New research has remerged from the University Virginia about when cognitive function begins to decline as we get older. Dr. Timothy Salthouse with the UVA Cognitive Aging Laboratory found that certain cognitive skills, like making rapid comparisons, recalling information, and recognizing relationships peak at the age of 22, then start to decline at 27.
... In January, provisional statistics released by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service showed that both the city of Danville and Pittsylvania County seemed to have gained some population between 2007 and 2008... Mike Spar, the research associate with the Weldon Cooper Center who collected the January data, said that the discrepancy in the figures of the center and the Census Bureau is probably due to the difference in the methods both use to gather the statistics. ...
Media Studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan debates a Google spokesman
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Professor Timothy Wilson co-authored a new study in the journal Science.
Fourth-year medical students at the University of Virginia found out Thursday where they are going to be doing their residency. One hundred and thirty nine students participated in the annual Match Day celebration. As a part of the nationwide tradition, students across the country are all given placement letters and open them at the strike of noon.
Anthony J. Trenga
Law school graduate, now the new U.S. District judge at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, one of the nation's highest-profile legal assignments
Excerpts from a review of photography professor William Wylie's photos of huge marble blocks mined in the spectacular quarries of Carrara, Italy:
... Each work of beauty quietly mines the beauty of the stone itself. ...Wylie's willingness to dwell on the distinctiveness of each block gives his photographs as much the air of portraits as of still life or documentary. ...
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Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Obama grappling with AIG bonus fallout
Reuters / Mar. 19
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc06/idUSTRE52I16I20090319
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Video of Pelosi's cat shows pols are discovering YouTube, for better or worse
New York Daily News / Mar. 18
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/03/18/2009-03-18_video_of_pelosis_cat_shows_pols_are_disc.html
Mike Spar
A research associate in the Demographics and Work Force section of the Weldon Cooper Center
Data: Loudoun growth finally slowing
Washington Examiner / Mar. 19
http://www.dcexamine...
“BackStory with the American History Guys” — a radio show hosted by current and former University of Virginia faculty — has received a $74,990 development grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
There are times when fiction is the best way to tell the truth. No one is more cognizant of this than award-winning author Dan Fesperman, who will be participating in the 15th annual Virginia Festival of the Book, which opened Wednesday and runs through Sunday. His novel “The Prisoner of Guantanamo” illuminates this point.
... The study was the work of Professor Timothy Salthouse of the University of Virginia and is published in the April issue of the journal Neurobiology of Aging ...
Officials marked the opening of a new building at the University of Virginia Research Park. This is the third of six buildings at the Research Park in the town center section.
Virginia Tech is holding its first ever Bike to Uganda event in which the university will race against the University of Virginia in an effort to raise money for the construction of schools in the impoverished city of Kampala, Uganda.
University of Virginia students hope to bring some civility back to civilization. "Miss Manners" columnist Judith Martin will join students tomorrow for the launch of "The Civility Project: Where George Washington Meets the 21st Century." ...