Researchers George Bloom and Michelle King are hard at work on what just might be a breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer's. "We've sort of uncovered a whole new angle on Alzheimers you might think of it as a pathway with many steps" said Bloom, UVa professor of Cell Biology.
Right now, a flight from New York to Los Angeles takes about five hours, but a group of engineering students involved in the Hy-V project at the University of Virginia are working on an engine that could cut that flight time to just 40 minutes. "That's five times the speed of sound, so that's really fast. In fact, that's twice the speed of a bullet," Project Director, Professor Christopher Goyne explained. It is really fast, but possible with a scramjet engine.
Hideki Inoue has never been all that lucky -- especially when it comes to money. But yesterday he stood in front of hundreds of his business school classmates at the University of Virginia, nicknamed "Darden's luckiest student" after getting through five rounds of random contests. He was facing two briefcases: Pick the wrong one, and he'd get nothing. Pick the right one, and he'd get $17,500.
Quality vs. Quantity in Study Abroad
Inside Higher Ed / February 21
U.S. panel's call for a million participants is misguided without more emphasis on nature of the foreign programs, researcher says.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/21/abroad
A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source
The New York Times / February 21
[...]the Middlebury history department notified its students this month that Wikipedia could not be cited in papers or exams, and that students could not "point to Wikipedia or any similar source that may appear in the future to escape the consequences...
Honor, UJC candidates debate issues
Five-year master's program created in public health
UBE sponsors candidate forum
Dyan Aretakis
Family nurse practitioner and project director of the teen health center
UVa Teen Health Center Expands with Donations / Outreach Programs to Reach More Schools
Daily Progress / February 20
http://tinyurl.com/2vrdt2
Malcolm Bell III
Professor of art history and a leading figure in the international debate over looted antiquities
Louvre confirms pressure from Greece on statue
Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer / February 20
http://tinyurl.com/37zzag
Sam Bodily
The John Tyler Professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business who teaches a class called "Decision Analysis."
U.Va. Grad...
The teen health center at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital will triple its outreach programs that teach adolescents about pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, suicide and more. Thanks to a $150,000 contribution from an anonymous donor and $30,000 raised at a December charity event at Live Arts, the health center is establishing the Adolescent Advocacy and Outreach Program.
Talk about a classroom test with a lot at stake. Hideki Inoue, a first-year graduate business school student at the University of Virginia, has a chance to win $17,500 this morning if he chooses the right briefcase as part of a class on risk-taking in business. Or he could say "no deal" and walk away with a guaranteed payoff, but of an unknown amount. The money to fill the suitcase -- or at least a representation of the money came from an anonymous donor and is the equivalent of a full semester's in-state tuition.
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Rum is essentially an accident. On 17th-century sugar plantations in the Caribbean someone figured out that the waste from making sugar, chiefly molasses, could be turned into a potent alcoholic drink that came to be called rum or "Kill-devil." Jerome S. Handler (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) and Frederick Smith (College of William and Mary) discuss Smith's book, Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History, and the impact of rum in the region.
Also: Susan St. Onge (Christopher Newport University) is working on a documentary film on Francophone commu...
Eyewitness Testimony of Older Adults May Not Be Reliable, Study Says
Bobby Seale to Give Talk at U.Va. Tomorrow
U.Va. Engineering Open House Set for Saturday
Honor, UJC candidates debate issues
Five-year master's program created in public health
UBE sponsors candidate forum
[...] In one of the most progressive statements about why such work is important, the [University of Cincinnati ] university's campus-planning director and architect, Mary Beth McGrew, told the news media: "I sought the grant because the university and community have invested millions over the past two decades to transform the campus. It's only logical that we begin thinking about the preservation process in the same way that the University of Virginia has to be mindful of balancing future needs with preservation of its buildings and grounds as they were designed by Thomas Jefferson."
Quality vs. Quantity in Study Abroad
Inside Higher Ed / February 21
U.S. panel's call for a million participants is misguided without more emphasis on nature of the foreign programs, researcher says.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/21/abroad
A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source
The New York Times / February 21
[...] the Middlebury history department notified its students this month that Wikipedia could not be cited in papers or exams, and that students could not "point to Wikipedia or any similar source that may appear in the future to escape the consequence...
Brian T. Henebry
Graduate of the School of Law
Super Lawyers Announced
Southbury (Conn.) Voices / February 21
http://tinyurl.com/326pkg
Edmond M. Ianni
Graduate of the School of Law
Business People
Wilmington (Del.) News Journal / February 21
http://tinyurl.com/368qsy
Randal J. Kirk.
Graduate of the School of Law
Meet Randal J. Kirk, Southwest Virginia's First Billionaire / The Company's Founder and Chief Executive Stands to Make a Boatload When His Ship Comes in
Roanoke Times / February 21
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/105486
Robert D. Probasco
Graduate of the School of Law
T...
Hideki Inoue
First-year graduate student at the Darden School of Business
U.Va. Grad Student's Choice Could Net $17,500 -- or Zilch
Richmond Times-Dispatch / February 21
http://tinyurl.com/2grdpl
Ten years ago, the University of Virginia Press issued what turned out to be a very well-timed book, "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy" by Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of law at New York University. In late 1998 came the results of a DNA test showing a match between descendants of Hemings and of Jefferson - corroborating the story (first put in the public record by an anti-Jeffersonian journalist in 1802) that the author of the Declaration of Independence had sired a number of children by one of his slaves. One part of the "American controversy" referred to in Go...
[...] At the opposite end of the spectrum, Thomas Jefferson's much smaller Academical Village at the University of Virginia is the vibrant and coherent creation of one man. Realized in about a decade of planning and construction, it remains one of the wonders of American architecture. The plan is based on the image of a human being. The rotunda, or the library, is the head, which is framed by shoulders and outstretched arms - the colonnades and pavilions - in a characteristic gesture of welcome.
Dyan Aretakis
Family nurse practitioner and project director of the teen health center
UVa Teen Health Center Expands with Donations / Outreach Programs to Reach More Schools
Daily Progress / February 20
http://tinyurl.com/2vrdt2
Malcolm Bell III
Professor of art history and a leading figure in the international debate over looted antiquities
Louvre confirms pressure from Greece on statue
Cleveland Plain Dealer / February 20
http://tinyurl.com/37zzag
Sam Bodily
The John Tyler Professor at the Darden School of Business
U.Va. Grad Student's Choice Could Net $17,500 -- or Zilch
Richmond Times...
A new bioengineered anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) replacement couldprovide a new treatment option for the more than 200,000 Americans who rupture their ACLs annually, U.S. researchers report this week. "We're hoping that we can have this as a solution for patients within the next three years," said study lead researcher Dr. Cato Laurencin, professor and chairman of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
The teen health center at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital will triple its outreach programs that teach adolescents about pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, suicide and more. Thanks to a $150,000 contribution from an anonymous donor and $30,000 raised at a December charity event at Live Arts, the health center is establishing the Adolescent Advocacy and Outreach Program.