A roughly $943,000 grant will help Colonial Williamsburg create a virtual experience for visitors. ...Colonial Williamsburg is partnering with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia to develop 3-D computer models of five historical sites within Colonial Williamsburg as they appeared in 1776.
Sean Hinkle
2007 graduate and U.Va. soccer player, now spending a year in Africa as a volunteer, using soccer to teach children about AIDS
Laura Kolar
A graduate student in environmental history
U.Va. graduate students Barin Kayaoglu from Turkey, Hilde Restad of Norway, and Martin Ohman from Sweden, volunteer and opine on the presidential race
Political ad expert Paul Freedman discusses new ads on cell phones and the risk of overexposure
Michael Dooley
Professor of law and director of graduate studies at the Law School
Portsmouth investors learn of Lucas' large stake in project
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) / Oct. 22
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/portsmouth-investors-learn-lucas%E2%80%99-large-stake-project
Dan Keyserling
Deputy director of communications for the Center for Politics
Comeback still possible but McCain faces uphill struggle
Agence France-Presse / Oct. 22
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/world/10/22/08/comeback-still-possible-mccain-faces-uphill-struggle
Loren E. Lomasky
Cory Professor and director of the Politic...
The University of Virginia is studying a drug that may reduce binge drinking in college students. The study will use small doses of ondansetron, a drug commonly used to treat nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients. The drug may also reduce someone's craving for alcohol.
... Admiral McCain believed that a key to victory was to bomb targets in North Vietnam. Senator McCain later wrote in his autobiography that the Nixon administration "was very receptive to the request of my father" to bomb in the North. But the secretly recorded White House tapes show that Nixon was at odds with Admiral McCain over the extent of bombing. The tapes were transcribed earlier this year by the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs and have received little notice until now.
By Larry Sabato, a politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Barack Obama may be on the verge of a landslide victory. ...
The Meadowview Health Clinic and Community Center announced Tuesday that it will be the latest of more than 50 Southwest Virginia health care providers to offer a telemedicine link with the University of Virginia.
Three out of four Virginians think global warming is real and most want government at all levels - federal, state and local - to take actions to fight it, according to a statewide opinion poll released Tuesday. ...The Virginia Climate Survey was conducted by phone interviews between Sept. 4 and 24 and was financed with grants from private foundations and donors through the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. It has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Martha Derthick
Professor emeritus of government and foreign affairs
Scholars Weigh Court Influence Over School Practices, Climate
Education Week / Oct. 22
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/10/22/09aei.h28.html
Rita Dove
Commonwealth Professor of Poetry, former U.S. Poet Laureate, and recipient of the 2008 Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award
The Library of Virginia announces award winners
Richmond Times-Dispatch / Oct. 19
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-10-19-0044.html
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politic...
Gennady Denisenko
A former Soviet defector doing a doctoral dissertation on Russian and Eastern European studies, and a Russian interpreter at the Medical Center
By Karin Agness, a law student and founder of the nationwide college women's organization the "Network of Enlightened Women"
... Students are being pressured by their peers and young Hollywood actors to vote for Obama. Voting for Obama is being sold as the cool thing to do. According to the ad, it is time for young people to even have 'The Talk' with their parents to convince them to vote for Obama. It should be the other way around: Parents should be initiating another version of 'The Talk' with their college-aged children, but this time not about drugs, alcohol or sex-instead, about the upco...
By Siva Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor of media studies and law
... Academic life is simultaneously idealized and vilified in America. On both counts, it is wildly misunderstood. Much has been written lately of a revival of classic American anti-intellectualism. What is really at work is a cultural phenomenon - ambivalence about people who seem to be safely insulated from the turbulent market forces that are wrenching so many Americans out of comfort and confidence. That ambivalence, I fear, shares common roots with another pernicious cultural force: anti-Semitism. The common ancestor i...
By John Quale, an assistant professor of architecture and the project director of ecoMOD, an ongoing design-build-evaluate project
... 'To tap into the affordable-housing market, it's important to understand how the modular industry really works and not imagine that you can completely rethink all aspects of it. ... How to design sustainable, affordable manufactured housing: ...