...Always anonymous, always juicy, it's the self described title of juicycampus.com. Allowing anyone to post a comment about a student or an organization at any school without revealing their identity. ...students are taking action as well, figuring the best way to get rid of the site is to stop using it. "Because I think it's the responsibility of the student organizations to lead the charge against, I know I've seen Pepperdine University, have already begun this boycott and I'm hopeful that UVa will do the same," said [third-year Jonathan] Williams. The Zeta Psi fraternity at UVa says they p...
...In short, both Democratic candidates are using dubious electoral arguments to promote their candidacies. Their primary showings do not predict the fall election. Of course, neither do today's public opinion polls forecast the fall results. ...Where does this leave the Democrats? They can't use either the primary returns or the polling numbers to tell them definitively which is the better candidate to defeat John McCain. Instead, they will have to rely on old-fashioned political judgment and hardheaded evaluations of the strengths and weaknesses of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to make th...
...Interestingly, the motto for The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business in Charlottesville, Virginia, is "The best faculty in the world don't like hearing themselves speak," says Robert Carraway, associate dean for MBA Education. The Princeton Review ranked Darden No. 1 for Best Professors; the school's MBA students thrive in a collaborative environment where classroom discussion is a key element of their business education. "It is a highly interactive learning environment. It is not faculty standing in front of students and lecturing," says Carraway. "It is students and faculty...
There are few times in any of our lives when our future can be held inside an envelope. But across the country Thursday, and at the University of Virginia, those envelopes held the hopes and dreams of graduating medical students. On Match Day, University of Virginia medical students get an envelope with their name on it. Inside of that enveloped is the answer to where they will be a resident.
William D. Middleton
Former chief facilities officer until 1993
The reading railroad / Charlottesville man helps create ultimate encyclopedia on trains
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Mar. 20
http://tinyurl.com/26e84d
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Obama's Speech Applauded -- By Republican Foes
ABC News / Mar. 19
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4484388&page=1
Vivian Thomson
Assistant professor of environmental sciences and of politics
Compromise Preserves Board's Permitting Clout: Panel Overseeing Air Pollution Urged Scrutiny ...
Volunteer Program Helps Low-Income Taxpayers Cash in
Deborah Perl began helping low-income individuals with their taxes as a volunteer in high school. Now, the third-year Commerce student -- along with 20 U.Va. volunteers -- is continuing the cause by helping area low-income citizens through a group she established -- Creating Assets, Savings and Hope, or CASH -- in U.Va.'s volunteer center, Madison House.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4552
Commerce Professor Reveals Hidden Workplace Networks
Rob Cross, associate professor in U.Va.'s McIntire School of Commerce, doesn't...
...For her senior thesis, University of Virginia civil engineering student Lauren Doucette analyzed the energy required to bring locally grown produce to the Charlottesville City Market. ... On average, she found, the total 311 Charlottesville farmers' market vendors traveled 60 miles to arrive at the market. In a conventional grocery store, the average distance that fresh fruit and vegetables have traveled is around 1,600 miles.
...A 2007 analysis by Jerry Stenger, research coordinator for the University of Virginia's climatology office, found that global average temperatures increased nearly 1 degree from 1977 to 2006 -- when the heaviest buildup of heat-trapping gases occurred. Virginia's average temperature increased even more, 1.5 degrees, during the period.
If the University of Virginia is any indication, Apple's fortunes on campuses continued to rise this year. About one in four freshmen at the university owns an Apple computer, up from one in five the previous year, according to a comprehensive inventory of student technology ownership conducted in the fall. Just five years ago, only 4 percent of UVa's freshmen said they owned a Mac.
The University of Virginia Medical Center is the only hospital in Central Virginia that has a machine to cool you down from the inside out. For some patients, it can mean the difference between living and dying or walking and not walking.
The Virginia Quarterly Review, the literary and current affairs quarterly published at the University of Virginia, received three National Magazine Awards nominations Wednesday. ... VQR won two National Magazine Awards in 2006, for general excellence and fiction. In the past four years, VQR has earned 13 nominations in six different categories.
... Psychologists who study how we separate truth from fiction, however, have demonstrated that the process is not so simple. ... Consider, for starters, this paradox of social psychology, a problem for myth busters everywhere: repeating a claim, even if only to refute it, increases its apparent truthfulness. In 2003, the psychologist [and Darden professor] Ian Skurnik and several of his colleagues asked senior citizens to sit through a computer presentation of a series of health warnings that were randomly identified as either true or false - for example, 'Aspirin destroys tooth enamel' (true...
Karsten Nohl
A doctoral candidate in computer science
Dr. David Diduch
A professor of orthopedic surgery
UVa researchers say removing gear of injured players harmful
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Mar. 19
http://tinyurl.com/22cb9b
Gregory Fairchild
A professor of entrepreneurship at the Darden School of Business
Entrepreneurs Undaunted
Conde Nast Portfolio / Mar. 19
http://www.portfolio.com/careers/features/2008/03/19/Optimistic-Entrepreneurs
Marcia Invernizzi
A professor of education
Students ready for VICTORY at county spelling bee
Press-Enterprise (CA) / Mar. 19
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_R_bee19.423496b.htm...
Activist Carter Lays Out Her Vision for South Bronx Rebirth
Majora Carter knew that her home borough lay along the Bronx River, but rarely was she able to glimpse the water; industrial sites and waste-treatment plants blocked the view. In Friday's annual Howland Lecture, sponsored by U.Va.'s School of Architecture, she laid out the plans of her organization, Sustainable South Bronx, for revitalizing the long-neglected and abused community.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4541
Tornado Drill Provides Important Training, and Feedback
U.Va.'s top emergency preparedness offici...
...Obama's speech "is going to help him as he navigates through the racial minefield," says Vesla Weaver, a professor at the University of Virginia who studies racial politics. "But I don't think that it puts a cork in everything that the Republicans are going to throw at him racially if he gets the nomination."
...In a second survey reported at SGO, family physicians and obstetrician-gynecologists expressed positive attitudes toward the vaccine but demonstrated low levels of knowledge, said Jennifer L. Young, MD, of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
University of Virginia employees gave a record sum to charity in 2007, UVa officials announced Tuesday. As part of last year's Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, an annual fundraising drive by state employees, 3,807 UVa employees donated $888,888 - the largest contribution by a single agency in the state.