Saturday marks the last home game of the University of Virginia's football season and school officials are trying to curb the accompanying 'fourth-year fifth' tradition.
... The University of Virginia's Hereford College, where students and faculty live in close proximity to one another and often share meals and other events, is planning to limit residency at the housing complex to first-year students.
Before Jane Iris Crutchfield died in 2006, the retired Virginia school teacher and librarian had quietly decided what to do with the millions of dollars she had tucked away throughout her life: She would give it to two universities where she got her education. Crutchfield, or "Miss Iris" as she was known, left more than $2 million to be divided between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia has opened a new high-tech laundry room for its students. Students can look online to see if washers and dryers are available. The machines can even send text messages to the students' phones when the laundry is ready. The only problem ... they can't teach students how to wash their clothes.
After years of conflicting studies on gingko biloba's benefits for memory loss, a definitive clinical trial finally concludes that the extract does not prevent brain decline. Reporting Nov. 18 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Steven DeKosky, dean of the school of medicine at University of Virginia, found that taking 120 mg of gingko biloba twice a day did not prevent the development of dementia in a group of 1,545 seniors 75 years and older; there was no difference in rates of dementia among the intervention group and a similar group of 1,524 participants who took identi...
US college endowments have suffered steep falls over the past four months, further squeezing universities already grappling with a drop-off in donations and dwindling federal and state support. The University of Virginia's endowment has fallen 20 per cent over the past four months, from $5.1bn (€4bn, £3.4bn) on June 30 to $4.2bn on October 31. Amherst College's endowment – worth about $1.6bn this spring – dropped 25 per cent over that time.
Brian Balogh and Peter Onuf
Professors of history and co-hosts of public radio's "BackStory with the American History Guys"
The History Guys
"Virginia Insight" on WMRA Public Radio / Nov. 17
http://www.wmra.org/inchive.html
Dr. Barry Farr
Professor emeritus of medicine and epidemiology, who helped U.Va. develop a proven national model for reducing deadly MRSA outbreaks
Patients revolt against hospital secrecy
Seattle Times / Nov. 18
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008403751_mrsaday3m0.html
Sara Neher
Director of admissions at the Darden School of Business
What to do after ...
... You can take the test yourself at the web site of Project Implicit, a collaborative effort of researchers at Harvard, the University of Washington and the University of Virginia. So far it's been taken more than 8 million times. ...
... The last well-publicized study, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, found that echinacea neither prevented colds nor eased symptoms.
... One thing we heard a lot of tonight was people wanting members of the church to get out into the community and make their presence known to area youth. They spoke about getting involved with Big Brothers, Big Sisters and using the University of Virginia as a resource. ...
... That British universities do not always serve their students well was brought home to me by my daughter's experience last year, when she spent a year in the US at the University of Virginia. To take a small but symbolic example of the greater flexibility of US universities, the libraries were open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. ...
... Another exhibitor, the University of Virginia's Patent Foundation, evaluates intellectual property generated in the course of research at UVA, seeks to protect those inventions that show commercial potential and licenses those rights to industry. The Patent Foundation reviews and evaluates about 175 inventions per year, and typically a third of these are successfully licensed to commercial partners for further development and commercial use. Of the inventions licensed to industry, nearly half are licensed to UVA-affiliated start-up companies.
...Doctors at the University of Virginia report a new drug could help older people keep their strength and avoid the frailty that keeps many senior citizens from living an active life.
Diabetic and cancer patients could soon see new medication on the market that comes with fewer side effects. University of Virginia researchers have just completed a hormone receptor study and say they've found the answer for more effective and less risky medication. Researchers say the creation of the hormone receptor model allows them to understand how receptors work and how they function as key drug targets for a number of diseases ranging from diabetes to high cholesterol.
Two thousand seventh graders in our area are one step closer to figuring out what they want to be when they grow up. The kids spent Monday at the University of Virginia, where they had the opportunity to meet with representatives from more than 30 area companies. The event is set up each year by UVa, along with various school representatives.
Bliss Broyard
Master of fine arts graduate and author of "One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets"