West Virginia’s 10 free health clinics ... are handling a growing number of patients even as donations to keep the free clinics up and running continue to dwindle. ... The increased patient load is being blamed on a poor economy, the growing number of unemployed and a lack of basic health insurance coverage ... Mercer Health Right is now seeing between 500 to 600 people a month. Some serious cases are referred ... Virginia patients ... to the University of Virginia ...
O. Whitfield Broome Jr.
Frank S Kaulback, Jr. Professor Of Commerce
Educator Super CPAs winners
Virginia Business / Oct. 28
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Obama set to lose first election test in Virginia's governor race
Times Online (UK) / Oct. 28
and
Democrats brace for end of Virginia winning streak
Tehran Times / Oct. 28
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Obama's Coattails in Question in Virginia Race for Governor
FOXNews / Oct. 27
The eighth annual Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative Festival will pay tribute to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy on the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. ... More than 100 musicians, scholars, and organ builders from around the world will attend the festival’s conference sessions, which feature presentations ... by the country’s leading Mendelssohn scholars, including ... William A. Little, Professor Emeritus of German and Music at the University of Virginia.
... The University of Virginia passed the $2 billion mark of the $3 billion fundraising campaign it began in October 2004. U.Va. reported the mark was reached only eight weeks later than originally envisioned, in spite of a depressed economy.
Dr. Bob Powers, Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia, discusses health care reform.
... Among his awards was the 2002 National Medal of the Arts, the University of Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, a gold medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects and a Presidential Design Award. ...
... The data are from the Virginia Department of Taxation and the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. ...
Melissa Fielding of the The University of Virginia Police Department has issued a note about Halloween safety ...
... An unconventional man with an unusual streak of humor, he would don the attire of Benjamin Franklin when visiting the University of Virginia, founded by Franklin's cohort, Thomas Jefferson. ...
It's been 10 days since Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington disappeared during a Metallica concert at an arena at the University of Virginia. ...
and
State Police To Release Timeline In Disappearance Case
WINA 1070 AM / Oct. 28
State Police have scheduled a news conference this morning to release the timeline of events leading up to the disappearance of Morgan Harrington. ...
and
Police Say Online Videos Don't Show Missing VT Student
WHSV / Oct. 27
Historians Ed Ayers and Brian Balogh both say they entered the profession to have a better understanding of how the world we live in came to be. That's the driving force behind their scholarship, and the basis for their radio show. ... Balogh [is] professor in the department of history at the University of Virginia and co-host of the radio show "Backstory: With the American History Guys. ...
... a study released today finds. ... “If the findings are correct—for Chicago, at least—we have to question the value of closing schools and creating the dislocations that would attend those school closings for little or no constructive result,” said Daniel L. Duke, a professor of educational leadership ... Mr. Duke, who runs a [U.Va.] program that prepares leaders to turn around low-performing schools, said placing strong leaders who are supported by teacher-leaders and central-office employees has proved to be an effective strategy ...
A new technology that could revolutionize the way doctors treat a wide range of life-threatening illnesses has taken root at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. ... U.Va. neurosurgeon Dr. Neal Kassell, who has been leading the effort to put this technology into wider use, calls it “a game-changing technology that most people have not heard of. It’s the best-kept secret in medicine.” ...
By Rick Webb
Senior scientist with the Department of Environmental Sciences
... industrial-scale wind energy development might make sense in other places with perhaps less environmental trade-off. And certainly the better alternative in the eastern U.S. is offshore, where the wind resource is dramatically more reliable, where deforestation and road construction are not required, and where turbines can be arrayed in relatively compact and efficient grids rather than in single-file corridors along ridge crests. ...
Dan W. Butin
Curry alumnus
Merrimack College Announces Formation of New School of Education, First Dean Named
Reuters / Oct. 26
Ryan Davis
Darden alumnus
President for Philly.com is named
Philadelphia Inquirer / Oct. 26
Louise Sams
Law alumna
Turner exec questions, listens before plotting growth abroad
Atlanta Journal Constitution / Oct. 27
Louis Bloomfield
Physics professor
Message sent: Cell phone distractions can kill
Philippine Star / Oct. 27
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
NY 23 race an early 2012 test
Politico / Oct. 26
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Health Reform Fight Entangled In Outcome Of 3 State Elections
Investor's Business Daily / Oct. 26
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Education Issues Bidding for Voters' Attention
Education Week News / Oct. 26
Steven Walt
Law professor
Washington Mutual Sues to Get Billions Back From FDIC
The American Lawyer / Oct. 27
Isaac Wood
Political analyst, Center for Politics
The Race for the Ho...
Planetary scientist Anne Verbiscer of the University of Virginia is a member of the team that recently discovered a new ring around Saturn. She discusses this research as well as the travels and discoveries of the robot Cassini, which is currently orbiting Saturn.
Did you know your hair is actually a record of your diet? While researching our food series, we met Dr. Steve Macko, an environmental sciences professor at the University of Virginia. [He] uses organic chemistry to measure isotopes in hair and can detect some of what we’ve been eating using this methodology. ...
At the University of Virginia, they created a new position this year in dining services, hoping to protect our environment. ... Kendal Singleton's job as sustainability coordinator is to find ways to feed students and staff on campus, with a minimal impact on the environment. They save water by going tray less, they compost what can't be recycled, and this year they can serve to-go meals in re-usable containers that won't end up in a landfill. ...
Population growth, transportation improvements and protecting the watershed were the three topics discussed at the final candidate forum ... moderated by Bob Gibson, Executive Director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia. ...