 111 days he spent with 520 college students in the Semester at Sea program most certainly provided a lifetime of knowledge. … The nonprofit Semester at Sea program is sponsored by the Institute for Shipboard Education, founded in 1963. … [T]he University of Virginia [is] its academic sponsor.
Hogan Lovells will represent the university on Cuccinelli's civil investigative demand, or CID, concerning the research of Michael Mann, who left U.Va. in 2005 and now works at Pennsylvania State University.
A new groundbreaking device, the Heartmate II LVAD, is saving the lives of people with heart failure at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. The LVAD is the second generation of this technology.
Love's mother, Sharon, and sister, Lexie, were among the crowd of 2,270 in Klockner Stadium; they watched the game from the bleachers alongside U-Va. President John T. Casteen. After the game, each player embraced Sharon and Lexie.
In an odd twist on “the student has become the teacher,” students at the University of Virginia are now putting together classes for UVa to offer. “I think the program is working out well,” said Gordon M. Stewart, associate dean for undergraduate studies.
James Coan, assistant professor of psychology
Peering Inside the Social Brain
Science Careers (from the Journal Science), May 14
Dr. Karen Rheuban, professor of pediatrics and medical director of the Office of Telemedicine
CompuMed to Deliver eHealth to Emerging Underserved Markets
Bradenton (Wash.) Herald, May 12
Larry Sabato, professor of politics and director of the Center for Politics
Supreme Court nominee not gay, says White House
National Post (Canada), May 14
and
About-face on immigration reflects Sen. John McCain's challenge
Arizona Republic, May 14, 2010
It’s certainly possible that more women were assaulted at local colleges in 2008 than were in 2007. But equally possible is that more women reported their assaults to authorities. So based on the data, we’re really not in a position to either panic or pat ourselves on the back here.
Norman A. Graebner, 94, who shaped the field of diplomatic history with his critiques of American foreign policy, died May 10 at the Colonnades retirement community in Charlottesville after a stroke.
When the University of Virginia persuaded Norman Arthur Graebner to join the faculty in 1967, students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he had chaired the history department, demonstrated in protest.
The men's and women's lacrosse teams at the University of Virginia will play their first games this weekend since the death of Yeardley Love.
[A]t 9 p.m. Monday, Comcast SportsNet will premier an 18-part TV reality series on University of Virginia football. It's called, "Virginia Football: The Building of a Program." Nit to pick: Shouldn't it be called "The Rebuilding of a Program"?
[…H]ormones like testosterone might be under strong natural selection in the wild.
To test this idea, a team of researchers from Indiana University studied a common songbird, the dark-eyed junco in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. … Lead author Joel McGlothlin, [now] a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia, said: "The males that did the best at both survival and reproduction had testosterone production very close to average. It was bad to produce either really high or really low levels of testosterone."
University of Virginia bioethics professor, John D. Arras, was appointed Thursday to President Barack Obama's Professional Commission on Bioethics, where he will advise the President on issues like bio-medicine and scientific research.
An experiment at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business is not quite over but the verdict is already in: Most Darden students prefer not to use the Kindle e-reader in the B-school classroom. The results jibe with other campus Kindle trials at Reed University and elsewhere that have found that the device, while enjoyable for personal reading, doesn't quite cut it in class.
Virginia police chiefs are raising serious questions about University of Virginia President John Casteen's call for state law changes in the wake of Yeardley Love's murder. The chiefs say a new mandate from Richmond could cause big problems with minimal benefits.