UVA is moving forward with plans to make the Lawn more wheelchair accessible. The Board of Visitors approved the project Thursday.
“The perception is that you can’t get a visa to enter the United States, there is no immigration to the United States, and there are no jobs available for any foreigner in the U.S.," said Scott Beardsley, dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business. “This is just not the reality we are seeing on the ground.”
(Commentary by James A. Coan, a UVA psychology professor) My research suggests that maintaining close ties to trusted loved ones is a vital buffer against the external stressors we all face. But not being an expert on how this affects children, I recently invited five internationally recognized developmental scientists to chat with me on a science podcast I host.
(Commentary by Bob Gibson of UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service) Virginia’s 8.5 million residents live in a rolling landscape of change as populations grow in some areas, gray in many localities and shrink in dozens, providing a native Virginia demographer a fascinating job tracking those changes. Hamilton Lombard, 31, makes sense of the numbers.
Sen. Cory Booker worked to fire up Democrats on Saturday night in a state where the party made significant gains in 2017 and this year is targeting House seats in districts that were previously considered safe Republican territory. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said in an interview on Friday the dinner draws the "hard core of the hard core" of Democratic officials and activists. "The reason why they put somebody like Cory Booker in the main speaker slot is to pique interest," Sabato said.
On June 4, Scott White, the commissioner of insurance for the SCC, sent a letter of guidance to insurers. The new legislation is compliant with state and federal laws, and will take effect on July 1, he said – despite requests from companies to consider a later date, or to allow limited signup periods. White’s statement and the Richmond guidance might help keep prices down, said Carolyn Engelhard, an associate professor at the University of Virginia and director of its health policy program. Still, she said, the premiums in Charlottesville will remain high, and the age of people in the area ma...
Type 1 diabetes is not a preventable disease, but it's one that can hit at any time in a person's life and forever change the course of it. That's what happened to Marshall McIntyre, a Charlottesville man who was forced to start life over. UVA Orthopedic Trauma Director Dr. David Weiss did part of his residency as a flight surgeon. He was trained for what happens in the Air Force in cases like McIntyre's. “There are certain positions that are considered disqualifying, and how disqualifying depends a little bit on what your job is,” said the doctor.
(Commentary by James A. Coan, a UVA psychology professor) I study how the brain transforms social connection into better mental and physical health. My research suggests that maintaining close ties to trusted loved ones is a vital buffer against the external stressors we all face. But not being an expert on how this affects children, I recently invited five internationally recognized developmental scientists to chat with me on a science podcast I host.
People with a rare red meat allergy may have a higher risk of heart disease, a new study suggests. The lone star tick's saliva may contain alpha-gal, said lead study author Dr. Jeff Wilson, an allergy research fellow at the UVA Health System. So, when the tick bites a person, it exposes the individual to the alpha-gal and may trigger an immune response in the body. Then, when that person eats red meat and some dairy products, the body responds by producing antibodies to alpha-gal, Wilson said.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has announced a new competitive scholarship program designed to support MBA students who are focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and technology.
The University of Delaware Press and the University of Virginia Press have announced a collaboration. The Delaware press will maintain editorial offices and its editorial board, but the UVA Press will provide manuscript editorial, design and production services.
(Podcast with Ben Converse, assistant professor of public policy and psychology) Slow-motion replays are ubiquitous in the world of sports, but may be problematic when used in courts of law.
UVA will move forward this summer with the installation of wheelchair ramps that would allow, for the first time, disabled visitors, students, staff and faculty to move the length of the Lawn.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Tuesday night on Twitter that “if the race goes as expected — IF — and Kaine wins handily, the undertow for the GOP could produce 2 or 3 gains for Ds in House seats. That’s a real one-state contribution to the +23 seats (net) Dems need nationally,” he said.
Delivering time- and life-saving telehealth solutions during the West African Ebola crisis of 2014-16 and in the aftermath of the Charlottesville protests of 2017 required leveraging Cisco's Jabber and WebEx, the University of Virginia has said. Brian Gunnell, transformative technology strategist at the UVA Health System, said UVA initially became involved in the Ebola crisis in Africa because of its existing outreach programs with physicians traveling to developing nations.
Pineda-Madrid was praised for her scholarship, her clear and prophetic voice, and her many ministries with and on behalf of women, specifically her ground-breaking work on women's suffering and ritualistic killing in Ciudad Juárez on the Mexican border. "She lifts up the lowly, empowering those who are on the margins of our society, especially those who are most vulnerable to abuse and violence," said Nichole Flores, a UVA assistant professor of religious studies and a former student of Pineda-Madrid.
What conventional pundits and partisans have to say about that question is entirely predictable. But Yale University Press has made an effort to provide more serious answers through a new series of books overseen by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV—two professors affiliated with the University of Virginia’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture.
UVA professor Brian Nosek explained the psychology behind this during a free interactive session Monday evening at the Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center called “Understanding Implicit Bias.” The session discussed how implicit bias can unintentionally influence our judgment and actions through factors that we may not recognize.
And Larry Sabato, the UVA political analyst, said Stewart could prove a drag for Republican House candidates, perhaps costing the party two or three seats. Republicans hold seven of 11 seats in the Virginia delegation. “That’s a real one-state contribution to the +23 seats (net) Democrats need nationally,” Sabato said on Twitter.
A 1995 study which suggested that kids from richer families are exposed to more spoken words than those from poorer families has long been the subject of controversy. Now, a new study fails to replicate its central finding. These scholars are concerned that Sperry’s study might lead people to believe that family income doesn’t have any bearing on a kid’s exposure to vocabulary, or that a language-rich home life isn’t important. For example, Daniel Willingham, a UVA psychology professor and expert on literacy, pointed in his blog post on the controversy to a body of research that, while not bei...