About three dozen graduate students and engineering researchers from Blacksburg met with members of the Fairfax County business community to forge partnerships and swap secrets and suggestions. The county is making such mingling an annual event. Virginia Tech, like many other high-profile research institutions, is actively trying to increase its presence in Northern Virginia.. The day-long research showcase was sponsored by the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority. Last year, the agency brought researchers from the University of Virginia to Fairfax for a similar event, and it plans to...
Before you're given anesthesia, it's important to speak with your anesthesiologist to reduce your risk of complications. Prior to a surgical procedure, the University of Virginia Health Center says your anesthesiologist needs to know about:…
The head football coach of the University of Virginia will take on a different assignment this afternoon. Al Groh will be a guest of UVA's Head Librarian Karin Wittenborg. Groh will be back at the Alderman Library, a site he visited as a UVA undergrad before earning a degree in 1967. He plans to meet with the reference staff, and spend a half-hour fielding questions at Alderman's main reference desk.
The UVA student body has opted to save 'single sanction,' referring to the only punishment for honor code violations: permanent expulsion…But supporters of single sanction won by the slim margin of 62 votes after the results were tallied: 50.5 percent of the 6,476 votes were cast against the multitier system. Turnout in the election tilted toward undergrads, of whom 42 percent cast ballots compared with only 21 percent of grad students.
...HBO's documentary, "Addiction" that will air Thursday night at 9 p.m. ..features UVA's Dr. Bankole Johnson for his work to treat addiction. …The documentary highlights Dr. Johnson's development of a drug that targets the part of the brain that controls craving, making it easier to get off alcohol or drugs. The reason why his drug, topiramate, works is because of the new understanding that addiction is a disease that can be treated like any other…The HBO program follows two addicts and their journey to recovery by taking the topiramate.
BusinessWeek magazine ranked UVA's McIntire School of Commerce second among the nation's undergraduate business programs. Not bad, given that the top-ranked program at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business costs about four times as much, according to the magazine. The rankings were based on academic quality, student engagement and career placement.
As a College Guide, [recent U.Va. grad Sara] Larquier helps kids pick colleges, fill out applications, schedule tests like the SATs, or fill out financial aid forms. The 2-year-old College Guides program places former 'Hoos like Larquier at high schools with low college attendance around the state…UVA saw a 10 percent increase in applications from the 14 schools that had College Guides last year… Other state schools saw as much as a 112 percent jump in applications from targeted high schools…The College Guide program is the first of its kind in higher ed. Also announced th...
Sustainability
Inside Higher Ed / March 14
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education has released its 2006 summary of the growing number of projects colleges are undertaking to support environmentally sustainable campuses.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/14/qt
Support for Science Bill
Inside Higher Ed / March 14
A coalition of dozens of academic and business leaders on Tuesday released a proclamation calling for Congress to move quickly to pass legislation to increase research spending, to support efforts to reform math and science education,...
Three Honored with Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals
U.Va. Diversity Officer to Head National Group
Farmer Addresses Health Care for U.S. Poor
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/
Two referenda cause confusion / Honor referendum may require special election for reps.; ASC referendum still unresolved
Bill to remove donation info from Web
BOV discusses state of Capital Campaign
E-school announces partnership with CVCC
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/
The director of the Albemarle-based Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression is glad the College of William and Mary found an apparent solution for its dilemma involving a cross at its Wren Chapel. Robert O'Neil (above) has noted the Williamsburg school is adopting the same approach that the University of Virginia has taken at its chapel. O'Neil was the University of Virginia's President from 1985 until 1990
En su edición 2007 de "Las mejores Universidades de América," US News and World Report declaró a U.Va. como la Universidad Pública Número 2 del país, lo cual continúa con una larga tradición de excelencia académica en la Universidad de Virginia. Desde que US News elaboró por primera vez su lista clasificatoria de universidades públicas en 1998, U.Va. nunca ha estado por debajo del puesto número 2 y alcanzó el puesto número 1 por cuarta vez en diez años.
Jonathan Ebinger
Graduate of the Darden School of Business
E-Procurement Innovator Coupa Secures Series-A Funding
Business Wire / March 13
http://tinyurl.com/3c7qx8
William E. Harrell
Who holds two master's degrees from U.Va.
Chesapeake Native Named New City Manager
The Virginian-Pilot / March 14
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=121101&ran=232539
Kimberlee J. Kearfott
Who has a master's degree in nuclear reactor safety
Environmental Groups Plan Uranium Summit
Rapid City (SD) Journal / March 13
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2007/03/14/news/top/news00l_uranium_summit...
Karin Agness
A first-year law student at the and founder of the Network of Enlightened Women (NEW)
Inside the Beltway
Washington Times / March 14
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070314-120511-1957r_page2.htm
Whitney Newton
Second-year in the School of Engineering
Student Riding to Rescue Needy BIKE & BUILD / King George Woman Prepares for Trek to Provide Affordable Housing
Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-Star / March 14
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/032007/03142007/265212
James Landers
A professor in the Department of Chemistry
Automation Technologies Drive Solid-Phase Extraction
Genetic Engineering News / March 1
http://www.genengnews.com/articles/chitem.aspx?aid=2041&chid=1
Robert M. O'Neil
Professor of Law and University Professor
O'Neil reacts to new developments at William & Mary
WINA 1070 AM / March 14
http://www.wina.com/page.php?category_id=355
Dr. Mir Siadaty
Biostatistician in the Department of Health Evaluation Sciences
Relevant Biomed Searches
Drug Discovery News / March 13
http://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/index.php?newsarticle=1239
Tyler St....
With almost 1700 new biomedical papers published daily, even the most tech-savvy scientist finds it hard to stay on top of things. Making things even worse, say researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, is the amount of irrelevant information that comes up in a typical search of literature databases like Medline or PubMed. That's why they developed a new search engine called ReleMed.
Three decades ago, medical investigators began sounding the alarm about how lead exposure causes IQ deficits in children. Today, researchers at the University of Virginia Health System say children with sleep disorders can face similar risks of intellectual impairment.
"Unfortunately, Women's History Month is turning into Radical Feminist's History Month on many college campuses," Karin Agness, a first-year law student at the University of Virginia and founder of the Network of Enlightened Women (NEW), told Inside the Beltway yesterday. Thus the reason for a debate this evening on the UVa. campus, which will also take a look at "women's studies departments" in place at hundreds of colleges around the country. Part of the Cicero's Podium Debate Series, the event is sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Wilson School dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 will be the 31st recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law, a press release from the University of Virginia said yesterday..."Dean Slaughter was selected because she is one of the great legal minds of the day who personifies the Jeffersonian ideals," University of Virginia spokeswoman Carol Wood said in an email. "She is a scholar, an educator and a visionary leader in her field."
[...] one of a series of reports on the issue of health coverage published in the March 14 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association...outlined a plan to revamp the U.S. health-care system by increasing the value of the care delivered to patients. "Improving value for patients is clearly the only valid goal for ethical reasons. It is also the only goal that aligns the interests of patients, physicians, health insurance plans, employers and government," [the authors, including] Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, from the University of Virginia, wrote.