... a Bollywood-style flick, plus several from filmmakers at James Madison University, Eastern Mennonite University and the University of Virginia. ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Creating an original organism required no bolt of lightning for a team of University of Virginia students [including Dan Tarjan and Thaddeus Webb]. But it did take buckets of ice, vials of bacteria and a FedEx delivery. ... U-Va.'s invention, dubbed an arsenic sponge by its creators, will vie for the grand prize -- an oversized silver Lego block -- with offerings from 102 other teams ...
Dr. James Turner
Director of Student Health and president of the American College Health Assoc.
[Turner's interview is at 1:26.]
Patrick Forrester
Master’s in mechanical and aerospace engineering
Reaching New Heights; Former Springfield resident Patrick Forrester has traveled to outer space three times as a NASA astronaut.
Springfield Connection / Oct. 21
Nancy Disharoon
Master’s at UVA
Acceptance, support key to new principal’s start
Mechanicsville Local / Oct. 21
Parachute: First graduation, then hit singles
The Flint Journal / Oct. 21
Parachute lead singer Will Anderson isn't shy about criticizing his own song. ... Parachute was opening for Kelly Clarkson. ... Produced by Chris Keup, John Shanks, ...
Jessica J. Connelly
Assistant professor of medicine
Possible Link Between Autism And Oxytocin Gene Via Non-DNA Sequence Mutation
ScienceDaily.com / Oct. 22
Dewey Cornell
Education professor and director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project
School violence defies stereotypes, experts warn
Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY) / Oct. 22
Karen Rheuban
Medical director of the Office of Telemedicine
Experts: Health Care Reform Should Do More To Boost Telemedicine
iHealthBeat / Oct. 21
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Former President George W. Bush to 'Get...
... According to the Urban Institute at the University of Virginia, a 10% "fat tax" could generate $522 billion in tax revenue over the next 10 years. ...
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is today giving a talk in which he will denounce most teacher education colleges for offering "mediocre" training, and call for major reforms of those programs... Duncan will make these remarks at Teachers College of Columbia University, and his comments follow similar criticism in a recent speech at the University of Virginia [on Oct. 9]. In today's talk ... The key to reform, Duncan will say, is linking programs directly to the ability of graduates to achieve good outcomes with students they go on to teach.
... There are about 600 carpoolers in the free program. Most of them are employees at the University of Virginia, the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. ...
The University of Virginia has shared plans with the City of Charlottesville showing how it intends to transform its medical center complex into more of a “campus atmosphere” that enhances the experience of patients, visitors, and staff. ...
... “Social issues have really declined since their heyday about a decade ago,” said Isaac Wood, director of communications for the University of Virginia's Center for Politics ...
... Employees of the Defense Intelligence Agency will begin moving in January to the military’s Joint-Use Intelligence Analysis Facility at Rivanna Station in Albemarle County, carrying more than 800 jobs with them from elsewhere ... DIA officials expect to work closely with area agencies and contractors, including researchers at the University of Virginia. ...
... an alternative route to the millions of digitized books and journals supplied by leading Google Book Search library partners has arrived. The HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org) is a collaboration of 25 research libraries already participating in Google Book Search to produce a shared digital repository for preservation and access to a curated collection. ... HathiTrust members currently include the ... University of Virginia. ...
A Rixeyville filmmaker will debut her movie Tuesday at the University of Virginia as part of the American Sign Language and Deaf Culture lecture series. Jennifer Witteborg’s 56-minute film, “Spotlight: Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind,” is free and open to the public. It begins at 7 p.m. in the Minor Hall Auditorium. ...
By Michael Berry, Darden professor
When gold hit $700 people said it would fall. Wrong. And wrong again at $1,000. ...
... Since Aug. 22, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville has had 509 flulike illnesses among its 24,640 students. Most students live on campus, which could be a factor in the higher number there, U.Va. said. ...
Gil Harrington stands in her daughter's bedroom in their Roanoke County home. Morgan Harrington ... a 20-year-old Virginia Tech education major, disappeared Saturday night after leaving the John Paul Jones Arena at the University of Virginia. ...
... When I first started coaching at the University of Virginia, that was the offense we used, the Delaware Wing-T. It's about utilizing your personnel to the best of their abilities. ...
Lake Washington football coach Ray Roberts is going to have his jersey retired by the University of Virginia on Saturday. There will be a ceremony during the Cavaliers' game against Georgia Tech. ...