Qian Cai
Director of the demographics and workforce group at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Keeping count
News Virginian / May 21
http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/local/article/keeping_count/40412/
Greg Roberts
Dean of admissions
Students Cheering for Grading Change
Alexandria Times / May 21
http://www.alextimes.com/news/2009/may/21/students-cheering-for-grading-change/
Ronald T. Wilcox
Professor of business administration and author of "Whatever Happened to Thrift?"
The upside of the down economy
Bankrate.com / May 21
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/personal-...
A University of Virginia professor recently studied 225 court cases in which the primary suspect was exonerated through DNA testing. He found that prosecutors in nearly 20 percent of the cases had opposed the testing.
J. Harvie Wilkinson III delivered this year's commencement address at the University of Virginia. A graduate of the UVa Law School and a judge on the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, Wilkinson offered sound counsel regarding proposals to cap out-of-state admissions at the school and several of its sisters.
... The University of Virginia Health System has several ongoing projects involving adult stem cell research. What makes stems cells so appealing to researchers is their potential to repair or to become any organ or tissue in the body. The stem cells can come from various places in the human body. Liposuction, this isn't just unwanted fat, it has healing potential.
Thanks to a large gift, cutting-edge medical technology is on the way to the University of Virginia. The Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation pledged $3 million toward a surgery center at UVA.
We’ve never been to med school, but it seems to us that taking courses on a pass-fail basis would be less stressful than being graded A-F. But would we perform as well academically? A study out from the University of Virginia suggests that the answer is yes.
... For Dom Starsia, victory No. 300 of his illustrious coaching career came Sunday on a grand stage. In an NCAA men's lacrosse quarterfinal, Virginia pummeled Johns Hopkins 19-8 in Annapolis, Md. This is Starsia's 17th season at U.Va., where he's compiled a 199-64 record and won three NCAA titles. ...Starsia, 57, was inducted into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame last year. He's tied with former UMass coach Dick Garber for third in career coaching victories.
Janet Napolitano
Law School graduate, now Secretary of Homeland Security and one of a short list of people being considered to succeed Justice David H. Souter on the Supreme Court
Mark Edmundson
English professor and author of "The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days"
Edmundson, Spitz & More Set For Wilma Theater's THE METAMORPHOSES Panel 6/1
Broadway World / May 19
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Edmundson_Spitz_More_Set_For_Wilma_Theaters_THE_METAMORPHOSES_Panel_61_20090519
Jonathan Haidt
A psychology professor who took part in a recent Templeton Foundation forum on "Evolution and the Ethical Brain"
Where Theistic Evolution Leads
Beliefnet.com / May 19
http://blog.beliefnet.com/kingdomofpriests/2009/05/where-theistic-evolution-lea...
... researchers Gary D. Sherman, Jonathan Haidt and James A. Coan of the University of Virginia exposed 40 female students to images of high cuteness (puppies and kittens) and low cuteness (dogs and cats), after which they played a rousing game of the classic Hasbro game Operation. ...Exposure to high levels of cuteness had not only an emotional but also a physical impact on the test subjects, who showed "significantly greater improvement in performance (from before to after the slide show) on the operation task in the high-cuteness condition than in the low-cuteness condition."
Comments from vaccine expert David Fedson, a former medical professor
... How we see and react mentally to what is happening is crucial. In a recent experiment using brain imaging, Jim Coan at the University of Virginia demonstrated how holding the hand of a loving partner literally changes the way a woman's brain responds to threat, in this case the threat of an electric shock.
... Our list includes plenty of idyllic college communities, such as [No. 11] Charlottesville, Va., home to the University of Virginia and its grand Jeffersonian architecture, where 12.7% of metropolitan residents are employed by the university, and jobs are up 2.47%...
...Turning to grandparents for healthcare is the idea behind Grandparents Corps, the brainchild of [U.Va. Provost] Dr. Arthur Garson.
While most UVa graduates spent Sunday waiting to receive their diploma, some were missing. UVa lacrosse players and rowers were busy extending their season, but Monday those athletes got their chance to walk across the stage.
Dr. Gorav Ailawadi
Assistant professor of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Eliminating cyclophilin A gene protects against abdominal aortic aneurysm
Medscape Medical News / May 18
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/702969
Bruce Greyson
A psychiatry professor and a leading researcher on near-death experiences
Book Review: Fingerprints of God
Christian Science Monitor / May 19
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/05/19/fingerprints-of-god/
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Obama faces test on closing Guantanamo
Reuters / May 18
http://www.reuters...
... An analysis of 225 DNA exonerations by a University of Virginia professor showed that prosecutors resisted testing in almost one-fifth of cases, and in many they initially resisted but then allowed the testing, The New York Times reported Monday.
Preschoolers’ exposure to the stronger language skills of peers in the preschool classroom can have a small but significant impact on their language learning, according to a study published in the May/June issue of Child Development by researchers at the University of Virginia and Ohio State University.
A new study led by Dr. Jay Jagannathan surveyed 110 neurosurgical program directors and 122 neurosurgical chief residents.
... These results echo similar results from other universities—for instance, the University of Virginia has seen Mac ownership among incoming students increase in the last several years to 37 percent.