Shige Oishi is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. In a 2021 paper, published in the journal Psychological Review, he and his co-author make the case that, along with happiness and meaning – which many consider the traditional prerequisites of a good life – psychological richness is a third dimension of human well-being that warrants greater appreciation and study.
(Commentary by Edwin T. Burton, visiting professor of economics) If the U.S. Treasury 10-year note earns you 1.7% per year, then you better hope that the prices of goods you buy – or plan to buy – don’t rise faster than 1.7% per year. For the past couple of decades, yields on the 10-year Treasury note have roughly achieved that outcome. While investors have not really made any “real” return after inflation was factored in, they have not lost much either. That, however, is likely to change.
(Video) As Americans await FDA approval for two COVID-19 booster shot options, President Biden is unveiling his plan to get kids ages 5 to 11 vaccinated. Dr. Taison Bell, medical ICU director at the University of Virginia, breaks down the news.
Joe Harris is an important player for the Brooklyn Nets. In the absence of Kyrie Irving, the UVA alumnus will be asked to do more -- like everyone on the Brooklyn Nets’ roster. Joe Harris is a born shooter and that is his entire job for the Brooklyn Nets. Not having the pressure to fill the stat sheet nightly for one of the NBA’s most talked about teams has to be a luxury, yet with that luxury comes tremendous expectation.
[UVA Law alumnus] Richard “Rick” Engel remembers helping clean up the Elizabeth River, at one time a polluted waterway in urban New Jersey, during the first Earth Day in 1970. “I’m old enough to have participated in the first Earth Day when I was a senior in high school,” says Engel, recalling the poor condition of the river, which still flows next to his high school campus. “I was always interested in the environment, from the very beginning.” A formidable force against polluters since that Earth Day experience, Engel has been a deputy attorney general for the state of New Jersey for more tha...
Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the most legendary race track in the world, known for sheer speed and unadulterated horsepower. Saturday, nearly a dozen modified Dallara II-15 Indy Lights chassis will take to the 2.5-mile oval and reach three-digit speeds in a special 20-lap race.But with one exception. Make that one MAJOR exception. For the first time in IMS history, the cars will be missing one of the most vital components any type of motorsport event must have. Namely, drivers. [UVA’s Cavalier Autonomous Racing is among the entrants.]
President Joe Biden beat former President Donald Trump by ten percentage points in Virginia. Democrats are hoping to capitalize on Trump’s unpopularity in the state. Political analyst and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, Larry Sabato, says focusing on Trump is good politics for Democrats. “He may not be president but he absolutely refuses to leave center stage. Not a day goes by that he doesn’t say something nasty or controversial and people hear about it,” Sabato said. The bad news for Democrats, according to Sabato? Voters are not showing up early like last year....
Trump appears to be setting the stage for the “Big Lie 2.0,” adds Foley. The strategy involves new voter identification laws in some Republican-led states and replacing Republican state election officials such as Brad Raffensperger, a Georgia secretary of state who refused to do Trump’s bidding in 2020, and “find” 11,780 votes with candidates who are diehard supporters. “Once you have that person in charge you have somebody who has great influence on how the election is conducted, how the votes are counted, who’s declared the winner,” says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at t...
Reaction to Mr Trump’s attack on the man Gallup polling once showed as the most admired political figure in America was swift and harsh. Writing on Twitter, University of Virginia Center for Politics founder Larry Sabato wrote that “no decent human being” would defend Mr Trump’s “malevolent, spiteful, narcissistic statement. But those Republicans who keep silent today will speak volumes about how Trump has debased them and their once-great party,” he added. “Candidates with no courage never deserve our votes.”
“The huge risk factor is age,” says William Petri, an immunologist at the University of Virginia. That’s why the U.S. prioritized vaccinating older people and those in long-term care facilities when it first rolled out the vaccines, he explains. “If you’re under 45, your chances of dying are almost nonexistent, and then it increases exponentially.”
(Podcast) In this episode of “Keen On,” host Andrew Keen is joined by Michael Lenox, professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School pf Business and the author of “The Decarbonization Imperative: Transforming the Global Economy by 2050,” to examine the clean technologies with the best chance of disrupting the status quo and the policy actions needed to accelerate their adoption.
To understand how Haiti, a country where kidnapping was a foreign concept just a few years ago, got here, one only has to look at the country’s policies that have promoted an environment where health, education and other basic services are primarily fulfilled by nongovernmental, charitable organizations and the daily struggle for subsistence is fueled by extreme economic scarcity, said Robert Fatton, a Haiti expert at the University of Virginia.
(Video) The “400 Mawozo” gang in Haiti is demanding $1 million for each of the 17 missionaries it has abducted. The group was kidnapped last weekend just outside of the capital of Port-au-Prince. Gang activity has been on the rise following the assassination of the country’s president in July. Robert Fatton, Jr., UVA’s Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, joins CBSN’s Elaine Quijano to discuss.
The new study focuses on a limited slice of time in a remote region, but there is a growing body of science suggesting that pre-industrial climate impacts started earlier and were more significant than previously thought, said William Ruddiman, a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. And it’s not just fires. Deforestation before 1850 – a date often used to demarcate the start of the industrial era – resulted in 300 million tons of carbon going into the atmosphere, Ruddiman said, but only about half as much since then.
The Southside Health District – an area that includes Halifax County – is the only region of Virginia not seeing a drop in COVID-19 daily cases. Instead, infections are slightly increasing. Known as a slow-growth trajectory, UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute reports cases may not start to fall locally until the end of the month.
Last year’s flu season was very subdued likely because of strict public health measures in place to slow the spread of the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. In addition to more mask wearing, influenza shots set a record according to the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. However, this year could be different, experts fear. “Most public health restrictions have been lifted, and surveys suggest prevention efforts have declined,” UVA researchers wrote in a Friday report. “We are also unlikely to repeat the record vaccination rates seen last flu season.”
Local epilepsy research is revealing unknown triggers for seizures and it could help treat the condition. Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have discovered how one type of brain cell called somatostatin interneurons can cause seizures when they go haywire.
(Commentary) Efforts to rapidly expand our reliance on wind and solar generation for electricity, while at the same time closing baseload natural gas generation with similar haste, makes no sense economically. “The only explanation for that policy is you want to shut down the economy.” Another voice of reason has emerged to challenge the climate alarmist orthodoxy, a Virginia voice, Professor Jason S. Johnston at the University of Virginia School of Law. He brings to the discussion the experience and analysis of a regulatory law expert and economist, distilled into a somewhat daunting 65...
Brigham Young University was one of four schools to partner with the NFL on a $4 million study that could play a significant role on the NFL draft, specifically the treatment of hamstring injuries in both college and the professional league moving forward. Researchers from BYU, along with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia, have partnered on a first-of-its-kind NFL-funded study on hamstring injuries that will seek to determine common signs of recurring impacts of the most common injury suffered by NFL players, one that has seen nearly...
University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato discussed the politics of space at a Tuesday afternoon virtual event with NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson. The event, hosted by the UVA Center for Politics, highlighted space travel as a public-private partnership and the goals of NASA as an organization.