Health officials with UVA have released an updated outlook for student cases of the H1N1 flu. As of Monday, Student Health reported 566 U.Va. student cases of influenza-like illness since Aug. 22, 2009. ...
University of Virginia students waited in line to roll up their sleeves for flu shots Monday. Seasonal flu shots, not the H1N1 vaccines, yet. ... UVA is also making plans to vaccinate students and staff for H1N1. It has ordered 12,000 doses of the vaccine for a clinic scheduled on grounds November 5th.
The legendary heavy metal band is offering $50,000 for information in the search for a Virginia Tech student last seen at their Oct. 17 concert at the University of Virginia ... That brings the total to $150,000. Virginia State Police announced Monday that Jefferson Area Crime Stoppers is offering $100,000 for information.
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Parents of missing VaTech student remain hopeful
The Associated Press / Oct. 27
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The parents of a Virginia Tech student who disappeared outside a Metallica concert said Tuesday they fear she is the victim of foul play. Morgan Dana Harrington's pa...
... Mr. Halprin and his work received numerous awards, including the University of Virginia Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture and the National Medal of the Arts, the nation's highest award for an artist. ...
... One in five prosecutors opposed post-conviction DNA testing in 225 Innocence Project cases, a University of Virginia study found. Luckily, Dean's did not. On March 2008, three years after the Innocence Project accepted his case, Dean's attorney delivered the good news by phone: DNA tests of saliva from the victim's body and clothing positively excluded Dean.
A Charlottesville company and researchers at the University of Virginia are designing a new turbine that they anticipate will be capable of harnessing wind power across Virginia. The prototype wind turbine ... is designed to be different from traditional wind turbines in that it will be smaller, cheaper and more efficient. ... "The idea is that this could power a farm or maybe half a dozen homes," said Paul Allaire, a professor of mechanical engineering at UVa and chief of the university's newly formed Jefferson Wind Energy Institute.
... University of Virginia researchers ... have already completed the first of several international artificial pancreas clinical trials ... The researchers say that they have successfully tested the new system on five patients at the UVA Health System, since late June. ... "Our initial results are very encouraging. The system entirely maintained the patients' blood glucose levels, and the algorithm achieved excellent overnight control without any incidence of hypoglycemia," said Boris Kovatchev ... who is leading UVA’s research team.
Polls show a majority of Americans support some type of a government-backed health insurance plan. A panel discusses the latest on including a public option and other possible twists and turns as healthcare legislation moves ahead in Congress. Guests: Dr. Arthur Garson, executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia and chair of the American College of Cardiology's health reform working group. He is a practicing pediatric cardiologist with a long interest in the uninsured.
[Garson joins the conversation around two-thirds of the way into the hour-long show.]
Deborah Doyle
U.Va. alumna
Doyle goes extra yard as England's ruler; Queen Liz, Shakespeare at symphony benefit
Vallejo Times-Herald (Calif.) / Oct. 23
Thomas Jones
U.Va. alumnus
Jets’ Jones young at heart, mind
Richmond Times Dispatch / Oct. 24
Dr. Jeffrey Barth
University of Virginia Medical Center
Time to heal is key to protecting the brain
The Free Lance-Star / Oct. 24
Jennifer Burns
Assistant professor of history
The Oblique Smearing of Ayn Rand
Capitalism Magazine / Oct. 24
Dr. Jennifer Connelly
Assistant director in the Department of Medicine and co-lead investigator of study
Possible link between autism and oxytocin gene via non-DNA sequence mutation ...
HealthJockey.com (medical blog) / Oct. 26
Dr. Frederick Hayden
Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Push Is on for New Flu Drugs in Pipeline
ABC News / Oct. 25
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By Cordel Faulk
Law School director of admissions
If one spends two seconds with Doug Wilder, something becomes strikingly clear: The 78-year-old former governor is not a lion in winter; the man is still a lion. ...
By Yarimar Bonilla
Anthropology professor
... there are many causes for anxiety in Guyana ... but the difficulty is that we can get so consumed with the negative that we often become blind to what I call “rays of hope” that shine out from the gloom. ...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded at least $92 million for 194 bioinformatics-related grants in fiscal year 2009 ... The University of Virginia, Charlottesville plans to use a $1.9 million grant create a "genome-enabled" electronic medical record to include family history and "personal risk factor data" and to allow entry of genetic and molecular test results linking them to clinical data. ...
Ed Leary, president of ContraVac, said the conference seems like a good fit for companies with connections to the University of Virginia, such as ContraVac. ...
Three astronomers -- two from the University of Virginia and one from the University of Maryland -- have found a new ring around the planet Saturn. It's also apparently the largest of Saturn's rings. ... The announcement of the discovery was ... made by UVA's Anne J. Verbiscer and Michael F. Skrutskie and UMD's Douglas P. Hamilton.
... U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan yesterday reiterated concerns about the quality of the schools that produce a majority of the nation’s teachers. ... he struck a more conciliatory tone toward the institutions than he did in a speech on similar themes delivered less than two weeks earlier [at U.Va.] ... in which Mr. Duncan called education schools “the Bermuda Triangle of higher education. Students sail in, but no one knows what happens to them after they come out” ...
WNRN Wake-up call host Rick Moore talks with director Jody Kielbasa of the Virginia Film Festival. This year’s film festival is occurring its 22nd year and the theme is funny business. A program guide of the Virginia Film Festival will be available Tuesday to see everything that is playing. The event goes on from November 5-8.
2009 is a big year in the history of biology. It's the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. And 150 years ago he published a revolutionary work called On the Origin of Species. That's why the University of Virginia library is hosting an exhibit about Darwin. WVTF's Sandy Hausman has the story.