Archive for Research News

U.Va. Scientists Identify Gene for Resistance to Parasitic 'Witchweed'
U.Va. Today
Among the crops heavily parasitized by witchweed is black-eyed pea, known in Africa as "cowpea."
Posted 09/01/09

Basic Research to Shed Light on Cancer, Birth Defects
Researcher is elucidating the intricacies of chromosome sorting during cell division.
Posted 09/01/09

Agricultural Methods of Early Civilizations May Have Altered Global Climate, Study Suggests
U.Va. Today
Research suggests humans began altering global climate thousands of years ago.
Posted 01/01/70

U.Va. Engineering School Addresses Shared Challenges with Area Energy Company
U.Va. Today
Company has been a champion of an undergraduate engineering distance-learning program.
Posted 12/31/69

U.Va. Research Inspires New Diagnostics Company
Research and development firm creating new tests for waterborne parasites.
Posted 12/31/69

Researcher Aims for Faster, More Accurate Drug Discovery
Michael Shirts uses computer simulations to understand molecular behavior.
Posted 12/31/69

New Light-Emitting Biomaterial Could Improve Tumor Imaging, Study Shows
U.Va. Today
Sensor material is the result of research combining green chemistry with nanotechnology.
Posted 08/12/09

U.Va. Gets Nearly $500,000 to Develop Low-Cost Tools that Assess Effective Teaching
U.Va. Today
Tools will use student, principal, and supervisor surveys to assess teacher-student interactions.

U.Va. Researchers Unlocking the Healing Promise of Stem Cells Derived from Fat
U.Va. Today
Fat stem cells may be used for a range of therapeutic purposes without raising the ethical issues.
Posted 01/01/70

Researchers Receive $4.9M to Study 'Core Knowledge' Curriculum
U.Va. Today
Five-year grant is being funded by the Institute for Educational Science.
Posted 08/10/09

Heavy Cost of Obesity
The Post and Courier
Taxing junk food could alleviate health issues.
Posted 08/10/09

New Research from University of Virginia Health System Offers Important Insights about Peripheral Artery Disease
U.Va. Health System
Study Assesses Underlying Factors and Suggests Potential Treatment Targets
Posted 08/05/09

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Announces Grants to Organizations Throughout Virginia
U.Va. Today
VFH grants promote humanities projects that address issues of broad public concern.
Posted 08/05/09

U.Va.'s Curry School Receives $4 Million to Establish a Center for Adolescents
U.Va. Today
Center to help equip youngsters deal with the often-challenging years of adolescence.
Posted 08/05/09

Fat Tax Could Be Panacea For Health Reform
Forbes
Study saws a 10% sales tax on fattening foods could raise $522 billion over the next 10 years.
Posted 07/28/09

Learning and Growing: Garden as Laboratory at U.Va.
U.Va. Today
U.Va. gardening projects give students hands-on learning opportunities.
Posted 07/28/09

Politics Professor Recives Grant to Address Major Health Policy Issue
U.Va. Today
Grant program challenges investigators to tackle major policy issues facing America today.
Posted 07/28/09

U.Va. Health System Specialties Honored by U.S. News
U.Va. Health System
U.Va. specialties ranked in this year's guide are: endocrinology; cancer; and ear, nose, & throat.
Posted 07/28/09

U.Va. Engineering Students Win NASA Aircraft Design Contest
U.Va. Today
Project was a part of a two-semester Aerospace capstone design class.
Posted 07/28/09

Chevalier to be Honored at Caltech Astronomy Workshop
U.Va. Today
Chevalier is considered one of the premier researchers into supernovae.
Posted 07/15/09

Learning From Goldman Sachs's "Catalysts"
Washington Post "On Leadership" Blog
Darden professor's research identifies lessons from business "catalysts."
Posted 07/15/09

Research Could Usher in the Next Generation of Electronics
New material could replace or enhance current CMOS technology.
Posted 07/15/09

Researchers Strive to Emulate Efficiency of the Brain
Collaborative team exploring biologically inspired computational possibilities.
Posted 06/30/09

Smithsonian Fellowship Helps Environmental Historian Understand Moral Economy of Food Production
U.Va. Today
Cohen studying food adulteration in the early Industrial Age.
Posted 07/08/09

Artificial Pancreas Proves Effective in Controlling Type 1 Diabetes Overnight in U.Va. Pilot Study
U.Va. Today
U.Va. is one of seven centers worldwide to perform the novel closed-loop computer simulation of the human metabolic system.
Posted 07/08/09

New Internet Intervention Gives Insomnia Patients a Better Night's Sleep
U.Va. Health System
U.Va. Health System Study Finds Nearly Three-Fourths of Patients Reported Notable Sustained Improvements in Sleep
Posted 07/08/09

U.Va. Nursing Faculty Receive $1.2 Million in Research Grants
U.Va. Today
Grants will allow reserach on substance abuse, smoking prevention among Virginia youth.
Posted 07/08/09

Research Holds Promise for Biomedical Applications
Chemist and biomedical engineer team up with nanoSTAR seed grant.
Posted 07/08/09

Archeology Under Way at U.Va.'s Morven Farm
U.Va. Today
Summer class is surveying a 200-acre section of Morven Farm.
Posted 06/30/09

University of Virginia Scientist Brian P. Helmke, Ph.D., Receives Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
AScribe
Researcher hopes to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in children.
Posted 06/30/09

Implicit Bias Links Males More Than Females with Science
U.Va. Today
International study involved more than half a million participants from 34 countries.
Posted 06/25/09

U.Va. Receives Grant to Study Effect of Federal Stimulus on Science and Engineering Jobs
U.Va. Today
Funds offer a rare opportunity to study the responsiveness of the scientific labor market to increased funding.
Posted 06/30/09

Music Major Creates Award-Winning Computer Composition Based on DNA
U.Va. Today
Student "sonifies" segment of DNA.
Posted 06/25/09

Low Level Light Therapy Shows Promise for Improving Neuronal Function In Parkinson's Disease Patients
U.Va. Health System
U.Va. researchers developing promising new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.
Posted 06/25/09

Book Series Launches With a Look at Early Childhood Education
U.Va. Today
Series to stimulate critical thinking around early education.
Posted 06/25/09

U.Va. Opens $70.7 Million Facility for Cancer Research
Richmond Times Dispatch
New building to encourage research collaboration between specialists in different areas.
Posted 06/15/09

The Renaissance Code: U.Va. Art Historian Francesca Fiorani Reveals its Secrets
U.Va. Today
Fiorani's research will add to the understanding of the relations of art, science and technology.
Posted 06/16/09

U.Va. Professor Discusses New Book on the Rights, and Responsibilities, to Life
Charlottesville Daily Progress
New book examines the case of Terri Schiavo, who died after having her feeding tube removed.
Posted 06/16/09

U.Va. Researcher Receives $1.3 Million to Develop Smoking Cessation
U.Va. Today
Three year study will evaluate if handheld computer application can help people quit smoking.
Posted 06/15/09

Researcher Named a 2009 Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences
Kevin Janes is one of 17 researchers to be selected as a 2009 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Posted 06/17/09

Curry Professor Recognized for Work on Language Impairment
U.Va. Today
LaVae Hoffman has won an award based on a ground-breaking study of school-age children with Specific Language Impairment.
Posted 06/04/09

U.Va. Signs Sustainability Pact
Staunton News Leader
Casteen says agreement marks a key development in the way U21 universities approach study and research.
Posted 06/10/09

Four Honored with Distinguished Scientist Awards
Four pre-eminent researchers have been chosen to receive 2008-09 Distinguished Scientist Awards from the University of Virginia.
Posted 06/10/09

Preschoolers' Language Development is Partly Tied to Their Classmates' Language Skills, Study Finds
U.Va. Today
Findings published in the May/June issue of the journal Child Development.
Posted 06/04/09

Privacy Protections May Slow Adoption of Electronic Medical Records, New Research Finds
U.Va. Today
Vast majority of the U.S. health care system still paper-based.
Posted 06/04/09

U.Va. Planning Professor Launches Model Curriculum Web Site Devoted to the Built Environment and Health
U.Va. Today
Educational Web site links planning and public health.
Posted 06/04/09

Local Business Council Honors U.Va. People, Projects
PluroGen Therapeutics, ecoMOD, and David Chen were recently honored by the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council.
Posted 05/22/09

Why Heart Attack Is Riskier For Women Than Men
EmaxHealth
Research goal to find more effective ways to treat acute coronary syndrome.
Posted 06/04/09

U.Va. Health System Study Shows Early Success in Combining Two Emerging Medical Technologies to Treat Deadly Brain Tumors
U.Va. Today
New techniques use controlled-released nanoparticles containing chemotherapeutic drugs and non-invasive ultrasound.
Posted 05/21/09

Med School Dean Designated a 'Rock Star of Science'
U.Va. Today
Researcher and physician Dr. Steven T. DeKosky appears as a "Rock Star of Science" in the June issue of GQ Magazine.
Posted 06/04/09

U.Va. Institute on Aging to Host Conference on Alzheimer's Disease
U.Va. Today
Conference to feature internationally known speakers.
Posted 05/28/09

U.Va. Scientists Probe Secrets to Conversational Empathy
U.Va. Today
Research will be presented at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science.
Posted 05/28/09

Rolls-Royce Partnership for Aerospace Research Takes Shape; U.Va. and Virginia Tech Seek New Faculty
U.Va. Today
Center will address the latest aerospace propulsion system research questions.
Posted 05/28/09

U.Va. Study Offers Key Insights About How Industry Funding Compromises Integrity in Academic Research
U.Va. Health System
Study marks first attempt to acquire updated empirical data about conflicts of interest between industry and investigators at academic research institutions.
Posted 05/21/09

Self-regulation Game Predicts Kindergarten Achievement
ScienceDaily
Games prove effective at predicting academic skills among preschool age children.
Posted 06/10/09

Fourth Annual Jefferson Trust Grants to Support 14 Projects at the University of Virginia
U.Va. Today
Grants to aid architectural preservation, academic access, and student research.
Posted 05/28/09

Focused Ultrasound Surgery Re-invents Cancer Treatment
Charlottesville Daily Progress
U.Va. pioneering non-invasive method to treat cancer.
Posted 05/28/09

Addiction Expert Bankole Johnson Receives Prestigious Award From the American Psychiatric Association
U.Va. Today
APA award named for the first African-American psychiatrist, Solomon Carter Fuller.
Posted 05/21/09

Graduate Student to Investigate Jefferson's Botanic Garden
U.Va. Today
Student discovered references to a botanic garden while researching Jefferson's years in France.
Posted 05/21/09

U.Va. Awards 10 Double 'Hoo Research Grants to Undergrad-Grad Duos
U.Va. Today
Projects will receive up to $5,000 to use toward research expenses.
Posted 05/13/09

Melanoma Vaccine Still in the Works at U.Va. Medical Center
WCAV CBS-19
U.Va. doctors are leading the way in trying to get a melanoma vaccine approved by the FDA.
Posted 05/13/09

U.Va. Inventors Contribute to Disease Treatment
WVTF Public Radio
Listen to a radio story about the U.Va. inventors of the year.
Posted 05/13/09

U.Va. Students Earn Array of Scholarships, Research Awards
U.Va. Today
U.Va. students earn impressive scholarships, fellowships and awards, many of them related to scientific and social research they conduct.
Posted 05/13/09

Rising Faculty Receive FEST Funding for Novel Research
FEST grants support highly innovative research projects in science, engineering, and medicine.
Posted 05/13/09

Brain Cancer Clinical Trials Conducted at U.Va. Health System Lead to FDA Accelerated Approval of Medication
U.Va. Health System
New treatment for agressive brain tumors.
Posted 05/06/09

Report: Virginia Will Face Complex Issues With Coming Increase in Elderly Population
U.Va. Today
Report urges targeting resources to elderly populations in greatest need.
Posted 05/06/09

U.Va. Demographers Predict Surge in Elementary School Enrollment
U.Va. Today
Projections by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service show large post-2000 birth cohorts in VA.
Posted 05/06/09

Hidden Riddle of Shapes Solved
Nature News
Mathematicians crack the Kervaire invariant problem.
Posted 05/06/09

MBAs vs. Entrepreneurs: Who Has the Right Stuff for Tough Times?
Harvard Business Publishing
Which group has the right stuff for seizing opportunities during the recession?
Posted 05/06/09

U.Va. to Lead New $11 Million Energy Research Center
Center's research could augment gasoline as a more environmentally friendly fuel.
Posted 05/06/09

Innovation, Re-invention Stressed as Way of the Future
U.Va. Today
VP for Research urges entrepreneurial innovation to move the University forward.
Posted 04/29/09

Bouncing Atoms May be the Key to the Future of Gravimetry
PhysOrg.com
Sackett believes that this breakthrough could also be applied in other fields.
Posted 04/29/09

Pacifiers No Barrier To Breastfeeding Success, Finds U.Va. School Of Medicine Researchers
U.Va. Health System
Research finds no adverse relationship between pacifier use and breastfeeding.
Posted 04/29/09

Morals Authority
Miller-McCune
Haidt has created a framework that codifies mankind's multiplicity of moralities.
Posted 04/29/09

Researcher Sheds Light on Why Students Don't Like School
Cognitive scientist argues that the mind is designed to avoid thinking.
Posted 04/29/09

U.Va. Patent Foundation Honors Mugler and Brookeman as 2009 Edlich-Henderson Inventors of the Year
U.Va. Today
Researchers honored for their groundbreaking work in magnetic resonance imaging techniques.
Posted 04/20/09

New U.Va. Discovery Raises Doubts About Use of Certain Targeted Therapies in Bladder Cancer
U.Va. Today
Study will likely influence bladder cancer treatment.
Posted 04/01/09

Graduate Student Research Highlighted at State Event
Six students represent U.Va. at research forum in Richmond.
Posted 04/20/09

U.Va. Student Thushara Gunda to Receive Udall Scholarship
U.Va. Today
Scholarship given in honor of the late Arizona congressman.
Posted 04/08/09

U.Va. Researchers Developing Novel Sensor Devices for the Elderly
U.Va. Today
U.Va.'s Institute on Aging teams University researchers with health care technology company.
Posted 04/20/09

University of Virginia Discovery Leads to Launch of New Product Family That Could Revolutionize How Men Worldwide Monitor Their Reproductive Status
U.Va. Health System
SpermCheck Products Exemplify the Promise and Value of Translational Research at U.Va. Health System
Posted 05/13/09

U.Va.'s New 'Bay Game' Launches on Earth Day
The U.Va. Bay Game was conceived, developed, and tested at the University of Virginia.
Posted 04/20/09

$30 Million Grant to Fund U.Va.-Led Worldwide Study
U.Va. Today
Collaborative research will include universities in the U.S. and institutions in the developing world.
Posted 04/08/09

U.Va. Duo Receives Davis Peace Project Grant
U.Va. Today
Students hope to educate and empower women.
Posted 04/08/09

U.Va.'s Deborah Lawrence Named a Fellow in Jefferson Science, Fulbright and Guggenheim Programs
U.Va. Today
Jefferson Science Fellows advise officials on science issues relating to current and emerging policy.
Posted 04/08/09

Venture Capital Meets University Research at U.Va. Venture Summit
U.Va. Today
Event brought together venture capitalists, U.Va. researchers, and entrepreneurs.
Posted 04/08/09

Structure More Effective in High School Science Classes, Study by U.Va.'s Tai and Harvard's Sadler Reveals
U.Va. Today
New study study appears in this month's International Journal of Science Education.
Posted 04/01/09

University of Virginia Holds Venture Summit
U.Va. Today
Two-day summit a forum for faculty to engage with venture capitalists.
Posted 04/01/09

U.Va. Undergraduates Receive Undergraduate Research Awards
U.Va. Today
Harrison Awards support independent-study research projects endorsed by a faculty mentor.
Posted 04/01/09

Unique Architecture Program Designs, Builds, Serves
Architecture program emphasizes humanitarian design principles.
Posted 03/24/09

U.Va. Develops Chesapeake Bay Sustainability Game
U.Va. simulation to focus on saving the Chesapeake Bay.
Posted 03/23/09

U.Va. Patent Foundation Leads Peers in Invention Disclosures, Licensing Deals
U.Va. Today
Survey results recently published as part of the AUTM annual U.S. licensing activity survey.
Posted 03/25/09

U.Va. Researchers Uncover Gene's Role in Severity of Drinking
U.Va. Today
Research could lead to treatment that reduces the intensity of drinking among alcoholics.
Posted 03/24/09

Doctoral Students Rewarded for Exceptional Performance
Fellowships support students in the sciences and engineering as well as the humanities and social sciences.
Posted 03/24/09

Exhibition Assists Graduate Students in Presenting Research
U.Va. Today
Research exhibit named after Professor Robert J. Huskey, strong graduate student advocate.
Posted 03/19/09

The Science & Art Project Presents 'The Art of Diagnosis' March 26
U.Va. Today
Event will include an exhibit, remarks, presentations, discussion and brainstorming.
Posted 03/19/09

U.Va. Researcher Targets Genes That Could Lead to Addiction Treatment Breakthroughs
U.Va. Today
Researchers have new insight into the genetics of addiction.
Posted 03/19/09

'Brain Decline' Begins at Age 27
BBC News
Seven-year study of 2,000 people aged 18-60 appears in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.
Posted 03/19/09

UVa-Designed Camera Lens Uses Retina as Window to Health Issues
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Camera lens that could improve health care in rural areas.
Posted 03/12/09

Stem Cell Policy Shift May Impact Research
NBC 29 News - Charlottesville
New executive order frees up federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Posted 03/12/09

Documents Compass' Digital-Age Scholarship Opens New Doors in Humanities Research
U.Va. Today
Nonprofit gives humanities researchers the tools they need to digitize their research.
Posted 03/12/09

Study Finds That Students Benefit From Depth, Rather Than Breadth, in High School Science Courses
U.Va. Today
Research evaluates the performance of thousands of college students.
Posted 03/12/09

University of Virginia Foundation Opens New Facility in Research Park
U.Va. Today
Town Center Three is the third of six structures planned for the research park.
Posted 03/12/09

U.Va. to lead New $10 Million Center for Hypersonic Propulsion
U.Va. Today
U.Va. one of three teams picked by NASA and the Air Force to head hypersonic research efforts.
Posted 03/12/09

Ambitious Undergraduate Research Breaks New Ground
VGEM team is working to institute synthetic biology as a vital research area at U.Va.
Posted 02/04/09

Geologist Studies Early Mars Conditions That May Have Been Conducive to Life
U.Va. Today
Research provides clues to how suitable Mars once was for life.
Posted 03/02/09

U.Va. Study Finds Teaching Quality Inadequate in Most U.S. First-Grade Classrooms
U.Va. Today
Study shows that class size and teacher credentials have little influence on classroom quality.
Posted 03/02/09

University of Virginia Health System Study Indicates New Protein May Hold Key to Energizing Cells, Reversing Neurodegenerative Diseases
U.Va. Health System
New findings may enable the repair and restoration of mitochondria.
Posted 03/02/09

U.Va. Study: Deregulation Led to Outsized Paychecks on Wall Street
U.Va. Today
Study offers two major lessons to the current discussion of changes to finance industry regulations.
Posted 03/02/09

New U.Va. Study Sheds Light on Foreclosures in States and Metropolitan Areas
U.Va. Today
Researchers find that claims that overall housing values have tanked nationwide are exaggerated.
Posted 03/02/09

U.Va. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Women Excel at Home and in the Lab
U.Va. Today
Female engineering professors model successful work/family life balance.
Posted 02/18/09

Molecular Motors in Cells Work Together, Study Shows
U.Va. Today
New finding could have implications for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.
Posted 02/18/09

U.Va. Health System Study Reveals Long-Lasting Airway Blockages, Even in Medicated Asthma Patients
U.Va. Health System
New technique has the potential to become an important research tool for scientists.

Gender Bias Found In Student Ratings Of High School Science Teachers
ScienceDaily
Insight into gender equity in science and math.
Posted 02/18/09

Ivy Foundation Gift Creates Biomedical Innovation Fund
Grants to support translational research projects.
Posted 02/18/09

University Researchers Test House Monitoring for Elderly
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Home monitoring system could help older adults live in their homes longer.
Posted 02/04/09

Architecture Prof John Quale Marries Green and Affordable in a Housing Revolution
C-Ville Weekly
John Quale and his students are working to design and build affordable, sustainable housing.
Posted 02/04/09

U.Va. Computer Scientist David Evans Wins Statewide Outstanding Faculty Award
U.Va. Today
Award recognizes superior accomplishments in teaching, research and public service.
Posted 02/04/09

U.Va. Professors Receive Grant to Boost Minority, Low-Income Students' Performance on AP Tests
U.Va. Today
Researchers will use $2.2 million grant to study performance of underrepresented students.
Posted 02/04/09

U.Va. Patent Foundation Licenses U.Va. Aneurysm Screening Technology to Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
U.Va. Today
Cost-effective, new screening tool could detect aneurysms earlier.
Posted 02/04/09

U.Va. Researchers' Genetic Discovery Could Lead to More Personalized Alcoholism Treatment Methods
U.Va. Today
New Health System research could explain why some alcoholics drink more than others.
Posted 02/04/09

U21 Collaboration Aims to Understand Pollution of Aquatic Ecosystems
U.Va. Today
International experts in water resources gather at U.Va. to develop research proposal.
Posted 01/29/09

Researcher Kimberly Kelly Receives $1.2 Million NCI Grant for Pancreatic Cancer Screening
U.Va. Health System
Biomedical engineer to create compound for pancreatic cancer screening.
Posted 01/29/09

In Finance, Wages are Due for a Fall
International Herald Tribune
New study by two economists shows that financial workers are overpaid, but not for long.
Posted 01/29/09

Students Design Product Prototypes for the Real World
U.Va. Today
Student research with live-saving potential.
Posted 01/29/09

University of Virginia Study Reveals the Dangers of Travel in Virginia
U.Va. Today
Study says cities are safer than suburbs and rural areas.
Posted 01/29/09

U.Va. Humanities Project Among Three to Benefit from Access to Federal Supercomputer Facilities
U.Va. Today
One-of-a-kind initiative gives humanities researchers access to supercomputers.
Posted 01/07/09

Helping Middle School Girls Find Their Own Way
Explorations
Curry School/Women's Center partnership supports leadership development for girls.
Posted 01/15/09

Computers Track the Elusive Metaphor
Chronicle of Higher Education
U.VA. English professor creates searchable literary database.
Posted 01/22/09

A Wallet-, Earth- Friendly home?
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Habitat for Humanity /ecoMOD partner to build sustainable, modular house.
Posted 01/22/09

Collaborative U.Va. Nanotech Projects Secure Seed Funds
Seed grants to encourage cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Posted 01/22/09

MIT Professor Angela Belcher to Talk Friday on Nature and Materials Science
U.Va. Today
MacArthur "Genius Award" recipient to talk at U.Va.
Posted 01/21/09

U.Va. Team Receives $1 Million Grant To Improve RFID Security
U.Va. Today
U.Va. research team will develop an encryption scheme for RFID chips that is low-cost.
Posted 01/14/09

University Presidents and Nobel Laureates Call on President-elect and Congress to Support Funding of Scientific Research and Innovation
Media Newswire
Scientists and universities urge Obama to boost the economy by investing in science.
Posted 01/14/09

Elephant Speak
The University of Virginia Magazine
What the 2004 tsunami can tell us about animal communications.
Posted 01/14/09

Visiting International Scholars Work with U.Va. Students on Research Ethics
U.Va. Today
21 U.Va. students worked with the visiting scholars to design international research projects.
Posted 01/14/09

U.Va. Researcher Says Primary Care Physicians Could Effectively Help Fill Shortage of Colonoscopists
U.Va. Health System
Some 90 million Americans are at risk for developing colorectal cancer.
Posted 01/14/09

SAIC Awards Five U.Va. Students Research Stipends Totaling $100,000
U.Va. Today
The SAIC Scholar Research Stipend awards are part of an ongoing alliance between SAIC and SEAS.
Posted 01/07/09

U.Va. Inventors Receive FDA Orphan Drug Approval for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
U.Va. Today
U.Va. researchers' treatment takes a revolutionary approach to the fight against cancer.
Posted 01/07/09

U.Va. Engineering Professor Wins Prestigious Award for Fiber Optics Work
U.Va. Today
Joe C. Campbell receives the highest honor given by the fiber optics industry.
Posted 01/07/09

Virginians Over 65 to Double, U.Va. Study Says
Charlottesville Daily Progress
State legislators requested briefing on graying of Virginians.
Posted 01/07/09

Husk Power for India
The New York Times
U.Va. student entrepreneurs bringing power to rural Indian villages.
Posted 01/07/09

Retired U.Va. Professor Receives Engineering's Top Prize
U.Va. Today
Elmer Gaden wins engineering equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Posted 01/07/09

NINES Project Enhances Tools for Digital Research in the Humanities
U.Va. Today
An electronic project at the University of Virginia — unique in the field of 19th-century studies — combines a scholarly organization devoted to British and American 19th-century studies with a software development group that assembles critical and editorial tools for digital scholarship. Put the two together, and they equal NINES, a sophisticated clearinghouse and search engine for digital scholarship.
Posted 12/17/08

U.Va. Science & Art Project Focuses on Collaboration
Launch event provided opportunities for artists and scientists to make connections.
Posted 12/17/08

The Under-the-Radar Route to Growth
Business Finance
Study of leaders in large, mature organizations with higher than average profit rates.
Posted 12/16/08

University of Virginia Engineers Working on Virtual Crash Dummy
DailyTech
Virtual dummy will be the most complex virtual human model ever created.
Posted 12/16/08

U.Va. to Probe Milky Way History in Sloan Digital Sky Survey III
U.Va. Today
APOGEE was selected as a Sloan-III project through a competitive proposal led by U.Va. astronomers.
Posted 12/16/08

Dr. Richard L. Guerrant Receives Walter Reed Medal from American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
U.Va. Today
Award recognizes Dr. Guerrant's distinguished accomplishments in the field of tropical medicine.
Posted 12/16/08

Lilly Endowment Grants $2.1 Million to U.Va.'s Project on Lived Theology
U.Va. Today
Including the new grant, Lilly has provided the project a total of $4.6 million covering 14 years.
Posted 12/16/08

Conference Considers How to Combat Climate Change Without Direct Taxation
U.Va. Today
The Miller Center will issue a conference report in the first quarter of 2009 as the Obama administration and the new Congress begin considering how to approach these issues.
Posted 12/16/08

U.Va. Hopes to Take Part in Near-Death Examination
Richmond Times Dispatch
Study will involve patients who go into cardiac-arrest and whose hearts stop and are artificially restarted.
Posted 12/03/08

Report Calls for Greater Examination of Strength, Resilience of African-American Youth
U.Va. Today
Report offers faculty and researchers a new way to review their work in diversity and equity.
Posted 12/03/08

Grant from Henry Luce Foundation to Establish STEM Fellowships
Fellowships to enhance female representation in STEM disciplines.
Posted 12/03/08

U.Va.’s Corrosion Research Center Receives International Award
Award honors sustained contributions to the field of corrosion science and engineering.
Posted 11/25/08

Major Breakthrough Transforms Field of Hormone Receptor Research
U.Va. Health System
UVA Discovery May Lead to Better Drugs for Diabetes, Other Diseases
Posted 11/25/08

UVA Researcher Boris Kovatchev, Ph.D., Receives International Award for Pioneering Work in Diabetes Technology
U.Va. Health System
Dr. Kovatchev honored for leadership, vision, and research in the application of science and engineering to fight diabetes.
Posted 11/25/08

As 'Black Friday' Looms, U.Va. Business Professor Puts in a Word for Thrift
U.Va. Today
Wilcox's book, "Whatever Happened to Thrift?: Why Americans Don't Save and What to Do About It," has drawn national attention in the wake of the economic downturn.
Posted 11/25/08

U.Va. Demographers Find Unequal Public School Funding Due to Triennial Census Inaccuracies
U.Va. Today
As much as $17 million may have been misallocated among the school divisions in 2007.
Posted 11/25/08

U.Va. Engineering Students Use Study to Tackle Student Binge Drinking
U.Va. Today
Student working to reduce binge drinking at the 2009 Foxfield Races.
Posted 11/19/08

U.Va. Researchers Put Close Watch on At-Risk Youth — and Local Budgets
U.Va. Today
Research findings may guide more cost-effective spending.
Posted 11/19/08

U.Va.'s Bankole Johnson Pioneers New Treatments for Alcoholism
Bankole Johnson's innovative, targeted treatments may aid alcohol recovery.
Posted 11/19/08

U.Va. Researchers Confirm Reliability of SpermCheck Kit
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Newly reported research consisted of a clinical trial and consumer study.
Posted 11/19/08

Dancers and Bill T. Jones Give Lincoln-Inspired Performance
U.Va. Today
Performance marks the end of the weeklong residency with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
Posted 11/19/08

Researchers Aim to Attract and Keep Women and Minority Students in Computer Science
U.Va. Today
$600,000 NSF grant to cultivate interest in computer science.
Posted 11/19/08

U.Va. Inventors Present Research Breakthroughs at Mid-Atlantic Innovation Showcase
U.Va. Today
Showcase spotlights regional innovation.
Posted 11/17/08

Microsizing Genetics Testing
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Podcast of James Landers discussing lab-on-a-chip technology.
Posted 11/13/08

Collaboration With Google Earth Puts U.Va.'s 'Rome Reborn' on the Internet
U.Va. Today
Launch of new initiative was announced in Rome at an event hosted by the mayor of Rome.
Posted 11/12/08

Bill T. Jones Discusses Struggles of Art at Inaugural Assembly for the Arts
U.Va. Today
Jones' project to commemorate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
Posted 11/12/08

UVA Researcher Daniel Gioeli, Ph.D., Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Study Role of Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer
U.Va. Health System
National Cancer Institute grant to further prostate cancer treatment.
Posted 11/12/08

Student-Teacher Relationships Key to Cooperative Classrooms
Study surveys suspended students and their teachers for insight into discipline.
Posted 11/12/08

Virginia Center for Computer Music Celebrates 20 Years with TechnoSonics Tour
U.Va. Today
The VCCM celebrates two decades of composing and creating music using computer technology.
Posted 11/12/08

U.Va. Engineering Professors Are Part of National Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals
U.Va. Today
Goal of NSF funded center to transform fossil-fuel-based chemical industry.
Posted 11/07/08

Seasonal Affective Disorder May Be Linked to Genetic Mutation, Study Suggests
U.Va. Today
Research findings could lead to improved testing for SAD.
Posted 11/06/08

Drug May Help Combat Frailty in Older Adults
Reuters
U.Va. Health System research featured in the latest issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
Posted 11/06/08

Enhancing Biomedical Imaging Through Sustainable Design
Fraser's new class of biomaterials could impact imaging techniques used in biomedical research.
Posted 11/06/08

Students and Faculty at Hereford Cultivate Food, Community
Residential College garden project aims to grow vegetables and relationships.
Posted 10/30/08

Undecided Voters May Already Have Decided, Study Suggests
U.Va. Today
Researchers have tested implicit preferences regarding this year's presidential candidates.
Posted 10/30/08

U.Va. Study: High-Intensity Exercise Best for Improving Body Composition
U.Va. Today
Study demonstrates that high-intensity exercise is necessary to reduce belly fat.
Posted 10/30/08

High-tech Faux Pancreas May Change Diabetics’ Lives
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Researchers testing a computerized method of regulating blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetics.
Posted 10/30/08

U.Va. and American Psychological Association Receive $1 Million NSF Grant
U.Va. Today
Research will look at the potential of specialized high schools to increase science research careers.
Posted 10/30/08

Cold Virus on Home Surfaces Transferable to Fingers
Reuters
Research shows that common household items can transfer cold virus.
Posted 10/30/08

U.Va. School of Nursing Researchers Offer Help for Children and Families after Domestic Homicide
U.Va. Today
School of Nursing researchers are seeking volunteers to test a new Web-based intervention.
Posted 10/23/08

Internationally Renowned Choreographer and Dancer Bill T. Jones to be in Residence at U.Va. Nov. 9-15
U.Va. Today
Jones has garnered an international reputation as one of the most innovative leaders in the performing arts world.
Posted 10/23/08

A New Approach to Curb College-Age Binge Drinking?
U.Va. Health System
Ongoing U.Va. Clinical Trial Testing Medication in 18- to 25-Year Olds
Posted 10/23/08

U.Va. Engineer Streamlining Complex Systems in High-risk Industries
TechJournal South
Stephanie Guerlain strives to improve human-system interfaces.
Posted 10/23/08

U.Va. Professors Get $2.2M to Develop STEM-Focused Curriculum
Project Parallax to develop student talent in STEM areas.
Posted 10/23/08

Consortium Hopes to Develop Treatment for Dry Eyes
U.Va. leads consortium focused on understanding lacritin.
Posted 10/14/08

Ralph Allen Honored by the American Chemical Society
Ralph Allen applies chemistry to real-world problems.
Posted 10/14/08

Board of Visitors Funds Initiatives That Will Set U.Va.'s Direction for Next Decade and Raise Its International Profile
U.Va. Today
University sets strategic directions for the University for the next decade and beyond.
Posted 10/10/08

U.Va. Inventors Work to Advance Cancer Treatment Discovery Through New Start-Up Company
U.Va. Today
New compounds could serve as effective treatments for patients with solid tumors.
Posted 10/10/08

Groundbreaking Discovery May Lead to Stronger Antibiotics
U.Va. Health System
U.Va. Researchers Establish Landmark Technique to Decode Proteins in Cells
Posted 10/10/08

New Research Center Will Free Chemistry from Earth's Bonds
U.Va. Today
Center to explore new types of chemical reactions that occur under the extreme conditions of space.
Posted 10/10/08

U.Va. Law School Launches Innocence Clinic
U.Va. Today
U.Va.'s innocence clinic to exonerate innocent people convicted in Virginia
Posted 10/02/08

Gel Lessens Burn Dressing Pain
ABC News
George Rodeheaver's product to make treating burns easier to take.
Posted 10/02/08

Scientists Study Out-of-Body Experiences
ABC News
25 Hospitals in the U.K. and U.S. Will Take Part in Study of Near-Death Experiences
Posted 10/02/08

Researchers Battle to Keep Moore's Law Alive
Wired News
Avik Ghosh and Mircea Stan are trying to solve the problem of laptop overheating.
Posted 10/02/08

Ammonia Synthesis: How a Single Patent Changed the World
U.Va. Today
James Galloway studies how nitrogen cycles endlessly through the environment.
Posted 10/01/08

U.Va. Economists Design Nation's First Carbon Auction
U.Va. Today
Auction options tested in U.Va.'s behavioral economics laboratory.
Posted 10/02/08

Conference to Explore Voting in Long-Term Care Facilities in Virginia
U.Va. Today
Institute on Aging conference goal to facilitate elder voting rights.
Posted 10/02/08

U.Va. Engineering Students Build Water-Purification System in South Africa
U.Va. Today
Davis Project for Peace award allowed students to build a sustainable filtration system using local materials.
Posted 09/25/08

U.Va.'s Center for Survey Research Still Asking Questions After 20 Years
U.Va. Today
The U.Va.'s Center for Survey Research celebrates its 20th anniversary this month
Posted 09/25/08

Landers Lab Micro-Sizes Genetics Testing
U.Va. Today
A review of Landers' research appears in the September 1 issue of Analytical Chemistry.
Posted 09/25/08

Community Event Prescribes Exercise for Successful Aging
U.Va., ACAC reach out to aging adults with lecture and exercise demonstrations.
Posted 09/25/08

U.Va. Engineering School Beefs Up Alliance with Major Science and Technology Firm to Support Programs, Research
U.Va. Today
SAIC partnership will support cyber-security speaker series and funding for student research.
Posted 09/25/08

Kathryn Laughon Named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar
U.Va. Today
Award supports Laughon's research to test a computerized safety planning aid for battered women.
Posted 09/18/08

Economics Professor Earns NSF Grant for Advertising Research
NSF funding will support research at the intersection of economics and marketing.
Posted 09/18/08

Curry School Announces New Research Lectureship Series
U.Va. Today
Series will expose students and faculty to the work of outstanding scholars from across the nation.
Posted 09/18/08

The Hartwell Foundation Again Names U.Va. a Top 10 Center for Biomedical Research
U.Va. Today
Honor based on factors such as the quality and scope of ongoing biomedical research.
Posted 09/18/08

Scholars' Lab Helps U.Va. Graduate Students Expand Their Research
U.Va. Today
Yearlong fellowships support the use of technology in research.
Posted 09/18/08

Road Trip: Professor's Book on Bus Travel Reveals Portrait of America
U.Va. Today
Kath Weston's bus journey was full of unexpected richness.
Posted 09/18/08

University of Virginia Professor Glen Bull a Leader in Promoting Educational Technology
U.Va. Today
Glen Bull believes that web-based media technologies improve student learning.
Posted 09/18/08

U.Va. Engineer Rob Kelly Contributes to Design of Pentagon Memorial
U.Va. Today
Rob Kelly's extensive knowledge of the properties of metals assists designers of the 9/11 memorial.
Posted 09/10/08

U.Va. Study Reveals Promising Results
WVIR NBC-29
New treatment may be the key to preventing bacteria from developing resistance to the drugs.
Posted 09/10/08

U.Va. Physicists Participate in Large Hadron Collider Project
U.Va. Today
Brad Cox has been involved with the planning and instrument design for the LHC since its inception in 1993.
Posted 09/10/08

Acupuncture Clinical Trial a Boon for Women Experiencing Fertility Challenges
U.Va. Today
Researcher Lisa Pastore is studying how acupuncture may help women with PCOS.
Posted 09/10/08

University of Virginia Study Reveals Promising Method for Reducing MRSA Infections in Hospital Intensive Care Units
U.Va. Today
U.Va. study is the first to assess the impact of antibiotic cycling on a group of bacteria known as gram-positive cocci.
Posted 09/10/08

U.Va. Neuroscientist Receives $1.4M Grant
U.Va. Today
Jeremy Tuttle will evaluate whether new drugs pose risk to dementia and Alzheimer's disease patients.
Posted 09/10/08

Research by James Landers and Colleagues Featured in Analytical Chemistry
Microfluidic device research promises faster DNA processing.
Posted 09/03/08

Preschool Matters, Says U.Va. Curry School Dean Robert Pianta
U.Va. Today
Robert Pianta emphasizes the importance of good, affordable preschool programs.
Posted 09/03/08

Curry Professor Releases New Book on Urban Teen Identity
Nancy Deutsch's research can inform after-school programs.
Posted 09/03/08

Four U.Va. Melanoma Experts Secure $1.25 Million in Internationally Competitive Research Awards
U.Va. Health System
U.Va. Health System researchers secured nearly one fourth of all awards given internationally by the Melanoma Research Alliance.
Posted 08/27/08

Aging Ultrasound Machine Finds New Life Scanning Furry, Feathered Patients at Wildlife Center
U.Va. Today
Injured and orphaned wildlife to benefit from U.Va. donation.
Posted 08/27/08

Curry School's Berch Discusses Mathematical Learning
U.Va. Today
Berch one of two members of a national mathematics advisory panel, appointed by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Ray Simon.
Posted 08/27/08

Physicist Bob Hirosky Searches for the "Heart of Matter"
U.Va. Today
Research could lead to new interpretations of the forces of nature and possibly to an understanding of dark matter.
Posted 08/27/08

Beyond Diversity: How Companies Can Leverage Difference
Martin Davidson proposes a new model for diversity in the workplace.
Posted 08/27/08

University of Virginia Demographers Help Corrections Agency Assess Local Workforce
U.Va. Today
Demographers assessed the current and future workforce supply for current and future correctional facilities.
Posted 08/20/08

New Study Shows Reductions in Serious Alcohol-Related Consequences Among College Students
AScribe
Study suggests that campus alcohol and drug prevention works.
Posted 08/20/08

Light Receptors in Eye Play Key Role in Setting Biological Clock, Study Shows
ScienceDaily
Light receptor cells in the eye central to setting brain rhythms.
Posted 08/20/08

Dennis Proffitt Helps 'Locked-In' Artist Create With Technology
U.Va. Today
U.Va. psychology professor specializes in working with emerging technologies to create interfaces with the mind
Posted 08/20/08

Study Confirms Folklore Legend
ABC News
Microsoft: Instant Messengers Connected by Less Than Seven People
Posted 08/05/08

Athletes in the Zone May See the World Differently
ABC News
A Hole May Appear Bigger Than It Really Is to Golf Star Tiger Woods
Posted 08/05/08

Clinical Data Acquires Adenosine Therapeutics
Business Wire
U.Va. start-upsold to global biotechnology company.
Posted 08/05/08

Seed Grants Propel Big Ideas in Alternative Energy
U.Va. Today
Four interdisciplinary research teams have received seed grants from U.Va. to develop alternative energy technologies.
Posted 08/05/08

How Some Seatbelts Can Do More Harm
driving.ca
Research seeks to improve car seats.
Posted 07/30/08

Nanoparticles and Light Combo Offers New Way to Kill Tumour Cells
newwindpress.com
New potential cancer therapy employs quantum dots.
Posted 07/30/08

23 University of Virginia Students Receive Virginia Space Grant Consortium Scholarships
U.Va. Today
Scholarships to promote quality research and relating to NASA’s mission.
Posted 07/30/08

FEST Award Recipient Unravels Mysteries of Brain Development
Noelle Dwyer studies the brain at both the cellular and systemic levels.
Posted 07/30/08

U.Va. Cancer Researcher First in Nation to Receive Premiere Research Grant from Bone and Cancer Foundation
U.Va. Today
Pierrick G. Fournier studies the interactions between cancer cells in bone metastases and the immune system.
Posted 07/24/08

Institute on Aging Conducts Long-Term Cognition Study
U.Va. Today
Researchers with U.Va.'s Cognitive Aging Laboratory study age-related changes in cognition.
Posted 07/24/08

U.Va. Awards $10 Million to Study Smoking-Related Diseases
U.Va. Today
Nine U.Va. researchers have been awarded a total of $10 million to study diseases associated with smoking.
Posted 07/24/08

U.Va. Scientist Stuart S. Berr, Ph.D., Awarded $2 Million Grant From the NIH
U.Va. Today
Grant will allow the purchase of a cyclotron to expand imaging research at U.Va.
Posted 07/16/08

Curry School Launches New Internship Program
U.Va. Today
Program to increase number of education researchers from dverse backgrounds
Posted 07/16/08

Mechatronics Rocks
U.Va. Today
Mechantronics class engages engineering students in creative, hands-on learning.
Posted 07/16/08

Summer Course Aims to be Remembered
U.Va. Today
Graduate student Mandy Hedge
Posted 07/16/08

Engineering Professor Conducts Explorations on the Nanoscale
U.Va. Today
Petra Reinke seeks to engineer materials so that they behave predictably at the nanoscale.
Posted 07/16/08

Dr. John C. Marshall Honored for Influential Endocrinology Research
Dr. John C. Marshall recognized for clinical research in reproductive biology.
Posted 07/16/08

In Search of Growth Leaders
Wall Street Journal
Most companies have managers who can turbocharge results. The trick is finding--and nurturing--them.
Posted 07/10/08

Lit Scholar Takes on Cartman, Bart, and Captain Kirk
C-Ville Weekly
Paul Cantor seriously watches television.
Posted 07/10/08

Glaucoma Treatment
The Washington Post
Glaucoma doesn't necessarily have to end in blindness, two new studies suggest.
Posted 07/10/08

Body Position Affects BP, Study Says
Nurse.com
Blood pressure readings differ for those seated in a chair, on an exam table.
Posted 07/10/08

FEST Research May Provide Key Clues to Kidney Development
Jing Yu explores renal physiology through the kidney’s molecular beginnings.
Posted 07/10/08

U.Va. Physicist Wins International Award for Novel MRI Technique to Identify Microstructural Changes in Asthma
Medical News from U.Va.
Novel MRI technique that identifies microscopic structural damages deep in the lungs of asthmatics.
Posted 07/02/08

'Patch' Has Potential to Monitor Patient Health Securely
U.Va. Today
Wearable device could continuously monitor vital signs, help physicians make more accurate diagnoses.
Posted 06/25/08

Graduate Research Program Targets Water Resources in Areas of Critical National Need
U.Va. Today
Five U.Va. engineering graduate students are fellows in Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need program.
Posted 07/02/08

New Technology Helps Engineers Expand Their Reach and Their Right Brain Skills
U.Va. Today
Engineering classes utilize Web 2.0 technology for teaching.
Posted 07/02/08

Darden Professor's Advice: Save Stimulus Check
U.Va. Today
Ron Wilcox disagrees with the approach the government has taken to encourage personal spending.
Posted 06/25/08

U.Va Environmental Scientists Conduct Research, Outreach on Eastern Shore
U.Va. Today
Work is part of the NSF's Long-Term Ecological Research program.
Posted 06/25/08

Book and Exhibit by Jeffrey Plank Shed Light on Architect Louis Sullivan and Architectural Photography
U.Va. Today
Projects offer a unique, visual perspective of the work of architect Louis Sullivan.
Posted 06/25/08

Team Teaching from a Distance Works for Emerging Nanotechnology Field
U.Va. Today
U.Va. and Virginia Tech professors collaborate on distance-teaching course.
Posted 06/25/08

Political Scientist Traces the Origins of Modern Crime Policy
Research draws connections between Civil Rights Era and punitive federal crime policy.
Posted 06/25/08

A Pill to Cure Alcoholism?
US News and World Report
A new treatment may offer hope to millions of people battling alcohol addiction
Posted 06/18/08

DeKosky Appointed Dean of University of Virginia School of Medicine
U.Va. Today
Dr. Steven T. DeKosky, M.D., an international leader in the field of Alzheimer's disease research, will become vice president and dean of the University of Virginia's School of Medicine on Aug. 1.
Posted 06/18/08

Thomas Skalak Named Vice President for Research
U.Va. Today
Skalak will be charged with "establishing the University as a leading competitor in science and technology."
Posted 06/18/08

U.Va. Engineers Develop Novel Device to Help Treat Ear Infections
U.Va. Today
The new tool is currently in clinical trials and has shown promising results.
Posted 06/18/08

Dr. Benjamin W. Purow Receives Early Career Physician-Scientist Award from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Medical News from U.Va.
Purow will use the $375,000 award to study glioma, the most common and lethal brain tumor.
Posted 06/11/08

Chemist Devises Technique to Measure Shape-Shifting Molecules
Brooks Pate and his colleagues bring microwave spectroscopy into the Digital Age.
Posted 06/11/08

University of Virginia-Led Research Team Makes Pivotal Breakthrough in Alcohol Addiction Treatment
U.Va. Today
Epilepsy drug found to not only decrease binge drinking, but improve health.
Posted 06/10/08

Harvesting the Seeds in Hopes of a Sea Grass Revival
The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot
U.Va. part of team of volunteers trying to restore sea grass to the Eastern Shore.
Posted 06/09/08

U.Va.'s Darden School and School of Architecture Share Grant for Food-System Research
Darden School of Business News
Grant from JABA and the U.Va. Institute on Aging to fund student research this summer.
Posted 06/09/08

U.Va. Neurologists Participating in New Initiative to Improve Stroke Care in Rural Communities
U.Va. Today
New initiative is testing the effectiveness of robotic technology in helping experts assess stroke patients without being on-site with them.
Posted 06/09/08

Sad Children Out-perform Happy Children in Attention-to-detail Tasks
ScienceDaily
New study suggests that happy children may not be the best learners.
Posted 06/05/08

Scientists Reveal How Red Wine Kills Cancer Cells
Hindustan Times
One glasses of wine three or four times a week blocks protein from feeding cancer cells.
Posted 06/05/08

For Stephen Macko a Strand of Hair Can Be Surprisingly Revealing
The University of Virginia Magazine
Macko uses isotopic hair analysis to answer contemporary and historical questions.
Posted 06/05/08

U.Va. Professor Robert Tai Wins Education Research Award for Work in Tracing the Complex Pathway from Student to Scientist
U.Va. Today
Robert Tai's research hooks students on science.
Posted 05/28/08

Astrophysicist Will Use FEST Award to Model Extrasolar Planets
Phil Arras will build theoretical models of hot Jupiters.
Posted 05/28/08

New Pre-K Curriculum Will Provide High Returns on the Dollar
U.Va. Today
Kinzie and Pianta net $1.7 million grant to produce better pre-K math and science curriculum.
Posted 05/21/08

U.Va. Archaeologist Anastasia Dakouri-Hild Receives Fellowship to Study the Ancient City of Thebes in Greece
U.Va. Today
ACLS fellowship will afford Dakouri-Hild the time to complete the first volume of her book.
Posted 05/21/08

A Bihar Village Plays Incubator for a Prized Virginia Idea
The Indian Express
Husk Power Systems, conceived by two engineering graduates, generates power from rice husks.
Posted 05/21/08

U.Va. Scientist Hot on the Trail of Dangerous Pathogens
U.Va. Today
Jason Papin's research may help soldiers in Middle East, reduce hospital infections.
Posted 05/21/08

U.Va. Patent Foundation Celebrates 75 University Inventors
U.Va. Today
The U.Va. Patent Foundation holds special ceremony to honor University inventors.
Posted 05/21/08

Unique Course Allows Students to Explore Creativity in Spanish
U.Va. students study creative writing with top Latin American and Spanish authors.
Posted 05/21/08

Area Jail Exploring its Alternatives to Expensive Expansion
Charlottesville Daily Progress
U.Va. engineering students recommend changes to local criminal justice practices.
Posted 05/19/08

Dead Water: Too Much Nitrogen Being Washed into the Sea is Causing Dead Zones to Spread Alarmingly
The Economist
The release of reactive nitrogen into the environment has a “cascade” effect, according to research by James Galloway.
Posted 05/19/08

The Popularity Gap
Newsweek
A new study reveals that for teens, it's not whether you're really popular. It's whether you think you are.
Posted 05/19/08

U.Va. Law Graduate Flatley Earns Fellowships to Study HIV/AIDS in Guatemala
U.Va. Today
Kate Flatley will study HIV/AIDS among Guatemala's migrant coffee worker population.
Posted 05/14/08

Nursing Study Confirms that Regular Updates Are Good Medicine for Family Members During a Relative's Surgery
U.Va. Today
U.Va. nursing research group found that a quick phone call can decrease family anxiety and increase patient satisfaction.
Posted 05/14/08

Class of 2008 Profile: Required Course Led to New Perspective for Nursing Ph.D. Student Francie Bernier
U.Va. Today
Bernier's research for her nursing history research began with a box of photos.
Posted 05/14/08

FEST Award Promotes Innovative Nanoelectronics Research
Avik Ghosh's research explores the promise of graphene nanoribbons.
Posted 05/14/08

Hi-tech Approach to Language Development
China Daily
Software developed by U.Va. alumnus Tashi Tsering is bridging the divide between different Tibetan language input software.
Posted 05/06/08

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.
Posted 05/06/08

U.Va. Researcher Receives Hartwell Award for Work on Pediatric Brain Tumors
U.Va. Today
Richard Price is the first U.Va. scientist to receive a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award.
Posted 05/06/08

U.Va. Research Aims to Optimize Traffic Light Timing to Reduce Gas Consumption and Emissions
U.Va. Today
Traffic lights have implications beyond streamlining traffic flow.
Posted 05/06/08

George T. Rodeheaver Named 2008 Inventor of the Year
U.Va. Today
U.Va. professor honored for wound-healing technology developments.
Posted 05/06/08

U.Va. Graduate Students Secure Esteemed NSF Fellowships
Justin Henriques, David Hondula, and Isabelle Stanton receive research funding.
Posted 05/06/08

FEST Funding Supports Cutting Edge Junior Faculty Research
Four rising faculty members win seed money for their research.
Posted 05/06/08

University of Virginia's Daniel Pitti Appointed to National Archives and Record Administration
U.Va. Today
Advisory Committee to address challenges to the preservation of the records of the U.S. Government.
Posted 04/30/08

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.
Posted 04/30/08

NIA Grant to Further Novel Research Methods Training
Innovative methods used to map the cognitive behavioral changes that occur with age.
Posted 04/30/08

University of Virginia Physician-Researcher Helping Soldiers as Part of the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine
U.Va. Today
Dr. Adam Katz will study the use of fat grafting to improve the healing of wounds and severe burns and to minimize their associated scarring.
Posted 04/23/08

Gregory Gerling: Working with Feeling
U.Va. Today
Engineering professor is interested in the neural and mechanical mechanisms underlying touch.
Posted 04/23/08

University of Virginia Patent Foundation Licenses Silver Nanoparticle Technology to U.Va. Start-Up PluroGen Therapeutics Inc.
U.Va. Today
Enhanced anti-microbial agent fights infection and promotes wound-healing.
Posted 04/23/08

New Book Reveals Entrepreneurial Thought Process
Saras Sarasvathy analyzes the logic of leading entrepreneurs.
Posted 04/23/08

NEH Awards Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to Virginia Center for Digital History to Develop 'Jefferson's Travels HistoryBrowser'
U.Va. Today
NEH grant to fund development of an interactive, Web-based platform for the visualization and dynamic manipulation of historical information.
Posted 04/22/08

'Homegrown' Engineering Researcher at University of Virginia Lands Prestigious Truman Fellowship
U.Va. Today
Fellowship will give U.Va. postdoctoral researcher Patrick Hopkins the chance to work with some of the nation's best scientists and engineers.
Posted 04/18/08

Combining Liver Cancer Treatments Doubles Survival Rates According to Researchers at U.Va.
U.Va. Health System
U.Va. physicians combine treatments, increase cholangiocarcinoma survival rates.
Posted 04/18/08

University of Virginia Computer Science Professors Receive National Science Foundation CAREER Awards
U.Va. Today
Kim Hazelwood and Jason Lawrence recently won NSF CAREER Awards, recognizing their promising research and teaching.
Posted 04/16/08

Muscular Modeling Sheds Light on Common Injuries
E-News Online
Silvia Salinas Blemker builds computational models of muscle.
Posted 04/16/08

University of Virginia, Norton City Public Schools Team to Win $1 Million Federal Grant to Enhance Teaching of American History
U.Va. Today
Grant will enhance the teaching and learning of American history in Southwest Virginia.
Posted 04/10/08

University of Virginia Health System Breaking Ground April 12 for $74 Million Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center
U.Va. Today
New Cancer Center will be both technically advanced and designed for compassionate care.
Posted 04/10/08

Flowers' Fragrance Diminished by Air Pollution, University of Virginia Study Indicates
U.Va. Today
Air pollution is destroying the fragrance of flowers and thereby inhibiting the ability of pollinating insects to follow scent trails to their source.
Posted 04/10/08

University of Virginia Faculty Senate Awards $25,000 Dissertation-Year Fellowships to Six Graduate Students
U.Va. Today
Six U.Va. graduate students have each received a $25,000 dissertation-year fellowship to help them in their last year of doctoral work.
Posted 04/10/08

Vanessa Ochs Explores the Evolution of Jewish Ritual
Religious Studies professor studies new Jewish rituals and the material culture linked to them.
Posted 04/10/08

University of Virginia Environmental Thought and Practice Majors Travel to Panama As Part of New Panama Initiative
U.Va. Today
For nine University of Virginia Environmental Thought and Practice students, spring break this semester did not include a break from their studies. Instead, it provided an opportunity to further explore their major by observing sustainable development efforts under way in Panama.
Posted 04/02/08

Two U.Va. Students Selected as Davis Peace Winners
U.Va. Today
A water purification system designed by two University of Virginia students has been selected as one of the 100 "Projects for Peace" to be funded by centenarian philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis.
Posted 04/02/08

Fragrant Flowers Being Destroyed by Pollution
Telegraph.co.uk
New study by U.Va.'s Jose Fuentes suggests that pollution is destroying plants' natural perfume.
Posted 04/02/08

University of Virginia Study Links Gene With Nicotine Dependence in Two Major Ethnic Groups
U.Va. Today
University of Virginia Health System researchers have identified a gene associated with nicotine dependence in both European and African Americans. Their research adds vital new evidence to a previous study linking the neurexin 1 gene (NRXN1) with nicotine dependence.
Posted 04/02/08

The Office of Naval Research Awards Hilary Bart-Smith $6.5M
U.Va. Today
Hilary Bart-Smith was awarded a highly competitive Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Program grant. The grant will lay the groundwork for the possible eventual creation of an autonomous underwater vehicle that would mimic the graceful motions of a manta ray.
Posted 04/02/08

State Fund Backs U.Va. Research with Commercial Potential
U.Va. Today
John Herr and Stuart Wolf receive funding from the Commonwealth Technology Research Fund.
Posted 04/02/08

Musical Frankensteins: When a Robot Makes Music, What Does it Sound Like?
The University of Virginia Magazine's e-newsletter
Three doctoral students in U.Va.’s composition and computer technologies program created an avant-garde music robot.
Posted 03/28/08

Tyler Environmental Prize Goes to U.Va.'s James Galloway
U.Va. Today
The Tyler Prize is the premier award for environmental science, energy and environmental health, and widely considered as the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in those fields.
Posted 03/27/08

Curry School of Education Professors Release First Findings of Virginia High School Safety Study
U.Va. Today
New U.Va. research finds that conditions in Virginia high schools are generally safe and that serious acts of violence are rare.
Posted 03/26/08

Sociologist Examines the Commodification of Childhood
Allison Pugh studies how families deal with the increasing demands of a consumer culture.
Posted 03/26/08

U.Va. Researcher Finds Urban Sprawl May Be Deadly for Teen Drivers
U.Va. Today
Study finds that sprawl results in more miles driven by teens, who have a higher rate of fatalities per miles driven than adults.
Posted 03/26/08

Fund Established to Support Biomedical Innovation and Research at U.Va.
U.Va. Today
New funding will promote biomedical translational research.
Posted 03/26/08

U.Va.'s Curry School of Education Taps Dan Berch as Inaugural Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
U.Va. Today
New position will enhance Curry's research activities.
Posted 03/26/08

Research: Local Produce Saves Energy in Huge Way
Daily Progress
U.Va. student studies Charlottesville City Market energy consumption.
Posted 03/26/08

Sloan Fellowship Will Further U.Va. Astronomer Philip Arras's Research on Giant Planets Beyond Our Solar System
U.Va. Today
Philip Arras, assistant professor of astronomy, won a 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, which includes a two-year $50,000 grant.
Posted 03/19/08

U.Va. Researchers Say Removing Gear of Injured Players Harmful
Daily Progress
New research suggests that removing protective gear could worsen injuries in young football players.
Posted 03/19/08

New Study Sheds Light on Why Patients in Some States Have More Allergic Reactions to Widely-Used Cancer Drug
U.Va. Today
Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills and colleagues find clues to suggest that geography may influence allergic reactions.
Posted 03/19/08

U.Va.'s Wladek Minor is Putting Proteins on the Molecular Map
U.Va. Patent Foundation 2007 Annual Report
Wladek Minor's inventive software has dramatically transformed the field of protein crystallography.
Posted 03/19/08

Adolescent Girls with ADHD Are at Increased Risk for Eating Disorders, Study Shows
U.Va. Today
University of Virginia psychologist Amori Yee Mikami
Posted 03/19/08

U.Va. Engineering School Professor Receives 'Outstanding Academic Title' Distinction for Book
U.Va. Today
Joanne Cohoon contributed to and co-edited book on the declining participation of women in computer science since the late 1980s.
Posted 03/14/08

Analyze This: U.Va.'s Stephen Macko Checks Out Diane Sawyer's Hair
U.Va. Today
Environmental sciences professor slated to be an “on-air” science consultant for "Good Morning America."
Posted 03/12/08

'Learning Barge' Earns U.Va. Architecture Professor Phoebe Crisman a Major Award from the American Institute of Architects
U.Va. Today
The vessel, a collaborative research, design and fabrication initiative from U.Va., incorporates research and sustainable design principles to promote environmental education.
Posted 03/12/08

Community as Classroom: Urban Studies and Service Learning in Cape Coast Ghana
U.Va. Today
Multidisciplinary group of students works together on community-based research projects.
Posted 03/12/08

Curry Professor Strives to Make Math More Relevant to Students
Robert Berry's curriculum aims to make math education socially and culturally relevant for all students.
Posted 03/12/08

U.Va. Professor Della Coletta's Book Seeks to Give Italian World's Fairs Their Due
U.Va. Today
In the grand showcase that is the World's Fair, Italy was never considered as important a host as countries like France and Great Britain, according to Della Coletta.
Posted 03/12/08

U.Va. Researcher's Sperm-Check Home Test Receives FDA OK
U.Va. Today
New device lets men test their post vasectomy fertility status at home.
Posted 03/05/08

On Thin Ice in the Arctic
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Two researchers from U.Va. warn of what global warming could mean to animals.
Posted 03/05/08

Recurrent Brain Cancer Responds to New Treatment
U.Va. Health System
U.Va. research shows promise in fighting the most common form of primary brain cancer.
Posted 03/05/08

U.Va.'s First Emergency Stent-Graft Procedure Saves Life of Waynesboro Resident
U.Va. Today
James Taylor received U.Va.'s first-ever emergency stent graft for an abdominal aortic aneurysm earlier this month.
Posted 03/05/08

Snake-fright? Study Suggests Reptiles Elicit Natural Phobia
Daily Progress
U.Va. researchers have found that humans have a genetic predisposition to fear snakes.
Posted 03/05/08

Institute on Aging Sponsors Technology Presentation to U.S. Senate
U.Va. Today
U.Va. researchers working to address problems of aging through technology.
Posted 02/27/08

U.Va. Study Finds Hispanic Population Varied and Growing
U.Va. Today
New Weldon Cooper Center study shows a tripling of the Hispanic population in Virginia between 1990 and 2006.
Posted 02/27/08

Statewide Forum Showcases Graduate Student Research
U.Va. graduate students present their research to legislators, government officials, and the public.
Posted 02/27/08

Group Demonstrates Security Hole in World's Most Popular Smartcard
U.Va. Today
U.Va. student Karsten Nohl and colleagues break encryption in widely used security chip.
Posted 02/27/08

Commerce Professor Reveals Hidden Workplace Networks
Rob Cross studies the informal networks people form in order to get their work done.
Posted 02/27/08

U.Va. Professor Leading Endeavor to Make Dietary Staple Tougher
Daily Progress
A University of Virginia researcher is at the forefront of a global endeavor to genetically engineer a better black-eyed pea.
Posted 02/20/08

University of Virginia's James Galloway Named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
U.Va. Today
Environmental sciences professor's research is in the area of biogeochemistry.
Posted 02/20/08

U.Va.’s Nanotechnology Institute Represented at Statewide Event
U.Va.'s nanoSTAR presents at Nanotechnology Day at the General Assembly.
Posted 02/18/08

Chemist and Microbiologist Honored with Distinguished Scientist Award
Lester Andrews and Ian Macara are acknowledged for their extensive contributions.
Posted 02/18/08

Changing Our Clocks: New Research Explores How Our Bodies Keep Time
ScienceDaily
Recent findings from U.Va. suggest that circadian rhythms are intricately tied to weight gain.
Posted 02/13/08

U.Va. Scholar Traces Voting Technology Controversy to the 1890s
U.Va. Today
Bryan Pfaffenberger studies the history of voting machines.
Posted 02/13/08

U.Va. to Host Public Workshop Feb. 21-22 on Global, National and Local Issues of Health and Sustainability
U.Va. Today
The multidisciplinary workshop will explore linkages between sustainability and community health in Charlottesville.
Posted 02/13/08

U.Va.'s Hudson Elected to National Academy of Engineering
U.Va. Today
University of Virginia engineering professor John Hudson was named to the National Academy of Engineering on Feb. 8.
Posted 02/13/08

Stuart Wolf Named New Leader of U.Va.'s Nanotechnology Efforts
Nanotechnology institute has new director, new focus.
Posted 02/13/08

Landers receives ALA Innovation Award at LabAutomation2008
U.Va. professor receives Innovation Award from the Association for Laboratory Automation
Posted 02/07/08

Students Take on a Community Goal: Help Charlottesville Become America's Healthiest City
U.Va. Today
Architecture students help Charlottesville define strategies for a healthier future.
Posted 02/06/08

Doctoral Students Earn ‘Excellence in Scholarship’ Awards
Students receive fellowships from U.Va. based on their original scholarship and academic merit.
Posted 02/06/08

Myth and Memory: Maurie McInnis Mines Material Culture
U.Va. Today
McInnis' new exhibition focuses on themes of race, slavery and the plantation from the 19th century to today.
Posted 02/06/08

U.Va. Researcher Probes ADHD's Effects on Safety of Young Drivers
U.Va. Today
Daniel Cox and his colleagues to monitor and analyze driving of young adults with ADHD.
Posted 02/06/08

Becoming Dr. Rock
C-Ville Weekly
Grad student seriously studies local music

U.Va. Engineering School Student Probes Facebook's Vulnerabilities
U.Va. Today
Facebook users should be concerned about security.
Posted 01/30/08

Woodson Fellows Give Talks This Spring
U.Va. Today
Offering topics as varied as the lives of diamond miners and the meanings of drum songs, residential fellows at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies will present their research in three separate talks this spring, beginning January 30.
Posted 01/30/08

Metro Area Gains, Rural Counties Lose Population, U.Va. Cooper Center Study Finds
U.Va. Today
Virginia increasingly becoming an urban state.
Posted 01/30/08

U.Va. Professor Asserts HIV/AIDS Epidemic Has Reached ‘State of Emergency' Among African Americans
U.Va. Today
Dr. Cato Laurencin leads study on the status of HIV/AIDS among African Americans.
Posted 01/30/08

Two at U.Va. -- An Innovative Engineering Professor and a Pioneering Neonatologist -- Receive State Outstanding Faculty Award
U.Va. Today
Edward Berger and Dr. John Kattwinkel were named recipients of the 2008 Outstanding Faculty Award, administered by the SCHEV.
Posted 01/30/08

Students Advance Synthetic Biology Research at U.Va.
Undergraduates form a team to study the emerging discipline of synthetic biology.
Posted 01/30/08

U.Va. Health System Researchers Unravel Mystery of Cell Division
Research may have implications for controlling cancer cells.
Posted 01/24/08

New Book Finds Surprising Positive Effects of Political Advertising
U.Va. Today
U.Va. professor finds that political ads help to educate and engage citizens.
Posted 01/24/08

In Quest for Medical Insight, U.Va. Biomedical Engineers Develop Novel Research Method
E-News Online
New method could forever change the way scientists think about drugs and medical therapies.
Posted 01/23/08

Making a Smarter Crash Test Dummy
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Researchers simulate a child abdomen for crash testing.
Posted 01/23/08

School of Engineering and Applied Science Receives $1.3 Million to Explore Nano Microelectronics
U.Va. Today
Interdisciplinary team to investigate the modification of electrical properties by adding molecules to silicon semiconductor surfaces.
Posted 01/23/08

Architects Defy Convention with Experimental Designs
Nataly Gattegno and Jason Johnson are pushing architectural bounds.
Posted 01/18/08

U.Va. Health System Identifies A Way to Control Parasite That Kills and Eats Human Cells
U.Va. researchers are helping to stop one of the world’s most voracious parasites.
Posted 01/17/08

Weldon Cooper Center Releases Study on Cemeteries
U.Va. Today
Study recommmends new Nelson County veteran's cemetery.
Posted 01/16/08

Visions of a Brave New Washington
The Washington Post
U.Va. School of Architecture faculty collaborative compete in History Channel design competition.
Posted 01/16/08

Sexual Conflict Resolution? Mating Frequency And Fitness In Fruit Flies
ScienceDaily
New U.Va. research suggests that frequent mating females receive fitness benefits from an unexpected source: their daughters.
Posted 01/09/08

Would You Vote for this (Black) Man?
C-Ville Weekly
UVA prof explores political implications of skin color.
Posted 01/09/08

U.Va. Environmental Sciences Professor Stephen Macko 'Stars' in Film, 'King Corn'
U.Va. Today
Documentary features Stephen Macko and his stable isotope lab at U.Va.
Posted 01/09/08

Neurochemist Receives Young Investigator Award from Eli Lilly
Jill Venton's research could lead to new medications for neurological diseases and injuries.
Posted 01/09/08

U.Va.'s Cato Laurencin Named to the 2007 Scientific American 50
Laurencin recognized for his groundbreaking technology for regeneration of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) using a bioengineered matrix.
Posted 01/02/08

McIntire Professor David C. Smith Awarded Grant from Norwegian Research Council
U.Va. Today
Smith and Colleague to Study “Corporate Governance in a Free Contracting Environment.”
Posted 01/02/08

Female Testosterone Drug Being Tested
U.S. News & World Report
U.Va. and 99 other medical research facilities are testing a new drug that could help women who have lost interest in sex.
Posted 01/02/08

Power Of Pictures
The Post-Journal
Photograph Books Play Key Role In Baby’s Development
Posted 01/02/08

Study Demonstrates the Healing Value of Magnets
U.Va. study shows magnets can reduce swelling when applied after an inflammatory injury.
Posted 01/02/08

High Blood Sugar Hurts Thinking
Online-International News Network
High blood sugar levels can hamper thinking, new U.Va. research shows.
Posted 12/28/07

In Search of the 'God Particle'
The Daily Progress
U.Va. researchers' main goal: Unlock universe's mysteries.
Posted 12/28/07

Do Women Work Harder than Men?
The Daily Progress
U.Va. research explores this question.
Posted 12/28/07

Deforestation Hits Nutrient Cycle
BBC News
The benefits of cutting down tropical forests in order to convert the nutrient-rich soil into farmland are only short-lived, scientists suggest.
Posted 12/19/07

U.Va. Reports Surprising Findings Related to Role of Heart Protein in Type 1 Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy
U.Va. Today
Researchers found that mice and individuals with DM1 overproduce NKX2-5, yet experience the same kind of heart problems associated with too little of it.
Posted 12/19/07

Engineering Authors: Students Collaborate on ecoMOD Book
U.Va. Today
Engineering class completes analysis and exploration of the ecoMOD project.
Posted 12/19/07

Math Modeling in U.Va. Research Lab May Lead to Customized Treatments for Cancer, Other Major Illnesses
U.Va. Today
Researchers at U.Va. recently developed and validated a mathematical model to understand why some mutations in a protein, known as Ras, cause cancer.
Posted 12/19/07

University of Virginia's Elizabeth Fowler One of Four Editors to Compile Work of Canonical English Poet Edmund Spenser
U.Va. Today
National editorial team wins $150,000 NEH grant to compile the first major collection of Spenser's works since 1912.
Posted 12/19/07

Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center Names New Director
U.Va. Health System News
Gary K. Owens is named director of the Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center.
Posted 12/13/07

Virginia Governor Kaine Praises ecoMOD3's Focus on Affordable Housing and Sustainability
U.Va. Today
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for U.Va.'s ecoMOD3 project.
Posted 12/13/07

Challenges of Obesity Crisis Require Different Approach, According to Cooper Center Report
U.Va. Today
Tanya Wanchek examines existing programs that have been established to tackle obesity.
Posted 12/12/07

Engineering Faculty Market Their Solution to Cell-Tracking Riddle
U.Va. Today
SEAS cell-tracking software tracks cells in vivo.
Posted 12/12/07

Darden Professor Betters Society Through Business
Peter Rodriguez and his students deliver free business expertise to Latin America.
Posted 12/12/07

U.Va. Receives National Award for Efforts to Support Graduate Student Diversity
U.Va. Today
U.Va. received the prestigious CGS/Peterson's Award for Promoting an Inclusive Graduate Community.
Posted 12/07/07

Cause and Effect: Images of Lung Damage From Secondhand Smoke
The New York Times
Researchers for the first time have an image of lungs apparently damaged by secondhand tobacco smoke.
Posted 12/05/07

The Wired Mind
The University of Virginia Magazine
Plugging into the heart of the brain.
Posted 12/05/07

AAAS Names Anindya Dutta and William Pearson 2008 Fellows
Two U.Va. School of Medicine researchers have just been named AAAS fellows.
Posted 12/05/07

U.Va. Doctor Streamlines Medical Billing, Improves Patient Care
Updated PDA software makes medical billing more efficient and accurate.
Posted 11/29/07

Surveys of British and American Employees Conclude Women Must Work Harder
U.Va. Today
Study finds that women have to work harder than men to prove themselves in the workplace.
Posted 11/28/07

Secondhand Smoke Damages Lungs, MRIs Show
ScienceDaily
For the first time, researchers have identified structural damage to the lungs caused by secondhand cigarette smoke.
Posted 11/28/07

"Rogue" Dwarf Shines New Light on Tiny Galaxies
National Geographic News
A fast-moving "rogue" on the outskirts of the Andromeda galactic system may provide new insight into the nature of so-called dwarf galaxies and their potential role in galaxy formation. The newly discovered dwarf, dubbed Andromeda XIV, may also indicate that the large spiral galaxy Andromeda—known to researchers as M31—is far more massive than had been thought. ...Andromeda XIV appears to be moving too fast to be locked in orbit around M31, said team leader Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Posted 11/28/07

U.Va. Researchers Develop HemoShear 2.0
U.Va. Today
New device could save pharmaceutical companies significant time and money in screening drug compounds.
Posted 11/21/07

An Element of Mystery in Zinc Cold Treatments
Los Angeles Times
Are zinc treatments effective on the common cold?
Posted 11/21/07

Partnership with Rolls-Royce Boosts Engineering, Business Education and Research at U.Va.
U.Va. Today
U.Va. Research and Education to Benefit From New Rolls-Royce Plant
Posted 11/21/07

University of Virginia Chemists Create Novel Uranium Molecule
U.Va. Today
Chemists at the University of Virginia have prepared the first uranium methylidyne molecule ever reported.
Posted 11/14/07

New Hydrogen Storage Material Found
United Press International
University of Virginia scientists said they discovered a new class of hydrogen storage materials that could make storing and transporting energy more efficient.
Posted 11/14/07

Early Teen Sex May Not Be a Path to Delinquency, Study Shows
U.Va. Today
Early sex may help teens develop better social relationships in early adulthood.
Posted 11/14/07

New Partnership to Advance Medical Research at U.Va and EVMS
U.Va. Today
Eastern Virginia Medical School and the University of Virginia School of Medicine have signed an historic agreement that will advance medical research at both schools.
Posted 11/14/07

University of Virginia Researchers Take Issue with State's Abusive Driver Fees
U.Va. Today
Paper argues that the goal of improving driving should not have been merged with the goal of raising revenue.
Posted 11/07/07

U.Va. Scholar Traces Voting Technology Controversy to the 1890s
U.Va. Today
Research focuses on the introduction of voting machines in New York State.
Posted 11/07/07

U.Va. Health System Team Uncovers Gene's Role in Type 1 Diabetes
U.Va. Today
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have identified an enzyme thought to be an important instigator of the inner-body conflict causes Type 1 diabetes.
Posted 11/07/07

CAREER Award Enables Adaptive Active Storage Research
Sudhanva Gurumurthi's research may unify data storage and processing.
Posted 11/07/07

U.Va. Start-up Adenosine Therapeutics Secures Financial Backing from Novartis
TechJournal South
Company goes the route more and more biotech’s do, a big pharma deal.
Posted 11/01/07

Professor Taking Tech into Classroom/ Awarded $500,000 Science Grant for Efforts
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Ed Berger’s experiments with Web 2.0 technologies--meaning blogs, podcasts, wikis, video, RSS feeds and more--may be the future of higher education.
Posted 10/31/07

Lack of Sleep May Turn "A" Students into "B" Students
ABC 4 News (Salt Lake City)
...A University of Virginia study showed sleep-deprived kids lost seven points on vocabulary test scores.
Posted 10/31/07

U.Va. Engineers’ Self-Driving Car, Tommy Jr., Competing in $2-Million National Challenge
U.Va. Today
An autonomous, robotic car developed by a team of U.Va. students, alumni and faculty is competing this week in the semifinals of the 2007 Urban Challenge
Posted 10/31/07

Nursing Student Seeks Solutions to Rural Healthcare Problems
Melissa Sutherland's research is driven by patient interactions.
Posted 10/31/07

Mercury Tetrafluoride Synthesized
Chemical & Engineering News
Fundamental advance by W. Lester S. Andrews, professor of chemistry, and his colleagues opens new possibilities for mercury compounds.
Posted 10/25/07

Wireless Medical Monitoring
Impact, Fall 2007, Volume 8, No. 1
SEAS student and faculty research promises pertinent medical applications.

U.Va. Engineering Expert’s ‘Nanospikes’ Add New Dimension to Solar, Biomedical, Microelectronics Research
E-News Online, October 2007
Professor Mool C. Gupta's performance-enhancing nanostructures could have a big impact on many aspects of our everyday lives.
Posted 10/24/07

When Less is More: Too Much Happiness May Be Too Much of a Good Thing
U.Va. Today
U.Va. psychology professor Shigehiro Oishi looks explores happiness across cultures.
Posted 10/24/07

U.Va. Study Finds At-Risk 4-Year-Olds Missing Out On Preschool
U.Va. Today
Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service study describes Virginia’s 4-year-old population and its participation rates in preschool.
Posted 10/24/07

Business Professor’s Research Tackles Corporate Cheating
Assistant Professor Jared Harris examines financial misrepresentation.
Posted 10/24/07

Dr. Karen C. Johnston to Chair U.Va. Department of Neurology
U.Va. Today
Dr. Sharon L. Hostler, interim vice president and dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and R. Edward Howell, vice president and chief executive officer of U.Va.’s Medical Center, have announced the appointment of Dr. Karen C. Johnston as chairwoman of the Department of Neurology.

U.Va. Engineering Professor Receives First-Ever Robert A. Moore Jr. Award in Chemical Engineering
U.Va. Today
Matt Neurock, Alice M. and Guy A. Wilson Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been named the first recipient of the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Robert A. Moore Jr. Award in Chemical Engineering for teaching, research and outreach activities that best represent the interests of industry.

Testosterone Turns Male Juncos Into Blustery Hunks -- and Bad Dads
U.Va. Today
In the December issue of The American Naturalist (now online), University of Virginia, Indiana University Bloomington and University of Southern Mississippi researchers report the results of the first study to examine, in the wild, the way in which natural changes in testosterone levels determine how a male spends his time.

Dr. R. Ariel Gomez Earns Prestigious MERIT Award
U.Va. Today
University of Virginia Professor of pediatrics and biology R. Ariel Gomez, M.D., has been awarded the prestigious Method to Extend Research in Time Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Posted 10/16/07

U.Va. Leads Research on Next Generation of Heart Surgeries
The University of Virginia Health System is one of seven medical centers in the United States and Canada that have been chosen to establish a Network for Cardiothoracic Surgical Investigations in Cardiovascular Medicine.
Posted 10/17/07

ARCS Foundation Promotes Graduate Student Research
Three U.VA. students win $15,000 scholarship.
Posted 10/10/07

U.Va. Researcher Obrig Defends Against E. Coli’s Deadly Kidney Punch
U.Va. Today
University of Virginia researcher Tom Obrig has been awarded a $3.9 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop treatments to block the actions of the toxins in the kidney.

Chuck Perdue Preserves, Documents Folk Culture from the Inside
U.Va. Today
Charles Perdue is a storyteller, a dirt farmer's son, mechanic, cryptographer, folk singer and geologist who documents the lives of working people not unlike himself. His work will continue to benefit the University and the study of folklore and music for years to come.

Professor Fairchild Wins MacArthur Grant
U.Va. Today
Darden professor Greg Fairchild has won a three-year, $850,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support his research into the business models of successful Community Development Financial Institutions and their evolution.

Astronomer Kelsey Johnson Named Packard Fellow
U.Va. Today
Kelsey Johnson, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia, recently was named a Packard Fellow, a prestigious distinction awarded to 20 top young researchers nationwide from a variety of scientific disciplines.

U.Va. Researchers Know More About How Our Cells Respond to UV Rays that Can Cause Damage
U.Va. Today
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have published a new study that helps scientists around the world expand the body of knowledge on how cells protect themselves (or do not) from DNA damage caused by UV rays.

Dr. Arthur Garson Elected to Institute of Medicine
U.Va. Today
Dr. Arthur Garson Jr., an internationally recognized pediatric cardiologist and executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia, has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

‘Divine’ Music Enhances Web-Based Dante Research Project
U.Va. Today
The musical group Zephyrus, under the direction of Paul M. Walker, associate professor of music, recently recorded approximately 20 musical pieces for Italian professor Deborah W. Parker's Web-based research project "The World of Dante," with funding from Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Engineering School Gives Dr. Cato Laurencin Inaugural Robert A. Bland Award for African-American Achievement
U.Va. Today
Dr. Cato Laurencin, University Professor, Lillian T. Pratt Professor and chairman of the University of Virginia Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and professor of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the first winner of a new award that honors the first African-American to receive an undergraduate degree from U.Va.

A Fitting Tribute to a National Leader: Alumna Establishes Jeanette Lancaster Fund for Faculty Excellence
U.Va. Today
Earlier this month, the School of Nursing Advisory Board announced that Nursing School alumna Rebecca Ruegger gave $500,000 to establish the Jeanette Lancaster Fund for Faculty Excellence. Others are being encouraged to contribute to this endowment fund to raise the invested principal to $1 million. The goal is to have the funding in place by the time Lancaster steps down as dean in the spring after 19 years of service.

New Professor Studies the Impact of Slavery on Religion
Jalane Schmidt joins the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of religion this fall. She studies African diaspora religions of Latin America and the Caribbean to better understand how the legacy of slavery and colonialism has shaped contemporary belief systems.
Posted 10/03/07

Power-law Patterns Seen in Nature
Nature
Research by Todd Scanlon, assistant professor of environmental sciences, is featured in a recent issue of Nature. This work reveals that patterns of plant growth can follow power laws, a finding that lends insight into the driving forces underlying their formation.
Posted 09/28/07

U.Va. Engineering School Launches Symposium to Tackle Global Energy Dilemma
U.Va. Today
Leading the University of Virginia’s efforts to engage in energy issues of national and global proportions, the School of Engineering and Applied Science has launched an innovative energy lecture series, titled “The Future is Now: Perspectives on Global Energy Issues.”

U.Va. Scholar and Educator Awarded France's Highest Honor in Ceremony at Carr's Hill
U.Va. Today
In a late-afternoon ceremony held Sept. 21 at Carr's Hill, John D. Lyons, chairman of the University of Virginia's Department of French Language and Literature, received France's highest honor. Michel Schaffhauser, Consul Général de France in the embassy in Washington, presented Lyons the five-tipped star pin, a symbol of the Legion of Honor, in front of a crowd of friends and colleagues. The award signifies Lyons' membership in the rank of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.

Hair Cell Research Breakthrough Could Lead to Cure for Deafness
(London) Daily Mail / Guardian / Press Association (the AP of the UK)
Scientists have successfully grown inner-ear hair cells in the laboratory, raising hopes of speeding up research into deafness and other hearing and balance conditions. Damage to sensory hair cells, which can be regrown by birds, fish and amphibians but not generally by humans and other mammals, can cause deafness, tinnitus and balance problems. Until now, research in this area has been difficult because the cells had to be taken from the internal ear, or created and then put into embryonic ears or grown via other tissues. But Zhengqing Hu and Jeffrey Corwin, from the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, have now managed successfully to create the cells "in vitro". ...

University Startup Microlab Delivers Speedy Diagnostic Tests
James Landers, professor of chemistry, professor of mechanical engineering, and associate professor of pathology at the University of Virginia, conducts research on a miniature scale, but his startup company, Microlab Diagnostics, has very big plans.
Posted 09/26/07

Explaining the World: Professor Lou Bloomfield Demystifies the Physics of Everyday Life
The University of Virginia Magazine
Sometime next year, the Discovery Channel will launch a new series called Some Assembly Required. The show will take viewers into factories and assembly lines to watch everyday objects being manufactured—and will feature physics professor Lou Bloomfield explaining the science behind those objects and how they are made.

U.Va. Economist Amalia Miller Wins Arrow Prize for Paper on Impact of Midwifery Public Policies
U.Va. Today
Amalia Miller has won the 2006 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize for Junior Economists. The Arrow Prizes for Junior and Senior Economists recognize two papers that make an outstanding contribution to their field, out of approximately 400 published in 2006 in the five Berkeley economics journals.

Health System Researcher Receives $3.6 Million Grant to Combat Bacterium's Deadly Effects
U.Va. Today
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded a University of Virginia researcher a $3.6 million grant to combat a growing international health crisis.

U.Va. Infectious Disease Researchers Awarded $5.2 Million from NIH to Develop Tests and Treatments for Gastrointestinal Parasites and Bacteria
U.Va. Today
Two University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have been awarded grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop treatments and tests for some rapidly emerging trouble spots in the area of gastrointestinal diseases.

SEAS Students and Serendipity Work to Bring Water to Wum
U.Va. Today
Almost 40 years in the making, it is as if this project — involving University of Virginia engineering students, a United Nations representative and a retired IBM executive — were meant to happen.

Dr. Mark Yeager Joins the U.Va. School of Medicine
The University of Virginia has appointed distinguished researcher and cardiologist Mark Yeager, M.D., Ph.D., as Chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics.
Posted 09/19/07

From Queen Elizabeth I to Michael Vick, University of Virginia Professor Exploring Six Centuries of Dogfighting
U.Va. Today
Perhaps the most well-known of history’s so-called “blood sports,” dogfighting is the unlikely subject of a forthcoming book, “Bulldog Nation,” by the University of Virginia’s Edmund P. Russell, associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society.

Online Tool 'PrimaryAccess' Lets Youth Make Documentaries
U.Va. Today
Research Will Examine How Much New Technology Enhances Student Learning in Social Studies

Perry’s Role Expands to Postdoc Professional Development
Wendy Perry was recently appointed as director of graduate student & postdoctoral professional development programs. This position was established to assist with the transition of graduate students and postdoctoral research associates into the workplace.
Posted 09/05/07

Darden Professor Investigates Gendered Market Effects
Erika James, associate professor of business administration at the Darden School, is asking questions about women’s advancement into senior-level corporate positions. She recently published an article in Strategic Management Journal regarding the influence of female CEO hiring announcements on stock prices.
Posted 08/29/07

Inside the Brain of a Crayfish: Mellon Looks at Integration of Dissimilar Senses
U.Va. Today
DeForest Mellon, a University of Virginia biology professor, wants to understand how Southern swamp crayfish use their brains to detect, integrate and use co-joined but dissimilar sensory inputs.

U.Va.'s Sleep Disorders Center Operates at Nation's Highest Level of Excellence
U.Va. Health System
The Sleep Disorders Center at the University of Virginia Health System has received a five-year accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, making it the only sleep laboratory in Central Virginia operating at the nation's highest level of excellence.

New Faculty Book Addresses Research Funding Conflicts of Interest
Patricia Tereskerz, associate professor and research director of the School of Medicine’s Program in Ethics & Policy in Healthcare has just published a new book about the financial conflicts that emerge from the relationship between private industry and academic institutions that are conducting clinical research.
Posted 08/22/07

Q&A with Jerry Stenger, a Research Scientist in U.Va.'s Climatology Office
U.Va. Today
During the course of a year, Jerry Stenger, a research scientist in U.Va.’s climatology office, answers a lot of questions about weather and climate in Virginia. His office, housed in the Environmental Sciences Department, is charged with getting current, accurate weather information out to a variety of constituents.

U.Va. Alum and Southwest, Va., Native Returns to Cameroon to Aid in Water Filtration Project
U.Va. Today
In an effort to help the people of Tourou obtain cleaner water, Ezekiel “Zeke” Fugate, of Gate City, Va., first traveled to the village with other University of Virginia students last winter. He returned at the beginning of this summer to continue work on the task.

ecoMOD3 Expands Modular, Sustainable, Affordable Housing Research
U.Va. Today
ecoMOD3, the third prototype in the ecoMOD project, a multi-year sustainable design/build effort at the U.Va. School of Architecture, in partnership with the School of Engineering and Applied Science is near completion.

SEAS MURI Award Paves Way for All-Electronic Navy
U.Va. Today
Electronic devices produce heat — and the inexorable progress of Moore’s law means that as components are more densely packed with ever smaller transistors, the amount of heat they produce grows exponentially as does the difficulty of dissipating it. The resulting high temperatures degrade device performance and shorten device life. The Office of Naval Research has awarded Professor Pam Norris and her team of multiuniversity, multidisciplinary investigators a $7.5 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative award to solve this problem.

Retooled Office Helps Translate Discoveries into Applications
U.Va. Today
Research universities generate a lot of ideas that can impact society, but an idea's path from ivy to impact is not always clear. The University of Virginia’s newly renamed Office of Economic Development can be seen as a navigator who can help guide ideas to market, and the market to ideas.

U.Va. Engineering Expert's 'Nanospikes' Add New Dimension to Solar, Biomedical, Microelectronics Research
U.Va. Today
New technology in development at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science could lead to more successful hip and bone replacement surgeries, make better use of solar power and even prevent your computer from overheating.

Cannon Teams Up with Former Student on Book About Reclaiming Toxic Waste Sites
U.Va. Today
A book co-edited by Professor Jonathan Z. Cannon, director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program, and a former student of his, Gregg P. Macey ’06, now a patent litigator in New York City, may help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and local governments devise strategies for putting former hazardous waste sites back into productive use.

U.Va. Researcher Gets $2.9M Grant to Test Teaching Method
U.Va. Today
The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Educational Sciences is supporting research by Sara Rimm-Kaufman, associate professor at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education, with a three-year, $2.9 million grant to expand her earlier study, which found that children taught with the Responsive Classroom approach for two or three years showed greater increases in math and reading tests scores than children in comparison schools.

Chemical Engineering Research to Fuel the Hydrogen Economy
Matt Neurock, professor of chemical engineering and chemistry, combines theory with large-scale electronic and atomistic simulations to understand electrocatalysis, which is at the heart of fuel cells. Neurock recently earned one of only 13 grants from the Department of Energy to support projects that advance hydrogen fuel technology.
Posted 08/15/07

U.Va. Engineering Professor Thomas Baber Assesses Impacts of Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
U.Va. Today
For Thomas Baber, associate professor of engineering at the University of Virginia, the collapse of the Interstate 35 bridge in Minneapolis last week has two very different implications.

U.Va. Seeks to Restore Seagrass to Eastern Shore Bays
U.Va. Today
Karen McGlathery, an environmental scientist, is the University of Virginia’s lead investigator on a project to restore seagrasses to the waters of Hog Island Bay, one of three major lagoons on the oceanside of Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

Paradise Found
The University of Virginia Magazine
Stephen Leatherman is Dr. Beach

College Science Success Linked to Math and Same-Subject Preparation
U.Va. Today
Researchers at the University of Virginia and Harvard University have found that high school coursework in one of the sciences generally does not predict better college performance in other scientific disciplines. But there’s one notable exception: students with the most rigorous high school preparation in mathematics perform significantly better in college courses in biology, chemistry, and physics.

Chemistry Professor Receives Pimentel Award
Lester Andrews, professor of chemistry, was presented with the George Pimentel Award for lifetime contributions to the spectroscopy of matrix isolated species July 19 at the Gordon Research Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Matrix Isolated Species at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
Posted 08/01/07

U.Va. Engineering School-Developed Nanocomposite Material Wins Nanotech Award
E-News Online
Combining attributes of plastics and metals, ultra-lightweight, conductive material may revolutionize electromagnetic shielding and more

Garrett’s Study of First 200 Post-Conviction DNA Exonerations Shows Flawed Criminal System
Law School News
University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett’s groundbreaking study examining the cases of the first 200 wrongly convicted people later found innocent through DNA testing reveals fundamental flaws in the criminal system.

U.Va. Engineering School Announces Department’s New Research Focus and Name
U.Va. Today
To reflect an evolving focus on sustainable development and adaptive infrastructure, the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Civil Engineering Department has been renamed the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Breakthrough Approach Matches Tumor Profiles to Best Possible Anticancer Treatments
U.Va. Today
Dan Theodorescu, M.D., Ph.D., a University of Virginia oncologist and cancer biologist, and Jae Lee, Ph.D., a computational biologist and bioinformatics statistician, have pioneered an algorithm that could help rapidly sort molecular information about a patient's particular tumor and help match this information to the right drug treatment.

Kerrigan's Unique Research May Unlock Elder Gait Enigma
D. Casey Kerrigan, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, may have discovered the “holy grail” of physical aging research. Kerrigan’s novel analysis of the deterioration of gait—or walking—in older adults has attracted a major National Institutes of Health grant.
Posted 07/25/07

Menaker Awarded Farrell Prize in Sleep Medicine
U.Va. Today
Michael Menaker, professor of biology and an international leader in the field of circadian rhythm research, received the Peter C. Farrell Prize in Sleep Medicine from the Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine during an event there on June 6.

U.Va. Health System Specialties Honored By U.S. News & World Report
U.Va. Health System
Seven medical specialties at the University of Virginia Health System are listed in the 18th annual survey of "America's Best Hospitals" from U.S. News & World Report.

U.Va. Engineering Students' Ideas Take Flight
U.Va. Today
A team of 28 University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science undergraduates won second place — and a $3,000 award — in the NASA-sponsored Fundamental Aeronautics Competition for their design of a compact, fast and fuel-efficient commercial transport system.

Researcher Explores Ethics and End-of-life Care
Helen Chapple is not someone who fits easily into a slot. She worked as a nurse and stock broker before deciding to continue her education at U.Va. Chapple became interested in the ethical questions surrounding dying patients and the medical care they receive while pursuing a master’s degree in clinical ethics.
Posted 07/18/07

U.Va. Biologist Michael Timko Helps Africans Breed Disease-Resistant Plant
U.Va. Today
Michael Timko, a U.Va. Professor of Biology, is working hard to solve "the Striga problem," as it's called in west Africa. He and other scientists have sequenced the cowpea genome and are using this information to help develop Striga-resistant cowpea plants.

Sensing the 'Ground Truth'
U.Va. Today
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Kamin Whitehouse hopes to use empirical data gathered by a network of wireless sensors to provide one of the first competitive applications to break down the barriers between the physical and digital worlds.

U.Va. Engineering School Researchers Develop Tool for Clearer Ultrasound Images
U.Va. Today
University of Virginia Engineering School Associate Professor William F. Walker and Research Associate Francesco Viola have developed a new tool — an advanced imaging algorithm — that is, quite literally, transforming the way we see things.

Cognitive Scores Vary as Much within Test Takers as Between Age Groups
U.Va. Today
Timothy Salthouse, PhD, a noted cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia, has demonstrated that giving a test only once isn’t enough to get a clear picture of someone’s mental functioning. It appears that repeating tests over a short period may give a more accurate range of scores, improving diagnostic workups.

U.Va. Brings In More Than $1 Billion Locally, Generates More Than $600 Million From Out-Of-State Sources
U.Va. Today
A new study by economists at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service found that the University of Virginia brings in $4.71 from outside the commonwealth for every $1 the institution receives in state support.

Faculty-launched Company Cultivates Cell Solutions
Traditionally, cells have been painstakingly cultivated in shallow glass or plastic “Petri” dishes. Frustrations with the limitations of this two-dimensional format led Robin Felder, professor of pathology, to seek new cell culturing methods.
Posted 07/10/07

Where's Your Computer's Hotspot?
E-News Online
U.Va. Engineering School Professors Create Thermal Modeling Tools to Better Inform Chip Design

$5 Million National Science Foundation Grant: U.Va. to Create Eight-School Alliance with Goal of Doubling Number of Minority Science and Engineering Graduates
U.Va. Today
The University of Virginia’s Office for Diversity and Equity and School of Engineering and Applied Science will lead a cooperative program among eight colleges and universities throughout Virginia and North Carolina that will focus on increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups who pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Infrared Vision: Skrutskie's Instruments Give Telescopes Special Powers
U.Va. Today
Astronomer Mike Skrutskie can neither leap tall buildings nor fly through space, but he does have the ability to observe the expanses of the universe in unusual detail. Skrutskie specializes in designing and building infrared cameras and spectrographs, devices that are able to penetrate cosmic haze and detect and measure heat radiation coming from stars and other distant bodies.

Biomedical Engineer Obtains Coveted CAREER Grant
Jason Papin, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has earned a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program for his cutting-edge use of systems biology and computer modeling to investigate infectious disease processes.
Posted 06/28/07

U.Va. Researchers Develop Way to Restore Genes in Human Inner Ear Cells
U.Va. Health System
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have discovered a way to transfer genes, which they hope will restore hearing, into diseased tissue of the human inner ear. This important step brings scientists closer to curing genetic or acquired hearing loss. Their discovery will appear Thursday, June 14, in the online issue of the scientific journal, Gene Therapy.

U.Va.'s Wright Wins Top Poetry Prize for 'Scar Tissue'
U.Va. Today
Charles Wright, an English professor at the University of Virginia, is a winner of the seventh annual Griffin Poetry Prize for his volume “Scar Tissue.”

FEST Award Promotes Inventive Heart Research
Jeff Saucerman, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, uses live-cell imaging and quantitative computer models to better understand complex cardiac signaling networks and how they regulate the heart’s behavior. His cutting-edge research recently netted him a $50,000 Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology Distinguished Young Investigator Grant.
Posted 06/19/07

U.Va.-Led Team Uncovers Important Secret in Gene Replication
U.Va. Health System
A team of researchers led by University of Virginia Health System geneticists has uncovered a major secret in the mystery of how the DNA helix replicates itself time after time. It turns out that it is not just the sequence of the bases (building blocks) in the DNA, but also how loosely or tightly the chromatin (the material that makes up chromosomes) is packed at different points of the chromosome that is critical.

U.Va.-Coulter Research Partnership Enters New Stage
With the goal of creating a model to encourage and sustain translational research on a broad scale, the U.Va.-Coulter Translational Research Partnership announces a second round of research funding. Seven projects were selected for funding in 2007-08. Four projects were funded at the $100,000 level while three were funded at $50,000.
Posted 06/13/07

Cure for post-traumatic stress?
C-Ville Weekly
Scientists think solution is a good night’s sleep

U.Va. Astronaut Patrick Forrester Spacewalks on June 13 to Work on Space Station; May Repair Shuttle Heat Shield on June 17
U.Va. Today
University of Virginia alumnus Patrick Forrester is one of the seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on its current mission to the International Space Station.

Refugee Family's Survival Story Nets Peabody Award
U.Va. Today
Afghan immigrant Sahar Adish—now 19 and preparing for her fourth year as a pre-med student at U.Va.—received a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for a film she helped to make in high school retelling her family’s story.

Conference Challenges and Aids Teachers to Reach "New Horizons" of Digital Education
U.Va. Today
The impact of the information age on education will be transformative and unavoidable, so higher education institutions should be engaging in bold experimentation to reinvigorate their utility to society, suggested Ann Kirschner, the University Dean of Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York, in her keynote speech at the first annual New Horizons in Teaching and Research Conference.

International Team Rebuilds Ancient Rome Digitally
U.Va. Today
On June 11, Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni officiated at the first public viewing of "Rome Reborn 1.0," a 10-year project based at the University of Virginia and begun at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to use advanced technology to digitally rebuild ancient Rome.

FEST Grant Supports Massive Astronomical Possibilities
Kelsey Johnson, assistant professor of astronomy, has attracted notable recognition with her innovative research, including a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant in 2006 and most recently a $50,000 Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology Distinguished Young Investigator award.
Posted 06/13/07

Altered States: Scientists Analyze the Near-death Experience
The University of Virginia Magazine
For the past 30 years, U.Va. psychiatrist Bruce Greyson has tried to reach a scientific understanding of the phenomenon known as the near-death experience.

More Effective Treatments
IMPACT, Research at the U.Va. School of Engineering and Applied Science
The improvements in health care that we enjoy today are not simply the result of advances in medical science. They also reflect the mind-set and specialized knowledge that engineers bring to the table. As research under way at U.Va. shows, engineers are essential partners in reducing suffering around the world.

U.Va. Environmental Scientist Advocates Impact Assessments for Wind Energy Projects
U.Va. Today
Imagine 3,500 wind turbines, each at least as tall as a 40-story building, lining the ridges of Virginia’s mountains for about 400 miles (Shenandoah National Park is 100 miles in length). That is what would be needed, according to a U.Va. environmental scientist, to satisfy proposed legislation to make nine percent of Virginia’s energy “renewable” by 2020.

Researchers Find a New Way to Engineer Complex Systems Creating Complex Dynamics from Simple Rhythms
U.Va. Today
When signals in complex systems — like hearts and brains — go haywire, dangerous conditions, such as irregular heartbeats and epileptic seizures, can develop. Researchers are seeking new ways to control such systems without burning them out.

Electrical Engineering Student Wins Research ‘Gold’
When it comes to highly competitive research awards, third-year electrical engineering student Gary B. Shambat can’t get enough. After winning the University of Virginia’s esteemed Harrison Undergraduate Research Award in 2006 — and again in 2007 — Shambat continued to prove his mettle by earning research “gold,” or a Goldwater Scholarship, in the spring of 2007.
Posted 05/31/07

Architecture and Robotic Ecologies
ZDNet.com
The University of Virginia School of Architecture has started a new program about 'robotic ecologies' which wants to answer the question: Will robots take over architecture? As said the program leader, "This research is not just about architectural machines that move. It is about groups of architectural machines that move with intelligence."

U.Va. Education Expert Discusses the Pros and Cons of Spelling Bees
U.Va. Today
Marcia Invernizzi, an expert on spelling and learning language at the University of Virginia, says that while spelling bees are terrible teaching tools, they offer a glimpse of how spelling is “a rich, language-based phenomenon.”

U.Va.’s Center for Global Health Teams with NIH to Offer New Courses Related to Global Health
U.Va. Today
Issues relating to global health are becoming ever more popular and students at the University of Virginia can look to the Center for Global Health for new, dynamic course offerings about the hot topic.

U.Va. Researcher Is First Rachel Fund Grant Recipient, Will Study Congenital Disease that Cripples Newborns
U.Va. Today
Each year, the parents of an estimated one in 20,000 newborns are shocked to learn their child has type 1 congenital myotonic dystrophy (CDM1), a progressive and crippling genetic disorder. Although doctors know that babies inherit CDM1 from their mother and prenatal tests are available, many children are not diagnosed until they are born.

Novel Biological Timing Research Nets FEST Award
Herman Wijnen, assistant professor of biology, recently won a $50,000 Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology Distinguished Young Investigator Grant for his research into the effects of environmental temperature on circadian rhythms.
Posted 05/31/07

FEST Winner's Research May Revolutionize Computer Design
Kim Hazelwood, assistant professor of computer science, is tackling modern computer design challenges in an entirely new way. Her proactive idea for a virtual interface that enables hardware and software to communicate and problem-solve earned her a $50,000 FEST grant.
Posted 05/24/07

U.Va. Students 'Engineer a New Path to Study Abroad:' New Curricular Design Tool Allows U.Va. Engineering Students to More Easily Study Overseas
U.Va. Today
When University of Virginia Engineering Student Council President Emily Ewell was asked to apply her engineering knowledge to solve a real-world problem for her “Engineering in Context” capstone project, she immediately knew what problem she wanted to tackle: studying abroad.

Clock Gene Plays Role in Weight Gain, Study Finds
U.Va. Today
Scientists at the University of Virginia and the Medical College of Wisconsin have discovered that a gene that participates in the regulation of the body’s biological rhythms may also be a major control in regulating metabolism.

Revealing the Origins of Morality -- Good and Evil, Liberal and Conservative
U.Va. Today
In a review published in the May 18 issue of the journal Science, Jonathan Haidt, associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, discusses a new consensus scientists are reaching on the origins and mechanisms of morality.

U.Va. Students 'Engineer a New Path to Study Abroad'
U.Va. Today
New Curricular Design Tool Allows U.Va. Engineering Students to More Easily Study Overseas
Posted 05/17/07

U.Va. Spin-off PluroGen is a Burning Success
When George Rodeheaver, Ph.D., and his colleagues in the Department of Plastic Surgery began developing a new topical gel to treat burns and open wounds in the 1970s, they did not consider themselves burgeoning entrepreneurs, they just wanted to provide the best possible treatment to suffering patients.
Posted 05/17/07

Sounding Off: The Virginia Center for Computer Music is Making Noise
The University of Virginia Magazine
The Virginia Center for Computer Music is out to change people’s minds about what kind of noise emerges when musicians and computers collide.
Posted 05/17/07

U.Va. Patent Foundation Announces 2007 Inventor of the Year
The University of Virginia Patent Foundation has selected Wladek Minor as the 2007 Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year. A professor of molecular physiology and biological physics in the University’s School of Medicine, Minor is a pioneering researcher and inventor in the field of protein crystallography.
Posted 05/17/7

Graduate Student Diversity Programs: Year-end Highlights
Cheryl Burgan Evans joined the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies as director of Graduate Student Diversity Programs in June 2006. Evans’ newly created position is based on a recommendation made by the President’s Commission on Diversity and Equity. Since her arrival, Evans has been working diligently to enhance graduate student diversity at the University of Virginia.
Posted 05/17/07

Translational Research Could Boost Rape Convictions
John Herr, professor of cell biology, has been concerned with characterizing sperm proteins and the testicular genes that encode them for nearly 30 years. Fundamental discoveries made in his U.Va. lab were recently translated into a product that could vastly improve the field of sexual assault forensics.
Posted 05/16/07

U.Va.'s Learning Barge Project Wins $75,000 EPA P3 Award for Sustainable Design
U.Va. Today
A team of University of Virginia architecture and engineering students won the EPA's prestigious Third Annual P3 (People, Prosperity and the Planet) Award in the National Sustainable Design Expo, a student design contest for sustainability, held on the Washington, D.C. Mall on April 24 and 25.
Posted 05/10/07

U.Va. Biomedical Engineering Department to Lead Global Network for Innovation
The University of Virginia’s Department of Biomedical Engineering is now leading the formation of the world’s largest bioengineering network, thanks to a National Science Foundation “Partnerships for Innovation” award totaling $600,000 over three years.
Posted 05/10/07

U.Va. Professors Elected to American Philosophical Society
University News Services
William A. Wulf, a professor in the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Cora Diamond, professor emerita of philosophy and professor of law, have been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. The society, which was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 with the goal of “promoting useful knowledge,” announced the election of new members on April 27.
Posted 05/10/07

U.Va. Archaeologist Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Stephen Plog, Commonwealth Professor in the University of Virginia’s department of anthropology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the academy is among the highest distinctions for a scientist, and is based on outstanding and ongoing achievements in original research.
Posted 05/10/07

Chemistry Student Honored with Gwathmey Prize
Jonathan Lyon, doctoral candidate in the Department of Chemistry, was recently awarded the Allan T. Gwathmey Memorial Award for his journal article: “Electron Deficient Carbon-Titanium Triple Bonds: Formation of Triplet XC÷TiX₃Methylidine Complexes.”
Posted 05/10/07

Forty-seven U.Va. Students Receive Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards
One local resident is among 47 students who have received Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards at the University of Virginia.
Posted 05/03/07

Four U.Va. Innovators Secure FEST Funding
Four talented, young investigators from the University of Virginia will receive $50,000 each from the internal Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology Distinguished Young Investigator Grant program. Among this year’s diverse, winning FEST applications are proposals to understand both the formation of globular star clusters and the death of cancerous stem cells.
Posted 05/03/07

MicroRNAs Can Be Tumor Suppressors
University of Virginia researchers have discovered that microRNAs, a form of genetic material, can function as tumor suppressors in laboratory studies.
Posted 05/03/07

U.Va. Presents First Faculty Mentoring Awards at 17th Annual Teaching Awards Banquet
The University of Virginia has bestowed its first Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Awards on Darden professor Sherwood C. Frey Jr. and environmental sciences professor Janet S. Herman.
Posted 05/03/07

Dr. Arthur Garson, U.Va.'s Dean of School of Medicine, Named University's Next Vice President & Provost
Dr. Arthur “Tim” Garson Jr., an internationally recognized pediatric cardiologist who has served as vice president and dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine since 2002, has been named vice president and provost, effective July 1, 2007.
Posted 05/03/07

Robert Pianta, Early Childhood Expert, to Become Curry School of Education Dean
Robert C. Pianta, a longtime faculty member in the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, has been named its eighth dean
Posted 05/03/07

Researcher Investigates the Brain/Immune System Link
Go back and think about the last time you were sick with the flu or a cold. In addition to symptoms like fever and cough you may remember feeling tired or depressed. Lisa Goehler, assistant professor of psychology, works to determine the biological basis of these alterations in mood and cognition.
Posted 05/03/07

Learning Barge: Vessel Connects Community to River, Gives Students Research-Design-Build Opportunity
Even for the resourceful architect, finding a way to connect individuals living in the heavily industrialized regions around Norfolk, Va., with the Elizabeth River that’s right in their backyard is challenging.
Posted 04/26/07

Newer Antipsychotic Drugs Not Better, Swartz Says
The second generation of antipsychotic drugs, introduced in the 1980s and 1990s, are not more effective than the first generation produced decades earlier, a recent news-making study revealed.
Posted 04/26/07

Dispatches from the Bering Sea: Studying Walruses and Climate Change
For the next six weeks, University of Virginia professor of environmental sciences G. Carleton Ray will probe the role of the Pacific walrus in the ecosystem of the Bering Sea — one of the most biologically rich areas on the planet, exceeding the tropical oceans with its array of seabirds, whales, seals, clams and other marine life.
Posted 04/26/07

Two U.Va. Engineering Students Receive 2007 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships
University of Virginia computer science graduate students Isabelle Stanton and Wei Le are among the 20 students nationwide who were honored by Google this April with 2007 Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships.
Posted 04/26/07

Nobel Laureate Lecture Reflects on Science and Life
Nobel Prize-winning chemist John C. Polanyi gave a public lecture titled “A Life in Science” on April 19 in the Rotunda’s Dome Room as a part of the University of Virginia Nobel Laureate Science Lecture Series.
Posted 04/26/07

Largest Gift in University History: Frank Batten Sr. Gives $100 Million to Create New School of Leadership and Public Policy at U.Va.
On the eve of University of Virginia Founder's Day, University President John T. Casteen III and Frank Batten Sr., one of the University's most loyal supporters, announced that Batten is giving $100 million to create the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
Posted 04/18/07

Developmental and Behavioral Problems Can Plague Children with Asthma
Much of the research surrounding childhood asthma has sought new approaches to managing the disease. However, little was done to address other conditions that often appear along with asthma including depression and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which can negatively affect a child’s ability to cope. Research completed at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital asserts that until these extra conditions or “co-morbidities” are addressed, asthma education programs will not be able to help young patients to the fullest. The results will be published in the April 12 issue of The Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
Posted 04/18/07

U.Va. Recruits Joseph S. Takahashi, World-Renowned Circadian Biologist
Joseph S. Takahashi, one of the world’s leading biological clock researchers and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, has been recruited to the faculty of the University of Virginia. President John T. Casteen III announced the agreement April 13, 2007 during a University Board of Visitors meeting.
Posted 04/18/07

U.Va. Graduate Students Earn Coveted NSF Fellowships
Five University of Virginia students recently secured highly esteemed National Science Foundation fellowships for projects beginning in 2007-08. The fellows will conduct research on a variety of original topics in a diverse range of fields, from archeology to engineering.
Posted 04/18/07

UVa School of Medicine Achieves Its Highest Ever Ranking In U.S. News & World Report Survey
The University of Virginia School of Medicine improved its ranking to 23rd in the nation for research-intensive schools in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Posted 04/12/07

Three U.Va. Students Named Goldwater Scholars
Three University of Virginia students are among the 317 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship recipients for 2007. The national scholarship, valued at $7,500 a year for up to two years, is open to rising third- and fourth-year students pursuing degrees in science, mathematics and engineering.
Posted 04/12/07

Virtual Lab an Actual Reality at U.Va.
In a world of virtual reality, online socialization and instant gratification, where does a child whose curiosity can only be satisfied by taking something apart and putting it back together again fit in?
Posted 04/12/07

U.Va. Hosts ACC Undergraduate Research Conference April 13-14
Although the Atlantic Coast Conference is known for competition among its members’ varsity sports teams, a two-day event hosted by the University of Virginia this month demonstrates that the league is about more than fun and games.
Posted 04/12/07

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry to Speak at U.Va.
Nobel Prize-winning chemist John C. Polanyi will give a public lecture titled “A Life in Science” on Thursday, April 19th at 5:00 p.m. in the Rotunda’s Dome Room as a part of the University of Virginia Nobel Laureate Science Lecture Series.
Posted 04/12/07

Biomedical Engineering Utilizes Coulter Foundation Award to Improve Treatments, Diagnostic Processes
In November 2006, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation awarded the Department of Biomedical Engineering at U.Va. one of nine $4.5 million Translational Research Partnership Awards in Biomedical Engineering. The goal of this partnership is to focus on outcomes that improve patient care.
Posted 04/05/07

Taxpayers Can Now Designate Donations for Cancer Research in Virginia
Citizens who want to provide more support to funding cancer research in Virginia may now do so on their 2006 income tax forms.
Posted 04/05/07

Elementary School Classrooms Get Low Rating on High-Quality Instruction
For all the current emphasis on standardized testing and teaching requirements, the quality of elementary school instruction is mediocre at best, according to a study from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development published in the March 30 issue of Science magazine.
Posted 04/05/07

University of Virginia Earns High Marks in U.S. News & World Report Guide to ‘America’s Best Graduate Schools 2008’
The University of Virginia once again received high marks for the quality of its graduate schools in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, released today in “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2008.”
Posted 04/05/07

U.Va. Spin-out Holds Promise for New Cancer Therapy
What if cancer could be treated with a daily pill? That is the innovative vision behind Tau Therapeutics, a development stage biotechnology company with roots at the University of Virginia.
Posted 04/05/07

Noninvasive Assessment of Plaque Deposits May Help Determine A Patient's Stroke Risk
A new study by researchers at the University of Virginia Health System may change the way physicians assess a patient's risk of having a stroke.
Posted 03/29/07

Aging with Grace
When you’re a student in your early 20s, being 93 may seem a long way off —perhaps even unimaginable. The 28 nursing students in a fall nursing class learned first-hand what it means to be a healthy older adult when Grace O’Brien, who was just a few weeks shy of her 94th birthday, visited the class and regaled them with stories about her life, which was not without illness or hardship.
Posted 03/29/07

Engineering School Professor Brings Tablet PCs, New Enthusiasm to Computer Engineering Course
Engineers are widely known for their desire to take things apart and put them back together in a way that makes them more effective. So perhaps it’s no surprise that Mircea Stan, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, is applying these classic engineering traits to the very process of engineering education.
Posted 03/29/07

U.Va. Projects Win NCARB Prizes; EcoMOD Sweeps Major Architectural Education Awards
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Prize jury has selected the University of Virginia as the $25,000 grand prize winner and one of five $7,500 finalists of the 2007 NCARB Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy.
Posted 03/29/07

U.Va. Chemical Engineer Acquires Esteemed CAREER Award
David Green, assistant professor of chemical engineering at U.Va., recently obtained a $400,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant for his breakthrough research in polymer nanocomposites.
Posted 03/29/07

U.Va. Engineering School Secures Three MURI Grants from Department of Defense
The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science has won three of the 36 program awards from the highly competitive federal Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Program. The awards will bring in almost $20 million in funding over the next five years.
Posted 03/22/07

Age Estimates Show Rural Communities Short of Younger Workers
Providing a competitive workforce will become significantly more difficult in some areas of the commonwealth in the near future, according to 2006 population estimates by age and gender developed by the Demographics and Workforce section of the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Posted 03/20/07

Architecture Dean Designs a Space for Women’s Work
Female faculty members are still in the minority at academic institutions across the country. Karen Van Lengen, dean of the School of Architecture, has established “Women’s Work”—a forum for women’s research to help counteract some of the effects of this disparity at U.Va.
Posted 03/20/07

University of Virginia Engineering Professor Wins "Rising Star" Grant
Benton Calhoun, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, is among 24 faculty from 19 universities identified as “rising stars in microsystems research” and selected to receive Young Faculty Awards from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Posted 03/15/07

With Journey to India, Students Bring Human Rights Research to Life
Frequent terrorist attacks, human trafficking, police corruption, refugee crisis, and widespread poverty aren’t usually words used in concert with “democracy,” yet they are problems that can exist in any democracy, even the largest in the world: India.
Posted 03/15/07

U.Va. Medical Center, Morrison Management Specialist Fighting Obesity with Red, Yellow, Green Traffic Signals for HealthTM
The University of Virginia Medical Center in cooperation with Morrison Management Specialist continues its fight against obesity with the launch of the Signals for HealthTM program.
Posted 03/15/07

Climate Change in Bering Sea Could Adversely Affect Humans and Walruses Alike
G. Carleton Ray, his wife and research partner, Jerry McCormick-Ray, and colleagues Peter Berg and Howard Epstein, all of the Department of Environmental Sciences, think they know one of the secrets to the Bering Sea’s incredible biological productivity – the walruses’ prodigious feeding habits coupled with the dynamics of their relationship with the drifting sea ice.
Posted 03/15/07

Need More Shut Eye? New Online Study to Help People with Insomnia
If you are among the 30 percent of Americans who report having insomnia, a new Internet intervention may one day help you get better quality sleep. Developed at the University of Virginia Health System, Sleep Healthy Using the Internet or "SHUTi," is an online program designed to help people who have problems falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking too early.
Posted 03/15/07

Environmental Scientist Secures Highly Competitive NSF Award
Todd Scanlon, assistant professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Environmental Sciences, recently acquired a $449,800 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant for his novel environmental research.
Posted 03/15/07

U.Va.'s William Wulf Delivers Address at Engineering School's Industry Day
William A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering, vice chair of the National Research Council and AT&T Professor of Computer Science at U.Va., issued a stern warning to a lecture hall full of engineering professors on Feb. 23 — the nation is technologically illiterate, engineering students are dropping out and engineering professors have not kept up with teaching techniques or honed their own engineering skills.
Posted 03/08/07

U.Va. Cancer Team Wins Competitive Award to Find Prostate Cancer Treatment
U.Va. Cancer Center Director Michael Weber, Ph.D., and his team of researchers have won a $100,000 grant to further their work toward a treatment for prostate cancer.
Posted 03/08/07

Systems Engineer Finds Meaning in Moving Patterns
In Ginger Davis’ world, patterns evolve as their constituent elements — some visible, some hidden — change over time and interact in a variety of ways. The assistant professor of systems engineering uses multivariate time series analysis to track these changes and understand their significance.
Posted 03/08/07

University of Virginia Named Newest Site for National Library of Medicine Informatics Research Training Program
The University of Virginia will become one of the National Library of Medicine’s 18 national sites providing training in medical informatics starting in June 2007.
Posted 03/01/07

Orthopaedic Surgery Team Successfully Creates Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tissue Using Synthetic Scaffolds
A research team led by Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Virginia Health System has created a synthetic matrix on which the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) can be regenerated effectively for treatment of ACL tears.
Posted 03/01/07

Older Adults May be Unreliable Eyewitness, Study Shows
A University of Virginia study suggests that older adults are not only more inclined than younger adults to make errors in recollecting details that have been suggested to them, but are also more likely than younger people to have a very high level of confidence in their recollections, even when wrong. The finding has implications regarding the reliability of older persons’ eyewitness testimonies in courtrooms.
Posted 03/01/07

Professor John Dorning Elected to National Academy of Engineering
John J. Dorning, Whitney Stone Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, professor of engineering physics and professor of applied mathematics in the University of Virginia’s Engineering Physics Program (Department of Materials Science and Engineering), has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Posted 03/01/07

Innovative Morphogenesis Research Nets $500,000 Grant
Martin Schwartz, professor of microbiology and biomedical engineering, and Douglas DeSimone, professor of cell biology, have been awarded $500,000 by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at U.Va. for their pioneering research in cell morphogenesis.
Posted 03/01/07

Top U.Va. Graduate Students Earn Awards for Excellence in Scholarship
The Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies announces the 2007 recipients of its awards for excellence in scholarship.
Posted 02/15/07

Philip Morris USA Supports Medical Research and Business Leadership with $25 Million Gift to U.Va.
The University of Virginia recently announced that it will receive a $25 million gift from Richmond-based Philip Morris USA.
Posted 02/15/07

Computer Science Professor John C. Knight Honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
John C. Knight, professor of computer science at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received the 2006 Harlan D. Mills award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society.
Posted 02/15/07

U.Va. Engineering Professor Emeritus Receives ASME Medal
James G. Simmonds, emeritus professor of structural and solid mechanics at the University of Virginia, was recently awarded the Worcester Reed Warner Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Posted 02/20/07

U.Va. Graduate Student Research Featured at Statewide Forum
Six graduate students from the University of Virginia showcased their innovative research at the Second Annual Graduate Student Research Forum at the State Library of Virginia in Richmond on February 6.
Posted 02/15/07

Chemical Engineering Professor Earns Prestigious NSF Grant
Steven McIntosh, assistant professor of chemical engineering at U.Va., recently received a $400,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant for his pioneering work on solid oxide fuel cells.
Posted 02/15/07

Parents' Genes, Not Parents' Arguing, May Cause Children's Conduct Problems
Children’s conduct problems -- skipping school, sneaking out of the house, lying to parents, shoplifting, or bullying other children -- are a major source of concern for parents and teachers. As a potential cause of these problems, parents’ marital conflict has received a lot of research attention. Now a new University of Virginia study finds that parents’ fighting may not be to blame but rather that parents who argue a lot may pass on genes for disruptive behavior to their children.
Posted 02/08/07

January Term: Offering Students Unique Courses at Home and Abroad
Before the 2007 spring semester began, hundreds of U.Va. students enjoyed new academic adventures during J-Term. The two-week, three-credit, intensive program increased to 36 classes — some firsttime offerings and some brought back by popular demand. The number of study abroad sessions doubled from four to eight.
Posted 02/08/07

U.Va. Scientists Identify 'Missing Link' in Process Leading to Alzheimer's Disease
Scientists at the University of Virginia have identified what appears to be a major missing link in the process that destroys nerve cells in Alzheimer’s disease, an incurable disease that slowly destroys memory and cognitive abilities. The findings are reported in the Nov. 20, 2006, issue of the Journal of Cell Biology and could eventually lead to new drugs that target and disrupt specific proteins that conspire in the brain to cause Alzheimer’s.
Posted 02/08/07

U.Va. Addresses Graduate Student Diversity Issues
The University of Virginia hosted its inaugural graduate student diversity retreat themed “Thriving in Graduate School” on January 27 at the Best Western Cavalier Inn.
Posted 02/08/07

Governor Kaine Names U.Va.'s George Hornberger Outstanding Scientist
Governor Timothy M. Kaine and Science Museum of Virginia Director Dr. Walter R. T. Witschey announced Jan. 30 that George Hornberger, the Ernest H. Ern Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, is one of five Outstanding Scientists and Industrialists of 2007.
Posted 02/02/07

U.Va. Environmental Science Professor Named Outstanding Scientist
Gov. Tim Kaine, in conjunction with the Science Museum of Virginia, announced University Environmental Science Prof. George Milton Hornberger as one of three of Virginia's Outstanding Scientists of 2007. The Cavailier Daily, 01/31/07.
Posted 02/01/07

Reviving Klezmer Music: Rubin is Scholar and Performer of this Centuries-Old Tradition
Joel Rubin did not start out pursuing a performance career in klezmer music. Classically trained on the clarinet, he discovered while exploring a variety of musical genres early in his career that the music spoke to him.
Posted 02/01/07

Finding New Strategies For Population Control Is Focus of Innovative Fellowship Program at U.Va.
Cutting-Edge Training Eases Asia's ‘Brain Drain' and Fosters Scientific Statesmanship
Posted 02/01/07

University of Virginia Engineering Professor Selected as Member of NASA Team Charged with Understanding Mars
Robert E. Johnson, the John Lloyd Newton Professor of Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering Physics at the University of Virginia, has been chosen as a member of a team that will develop a concept study for an orbiting space mission to Mars slated to launch in 2011.
Posted 02/01/07

Virginia’s Nanotechnology Efforts Featured at General Assembly Day
The University of Virginia and its partners throughout the state continue to take the lead in research and development involving nanotechnology. In Richmond on January 24, the Joint Commission on Technology and Science sponsored Nanotechnology Day at the Virginia General Assembly.
Posted 02/01/07

U.Va.’s Teaching Resource Center Shapes Future Professors
The University of Virginia’s Teaching Resource Center is filling a practical gap in graduate education through its Tomorrow’s Professor Today program. The program helps students learn the skills they need not only to secure faculty positions after graduation, but also to excel in their new careers.
Posted 02/01/07

Recent Nobel Laureate in Physics Speaks at U.Va.
The 2005 Nobel Prize winner in physics, Theodor Hänsch, gave a lecture on Thursday, January 25 to a large crowd in the Dome Room of the Rotunda.
Posted 02/01/07

Internationally Acclaimed Environmental Conservationist Robert L. Pressey to Give Lecture at U.Va.
Renowned conservationist Robert L. Pressey will give a public talk on Tuesday, Jan. 30 at the University of Virginia. Pressey's lecture, "Science and Politics in Conservation Planning," is sponsored by the Department of Environmental Sciences and will be in Clark Hall, Room 108 at 4 p.m.
Posted 01/26/07

Skrutskie Earns National Academy’s Watson Medal
The National Academy of Sciences has awarded the James Craig Watson Medal to Michael F. Skrutskie, professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia, for his leadership of a major project that surveyed the entire sky in the infrared, providing the first-ever “bird’s-eye view” of the Milky Way.
Posted 01/26/07

Luce Foundation to Fund Tibetan & Himalayan Historical GIS
A recent $325,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation will assist David Germano, associate professor of Tibetan and Buddhist studies, with an unprecedented undertaking—a comprehensive, historical mapping of Tibet and the Himalayas.
Posted 01/23/07

UVa Ranks No. 1 in Lung Transplants: Hospital Has Highest Survivability Rate in Nation
Patients who receive a lung transplant at the University of Virginia Medical Center have a better chance of surviving the operation than at any other hospital in the nation, a new ranking suggests.
Posted 01/18/07

SEAS Graduate Students Take Second Place in National System-on-Chip Design Challenge
A team of six U.Va. electrical engineering graduate students took second place in the final phase of the SRC/SIA System-on-Chip Design Challenge this past October, outscoring teams from 37 of the best university semiconductor engineering programs in the country.
Posted 01/18/07

U.Va.'s Dr. Anita Clayton Releases New Book
Dr. Anita Clayton, one of the world’s preeminent experts on women’s sexuality and a psychiatrist with the University of Virginia Health System, releases a book based on her extensive research and clinical experience with women.
Posted 01/18/07

Pioneering Chemistry Professor Donald F. Hunt Honored by Journal
In honor of a 40-year career as a pioneer in the field of mass spectrometry, the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry has devoted an entire issue to Donald F. Hunt, University Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia.
Posted 01/18/07

Astronomers Discover Halo of Red Giant Stars Around Andromeda
U.Va. astronomers have found an enormous halo of stars bound to the Andromeda galaxy and extending far beyond the swirling disk seen in images of the famous galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor. The discovery, reported Jan. 7 at the semi-annual American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, suggests that Andromeda is as much as five times larger than astronomers had previously thought.
Posted 01/11/07

U.Va. Nursing Professor Receives Research Award
The Southern Nursing Research Society has granted its 2007 Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award to Dr. Richard H. Steeves, the Madeline Higginbotham Sly Professor of Nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing.
Posted 01/11/07

U.Va. Receives Award for Human Research Protection
The University of Virginia recently won an Award for Excellence in Human Research Protection from the Health Improvement Institute for its best practice, Human Subject Research Post Approval Monitoring and Education (PAM and ED) program.
Posted 01/11/07

U.Va. Chemistry Professor Earns Esteemed NSF Award
Jill Venton, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia, was recently rewarded for her innovative work in neurochemistry with a $550,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program.
Posted 01/11/07

Professor Robert Kelly's Rust Research Proves Valuable to Pentagon 9/11 Memorial
A ground-breaking ceremony for the memorial to commemorate the people who died in the September 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon took place on June 15, 2006, in Arlington, Va. Among the 150 family members and other guests invited to attend the event was Robert Kelly, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Virginia, who served as a consultant on the project.
Posted 01/03/07

Male Contraception: UVa Discovery Stirring Interest Among Basic Scientists And Drug Developers
In a study recently published online by Developmental Biology, members of Dr. John Herr's laboratory at the University of Virginia Health System report the discovery of a new protein within a sperm's tail that could prove a key target for male contraceptive drugs.
Posted 01/03/07

Computer Science Professor Anita Jones Awarded IEEE Founders Medal
Anita K. Jones, University Professor and Lawrence R. Quarles Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the recipient of the 2007 Founders Medal by the IEEE, the world’s leading association for the advancement of technology.
Posted 01/03/07

Neurogeneticist to Serve on Prestigious NIH Committee
Heidi Scrable, associate professor of neuroscience at the University of Virginia, was recently invited to serve as a member of the Center for Scientific Review’s Cellular Mechanisms in Aging and Development Study Section.
Posted 01/03/07

U.Va. Professor Honored by North American Catalysis Society
Robert J. Davis, professor and chair of the chemical engineering department at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been awarded the 2007 Paul H. Emmett Award by the North American Catalysis Society in recognition of his contributions in the field of catalysis.
Posted 01/03/07

U.Va. Researcher Finds High-Quality Marriages Help to Calm Nerves
A University of Virginia neuroscientist has found that women under stress who hold their husbands' hands show signs of immediate relief, which can clearly be seen on their brain scans
Posted 12/20/06

University of Virginia Named to PC Magazine’s 2007 List of Top 20 Wired Colleges
PC Magazine has recognized the University of Virginia as one of its 2007 Top 20 Wired Colleges.
Posted 12/20/06

U.Va. Professor Emeritus Wins 2006 Science Award from Phi Beta Kappa Society
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of the Climate by William F. Ruddiman (Princeton University Press, 2005) received the 2006 Science Award. The $2,500 award is given annually by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Posted 12/20/06

Neurogeneticist to Serve on Prestigious NIH Grant Review Team

U.Va. Receives NIH Grant to Train the Next Generation of Investigators in Kidney Disease Research
Dr. Mark Okusa was recently awarded a 5-year, $583,000 NIH training grant on behalf of the Division of Nephrology to train the next generation of investigators in kidney disease research.
Posted 12/20/06

U.Va. Health System Reports Significant Survival Advantage for Elderly Lung Transplant Patients
UVA Health System reports significant survival advantage for elderly lung transplant patients.
Posted 12/13/06

Bridging Two Worlds: Gustavo Pellón Translates Seminal Work of Mexican Revolution
Gustavo Pellón has dedicated his life to bridging two cultures—combining his Spanish heritage as a native of Cuba with life in the United States, where he has lived since age 10. With his latest project, the translation of the iconic novel of the Mexican Revolution, Pellón has again brought these worlds together in a way that he hopes will increase understanding of Latin America in his adopted homeland.
Posted 12/13/06

IATH Receives IBM Research Grant
U.Va.'s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities will use the IBM Shared University Research Grant to enhance its virtual reality and visualization capabilities.
Posted 12/13/06

Exploring the Potential Health Benefits of Yoga
Kim Innes, assistant professor with U.Va.'s Center for the Study of Alternative and Complementary Therapies, recently received a $375,000 grant award to conduct a study about the effects of yoga on women’s heart health.
Posted 12/12/06

Interim Director Named for Institute on Aging
John Nesselroade, professor in the Department of Psychology and renowned expert in aging research, has been named interim director of the University of Virginia’s Institute on Aging.
Posted 11/28/06

‘President’s Honor Roll’ Cites U.Va. for Excellence in Community Service
The University of Virginia has been named one of 10 national finalists for the President’s Higher Education Community Service Award for Excellence in General Community Service by the federal Corporation for National and Community Service.
Posted 11/28/06

U.Va. Law, Psychiatry Professors Receive Grant to Study Elder Abuse
University of Virginia law professor Thomas Hafemeister and psychiatry professor Shelly Jackson have received a grant of nearly $300,000 from the National Institute of Justice to investigate financial abuse and other forms of mistreatment of the elderly in Virginia.
Posted 12/06/06

UVA Neurologist Developing Treatments for Seizures Caused By Nerve Agents
Jaideep Kapur recently received a 5-year, $2.3 million grant from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to develop treatments for nerve agent-induced seizures.
Posted 11/28/06

Mellon Foundation to Support Digital Humanities Project at U.Va.
With a $798,000 gift to the University of Virginia, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City has extended its support for digital scholarship in the humanities.
Posted 11/28/06

Psychology Professor Named Fellow by the AAAS
Judy S. DeLoache, the Kenan Professor of Psychology, has been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
Posted 11/28/06

Leading International Scientists to Join School of Medicine Faculty
Broad Applications of Thisses’ Work Will Lead to Understanding of How Cells Develop, Birth Defects and How Cells Become Cancerous
Posted 12/06/06

Entrepreneur Sheila C. Johnson's $5 Million Gift to U.Va.'s Curry School of Education Will Create New Center for Human Services
Businesswoman Sheila C. Johnson, an advocate for the protection of children and co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), has pledged $5 million to the Curry School of Education to establish a center for human services at the school.
Posted 12/06/06

U.Va. Researchers Study Link Between "Alzheimer's Gene" and Protection from Early Childhood Diarrhea
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Federal University of Ceará in Brazil have joined forces to study if the gene believed to contribute to Alzheimer's protects children from the developmental stresses of early childhood diarrhea.
Posted 11/28/06

U.Va. School of Nursing Ranks #1 in NRSA Awards
According to the 2005 rankings recently released by the National Institutes of Health, eight graduate students at the University of Virginia School of Nursing won National Research Service Award fellowships, more winners than at any other nursing school in the nation.
Posted 11/28/06

Three From U.Va. Receive ‘Best Student Paper Awards’ at 55th Virginia Transportation Conference
Three University of Virginia engineering graduate students recently received Best Student Paper Awards at the 55th annual Virginia Transportation Conference, held this year in Roanoke.
Posted 12/06/06

The Terahertz Window on the World
The terahertz spectrum, wedged between the infrared wavelengths and microwave, used to be terra incognito, but no more.
Posted 12/20/06

Renowned Conservationist Robert L. Pressey Appointed as Thomas Jefferson Foundation Visiting Professor
Robert L. Pressey, an internationally acclaimed conservation biologist in the field of systematic environmental planning, has been appointed to a Thomas Jefferson Foundation Visiting Professorship in the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture.
Posted 12/06/06

To the Higgs Particle and Beyond: U.Va. Physics
U.Va.’s High Energy Physics Group, led by Brad Cox, is a member of a major international physics undertaking, the Compact Muon Solenoid Detector (CMS) experiment.
Posted 12/20/06

U.Va.'s New State-of-the-Art Facility to Transform Research in Nanotechnology
The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science dedicated Wilsdorf Hall, a $43.4 million state-of-the-art facility designed to foster collaborative research in materials science and engineering, chemical engineering and nanotechnology, in a ceremony attended by more than 250 people.
Posted 11/13/06

Tissue Engineer Finding Ways to Build Bones
Tissue engineers, among them the University of Virginia’s Edward Botchwey, are devising new ways not simply to repair bone, but to restore it to health.
Posted 11/13/06

U.Va.'s New State-of-the-Art Facility to Transform Research in Nanotechnology and Engineering
The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science will dedicate Wilsdorf Hall, a $43.4 million state-of-the-art facility designed to foster collaborative research in materials science and engineering, chemical engineering and nanotechnology on Friday, Nov. 10.
Posted 11/10/06

Chronic Jet-Lag Conditions Hasten Death in Aged Mice
Researchers at the University of Virginia have found that aged mice undergoing weekly light-cycle shifts — similar to those that humans experience with jet lag or rotating shift work—experienced significantly higher death rates than did old mice kept on a normal daylight schedule over the same eight-week period.
Posted 11/09/06

Evaluating the Environmental Justice Movement
Christopher Foreman, professor of public policy and director of the Social Policy Program at the University of Maryland, spoke recently at the University of Virginia about the successes and challenges of the environmental justice movement.
Posted 11/09/06

Forum Explores Katrina and Race / Julian Bond Tells Gathering at U.Va. the Storm Revealed Disparities, Social Inequality
Julian Bond opened a symposium on the racial implications of the Hurricane Katrina disaster by describing the Bush administration's response as a "gumbo of inaction, insensitivity and incompetence."
Posted 11/06/06

U.Va. Announces Distinguished Scientist Award Winners
The Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies announces two inaugural winners of the U.Va. Distinguished Scientist Award: Brian R. Duling, a prominent cardiovascular researcher, and Herman H. “Hank” Shugart Jr., leading systems ecologist.
Posted 11/09/06

U.Va. Hosts Expert in Aging Research
John Rowe, renowned aging researcher, spoke recently at the University of Virginia about the economic, social and political implications of the forthcoming aging boom.
Posted 11/02/06

A Revolution in Metallurgy
More than 20 years ago, physicist Joseph Poon was searching for a book at the U.Va. library, only to find out that materials scientist Gary Shiflet had already taken it out. Poon tracked Shiflet down, and the two men found that they shared other interests as well — particularly the nascent field of amorphous metals.
Posted 11/02/06

U.Va.'s Inaugural Symposium on Race and Society to Focus on Hurricane Katrina
The University of Virginia will host the inaugural Symposium on Race and Society from Nov. 2 through 4, focusing on topics related to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina.
Posted 11/02/06

U.Va. Professor, Physician Selected as Global Health Ambassador
Dr. Richard Guerrant, Thomas H. Hunter Professor of Internal Medicine and founder and director of the Center for Global Health at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has been named an Ambassador in the Paul Rogers Society for Global Health Research. Guerrant is one of the society's founding cadre of 25 ambassadors.
Posted 11/02/06

Examining the Environmental Risks Facing Children
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, professor of philosophy and biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, recently spoke at U.Va. about environmental policy development and the impact of pesticides on children’s health.
Posted 11/02/06

U.Va. Environmental Negotiator Leads Major U.S. Conference Session
Frank Dukes, director of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation, served as lead facilitator for “National Dialogue on Children and Nature,” the largest-ever U.S. conference focusing on the decline of children’s connection to nature and the alarming effects on their health and educational and social development.
Posted 10/26/06

Fighting Crime Through Systems Engineering
Jamie Conklin and his colleagues in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering have developed a novel tool for crime prevention.
Posted 10/26/06

U.Va. Study May Lead to New Treatments for Melanoma, Ovarian Cancer and More
Most of us may not realize it, but our cells have their own early warning and defense mechanisms against cancer. Understanding how these mechanisms operate and how they may be used to thwart cancer from developing or spreading has been the focus of Dr. Angela Zarling and her research team at the University of Virginia Health System.
Posted 10/19/06

U.Va. Research Park’s Town Center Two Opens
Citing it as an example of the intersection of academic research and commercial application, John T. Casteen III, president of the University of Virginia, and Tim R. Rose, chief executive officer of the University of Virginia Foundation, celebrated the opening of Town Center Two building, at 1001 Research Park Boulevard in the University of Virginia Research Park.
Posted 10/19/06

U.Va. Visiting Scientist Nominated for Global Conservation Award
Simon Stuart, visiting scientist in the Department of Environmental Sciences at U.Va., is one of six finalists for the 2006 Indianapolis Prize. This new and prestigious award honors individuals who have spurred substantial advances in animal species conservation.
Posted 10/19/06

U.Va. Fostering Diversity Through Leadership Alliance
The University of Virginia recently joined the Leadership Alliance as a part of its commitment to attracting a diverse group of students to its graduate programs.
Posted 10/19/06

Commerce Professor Working to Finance a Sustainable Future
Mark White, associate professor in the McIntire School of Commerce, is integrating his knowledge of two distinct areas—finance and environmental science—in order to cultivate sustainable business ideas.
Posted 10/19/06

U.Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center Hosts Conference on U.S. Population Milestone
Recognizing the 300 million population milestone for the United States and Virginia, U.Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service hosted an interdisciplinary conference including speaker Charles L. Kincannon, director of the U.S. Census Bureau
Posted 10/12/06

U.Va. Engineer Seeks to Improve Child Car Seat Safety
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, car crashes are the leading cause of death for children from 2 to 14 years old. In 2003, there were 2,136 children aged 2-14 who were killed in car accidents in the United States. And there were another 220,000 children in that age group who suffered injuries while riding in vehicles involved in accidents.
Posted 10/12/06

U.Va. Researchers Receive $1.5 Million to Develop Office-Based Cancer Screening Test
Patients go to see their doctors for answers, but when it comes to cancer, physicians admit they need better tests to detect the earliest cancers. While certain tests can indicate the possibility of prostate cancer or cervical cancer, a simple office-based test to monitor patients for cancer currently is not available to doctors and their patients.
Posted 10/12/06

U.Va. Patent Foundation Launches 'Angel Fund'
The Jefferson Corner Group, an “angel fund” designed to invest in emerging technologies, is the latest effort by the University of Virginia Patent Foundation to help faculty inventors establish their own companies to market and sell products based on their research.
Posted 10/12/06

Curry Professor Aims to Help Struggling Readers
Paige Pullen, assistant professor in the Curry School of Education, recently completed a study measuring the effectiveness of a tutoring program for beginning readers.
Posted 10/12/06

U.Va. Studies Potential Target for Skin Cancer Treatment
When normal skin cells become a melanoma tumor, they sometimes turn on genes not usually found in the skin. According to researchers at the University of Virginia Health System, some of these genes are normally active in the male testis at the time sperm are formed.
Posted 10/05/06

Addressing Issues of Environmental Justice
Edwardo Rhodes, professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University, offered a fresh perspective to questions of environmental justice in a talk at U.Va. last week.
Posted 10/05/06

Montessori Education Provides Better Outcomes Than Traditional Methods, Study Indicates
A study comparing outcomes of children at a public inner-city Montessori school with children who attended traditional schools indicates that Montessori education leads to children with better social and academic skills.
Posted 10/05/06

U.Va. Engineering Graduate Program Ranked Third by Princeton Review
The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science graduate program was ranked third in the country by the Princeton Review in its first-ever list of the Top 20 Graduate Engineering Programs, released Sept. 22.
Posted 10/05/06

U.Va. Launches Bold $3 Billion Fund-Raising Campaign
Pledging to secure a permanent position among the top universities in the world, the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors publicly launched the Campaign for the University of Virginia: Knowledge is Power on September 29, 2006, announcing that gifts and pledges of more than $1 billion have already been received toward the goal of $3 billion.
Posted 10/12/06

U.Va. Receives $2.5 Million Gift from Anheuser-Busch Companies to Establish National Social Norms Institute
The University of Virginia recently announced the establishment of the National Social Norms Institute to conduct ongoing research into the effectiveness of social norms methodology to combat high-risk drinking among students and has received a $2.5 million gift from the Anheuser-Busch Companies to help fund the project.
Posted 09/27/06

Investigating the History of a Disease
Christian McMillen, assistant professor of history at U.Va., is interested in understanding more about how TB became widespread among certain groups of people historically and how it was combated.
Posted 09/27/06

Big Science Hires
Stephen S. Rich, one of the world’s leading epidemiologist and geneticists, and John T. Yates Jr., a world-renowned physical and surface chemist and a member of the National Academy of Science, have been named to the faculty of the University of Virginia.
Posted 09/22/06

U.Va. Receives $35.7 Million Grant Renewal for Collaborative Research on Cell Migration
The University of Virginia School of Medicine's Cell Migration Consortium grant has been renewed for five years. The $35.7 million "glue" grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), a part of the NIH, brings the total NIH funding to the project to more than $73 million.
Posted 09/21/06

U.Va. Host to International Conference on Laser Technologies
Experts from all over the world converged in Charlottesville in early September to discuss new developments as well as the current state of laser technologies at the 5th International Conference on Photo-Excited Processes and Applications (ICPEPA-5).
Posted 09/21/06

Space Grant Fueling Student Research at U.Va.
In 1989, NASA initiated the Space Grant Program. Since then, funding has been awarded to over 12,000 students nationwide to support research and education projects related to science, engineering and technology.
Posted 09/21/06

U.Va. Security Projects Run Gamut
Federally funded university programs increase since 9/11
Posted 09/14/06

U.Va. Launches New Spinquest Center for Nanotech Research
Launched this summer at U.Va.’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, the SpinQuest Center will support interdisciplinary research into the spin of electrons and explore ways to harness that phenomenon to take information processing to the next level.
Posted 09/14/06

Dominion to Support Expansion of Historic Building and Environmental Initiatives at U.Va.
Grants from Dominion totaling $520,000 will support a range of initiatives at the University of Virginia, including expansion of a century-old building for business studies, an ongoing analysis of mountain streams, and collaborative approaches to natural resource management.
Posted 09/14/06

U.Va. Professor Receives $186,000 NEH Grant
Thanks to an $186,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Virginia Italian professor Deborah Parker will bring to life the poet’s journey through the afterlife for students and scholars alike.
Posted 09/14/06

Engineer is Enhancing Human-Computer Interactions
In this age of information overload Stephanie Guerlain is diligently working to ensure that interactions between humans and technology are as effective as they can be.
Posted 09/14/06

U.Va. Receives $9 Million Grant for Diabetes and Atherosclerosis Research
To help UVa's research, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has renewed a $9.15 million grant to Dr. Jerry Nadler, chief of the UVa Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Posted 09/07/06

Recovering Music and Traditions in Post-Katrina New Orleans
SherriLynn Colby-Bottel, U.Va. doctoral candidate in anthropology, now sees her dissertation research “framed not just by disaster, but more importantly, by recovery.”
Posted 09/07/06

Striving for Classrooms that Promote Success
Curry School Associate Professor Sara Rimm-Kaufman is part of a growing movement to examine current teaching practices to determine if they make a real difference.
Posted 11/13/06

Toxic Molecule May Cause Most Common Type of Muscular Dystrophy
Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System have shown for the first time that getting rid of poisonous RNA (ribonucleic acid) in muscle cells can reverse myotonic dystrophy, the most common type of muscular dystrophy in adults.
Posted 08/31/06

U.Va. Celebrates Opening of New Coastal Research Center
A dedication ceremony for the University of Virginia’s new $2.5 million Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center was held at the facility on the Eastern Shore on Saturday, Aug. 26.
Posted 08/31/06

Examining Gender-based Differences in Addiction
Research suggests that vulnerability to drug addiction differs by gender. But only a handful of laboratories in the country are specifically studying this phenomenon. Wendy Lynch's lab is one of them.
Posted 08/31/06

U.Va. Graduate Student Selected to Attend Prestigious Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences
Jura Liaukonyte, a graduate student in economics at U.Va., has been selected by the NSF as one of 50 outstanding research participants to attend the 2nd Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences.
Posted 08/24/06

UVa Addiction Expert Says "No More Excuses" for Not Quitting Smoking
International addiction medicine expert Prof. Bankole Johnson, chairman of the University of Virginia Department of Psychiatric Medicine, was chosen to write an up-to-the-moment overview of new anti-smoking treatments for the current issue of Archives of Internal Medicine
Posted 08/24/06

U.Va. Engineering Student Helps Make the U.S. Emergency Ready
ReallyReady.org, the Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) new emergency preparedness Web site, launched on August 1, 2006, with a current SEAS student at its helm.
Posted 08/24/06

Galactic Mergers and Acquisitions
Astronomer finds two supermassive black holes heading for a collision.
Posted 09/07/06

Sociologist Analyzes the Lasting Implications of Empire
When boundaries between countries and peoples become more and more unclear, what are the consequences? Such questions are driving Krishan Kumar's research.
Posted 08/24/04

Engineering for the Global Good
Biomedical Engineering Undergrad Researches HIV Prevention Among Sex Worker Population in Thailand
Posted 08/17/06

U.Va.’s Weldon Cooper Center Releases its First-Ever Study of Age and Gender Estimates for Virginia
Virginia’s school-age population grew by 125,000 between 2000 and 2005, while the elderly population increased by 77,000, according to a new study released by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center.
Posted 08/17/06

Curry Professor Champions Child Literacy
Children in Virginia are reading easier and earlier, thanks to a special diagnostic and screening tool developed at the University of Virginia.
Posted 08/17/06

Is candor best?
Telling the story of Colonial Williamsburg is complicated.
Posted 08/09/06

Engineer Finds Promise in Collaborative Research
Matthew Begley is among a growing community of researchers at the University of Virginia and worldwide that work and think on a scale so tiny that it is not even comprehensible to many of us.
Posted 08/10/06

U.Va. Professor Appears in Fortune
Stuart Wolf, a physicist and professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was quoted in a Fortune Magazine article this week.
Posted 08/03/06

Ice Sheets Drive Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels, Inverting Previous Ice-Age Theory, New Study Shows
Environmental scientist provides a novel explanation for the rhythms of the ice ages.
Posted 08/03/06

U.Va. Education Professor Wins Presidential Research Award
Laura M. Justice, a clinical speech-language pathologist at U.Va.'s Curry School of Education who specializes in research on early language and literacy skills, received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers on July 26.
Posted 08/03/06

FEST Partnership Sparks International Collaboration
A new, international partnership between the University of Virginia and Budapest University of Technology and Economics is encouraging important, collaborative research projects.
Posted 08/03/06

U.Va. Hosts National Nanotech Conference
U.Va.’s NanoQuEST Institute recently hosted a national conference focused around device engineering research at the nanoscale level.
Posted 08/03/06

Professor Tackles Questions of Race
Ruth Hill is an associate professor of Spanish at U.Va., but her title doesn’t begin to explain her research and teaching interests.
Posted 08/03/06

Obese Girls in Early Puberty At Risk for High Androgen Levels
Obese girls in the early stages of puberty are at risk for having high levels of androgens (sometimes called "male hormones"), a condition that may lead to health problems later, write a team of researchers from the University of Virginia Health System.
Posted 07/26/06

Show and Tell for Teachers
U.Va. $10 M Education Center Focuses on High-Quality Teaching Using Video and Latest Technology
Posted 07/26/06

Professor's Work Spans Disciplines
Bruce Holsinger’s work is not bound by a single discipline.
Posted 07/26/06

2005-06 FEST Funding Promotes Cutting-edge Research
The Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) Distinguished Young Investigator Grant program is serving its purpose, which is to support promising young faculty in their innovative research endeavors and to help them leverage external funding.
Posted 07/20/06

Diabetes Drug May Also Treat Alzheimer's Disease
New research at the University of Virginia Health System and Case Western Reserve University shows that a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat type 2 diabetes may hold promise in treating Alzheimer's as well, without serious side effects.
Posted 07/20/06

SEAS Hosts NSF Summer Program
The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science is hosting a National Science Foundation program this summer for talented college students interested in developing computer software to solve modern medical problems.
Posted 07/20/06

Cooperative Biomedical Research Shows Amazing Potential
Two U.Va. faculty members have found success and great promise through collaborative research that incorporates distinct, yet complementary cell types.
Posted 07/20/06

U.Va. Engineering Professor to Receive IEEE Award for Exceptional Teaching of Graduate Students
Toby Berger, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, has been named the recipient of the Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award “for sustained excellence in graduate education and research in information theory” by the IEEE. The IEEE is the world’s leading profofessional association for the advancement of technology.
Posted 07/13/06

What Teenagers Want
Allen, Pianta Team Up to Help Teachers Connect with Students
Posted 07/13/06

Mathematician Defies Tradition
As an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia, Irina Mitrea is interested in solving a wide variety of problems, though not in a conventional manner.
Posted 07/13/06

Cool To Do Well in School
With 70 to 100 students in the capstone course on contemporary educational issues, assistant professor of education Scott Imig wondered how to make the most of the students’ enthusiasm and accumulated knowledge. He took an idea from business schools where the students work with real companies on real problems, and got his students working with a real “client” — a local school — on a real problem.
Posted 07/06/06

Joyriders vs. Jaywalkers: U.Va.'s Peter Norton Examines a Collision of Cultures
“Look both ways for cars before you cross the street.” That’s one of the most important warnings American children hear when they’re old enough to walk alone. That’s because we live in a culture in which cars, trucks and SUVs rule the streets.
Posted 07/06/06

Health System Researchers Develop a Model for AIDS-Related Cancer Study
In the month that marks the 25th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS in the United States, University of Virginia Health System researchers have published pioneering work describing a model system for long-term infection with a virus known as the Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), which causes Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) — the most common AIDS-related cancer worldwide and the original harbinger of the AIDS epidemic in this country.
Posted 07/06/06

University of Virginia’s Center for Global Health Selects 26 Students for Scholarship Program
The University of Virginia’s Center for Global Health has selected its 2006 Scholars in the only scholarship program of its kind that draws students from across the University. These new scholars are preparing to embark on summer, fall and spring research projects aimed at helping address health issues of the underprivileged in countries around the world.
Posted 06/29/06

U.Va. Students Explore “People, Culture and the Environment of Southern Africa”
Fifteen University of Virginia students and their faculty traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 23 for the study abroad course, “People, Culture and the Environment of Southern Africa.” An additional six students also traveled to Africa to conduct service-learning projects in local villages.
Posted 06/29/06

U.Va. to Host Nanotech Workshop
U.Va. is gearing up to host the 4th Annual Molecular Conduction and Sensors Workshop. The event presents an opportunity for discussion about challenges and opportunities within this swiftly growing and changing field.
Posted 06/29/06

Extraordinary Applications of Physics
Posted 06/29/06

Students Funded for International Study
Six Arts & Sciences graduate students have been awarded Fulbright-Hays fellowships for foreign study and a seventh has been named an alternate.
Posted 06/22/06

U.Va. Foundation Hosts Tenant Picnic
On Friday evening, June 9th, the UVA Foundation hosted a Tenant Appreciation Picnic at the University of Virginia Research Park adjacent to the airport on Route 29 North.
Posted 06/22/06

Research Park Encourages Collaboration
The University of Virginia Foundation recently hosted a tour of U.Va.’s Research Park at North Fork for staff from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies and other partners from across Grounds.
Posted 06/22/06

Darden Incubator to Assist in Translational Research
In the last year, an exciting new multidisciplinary collaboration has begun between Darden and the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Posted 06/22/06

U.Va. Study: Car Crashes Are More Deadly for Seniors
A study co-authored by a University of Virginia professor suggests that seniors citizens will die in car accidents at a higher rate in the years ahead as America’s 75 million baby boomers age, grow more frail and continue to drive.
Posted 06/22/06

Professor Challenges Perceptions
Rita Felski’s research deals with specific and often overlooked themes such as gender and everyday life.
Posted 06/19/06

Nobel Prize Winner Visits Charlottesville
Dr. Barry Marshall was in Charlottesville last weekend, for the first time since winning the Nobel Prize in 2005. Marshall’s friends, colleagues and former patients gathered in order to celebrate his accomplishments and his enduring impact on their lives.
Posted 06/14/06

Long-time U.Va. Employee Honored
Friends and colleagues joined Prue Thorner on June 12th in the Rotunda to commemorate her twenty-four years of service to the University of Virginia.
Posted 06/14/06

U.Va. Study Shows The Future Of U.S. Science Depends On Early Encouragement Of Students
Article originally appeared in U.Va. Top News- 05/25/06
What do you want to be when you grow up? Eighth-graders asked this question in 1988 were two to three times more likely to earn science and engineering degrees in college if their answer was a science-related career.
Posted 06/13/06--Article originally appeared in U.Va. Top News- 05/25/06

U.Va. Ranked among Top Universities Nationwide for Nanotechnology Programs
Small Times magazine has listed the University of Virginia among the top 10 universities in the country for the strength of its micro- and nanotechnology programs in its second annual survey of research universities.
Posted 06/13/06

U.Va. Engineering School Joins VA Nanotech Partnership, Wins NSF Innovation Grant
The University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science, one of six institutions that comprise the newly formed Virginia Partnership for Nanotechnology Education and Workforce Development, recently won a "Partnerships for Innovation" grant from the National Science Foundation.
Posted 06/08/06

Innovative "Technology for Teaching" Grant Targets Student Achievement
The University of Virginia has been selected as one of 40 two- and four-year colleges and universities nationwide to receive a 2006 HP Technology for Teaching Grant, which is designed to transform and improve learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology.
Posted 06/06/06

James Landers’ Work Provides Answers in the Blink of an Eye
Chemistry professor James Landers is a master of compression. He has reduced an entire laboratory for DNA analysis to a chip the size of a common everyday microscope slide.
Posted 06/06/06- Article by Charlie Feigenoff

CCM Honored for Hiring Refugees
The third annual IRC Employer Leadership Award will be presented to the University of Virginia Center for Comparative Medicine, in recognition of having hired twenty refugees, and giving them the opportunity to rebuild their lives in dignity.
Posted 06/09/06

Seminar Reveals Post-doc Opportunities
Is there life after academia? A panel of three professionals chatted with post-doctoral students in the University’s School of Medicine on May 26th regarding this significant question. According to them, the resounding answer appears to be “yes.”
Posted 06/02/06

Deep-sea Research
Gilhooly’s Helping to Redefine What Life Is
Posted 05/30/06

U.Va. Architecture Students Receive Merit Award In International Design Competition To Rebuild New Orleans
University of Virginia School of Architecture graduate students Justin Laskin and Kathleen Mark received a merit award in an international design competition held by McGraw-Hill Construction’s Architectural Record in partnership with Tulane University’s School of Architecture.
Posted 05/26/06

New Treatment for Cocaine Dependence Found
Researchers from the University of Virginia Health System have found that ondansetron, a serotonin antagonist drug, reduced cocaine’s reinforcing effects in people who volunteered to be part of the study. These findings are the first to show the value of ondansetron in battling cocaine and its addictive qualities.
Posted 05/25/06

Researcher Stalks Cowpea for the Best Genes
Michael P. Timko, Professor of Biology at the University of Virginia, has been involved in a variety of research projects in Africa since 1991. One of Dr. Timko’s current projects, the Cowpea Genomics Initiative (CGI), aims to help both farmers and consumers by identifying genes in cowpea that promote successful cowpea cultivation and improve plant productivity.
Posted 05/25/06

FEST Winner Builds Muscle Models
Posted 05/24/06

FEST Winner Links Brain Chemistry to Behavior
Jill Venton's lab is working toward real-time neurotransmitter analysis.
Posted 05/24/06

FEST Winner to Design Innovative Chip
Posted 05/24/06

FEST Winner Examines the Complexities of Neural Development
Posted 05/24/06

Innovative Ideas Reap Big Rewards for Junior Faculty
An internal grant program at the University of Virginia is giving choice young faculty in the sciences, engineering and medicine a career boost.
Posted 06/22/06

Ph.D. Candidates are Rewarded for Excellence
This spring, a modest increase in state support for graduate student funding was used to create two new fellowships- the “Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences” and the “Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences and Engineering.”
Posted 05/24/06

Assistant to the Associate VP for Research and Graduate Studies Hired
Graduate Studies in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies (VPRGS) at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce the hiring of David Wolcott as the new Assistant to the Associate VP for Research and Graduate Studies.
Posted 05/22/06

Researchers Seeking Better Odds for Asthma Sufferers
Close to 30 million adults and children in the United States have asthma. According to published reports, the condition is the third leading cause of hospitalization for children and costs the U.S. healthcare system approximately $11.3 billion per year. Numbers like these illustrate the need to help people with asthma improve the way they manage their illness. Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System Department of Family Medicine and community partners from Southern Health Services Inc., and ACAC Fitness and Wellness Center, are convinced that exercise is part of the answer.
Posted 05/17/06

Virginia Colleges and Universities Collaborate to Plug K-12 Schools into Super-Fast Networks
Virginia's K-12 schools, museums and libraries will be among the first in the nation to connect to both the National LambdaRail and Internet2 — providing better access to educational and research resources worldwide.
Posted 05/17/06

University of Virginia Patent Foundation Names Engineering Professor George Gillies 2006 Inventor of the Year
The University of Virginia Patent Foundation has named George T. Gillies, a research professor in mechanical and biomedical engineering at U.Va., as the recipient of its top award, the 2006 Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year Award.
Posted 06/22/06- Originally appeared in U.Va. Top News

U.Va. to Collaborate with Ecuadorian University
On 26-27 April the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies hosted a visit by the academic leadership at the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Littoral (ESPOL) in Guayaquil, Ecuador to explore mutual interests in research and education, particularly in environmental sciences and sustainable development.
Posted 05/05/06

All Aboard! the National LambdaRail High-performance Computing Now Available to Researchers
Big scientific journeys at the University of Virginia, once limited by computing capacity, now have a ticket to ride on the National LambdaRail, a nationwide high-performance computing network designed specifically to support research.
Posted 06/08/06

SRIP Aims for Long Term Diversity in the SOM
U.Va.’s School of Medicine (SOM) has been working to diversify its graduate student population with the help of a unique Summer Research Internship Program (SRIP).
Posted 05/02/06

Faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences Receive Grants
Awards for research were made in March to seventeen University of Virginia faculty members in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Posted 04/28/06

IATH Talk Features Hungarian Archaeologist
The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities sponsored a lecture, “Archaeological Parks in Hungary” on April 24th with Professor Elizabeth Jerem, of the Department of Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Miskolc, Hungary.
Posted 05/02/06

University of Virginia Professor’s Research with Hand-Held Device Brings Speech and Learning Skills to Impaired and Disabled Individuals
A middle-aged woman makes plans over the telephone to get together with a friend, even though she cannot talk after suffering a stroke. She is able to communicate using a hand-held device that speaks for her.
Posted 05/02/06

Pew Scholar Keeps Cancer Research in Focus
Todd Stukenberg has always been a “puzzle guy.” He also has a passion for science, and during his junior year as a premed undergraduate student at Cornell Medical School both of those interests united into one calling. “It was during a summer research project and I just loved it, and thought this is interesting!” he says. “I was hooked.”
Posted 05/18/06

Interdisciplinary Biotech Symposium is a Success
On April 11th the 3rd Biennial University of Virginia Biotechnology Training Program Symposium was held in Jordan Hall Conference Center. The title of the program was “Systems Biology: Linking Molecules in Networks to Cells in Tissues.”
Posted 04/25/06

Statewide Forum Showcases Important Graduate Student Research
Graduate students in Virginia conduct innovative research on a variety of critical topics from building modular, sustainable and affordable homes to developing a single vaccine to protect against numerous diseases.
Posted 04/18/06

U.Va. Graduate Students Secure Prestigious Fellowships
Graduate students at U.Va. are securing nationally competitive fellowships to assist with their research.
Posted 04/24/06

Authority on Nanotechnology Speaks at U.Va.
Dr. M.C. Roco, expert in nanotechnology, shared his insights about the future of nanotech research with students and faculty at U.Va. last week.
Posted 04/24/06

Biodiversity Expert Speaks at U.Va.
The “Environment, Conservation and Culture” series, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, held a talk on April 12th featuring Dr. Kevin Gaston. The talk was also a part of the Department of Environmental Sciences’ Fred Holmsley Moore speaker series.
Posted 04/18/06

Office of the VP for Research and Graduate Studies Welcomes New Director of Graduate Student Diversity Programs
Cheryl Burgan Evans, a dedicated advocate for graduate student research, especially among students of color, will join the University of Virginia’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies as its new Director of Graduate Student Diversity Programs.
Posted 05/26/06

Congressman Visits U.Va.
Congressman Virgil Goode visited the University of Virginia on April 12th. The visit provided an opportunity for some of U.Va.’s top researchers to demonstrate how federal funding has been supporting their cutting-edge research.
Posted 04/18/06

Weed watcher
Roach thinks a pesky plant might answer some questions about aging.
Posted 07/01/05

UVa Researchers Find Treatment that Reverses Type 1 Diabetes
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have made an exciting discovery: a combination of treatments reversed the course of Type 1 diabetes in mice. Using this model, the researchers found that a combined therapy of lisofylline (LSF) and exendin-4 (Ex-4) effectively reversed newly acquired Type 1 diabetes, also called autoimmune diabetes

University of Virginia’s Hayden to Lead International Avian Flu Effort
University of Virginia News
Dr. Frederick Hayden of the University of Virginia has been named by the World Health Organization to lead a major effort to track and control the worldwide spread of influenza viruses with pandemic potential.

Pew Scholar Keeps Cancer Research in Focus
Todd Stukenberg has always been a “puzzle guy.” He also has a passion for science, and during his junior year as a premed undergraduate student at Cornell Medical School both of those interests united into one calling. “It was during a summer research project and I just loved it, and thought this is interesting!” he says. “I was hooked.”

Genetic Deafness Treatment Attracts Notable Interest
The work and findings of the Neuroscience and Otolaryngology Laboratory, headed by Associate Professor Jeff Holt, is attracting serious attention from other universities such as Harvard and Stanford. “Our lab is unique worldwide,” he says. “We’re the only one approaching hearing and balance with viral vectors, gene therapy and ion channels and function.”

Driven to Educate – A Nobel Laureate Acts Out
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., former director of U.Va’s Clinical Research Center (1971-81) and division chief of clinical pharmacology (1973-81) was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1998 for ground-breaking work on nitric oxide. Although he clearly revels in the honors and the accolades, he is still driven to inspire and educate the youngest students about the thrills that science can offer.