Sentences with phrase «uva professor»

Influential figures including UPenn dean Andy Porter, UVA professor Daniel Willingham, and Texas Commissioner of Education Robert Scott have raised questions about the coherence, rigor, and value of the standards.

The University of Virginia has fired a new salvo in a 5 - month - old fight with the state's attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, over an investigation of former UVA professor Michael Mann.

Not exact matches

As a university professor of politics at the University of Virginia (UVA) and the founder and head of the UVA Center for Politics, Sabato's «Crystal Ball» electoral analysis expertly navigates the shifting sands of American electoral politics.

After postdoctoral training in pharmacology in the Department of Anesthesiology at UVa as a recipient of a National Research Service Award, he received a joint appointment in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor of research at the UVa in 1991.

Because the brain is like every other tissue connected to the peripheral immune system through meningeal lymphatic vessels,» said Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, professor in the UVA Department of Neuroscience and director of UVA's Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG).

«While these are reasonable concerns and in some situations this may occur, overall our analysis suggests they don't hold true at DCPS,» said James Wyckoff, a professor at UVA's Curry School and one of the study's authors.

Margaret Shupnik, PhD, a Professor of Medicine at UVA's School of Medicine who also worked with Jarjour's team says she hopes that the findings will prompt other researchers to develop novel therapies that regulate TLRs, and offer lupus patients the kind of treatment options that they currently don't have.

«We may have discovered a major step toward developing a «dream tool» for remotely controlling neural circuits, by manipulating specific cells using engineered gene products that respond to magnets,» said Ali Deniz Güler, a UVA biology professor who led the study in his neuroscience lab.

I also like how UVA let greenpeace have access to some other professor's emails but are helping Mann keep his private.

For those interested in learning more about Judge Thapar's judicial philosophy, he regularly co-teaches a popular J - Term with UVa's David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus Lillian BeVier, which he hopes students — whether they are formalists or not — will take before graduating.

-- Patricia Jennings, Professor at UVA Curry School of Education, author of Mindfulness for Teachers

One of the signatories was UVA's Emerita Professor of Psychology E. Mavis Hetherington.