The University of Virginia has topped a list of 10 Virginia schools participating in a national survey that rates the country's greenest campuses. Being released today, the College Sustainability Report Card 2009 shows that UVa was rated overall as a B. The university rated overall as a B- in the 2008 report card and received a D+ in 2007.
Work Zone: Tour Construction at U.Va.
The Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center is one of several projects that is changing the face of the U.Va. Grounds. The University of Virginia Magazine recently caught up with Architect for the University David Neuman to get his insight on this project, in addition to several other buildings near the U.Va. Hospital. [Includes videos]
http://www.uvamagazine.org/site/c.esJNK1PIJrH/b.4489009/
U.Va. to Host Inaugural 'Women in Leadership' Conference
A "Women in Leadership" conference at U.Va. Sept. 26–27 will feature a keynote speech by Sheila C. Johnso...
Perrin Chiles
1999 graduate in economics and a producer of 'Autism: The Musical,' an HBO documentary that just won 2 Emmys and was nominated for 3 others
And the Emmy goes to …
Culpeper Star-Exponent / Sept. 23
http://www.starexponent.com/cse/news/local/article/and_the_emmy_goes_to/21554/
Tina Fey
1992 graduate in drama, who won 3 Emmys on Sunday
UVA alum Fey scores Emmy three-peat
The Hook / Sept. 22
http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/22/uva-alum-fey-scores-emmy-three-peat/
Robert Abbott
A biostatistician and author of a new study
Long Walks Stave Off Dementia
International News Network (Pakistan) / Sept. 22
http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=133707
Robert Bruner and Sean D. Carr
Darden's dean, and director of corporate innovation programs, respectively, and co-authors of "The Panic of 1907"
Brave new world
International Business Times / Sept. 19
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/brave-new-world.htm
and
Is This The Turn?
American Thinker / Sept. 23
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/is_this_the_turn.html
James Ceaser
Professor of politics a...
... Even before Mr. Paulson made his pivotal decisions, his predecessor, John Snow, argued that an international institution is needed to protect global markets from the unnecessary spill-over effects. "What happens in one place can create serious consequences in other places," Mr. Snow said at a recent conference on the global economy at the University of Virginia. ...
... A panel tonight will discuss the human papillomavirus vaccine that is required for all sixth-grade girls in Virginia. ...Panelists will include ... two University of Virginia physicians, one of who worked on the vaccine's clinical trials. The event will be held at 7 p.m. at the McLeod Hall auditorium at UVa.
This urban igloo was made from cardboard by a team of UVA students for a design competition held at the home of architecture prof John Quale on September 12. The rules: All structures had to be made from recycled, reclaimed or natural materials; materials had to be recycled after the project; and each structure could take no more than two hours to assemble and cost no more than $10.
University of Virginia students are being strongly encouraged to vote in November's election, but for many out-of-staters, where they vote is becoming an issue, especially in Charlottesville.
Capital One's CEO visited the University of Virginia on Monday to discuss the state of the American economy with business students.
... Winneba would be Charlottesville's first African sister city. Connections have already fomented between the two places: Since the mid-1990s, the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the University of Ghana have had a thriving exchange program of students and faculty...
An $800,000 dollar grant, awarded to UVa's Curry School of Education will help offset tuition and prepare the next wave of special education teachers.
... [David Hudson Jr.], 19, pulled off the Daily Double of a lifetime -- his second triumph on the venerable game show "Jeopardy!" In doing so, he won $25,000. [Includes video]
Karin Agness
Law student and founder of the nationwide college women's organization the "Network of Enlightened Women"
...Intensive efforts to register new voters are helping to swell voter rolls with young people, transplants from other states and folks who've never voted before -- all people Obama thinks he can win. They're people such as Julia Duncan, a student in history and government at the University of Virginia and an Obama supporter. She registered to vote in Virginia recently, transferring her registration from California because her vote is needed more in a closely contested state such as Virginia than it is in safely Democratic California. College students legally have the option of voting where th...
University of Virginia (U.Va.) professor James Landers is known as 'a master of compression' because he has reduced an entire laboratory for DNA analysis to a chip the size of a common everyday microscope slide. His future handheld device may allow 'physicians, crime scene investigators, pharmacists, even the general public, to quickly and inexpensively conduct DNA tests from almost anywhere, without need for a complex and expensive central laboratory.'
By Larry Sabato, a politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
... If you mix and match states on the map, in fact, you will quickly see that it relatively easy to produce a tie in the electoral college. So what happens if one occurs? In two words: a mess. ... If the public reaction to the Supreme Court's Bush v Gore decision in 2000 was bitter, one can scarcely imagine the outrage that would greet a modern application of the unit rule. By the way, well over 90% of the American people are unaware of this constitutional provision. ...
Taiwanese Exchange Program Opens New Doors
Eight Taiwanese students, all from the Kaohsiung Medical University College of Nursing, and their professor, Shu-Yuan Lin, were the first group to take part in a new exchange program between Kaohsiung and U.Va.'s School of Nursing. A class presentation was one highlight of the Taiwanese students' month-long visit, which ended Sept. 12.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6468
U.Va. Tops State Goals for SWaM Purchases
The University ended the 2008 fiscal year having spent 42.5 percent of its discretionary budget on goods and services ...
... These initiatives... are mostly financed by conservative organizations and donors, run by conservative professors. But they have a decidedly nonpartisan and nonideological face. ...Some, like the effort in Colorado Springs and the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia focus solely on exposing freshmen to classical thinkers. ...