Researchers Evaluate Icy Seascape of the Bering Sea
Wladek Minor Named Inventor of the Year
Study to Test if ADHD Meds Help Young Drivers
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Dr. W. Gene Corley, P.E., who led the federal investigation into the 2001 collapse of the World Trade Center, received the National Engineering Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) on 7 May. He was one of six honorees during the organization's 28th annual awards ceremony ... Dr. William A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering, was honored with the AAES Chair's Award ... [Wulf] is on leave as a professor from the University of Virginia. ... Established in 1980, the AAES Chair's Award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions...
Did you hear? / Men gossip as much as women, according to a new study. They just don't call it that.
You can call it shop talk, locker room banter, keeping in touch or networking. But the truth is, you [men] gossip just as much as women do. This juicy tidbit comes courtesy of the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC), a nonprofit think tank in England, which recently interviewed 1,000 cell-phone users about how they use their cell phones for gossip and how gossip affects their lives. ... Other studies, including those at the University of Virginia, Northeastern University and the University of Wisconsin confirm that gossip is universal and gender-neutral.
Newburyport, Mass. - Not that often does University of Virginia professor of physics Louis Bloomfield travel hundreds of miles to interact with a group of students not his own. But here he was on Monday and Tuesday, hoping to leave middle and high school students feeling the physics of everyday life in their gut. ...Tuesday morning Bloomfield was out in the skate park at Nock Middle School showing eighth graders how skateboarding is an excellent example of physics in action.
There's a half-circle of hard-packed earth worn in the grass by the 33 "Hokie Stone" memorials. ...But it is still graduation day. ...everyone will still keep April 16 in mind, he said, even as they start off in pursuit of the new opportunities that follow graduation. ...Eight-year-old Garrett Wiehler crouched close to the ground to read notes scrawled by University of Virginia students on large posters sent to Tech. The posters were on a sunny floor of the student commons, which was plastered with banners sent from schools across the country -- from Texas to Massachusetts.
When teenagers start shopping for colleges, the price is often not something they dwell upon. ...That said, public universities across the country are providing financial enticement to good students outside their states. What's more, lots of flagship institutions such as the University of Oregon, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, University of Washington and the University of Florida have established honors colleges to appeal to kids who might be tempted to go the private route.
...The mini-cemetery is part of a small but growing trend on college campuses. ...By the late 20th century, many longtime college cemeteries were languishing. The University of Virginia's 1828 graveyard ran out of room in the early 1960s, said Dr. Dearing Johns, a cardiology professor who heads the school's cemetery committee. School officials decided against expanding it - until an alum who wanted to be buried on campus suggested a columbarium wall and paid for the construction with three friends.
It took absolutely no time at all for the university students to realize they were in the presence of not only a brilliant man, but one who was unafraid to voice his views. When Robert Lowell engaged a classroom of University of Virginia students in conversation on Feb. 23, 1968, the topic naturally gravitated toward writing. The visiting poet was 50 years old and famous throughout the world for his penetrating, soul-baring verses.
A University of Virginia professor who invented groundbreaking 3-D imaging tools will be honored Monday by UVa's Patent Foundation with its Inventor of the Year Award and a $10,000 check. Wladek Minor, a professor of molecular physiology and biological physics, developed with his colleagues computer modeling systems - the most recent version of which is called HKL-3000 - that reveal the structure of protein crystals.
It was on a frigid day in February when you first got the idea that the 2007 Virginia men's lacrosse team was going to be a vastly different outfit than the one that had gone undefeated and won a national championship in 2006. ...On Sunday night at Klockner Stadium, UVa was pounded by Delaware, 14-8, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The loss marked Virginia's earliest exit from the tournament since the 2001 season when it was sent home in the first round by Hofstra.
UVa and Albemarle Family teamed up to host the first ever Mom Expo. Saturday's event was designed to educate mothers on all the resources UVa and the community offers.
... 20/20 eyesight is a blessing, but it's something that doesn't come easily for everyone. Thanks to nurses at the University of Virginia Health System many more lives will soon come into focus. ...Nurses at the UVA Health System have also decided to set sight on a sharper image during this Week of the Nurse. "Over 500 pairs [of glasses] have been contributed and we know they will be put to great use, whether they need reading glasses or RX glasses, and they can provide many to children who have never had any glasses to perfect their reading abilities," said Dr. Pam Cipriano with the UVA Hea...
Hospitals across the Washington region are mounting increasingly aggressive defenses against a virulent bacterium resistant to antibiotics that turns seemingly minor skin abrasions, cuts and sores into serious, even life-threatening, infections. ..."Every hospital . . . out there is grappling with how to handle this," noted Keri Hall, an epidemiologist at the University of Virginia Medical Center, which produced a video to explain to MRSA-positive patients why strict gown-and-glove precautions should be taken whenever anyone, from a relative to a surgeon to a housekeeper, enters their room.
Washington National Opera will present a live simulcast of a matinee performance of Puccini's "La Boheme" to at least 16 colleges, universities and high schools across the nation Sept. 23. The troupe will also present its free simulcast to the Mall. The institutions that will participate include the University of Virginia, Princeton, West Point, ...
...The Corner, Charlottesville's historic commercial district a stone's throw from the University of Virginia, hasn't lost its down-home feel or importance to UVa students, despite an ever-changing slate of storefronts.
Lots of people are involved with making sure Virginia has a safe and sustainable food supply. ...The trouble is, these organizations rarely communicate with one another on food security issues ... To bridge the rift between food-related professions, UVa and Virginia Tech faculty held the first Virginia Food Security Summit in Charlottesville on Friday, the last of a series of events focused on local food production and distribution.
One way doctors can assure better pregnancy outcomes is to remind mothers-to-be to buckle up when driving, said U.S. doctors this week. A new study by researchers at the University of Virginia suggests that doctors discuss seat belt use infrequently -- but pregnant women heed the advice when their physician brings it up.
A group of University of Virginia students has contributed an entire school year analyzing a local initiative aimed at improving mental health services and how it relates to the criminal justice system. Recruited by a criminal justice planner and coordinator of the recently formed Crisis Intervention Team, the systems engineering students used the topic for their fourth-year capstone project, recently completing a 100-page study. The report ... evaluates the current intersections of mental health resources with the justice system and suggests ways in which those links can be improved.