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"
... Students and members of the community banded together tonight in support of Queer and Allied Activism's production of The Laramie Project. That's a play based on events that happened in Laramie, Wyoming after Matthew Shepard was brutally attacked and killed for being gay.
Kim Romansky scored with less than five minutes remaining, and Wake Forest survived an off day to defeat Virginia 4-3 on Sunday in the quarterfinals of the NCAA field hockey tournament at a cold and blustery Kentner Stadium.
Maryland midfielder Jeremy Hall scored the game's lone goal in the third minute, and Maryland held on to defeat Virginia for the ACC Championship, 1-0.
On Friday night in Cary, N.C., the Virginia men's soccer team pulled off one of the major upsets of the season when it beat previously undefeated and top-ranked Wake Forest in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
... In the Washington area, the University of Virginia's longtime president, John T. Casteen III, received nearly $800,000 in 2007-08 from public and private sources, making him the third-highest paid public university president last year.
Sara Dexter
Assistant professor of technology leadership at the Curry School of Education
Chalk one up for device / Digital whiteboard establishes itself as a teaching tool.
Allentown Morning Call (PA) / Nov. 16
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-5smart.6649288nov16,0,4781764.story
Cordel Faulk
Communications director for the Center for Politics
Virginia Seeing Widening Political Divide Between Southwest, Northern Regions Of State
Bristol Herald Courier (TN) / Nov. 16
http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/virginia_seeing_widening_political_divide_between_southwest_northern_region/...
Stephen Bradford knew he would be commuting hundreds of miles a week when he started classes at the University of Virginia this semester. So, the part-time student converted his 1985 Mercedes-Benz 300 to run on a combination of vegetable oil and diesel. ... Rebecca White, UVa's director of parking and transportation, said she can see possibilities for a project to get one of the university's diesel vehicles converted to veggie oil.
By Mark D. Nevin, a doctoral candidate in American history and research assistant at the Miller Center, and creator of a website called Has Polling Killed Democracy?
... But this recipe for Republican electoral success is simplistic and wrong headed. Ideas do matter in politics, but they aren't the only things that do. The key to the Republican Party's past triumphs and its possible future success has more to do with demography than ideology.
By Larry Sabato, a politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
As routine as elections may seem, they are the seminal events in the life of a democracy. Campaigns and elections not only set the direction of the Republic; they also shed light on America's po litical health. Every November we have the opportunity to take stock of what we did at the polls, and what that says about the status of the 232-year-old American experiment. The historical significance of what happened on Nov. 4 is immediately obvious. ...
U.S. researchers have confirmed the accuracy and reliability of SpermCheck Vasectomy, an at-home test for detecting low concentrations of sperm. In the clinical trial, University of Virginia Health System researcher John C. Herr and colleagues used SpermCheck to evaluate a cohort of 144 post-vasectomy semen samples. The test achieved an accuracy rate of 96 percent in identifying whether sperm counts were greater or less than a threshold of 250,000 sperm per ml -- a level associated with little or no risk of causing pregnancy.
Artifacts from the shuttered Flowerdew Hundred Museum have found a new home at the University of Virginia.
... Sally LeBeau, the [U.Va.] Medical Center's manager in the hospital's patient and guest services department, said the hospital's interpreter program has evolved from a few staff members and volunteers to something much more formal. The hospital now has interpreters on staff 24 hours a day. LeBeau said the trained interpreters on staff attend more than 20,000 appointments for patients with limited English proficiency each year.