...The University of Virginia's Sofa Shuffle starts Saturday. For the next several weeks drop off spots are going to be set up for students and community members to unload any furniture, appliances or clothes they no longer want.
Graduate student Gary D. Sherman led a study suggesting that experiencing cuteness can influence people to behave more carefully
By Dr. Arthur Garson Jr., executive vice president and provost
... Grandparents have cared for two generations of their own children and grandchildren, and many would welcome the opportunity to work. We at the University of Texas School of Public Health and the University of Virginia are arranging to field model “grandparent corps,” an urban version in Houston and a rural version in Virginia, in association with Federally Qualified Health Clinics (these are safety net community clinics). Grandparents will be trained in class for three months, in the clinic for three months and in t...
... Among the private colleges reporting little variation in their admissions yields were Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Wesleyan, Smith, Kenyon and Whitman. Among public colleges, the Universities of Virginia and Wisconsin reported similar results. ... At the University of Virginia, this year’s yield — 49 percent, representing 3,100 deposits — is only 1 percentage point higher than last year’s.
The University of Virginia will host the 2009 and 2010 Group AAA football championships. The Virginia High School League voted unanimously Thursday to return the championships to Scott Stadium. Last year the games were held at Virginia Tech.
Brian Balough
Professor of history and chair of the Governing America in a Global Era program
Charlottesville-Right Now: Brian Balough
WINA’s "Charlottesville–Right Now!" / May 6
http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2009/05/06/charlottesville-right-now-brian-balough/
Carol Mershon
Associate professor of comparative politics
Who measures up? / Why some leaders’ approval ratings keep rising, and not others
Macleans.ca / May 7
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/05/07/who-measures-up/
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Education professor who will discuss differentiated instruction in an online c...
Graduate John Phillips freed himself from the collapse of the Dallas Cowboy's practice facility and then helped rescue others
Comments from George Geis, a law professor who studies contracts and corporate finance
... Policy Consultant Deborah Gordon, co-author of “Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability,” recently discussed her view at the University of Virginia's Miller Center in Charlottesville.
A clinical trial based at the U.Va. Cancer Center and led by Dr. David Schiff, professor of neurology, neurosurgery and medicine, found promising results for treating a type of cancer with the drug Avastin
... In 2006, a University of Virginia study found that contrary to many feminists' preoccupation with equal division of household tasks, dishwashing men do not happy women make. ...The study's authors, W. Bradford Wilcox and Steven L. Nock, expressed surprise at finding that even self-described feminist women are happiest when their husbands do most of the breadwinning.
Armed with $11 million worth of grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers at UVA are investigating alternative fuels. They say the current technology used to convert methane gas into fuel is cost and time intensive. They hope to find a quicker and less expensive way to make liquid methanol so that natural gas is a competitive alternative to petroleum based fuels.
University of Virginia alumnus Henry W. Grady used words to build new bonds of peace in a memorable “New South Speech” in New York City in 1886.
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Questions raised about McAuliffe's ties to Virginia
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) / May 7
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/05/questions-raised-about-mcauliffes-ties-virginia-0
David L. Slutzky
An adjunct professor of urban and environmental planning seeking re-election to the Albemarle Board of Supervisors
Slutzky says he'll seek to keep supervisor seat
Charlottesville Daily Progress / May 7
http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/local_govtpolitics/article/slutzky_says_hell_seek_to_keep_supervisor_seat/39784/
Philip Z...
Interview with Dr. John Herr, director of U.Va.'s Center for Research in Contraceptive and Reproductive Health