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Wednesday,
June 14, 2006
U.Va.
News Services/Photo: Dan Addison
AN
ELDERY DRIVER, sober and wearing a seat
belt, pulls into the path of an oncoming
vehicle during daylight hours. Though a
collision of moderate severity, the driver
dies several days later. Oftentimes pre-existing
health issues are related to the death.
This is
the typical scenario of elderly driver
fatalities and one that will become more
prevalent in the years ahead, as America’s
75 million baby boomers age, grow more
frail and continue to drive, according
to a study co-authored by Richard Kent
(left), assistant professor of mechanical
and aerospace engineering at the University
of Virginia’s School of Engineering
and Applied Science. Full
story.
In
James Landers’ world, small is fast.And
fast is critical in the sphere of DNA analysis.Landers,
a University of Virginia chemistry professor,
has reduced an entire laboratory for DNA
analysis to a chip the size of a common
everyday microscope slide. “With
a lab-on-a-chip, it takes just 30 minutes
to do the work it would take three technicians
and three instruments to complete in a
week,” said Landers, who hopes his
research will one day increase the speed
at which doctors can diagnose illnesses. Full
story.
Research
News
This
summer, travel to a gorgeous Parisian park,
an exotic island, a breathtaking seaside
Italian villa and the coldest backwoods
of Minnesota, all without leaving Charlottesville.
The University of Virginia’s Heritage
Repertory Theatre will officially kick
off its 31st season with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
all-time classic “South Pacific,” (left)
to be presented in Culbreth Theatre beginning
June 22. And for the first time, Heritage
will offer the season’s five productions,
each with a defined run, rather than the
repertory style of the past. Full
story.
Manta Wiru (Beautiful Land)
Paintings from Amata
On exhibit through Sept. 23, 400 Worrell Dr.,
Peter Jefferson Place • Tues.-Sat., 9 a.m.-3
p.m. • Sponsored by U.Va.’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal
Art Collection • Information: 244-0234.
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This
summer, travel to a gorgeous Parisian park,
an exotic island, a breathtaking seaside
Italian villa and the coldest backwoods
of Minnesota, all without leaving Charlottesville.
The University of Virginia’s Heritage
Repertory Theatre will officially kick
off its 31st season with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
all-time classic “South Pacific,” (left)
to be presented in Culbreth Theatre beginning
June 22. And for the first time, Heritage
will offer the season’s five productions,
each with a defined run, rather than the
repertory style of the past. 
