... Now, in results reported in Physical Review Letters, H. Maeda (Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo), J. H. Gurian, and T. F. Gallagher (University of Virginia) have beautifully demonstrated in the laboratory a solution to this problem of the spreading atomic electron wave packet using a trick that was discovered in astronomy long before the problem arose in quantum theory.
... Got that? Now read these two sentences from the lead paragraph of a research report by University of Virginia professor William Lucy and then read them again: “National housing price declines and foreclosures have not been as severe as some analyses have indicated, and they are not as important as financial manipulations in bringing on the global recession. In fact, 66 percent of potential housing losses in 2008 and subsequent years may be in California, with another 21 percent in Florida, Nevada, and Arizona, for a total of 87 percent of national declines in these four states.&rdquo...
U.S. high school students who study fewer science topics, but study them in greater depth, may have greater success in college science classes. University of Virginia Associate Professor Robert Tai, along with Professor Marc Schwartz of the University of Texas at Arlington and Philip Sadler and Gerhard Sonnert of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics conducted the study that related the amount of content covered on a particular topic in high school classes with students' performance in college-level science classes.
Professors at UVa say they have been waiting and preparing for this day since the election in November. They said they are excited because this will advance research at the university. ... "I do want to make it clear that we're not likely to be involved in some of the more contentious areas, which would involve actually deriving the cell lines," said Margaret Foster Riley, a UVa professor of law. "We will be using cell lines that have been derived by other institutions."
... What construction crews stumbled upon in 1993 was an archaeological treasure: a 19th-century family cemetery and house site belonging to a free black woman, Catherine “Kitty” Foster, and her descendants. The site, which sits between JPA and Venable Lane, will be preserved and commemorated as a one-acre public park close to the nearly completed South Lawn Project.
... The letter, written in July 1842 to Poe's publishers J and HG Langley, was acquired by the University of Virginia – which Poe briefly attended - to be displayed in an exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of the author's birth in 1809. ... Virginia English professor Stephen Railton said the letter showed "both his own temperamental frailties as well as the economic difficulties that even a great author faced while trying to earn a living by his genius in 19th century America".
... Monday’s 5-4 decision should have a significant impact on the way consumer debt cases are resolved, according to a winning attorney in the case. “I think it will have some bite,” said law professor Daniel R. Ortiz, co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.
... Now, attorneys with the Innocence Project of the University of Virginia Law School and JustChildren, a child advocacy group in Charlottesville, have taken up the effort, including seeking to get his name removed from the state's sex offender registry.
... Also pertinent is the theory — backed by so-called "positive psychologists' — that human beings have an inherited base level of happiness that fluctuates only during periods of change. In his book The Happiness Hypothesis, for example, Jonathan Haidt, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, discusses the opposing case studies of winning the lottery or becoming paralyzed. ...
...At a recent town hall meeting at Darden, Dean Robert Bruner answered questions from students about how the crisis would affect them and their careers. His message, says Christine Bohle, a second-year student at Darden, was that students could continue to dream big about their careers but they might have to find more creative avenues for fulfilling their goals. Laura Pearson, a first-year MBA student at Darden, added that faculty are not sugar-coating the problems students will face. ...
The University of Virginia is leading the way in African American graduation rates. Eighty eight percent of UVA's African American students are leaving Grounds with a degree. This is the 15th straight year the university has taken the top honor among public universities.
Dr. Tim Pruett and the Get Game, Give Life program aim to increase organ donation rates through appearances at college sports events, including a recent appearance at a U.Va. basketball game
Will Anderson and Nate Mcfarland
Recent graduates who play in the alternative-rock band Parachute (formerly Sparky’s Flaw), who performed in Times Square in NYC on New Year's Day, alongside superstars like the Jonas Brothers and Taylor Swift
Is It A Bird, A Plane? Nope, It’s Parachute - The Band To Watch This Spring
andPOP / Mar. 8
http://www.andpop.com/article/14188
Rangina Hamidi
Graduate in women's studies and religious studies and Afghanistan native who returned there to work on empowering women there
A small step for womankind
Malaysia Star / Mar. 6
http://thestar.com.my/life...
By Daniel McDowell, a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in foreign affairs
... What a difference an economic crisis makes. As American and European credit markets froze up this fall, investors in need of cash began pulling their money out of emerging markets, essentially outsourcing the liquidity crisis. The result? Once again, the IMF has a mission, and it has not hesitated to act upon it. To date, the fund has committed about $50 billion in loans to an array of economies adversely affected by the crisis...
Louis A. Bloomfield
Professor of physics
Strange but true for March 8
Aiken Standard (SC) / Mar. 8
http://www.aikenstandard.com/local/0308strangebuttrue
Richard Bonnie
A law professor and an expert on capital punishment
America has a cultural divide on death penalty
Associated Press / Mar. 8
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/08/america/NA-US-Executions-Cultural-Divide.php
David Breneman
Dean of the Curry School of Education and co-author of a new OECD review of tertiary education
Japan: Change reformed tertiary system, says OECD
University World News / Mar. 8
http://www.universityworldn...
Virginia Quarterly Review editor Ted Genoways recounts his trip to Suriname with his father to search for an elusive bat species his father discovered 30 years earlier
By Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Henry L. Stimson Center and a visiting lecturer
... Last week's news that North Korea plans to test a ballistic missile that could reach Alaska gave doomsayers more grounds for gloom. But amid the fear about nuclear attacks by terrorists or leaders such as Kim Jong Il, let's not forget that the United States has managed to protect itself from such a catastrophe not only since 9/11, but since the birth of the bomb in 1945.