Economics professor Ronald W. Michener has co-authored a forthcoming book on the influence of economic malaise preceding the American Revolution
... The enigmatic phenomenon has prompted a group of international scientists and physicians known as The Human Consciousness Project to launch AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation), which it bills as 'the world's first large-scale scientific study of what happens when we die and the relationship between mind and brain during clinical death.' The UVa Medical Center is one of numerous U.S. and European hospitals that will participate in the study. [Dr. Bruce] Greyson and UVa's Dr. Robert O'Connor are running the research locally.
An online cardiology publication named the University of Virginia Health System in the top three percent of hospitals for treating heart attacks.
The U.Va. Patent Foundation helps bring research to market, like Kevin Lynch and Timothy Macdonald's work on a drug blocking the growth of new blood vessels on tumors
Jerome McGann
Professor of English, and founding director of U.Va.'s Applied Research in Patacriticism and of the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), started with a $1.5 million Mellon Foundation "lifetime achievement award"
Jonathan Cannon
Law professor and former Clinton official widely regarded as one of the chief architects of greenhouse gas regulation policies in the 1990s, serving on Obama's transition team overseeing EPA issues
Environmental Groups Hope Obama Will Rebuild EPA After Bush Years
U.S. News & World Report / Nov. 25
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/11/25/environmental-groups-hope-obama-will-rebuild-epa-after-bush-years.html
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Mr. Co-President? Obama upstages Bush on economy
Reuters / Nov. 26
http://www.reute...
At a recent supercomputing conference, Sang-min Park, a doctoral student in computer science, presented research on how to better manage the processor scheduling of time-critical computer modeling-by a feedback-control design that works like cruise control.
... [John Griffin of Blue Ridge Capital] attended the University of Virginia for undergrad and received his MBA from Stanford. Recently, the University of Virginia hosted a hedge fund panel which consisted of many of the 'Tiger Cubs' as well as the founder of Tiger Management, Julian Robertson. At the panel, numerous hedge fund managers laid out some of their investment theses. ...
... Part of a project from the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and directed by Prof. Bernard Frischer, the 3D ancient Roman overlay is meant to spark creativity among today's K–12 educators. So Google is sponsoring a contest, inviting teachers to combine the content from Rome Reborn with their classroom curriculum and submit related outlines on the site.
By Mark D. Nevin, a doctoral candidate in American history and research assistant at the Miller Center
... Republicans must learn to adapt conservative ideas to the changing make up of the suburban Sun Belt or they risk becoming lost amid the new multiracial landscape of American politics.
... University of Virginia cross country runner, Lauretta Dezubay says wearing too many layers in the winter, is the mistake she sees people make most often.
Angela F. Williams
1985 graduate, YMCA general counsel and the inspiration for a recent book, "One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success"
Janet Napolitano
1983 Law School graduate, Arizona governor, and pending Obama pick for Secretary of Homeland Security
In Terre Haute, Ind., Virginia's men's and women's teams and a Central Virginia native made a mark on the NCAA cross country championships. Virginia sophomore Emil Heineking, the only true freshman to earn All-America honors a year ago, earned his second consecutive designation to become the Cavaliers' first two-time cross country All-American, claiming 26th overall to lead the men to a 14th-place finish, while the women finished 26th.
Some of the nation's universities are trying to sell chunks of their portfolios privately as their endowments swoon with the markets. ...The University of Virginia, which has a $4.2 billion endowment, posted a letter on its Web site saying that it might explore the sale of some of its private equity holdings and would sell hundreds of millions of dollars in other assets.
A new poem from Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner
Media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan joined an Oxford-style debate for NPR
Darden students Chip Ransler and Manoj Sinha's startup business Husk Power Systems was named one of 10 Social Enterprises of the Year by Fast Company magazine
The Virginia Athletics Foundation has decided to postpone talk of building a new parking garage at Scott Stadium. 'The board felt that given the economic uncertainty at the present time, that the best course of action would be to postpone the project,' Carol Wood, assistant vice president for public affairs, said.