U.Va. Students Hosting World Expo in South Korea
Five University of Virginia students are spending their summer volunteering as student ambassadors at the United States' pavilion at the World Expo in South Korea, where millions of people are visiting.

Nobel Economics Laureate Ostrom's Talk at U.Va. Cancelled
A May 31 talk by Lin Ostrom, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics, that was to have been hosted by the Quantitative Collaborative in the University of Virginia's College of Arts and Sciences, has been cancelled. No new date has been set.

Economist Cautiously Optimistic About Virginia's Economy
In the current issue of The Virginia News Letter, U.Va. economist Bill Shobe offers three activities to increase states' economic health and productivity in what he sees as the likely event of a sharp reduction in federal spending.

U.Va. Student Team Makes Bamboo Fly
A U.Va. student group designed and built a payload-carrying, remote-control model aircraft, the "Flying Panda," and participated successfully in a recent national design competition. The bamboo plane is still in one piece, and the team is ready for future challenges.

Global Study: Seagrasses Can Store More Carbon Than Forests
A new study shows that seagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and that, per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world's temperate and tropical forests.

Law Professor Helps Overhaul Policy for Police Line-Ups
The eyes can deceive, and in the case of eyewitness testimony, those deceptions can cost innocent people their liberty. A U.Va. law professor is helping rewrite the rules for police lineups - and eyewitness identification in Virginia.

Jurassic Period Ink Identical to Modern Cuttlefish Ink
A new study has found that two ink sacs from 160-million-year-old giant cephalopod fossils contain the pigment melanin. It is essentially identical to the melanin found in the ink of a modern-day cuttlefish, suggesting that not everything evolves.