Many students of science, such as University of Virginia's Brian Nosek, note that the current incentive structure, wherein university faculty are under intense pressure to publish research that maintains the flow of federal dollars, is causing demonstrable harm to science.
Traders need look no further than their Twitter feeds to gain an edge in currency markets, according to a new study by a pair of academics. Buying and selling the euro based on predictions tweeted by currency watchers would give you risk-adjusted returns almost four times bigger than standard carry-trade strategies, UVA’s Vahid Gholampour and Eric van Wincoop found in a paper published last month.
The UVA School of Nursing is welcoming back on if its own, a trailblazer who broke the color line as the school's first African-American graduate. Retired nurse Mavis Claytor earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing in 1970 and earned her master’s in 1985.
UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library will house the public papers of five-term U.S. Sen. John W. Warner. The opened the papers to the public last week, after a nine-year effort to catalogue and organize the documents.
A Charlottesville health care technology company is attracting clients from across the U.S. after using the UVA Health System as a proving ground. Locus Health helps hospitals to coordinate post-treatment health care plans for patients recovering from operations or serious medical conditions.
(Commentary) The University of Virginia’s Innocence Project explores and litigates possible wrongful convictions of inmates throughout the commonwealth, overturning the sentences of Virginians who did not have the resources to prove their innocence.
Native American tribes from across the commonwealth came to UVA Saturday to celebrate heritage. The Native American Student Union hosted the third annual “UVA Pow Wow,” featuring traditional dancing, drums and regalia from the different tribes.
The campaigns for Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam and former 5th District Rep. Tom Perriello, vying for the Democratic nomination for governor, announced they will participate in a series of debates and forums across Virginia in April and May, including one at UVA on May 13.
(By David S. Wilkes, dean of UVA’s School of Medicine) For research centers like the School of Medicine, NIH funding is crucial to supporting medical research that provides the scientific understanding needed to develop new and better treatments for patients.
We will always remember “War and Peace” as one of Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece works. That said, how many of us know of the remarkable role played by Tolstoy's wife, Sofia, in bringing this piece of fine literature to the world? She wrote the manuscript for him and revised it eight times, while she was still recovering from an illness and struggling to care for their 13 children. Bruce Holsinger, an author and literary scholar at the University of Virginia, wishes to throw light on roles played by the likes of Sofia in literature, and has started in small ways of his own.
Are Millennials really interested in spiritual nourishment when they buy quartz products or just hopping onto the latest trend? Experts say the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Today, shopping has become its own spiritual practice, according to Matthew Hedstrom, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia.
In invoking the option Republicans have made a historic change in the Senate and the way Supreme Court nominees are named by presidents as well as the way they are vetted. Some feel that more ideological candidates will now be able to get Senate support, possibly polarizing a court that is meant to be the pinnacle of an independent judiciary. But Dr. Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center and a former fudicial fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court, said she does not feel the rule change "will change perceptions of the jurists" on the Supreme Court.
Jenny Roe, a professor of design and health at UVA’s School of Architecture, said green spaces can be something as simple as a balcony with a potted plant or a tree, but they are extremely important for mental health.
One analyst said that in increasingly partisan Washington, “you can argue that both Democrats and Republicans have contributed to this over the years.” “I think it’s the culmination of a procedural arms race in the U.S. Senate where, over time, presidential nominations in general have become partisan flash points,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of politics newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
The U.S. military strike against Syria last night, along with the growing threat from North Korea, presents Democrats with a difficult political dilemma this morning – continue their vowed resistance of the Trump administration at every turn or rally behind the White House in the name of national unity. Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor, noted, “With military action abroad, any president has a big advantage. No one knows all the facts but a few in his administration, and the focus is on the fighting troops. Critics have to be careful to praise the troops while questioning the act...
“I think that everybody banks on the American people not really following this very closely,” UVA law professor Carl Tobias said. Some believe it could begin to unravel Senate traditions at a hyper-partisan moment in politics and perhaps end up in the complete elimination of the filibuster even for legislation, which would mean an entirely different Senate from the one that’s existed for decades.
A new University of Virginia health study finds that a popular drug to treat diabetes has an unusual reaction with exercise. Professor Steven Malin is the lead research of "Exercise as Medicine: What's the right does when taken with a drug?"
(Subscription required) The History of Black Girlhood Network is a loose collective of scholars researching the experience of black girls across continents. In March the group hosted its first conference, focused on black girls’ history. The conference, held over a pair of days at the University of Virginia, brought together an array of academics, activists, artists, and students.
Although he was the first black football player at North Carolina State University, Dr. Marcus L. Martin (UVA’s vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity) admits he didn’t exactly make an indelible impression as a student-athlete. “Typically, when we had a large lead or when we were losing badly, that’s when I got to play,” Martin recalls of playing as a walk-on for the Wolfpack in the mid-to-late 1960s.
Free speech is important. It guards against governments’ dangerous tendency to repress certain kinds of communication, including protest, journalism, whistleblowing, academic research, and critical work in the arts. On the other hand, think of a doctor dispensing bogus medical advice, or someone making a contract that she plans to breach, or a defendant lying under oath in court. These all involve written or spoken statements, but they don’t seem to fall within the domain of free speech. They are what UVA legal theorist Frederick Schauer calls “patently uncovered speech”: communication that wa...