...Virginia is currently experiencing an increase in the number of traffic fatalities, according to statistics released by the Virginia Transportation Research Council at the University of Virginia.
At its recent hearing at the University of Virginia, the eight-member panel investigating the April 16 massacre at Virginia Tech skeptically probed the mental health care system on college campuses. "Lots of issues that have been raised need attention, but none more discernable than our mental health system," said Col. Gerald Massengill, former superintendent of Virginia State Police and the panel's chairman. ... Russ Federman, director of UVa's counseling and psychological services, fears that the Tech investigation may prompt new policies that unintentionally work against effective mental he...
MUNCIE (Ind.) -- Using business principles to change the way schools operate is Muncie Community Schools' latest endeavor to improve student education as required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Administrators from Anthony Administration Building, school board members and community representatives are in the second year of a two-year executive leadership program at the University of Virginia. The group recently returned from a summer workshop. The program is sponsored by Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and the Curry School of Education. Only two other urban Indiana s...
About 40 area middle schoolers are playing with LEGOs as part of a camp to get them ready for college. UVa's Sytems Robotics Camp aims to get kids interested in science. For a week kids team up with UVa engineering students to build robots that solve real life problems, like getting from point A to point B, or sweeping the sea floor for a ship wreck. Some kids say the camp definitely piqued their interest.
Poking around the grounds at the University of Virginia can result in the unearthing of some truly oddball history. Take the 15th-century church spire from Oxford, England, used as an ornament in the gardens behind Pavilion VI. ...It turns out that the pale yellow, carved church spire was given to the university by Merton College in Oxford. The spire used to stand on top of a buttress of Merton's chapel, which was erected in 1415. It was given to U.Va. in 1927. ... But why would anyone decide to ship this weird, three-ton gift all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to U.Va.?
Ask University of Virginia student Kathryn Nute to show off her newly acquired Chinese language skills and she's likely to exclaim: "Zhen zao gao!" "It means 'uh-oh.' I like to say it because it makes me sound like I'm a robot. Zhen zao gao!'" said Nute, who was sporting a nametag sticker with Chinese characters written on it meaning "Beautiful Buddha." ... Over the summer, a dozen students - including Nute - are taking an intensive nine-week immersion course in Chinese language and culture. Part of UVa's Summer Language Institute, the Chinese language program was added for the first time thi...
For once, the University of Virginia is at the bottom of a college ranking: UVa is one of the last in the state to computerize its employment application system. Next week, however, University Human Resources will launch Jobs@UVa, a fully electronic system for applicants and hiring officials.
... Couples think about the other obsessively -- on a roller coaster of euphoria when together, longing when apart. "It's temporary insanity," says Helen Fisher, an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University. Now, from her studies of the brains of lovers in the throes of the initial tumble, Fisher has developed a controversial theory. She and her collaborator, psychiatrist J. Anderson Thomson of the University of Virginia, believe that Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and other antidepressants alter brain chemistry so as to blunt the intense cutting edge of new love.
House Panel Studies Abroad
Inside Higher Ed / July 27
As 'the world becomes flat' amid 'increasing globalization' and a greater focus on 'international education,' what is clear - besides an ever-flowing stream of buzzwords - is that as trade and travel between nations increases, so will the tendency for universities to expand into territory beyond U.S. shores.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/27/global
Making a Hard-Life Story Open a Door to College
New York Times / July 27
A workshop for low-income students teaches them that their life experiences can be as powerful as stellar ...
Aaron Brooks
Who attended U.Va.
Quarterback's Proposal Would Add 26 New Homes to James City County
Newport News (VA) Daily Press / July 26
http://tinyurl.com/2xgbub
John Fain
A law school graduate
UPS Freight's Fain to Assume Broader Freight Sales Responsibilities
dBusiness News-Oklahoma City (OK) / July 2
http://tinyurl.com/2dzuta
Steven Johnson
Who received a Ph.D. from U.Va.
Canadian Publisher Announces the Publication Chris Benoit Book
Canada NewsWire / July 26
http://press.arrivenet.com/industry/article.php/1003158.html
David O'Hallaron
Who earned a doctorate in computer science
Inte...
Louis A. Bloomfield
A professor of physics
Bright Bulbs
Happy News (TX) / July 27
http://www.happynews.com/news/7262007/bright-bulbs.htm
Susan Carkeek
Chief human resource officer
UVa Employee Applications Go Online
WCAV CBS-19 / July 26
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/8729212.html
Cheryl Burgan Evans
Director for Graduate Student Diversity Programs in the office of the Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies
UVA tries to increase diversity in its graduate student ranks
WINA 1070 AM / July 27
http://www.wina.com/page.php?category_id=355
Dr. Russell Federman
Di...
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Founders Challenged Public to 'Stir the Pot' -- Then and Now
Richmond Times-Dispatch / July 27
http://tinyurl.com/2gsoxx
College Science Success Linked to Math Preparation
Creative Writing Program Among Best in Nation
Retired U.Va. Professor John Graham Dies
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/
The $3 million face-lift of the McCue Center is expected to be complete by the start of football season. The building's second floor will include a football hall of fame area. On the first floor will be areas recognizing U.Va. players and teams. ... Most important, however, are the improvements to the locker room and training room, Groh said.
...Ten years ago this month, the University of Virginia's Center for Politics was created for what Jefferson called "the enlightenment" of the populace. Our programming has included a country-wide Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI) that allows young people to have an impact on the system. From a local program initially involving just 14 schools, YLI has since expanded to all 50 states, engaging well over a million young people today in tens of thousands of schools. Internet mock elections and electronic "student legislatures" have become standard across the country.
The University of Virginia will begin issuing thousands of new identification cards Wednesday, marking a major step forward in UVa's campaign to phase out its use of Social Security numbers to identify students, faculty and staff. Instead of Social Security numbers, the new ID cards will feature randomly assigned nine-digit ID numbers. The move is intended to better protect the university's 20,400 students and 12,000 employees from identity theft.
Recent books and studies seem to indicate disturbing sexual trends among evangelical Christians. And this time we're not talking about their pastors or political leaders. The new attention is on evangelical teenagers, who reportedly start sex earlier than their mainline Protestant peers. ...[U.Va. sociologist W. Bradford] Wilcox argues, in a paper for the Russell Sage Foundation, that the facts are more complicated and more hopeful than the sniggering media caricature.
Students who had more math courses in high school did better in all types of science once they got to college, researchers say. On the other hand, while high school courses in biology, chemistry or physics improved college performance in each of the individual sciences, taking a high school course in one science didn't result in better college performance in the others. Philip M. Sadler of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Robert H. Tai of the University of Virginia surveyed 8,474 students taking introductory science courses at 63 U.S. colleges and universities. Their finding...