... When you fill out the Virginia Resident Form for Individual Tax returns you can choose to donate money to fund research at the University of Virginia’s Cancer Center. UVa and Virginia Commonwealth University's Massey Cancer Center split the donations.
... The trend started in the fall. Virginia saw a 17 percent decrease in the number of companies who showed up for on-Grounds interviews. This spring, it's worse. At a career fair in February, there were 30 percent fewer employers than last year. ...
Research by economics doctoral student Tarun Jain finds that India's skewed sex ratio is rooted in sons competing to have the most grandsons in hopes of being awarded a larger share of family lands.
... 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 University of Virginia Patent Foundation is among the top five in academic technology transfer, according to a survey of 194 U.S. research institutions.
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
The Bloomberg 20
Business Mirror / Bloomberg News / Mar. 10
http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/bloomberg-specials/7245-the-bloomberg-20.html
Bob Gibson
Executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
A Virginia Politics Update
"Virginia Insight" on WMRA Public Radio / Mar. 9
http://www.wmra.org/inchive.html
Karen Parshall
A professor of mathematics and history who did her doctoral studies under Dr. Debus
Allen G. Debus, 1926-2009: U. of C. researcher studied history of science, collected early 20th Century mu...
By Bruce L. Reynolds, a professor of economics
... The overwhelming consensus among China specialists such as myself is that the Chinese government -- divided, weak, uncertain -- could and should have intervened earlier and more vigorously rather than waiting until force was the only option. Mr. Freeman's e-mail endorsed precisely this view. Mr. Chait twisted this into an endorsement of shooting down idealistic students. ...
... The idea for the new body armor grew from a biomedical class at the University of Virginia’s Engineering School and his own military experience, according to U.S. Army Staff Sgt. [Jeff] O’Dell.
... 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.