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| FEST Funding Supports Cutting Edge Junior Faculty Research | George T. Rodeheaver Named 2008 Inventor of the Year | NIA Grant to Further Novel Research Methods Training |
| Four rising faculty members have secured Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) Distinguished Young Investigator grants. Phil Arras, Noelle Dwyer, Avik Ghosh, and Jing Yu will each receive $50,000 to support their forward-looking research proposals. | The University of Virginia Patent Foundation has selected George T. Rodeheaver, distinguished professor in U.Va.'s Department of Plastic Surgery, as the 2008 Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year. Rodeheaver was chosen for the revolutionary wound-healing technology he has developed over more than three decades of research in the U.Va. Health System. | John Nesselroade, an expert in quantitative research methods related to the field of adult development and aging, recently received a $205,835 grant from the National Institute on Aging. The grant allows Nesselroade to continue training doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in some of the most innovative quantitative modeling methods available today. |
University Research in the News
- U.Va. Graduate Students Secure Esteemed NSF Fellowships
Three top University of Virginia graduate students have earned prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowships to support their original research plans over the next few years. - U.Va. Researcher Receives Hartwell Award for Work on Pediatric Brain Tumors
U.Va. Today
A University of Virginia researcher has received a three-year grant from The Hartwell Foundation to further his research on an innovative method to treat pediatric brain tumors. - U.Va. Research Aims to Optimize Traffic Light Timing to Reduce Gas Consumption and Emissions
U.Va. Today
With gasoline prices soaring and emissions raising concerns for the environment, the timing of traffic signals could provide some relief on both counts, according to research being conducted by Byungkyu "Brian" Park, an assistant professor in the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science. - No Shortcuts to the Past: Holly Cowan Shulman Takes on Biography
U.Va. Today
Her office is tiny and windowless, with barely room enough for two chairs. But cramped quarters can't limit Holly Cowan Shulman's expansive mind. - Hi-tech Approach to Language Development
China Daily
U.Va. Alumnus Tashi Tsering's Universal Tibetan Font Converter can make about 10 kinds of Tibetan encodings compatible with each other. His software is now widely used within the Tibetan community and is being used to create a major digital library. - University of Virginia's Daniel Pitti Appointed to National Archives and Record Administration
U.Va. Today
Daniel Pitti, associate director of the University of Virginia's Institute for the Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, is serving on the National Archives and Record Administration's Advisory Committee on the Electronic Records Archive. Pitti's appointment, effective Jan. 1, came after almost seven years of work with the institute, during which he designed several databases in support of research projects. - University of Virginia Graduate Student's New Method for Processing Rape Evidence Could Eliminate Crime-Lab Backlogs
U.Va. Today
Jessica Voorhees Norris, a Ph.D. candidate in forensic chemistry at U.Va., has developed a method for handling rape kit evidence that reduces part of the DNA analysis time from 24 hours to as little as 30 to 45 minutes and improves the sperm cell recovery rate by 100 percent. - Combining Liver Cancer Treatments Doubles Survival Rates According to Researchers at U.Va.
U.Va. Health System
By combining the use of stents and photodynamic therapy, also called SpyGlass, physicians at the University of Virginia have been able to significantly increase survival rates for patients suffering from advanced cholangiocarcinoma, cancer of the liver bile duct.
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