... The University of Virginia Medical School explored the effect of touching and rocking on ninety two children. Those parents reported a great deal of early stimulation performed "significantly higher on language, memory, learning of new information and visual – spatial problem solving."
... Playing team sports prepares girls for the highly competitive business world. ... According to a University of Virginia study, 80 percent of female leaders in Fortune 500 companies had participated in school sports.
... Princeton Review has already done a bit of homework for potential students. It lists the University of Virginia, New College of Florida and William and Mary as the top public colleges for the best value.
The HathiTrust Digital Library, a partnership among some of the nation's largest academic research libraries, has launched a new digital catalog search that delivers nearly 3 million full-text records through an Internet browser. ... The HathiTrust Digital Library, launched in October 2008, includes the 12-university consortium known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the 11 university libraries of the University of California system, and the University of Virginia.
... Semtner recommends his museum's exhibit, "Ratiocination: Poe the Detective," as well as "Poe: Man, Myth or Monster" at the Library of Virginia, and "From Out That Shadow" at the University of Virginia.
Magnifire Marketing and Watermark Design took the top award Monday night at the Central Virginia chapter of the American Marketing Association’s annual EMMA Awards for Excellence in Marketing at the X Lounge. ... The University of Virginia’s Patent Foundation received an honorable mention in the print collateral category for its 2008 annual report.
Darden’s Director of MBA Operations, Michael Koenig, joins us this week to talk about an exciting new partnership between Darden and Amazon: a special pilot project with students using Amazon’s Kindle device. In the news: “Darden Goes to Singapore,” “Meet Your New Classmates,” “An Update from the Boss,” and “Friend of the Student.”
More than 120 people turned out for the Mac McDonald Everyday Shop and Café Children's Golf Classic Monday. The money raised in the tournament will go towards fighting cancer at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital.
Amazon.com announced on May 6 its plans for a pilot program involving five universities to test its new device, Kindle DX. Among them: UVA’s Darden School of Business, the only business school chosen. “The graduate business school arena is quite different from the undergraduate schools participating in the program,” says Ken White, vice president of communications and marketing for Darden.
Oncology nurse Tanya Thomas is among those being recognized during National Nurses Week
... a new study shows that couples who live together and have money issues are more likely to split up than cohabiting couples who don't consider cash a problem. Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, University of Virginia sociologist and researcher Jeff Dew, Ph.D., found that among the gamut of arguments couples have—about sex, chores, parents, or time spent together—only disputes about finances were able to predict a breakup.
Virginia's public schools are expected to grow steadily over the next few years, mostly because of an increase in elementary-school-age children, according to a University of Virginia study. U.Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service projects that nearly 42,000 children will enter public school between 2008 and 2013 -- increasing overall enrollment by 3.5 percent -- with much higher growth rates taking place in the lower grades.
Eugene Resnick
A contributor to Newsweek's new Generation O blog chronicling the lives of young Obama supporters
Meet Generation O / The people behind Newsweek's new blog chronicling the lives of young Obama supporters.
Newsweek / May 8
http://www.newsweek.com/id/196267
Paul Wiley
Third-year and recipient of the Senator John W. Warner Leadership Award
Charlottesville High School Alum Wins Leadership Award
WINA 1070 AM / May 9
http://www.wina.com/Local-News/3077192?contentId=3960413
... Cherry Stewart, a volunteer coordinator and instructor at the Adult Learning Center, said she thinks bridging the gaps between different cultures is getting more important as an increasing number of ethnicities pop up in Charlottesville. ... Stewart said that with the influx, the center is in need of more volunteers, especially as University of Virginia students finish their year and leave town.
Gerald Baliles
Director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs
State Fair president says it's a team effort
Richmond Times-Dispatch / May 11
http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/business/local/metrobusiness/article/COVR11_20090508-233108/266730/
Jim Copeland
Former athletics director from September 1987 until December 1994
Copeland Named To AD Hall Of Fame
WINA 1070 AM / May 10
http://www.wina.com/Local-News/3077192?contentId=3952532
Dr. Steven T. DeKosky
Dean of the School of Medicine and an international expert in Alzheimer’s research, featured in an HBO documentary series on Alzheimer&r...
... This is the reason the heart beats the head, why emotional Bhakti (devotion) scores over intellectual Buddhi (reason). Daniel T Willingham, a psychologist at University of Virginia, makes the same point with the latest neuroscience research in his new book Why Don’t Students Like School? Students face the same problem of Vishnu Sharma’s wards, being made to think abstractly. This is not something our brains are designed to be good at or to enjoy, he adds.
...Melanoma is the second most common type of cancer in young women, and it's also the deadliest type of skin cancer, according to the American Melanoma Foundation. University of Virginia doctors are leading the way in trying to get a melanoma vaccine approved by the FDA. ...The Professor of Surgery at UVA, Dr. Craig Slingluff and his team of cancer researchers have been working for years to develop a vaccine made up of melanoma cells that can't replicate in the body.
The Black Law Students Association at the College of William and Mary was voted the National Chapter of the Year — out of some 200 such chapters in the association nationwide. The chapter at Harvard Law School won a year ago, while the University of Virginia won in 2007.
... We have a strategic opportunity to landscape our way out of the storm-sewer crisis, to create a world-class city and create a new green "export" industry. ... The University of Virginia has shifted its investments in retention tanks to lakes, to reduced hard surfacing, and to diverse landscaping -- eliminating the modern flooding of Charlottesville while brilliantly enhancing their campus.