We are confident the VDC project will prove its value and begin to outgrow the Wheatley space. The longer-term plan is to pursue, either through new construction on campus or the acquisition of land adjacent to our campus, a research and development center that will support UMass Boston’s commitment to partnering with businesses and other institutions.

The VDC concept began to take shape nearly 30 years ago when the campus considered purchasing and renovating the old Calf Pasture Pumping Station and adjacent land to create environmental science laboratories. This evolved into the broader concept of a UMass Boston science and technology park, comprising a mix of scientific labs, research institutes, and business incubator services.

There are a number of examples of venture centers at research universities across the country that have been studied. For example, representatives of the Charlotte Research Institute, a strong model for an urban-focused and young campus within a dynamic university system, were invited to join us in Boston for a lively visioning session in the fall of 2005.

The VDC project is in a start-up phase. The VDC staff consists of a group of experienced business professionals who have been providing a limited range of VDC services for the last 15 months through the College of Management under the auspices of the vice provost for research.

Faculty involvement is crucial to the success of the VDC project. Faculty members have been and will continue to be involved in the design and planning phases of the VDC project through ad hoc advisory committees. Faculty members will be involved in the operations of the VDC project as collaborators, as clients, or as members of the internal advisory committee.

The physical space in Wheatley that will bring together the various elements of the VDC project will not be available until late 2007, even though some of the VDC services are available now (e.g., business planning, market analysis, GIS core research facility, technology transfer). Between now and then, the VDC project planning group will continue to engage stakeholders in the identification and response to questions related to the function and operations of the VDC project.

When you find a project of interest, click on the Express Interest box on the Project Search Detail page.

VDC services will proactively focus on initiatives in a small number of research collaboration clusters. These clusters will be areas in which faculty members have a track record or significant potential for success in obtaining extramural funding and which can take UMass Boston to the next level of research accomplishment.

The availability of the Wheatley cafeteria space presents us with a unique opportunity to design and build the specialized facilities that are essential to achieve the VDC project’s goals. The space will allow us to bring the full range of VDC services together in one location. Including the services of the CVIP licensing officer and an ORSP sponsored programs administrator in the space will create a synergism and multiply the effectiveness of the VDC project.

In the three and a half centuries since William Harvey proved that the purpose of the heart is to pump blood, physiologists have revealed the functional organization of the body in blinding detail. Their discoveries demonstrate beyond question that the structure of the body serves survival and reproduction. Further, there is near unanimity among biologists that this functional structure is a product of natural selection.

Boy does it ever! It violates it everywhere. The second law of thermodynamics says that evolution can't happen, but biologists still say evolution happens.

Yes, it does. Sacred Heart believes that adult candidates can become some of the best priests and we believe that God can call a person at any age. Many dioceses and religious communities have age limit requirements, however, and not all sponsors will accept candidates who cannot be ordained by age 40, 50 or 55. One must check in each case. Nevertheless, many factors besides one's age are considered and many sponsors judge each case on an individual basis.

STEP is Stress Total Eradication Program that offers newer dimensions on leadership, team building, motivation, mind control, time management and stress eradication: at home, at work, in society, within Self, from the base of Samarpan YogTM.

Once you have a job offer, the next step is to legalize your employment by becoming provisionally certified. When you have a CE or CEAS and receive a written job offer, you file for provisional certification and then can begin work. In order to file, the employing school must send a letter, on official school letterhead, to the Department of Education stating that you have been hired and including the effective date of hire.

Once the web-site is complete and has been viewed and tested for approval, arrangements will be made to move the site to the hosting company of your choice, and retested.

The FOCUS program is open to Black and Latino children in Kindergarten who can make the commitment, along with a parent, to the weekly, 2-1/2 hour classes that take place from February into June. At the end of FOCUS I most children are personally referred to music programs for lessons and classes. About 20 children are accepted into FOCUS II, a seven-week program where the children are introduced to violins.

The first thing is to send in some material for me to hear. The music is the most important thing. Once I have some music, I will listen to the tracks and come back to you with some ideas and then set up meetings.

The trend in sponsored research is toward greater collaboration across disciplines and among institutions. Research partnerships are becoming a prerequisite for many federal grant programs, and many of these must be government–industry–academic partnerships.

The BARF DIET? mimics the natural or evolutionary diet by using available appropriate uncooked foods. The natural environment is disastrous. It includes lack of shelter, starvation, attack by other predators and the complete lack of medical and surgical intervention. This is not what we want for our pets. We want an environment that optimizes health which includes a Biologically Appropriate Raw Food Diet.

No! Evolutionary psychology is the study of the functional organization of the brain, and this organization must be pan-human. Because humans are a single species, everyone on the planet has essentially the same functional organization of both the body and the brain. Why? The functional properties of organisms, including the functional properties of the nervous system (like vision, smell, locomotion, etc.) arose by natural selection.

noted elsewhere in this FAQ, there are no fundamental differences between physiological adaptations and psychological adaptations. Male and female bodies are identical in most ways, but profoundly different in some. Male and female hearts are (I presume) essentially identical, but testicles are very different from ovaries. The same pattern is likely to be true of the brain.

VDC customers include State Agencies, Universities and Colleges, Mental Health and Correctional Institutions, and political sub-divisions. If you have a question regarding eligibility, please call us at ( 804)328-3232 or send us an email at vdcweb@dgs.virginia.gov.

You can request a backorder by clicking the appropriate box on your ROS or eVA order, re-order or request permission to purchase locally by contacting Jeff Janisko at Jeffrey.Janisko@dgs.virginia.gov, 804-328-3223, fax or mail.

Vendors must be registered on Virginia's e-procurement system (EVA). Please see website www.eva.virginia.gov/ for registration instructions.

You can view a map on our VDC Catalog, under Contacts, Instructions, Terms & Conditions. You can also go to http://www.mapquest.com and lookup driving directions for 2400 Riley Ridge Rd. Sandston, VA 23150.

It's a theory developed by Art De Vany which is based on the idea that our minds and bodies are a product of millions of years of evolution. And since our genes haven't changed over the last 40,000 years, we have DNA is that of the hunter-gatherers. De Vany suggests that our genes were formed at a time when activity was essential; you were active or you starved or were eaten. He theorizes that many of the modern chronic diseases (Alzheimer's, coronary heart disease, insulin resistance, etc.

What are your politics? (Translation: Doesn't evolutionary psychology have a crypto conservative political agenda?)