... Speaking on WTOP's Ask the Governor Program, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine says a bill before the General Assembly that would restrict the number of non-Virginia students public colleges and universities could accept is troubling. "Out-of-state students pay way more than their cost and that keeps the tuition down for Virginia students." Kaine would not commit to vetoing a bill that would restrict out-of-state students to 20 percent of the freshmen class at state funded schools. ...
Jon Cannon
Law professor nominated by Obama as deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Many of the 'hands-on' positions in Obama administration going to law professors
National Law Journal / Feb. 25
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202428552843
Dewey Cornell
A professor of education
Internet-addicted teens are more aggressive
Times of India / Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) / Feb. 25
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Trends/Internet-addicted_teens_are_more_aggressive/articleshow/4189137.cms
Robert M. O'Neil
Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the P...
The halftime show at the UVa basketball game on Thursday promises to be unlike anything you've ever seen. Get Game, Give Life is a program geared towards college students and sports fans. The goal is to increase organ donation rates to save lives. Dr. Tim Pruett heads the transplant program at UVa. He will be joined on court by transplant recipients.
Sharon Y. Bowen, named one of America's top black lawyers by Black Enterprise magazine, will speak at the Seventh Annual Walter N. Ridley Scholarship Dinner at the Omni Richmond Hotel.
... Professor Jody Tompson temporarily has traded his classroom at the University of Tampa for one aboard the MV Explorer, a cruise ship circumnavigating the world.
The extended University of Virginia family takes great pride in the school's honor system. Many colleges have honor codes. UVa's system is administered by students and features a single sanction - expulsion. ...
A University of Virginia scientist says there are indications that primitive life could have formed on Mars. UVA geologist Alan Howard has determined there was a period of free-flowing water on Mars that lasted 10,000 years.
... One of the roundtable’s participants was Jim Durand, a UVa professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering who is overseeing a project at the university to improve and promote the use of electric cars powered by alternative energy sources. The project, called RideForward, converts gas-powered vehicles into electric cars that have the ability to charge up from non-polluting, clean power. ...
... A majority of elderly mice died after experiencing the physiological equivalent of eight flights from Washington, D.C., to Paris, according to a University of Virginia study. We're just saying, you deserve a little pampering.
... The concept of drilling for astronomical records, the authors note, was proposed by astronomer Robert Rood of the University of Virginia and his colleagues in a 1979 paper in Nature, but the link between supernovae and nitrate spikes has remained speculative.
... At the University of Virginia, “We have definitely seen an increase in majors over the past 2-3 years, but where we have really increased are the environmental science courses we teach to non-majors,” said Jay Zieman, the chair of the University of Virginia’s environmental sciences department in an e-mail message. “That number has increased 45 percent over the past five years.”
Dr. Kevin Lee, a professor of neuroscience, is studying a new approach to treating stroke with a drug that lets the brain survive on less blood
A Senate committee has killed a bill that aimed to set up a panel of scientific experts — including representatives of the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech — to identify and finance renewable energy research projects around Virginia. ...
... Now, lawmakers are attempting to limit the number of out-of-state students admitted to Virginia's schools to reserve more seats for in-state students, particularly at U-Va., the College of William and Mary, Virginia Tech and James Madison University. The General Assembly is considering providing the schools with $12.5 million in extra funds to cover the cost of the in-state enrollment growth. The schools would be required to set aside at least 70 percent of freshman slots and 80 percent of new transfer slots for in-state students. ...
Dewey Cornell
A professor of education
Are Internet-Addicted Kids More Violent? / Taiwanese study say yes, but American experts aren't so sure
U.S. News & World Report / HealthDay News / Feb. 23
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/02/23/are-internet-addicted-kids-more-violent.html
Sara Neher
Director of MBA admissions at the Darden School of Business
MBA Application Letters: Who to Ask
BusinessWeek / Feb. 23
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/feb2009/bs20090223_839910.htm
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Does Bipartisansh...
Mitchell Green, the Cavaliers’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy, defends the socratic method of teaching
... In May, a group of University of Virginia engineering students presented their assessment of the local criminal justice system. The students made several recommendations about arrests, the speed of cases through the system and recidivism. Members of the board gave mixed reviews of their suggestions. ...
... Research out of the University of Virginia Health System in 2006 showed that people infected with rhinovirus, the cause of half of all colds, can contaminate common objects, such as light switches, which can infect others. ...