The technology, a century ago, had disadvantages. Though it’s possible that there might have been some experiments with electric scooters, most ran on gas with noisy engines. “It was a really different experience riding an Autoped [one brand] compared to, say, a Bird dockless scooter,” says Peter Norton, a UVA historian of engineering and society.
The first event of its kind at UVA, the three-day Presidential Ideas Festival: Democracy in Dialogue will feature a swath of political figures, scholars and journalists speaking on a variety of aspects involving the American presidency.
Taped on the wall above Kyle Guy’s bed is a reminder of defeat. In the photo, snapped last March, Guy is deflated, hunched and with tears welling in his eyes. In the background, UMBC’s players are joyous. They are hugging and screaming. Two players are preparing to chest bump, meeting for mid-air ecstasy, after the Retrievers became the first No. 16 seed in men’s NCAA Tournament history to knock off a No. 1 seed.The photo captures the magic of the NCAA Tournament in a frame. The underdog knocking off the top dog. The unrealistic made real. For Virginia, however, the photo came to define failur...
Gardner-Webb is a No. 16 seed in this season’s NCAA tournament, and the Runnin’ Bulldogs’ first-round opponent is Virginia. It’s easy for Gardner-Webb to be loose, to be in constant attack mode, to drink in the atmosphere and soak up the experience. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Can the Virginia Cavaliers, a No. 1 seed, do the same? The Cavaliers became the first team to lose to a No. 16 seed in the NCAA tournament a year ago, falling to the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Virginia not only has the experience advantage over Gardner-Webb in Friday’s opening-round game of the NCAA Tournament, but the Cavaliers also are familiar with the venue.
On the campus of Mr. Jefferson’s university, it is said that ghost dogs stalk the old football field. This is a cheap way to point out that the University of Virginia’s basketball team enters this year’s NCAA tournament also haunted by dark visions of dogs it has encountered—specifically, the Retrievers of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County who, a year ago, made the Cavaliers the first and only No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed. The Cavaliers get their first chance to lay the ghost on Friday, against Gardner-Webb, a school whose only previous impact in this tournament was that Artis...
“Historically, Catholic hospitals were always more likely to provide uncompensated services and care for vulnerable, stigmatized populations that for-profit hospitals wouldn’t touch,” said Kenneth White of the University of Virginia, who wasn’t involved in the study. “When patients see mergers in their small communities, they often don’t realize what that means or how services may be affected,” he said in a phone interview. “Information about ownership, mission, vision and values should be upfront in any hospital, regardless of affiliation, displayed both online and in the hospital.”
Lois Shepherd, professor of public health sciences and co-director of studies in reproductive ethics and justice at the University of Virginia, discusses misrepresentations and other flaws in Georgia's fetal heartbeat bill.
Two UVA researchers want to know what's preventing faculty members, including some who have used the services of UVA's Center for Teaching Excellence, from actually changing the way they teach. What they've found is helping them shape future research and design more-effective support systems.
Kathleen Flake, a professor of Mormon Studies at the University of Virginia, said the opening of the temple has “enormous cultural significance” for Mormons.
The University of Virginia is almost ready to begin building a conference center, while Charlottesville and Albemarle County also are thinking about a larger convention center.
"I'm proud that when her time comes, my kid will get admitted the old fashioned-way: by choosing parents wealthy enough to afford a house in a good school district and an SAT prep course." Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, reacting in a tweet to the college-admissions scandal.
One event on Wednesday examined how social media undermines democracy. Media scholars have been trying to answer that question since the 2016 presidential election. On Wednesday evening, University of Virginia professor Siva Vaidhyanathan and University of Pennsylvania professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson shared their thoughts at a UVA Center for Politics forum.
A study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of British Columbia and the University of Virginia found that moderate background noise enhances consumer "creativity" – meaning they will see the range of benefits of buying a new, innovative product, for example. A medium level of music volume will help reduce distraction for your customers so they can think about their purchase choice this way.
The National Center for Health Statistics report relies on information from death certificates, which don’t always specify the type of drug that caused the overdose. Previous research, including a 2017 study from the University of Virginia, has estimated that opioid mortality rates might actually be 24 percent higher than stated in official reports due to incomplete reporting on death certificates.
The University of Virginia is now ranked second on a list of major colleges that provide Peace Corps volunteers. UVA had 74 volunteers serving in the Peace Corps last year. The only school with a higher total is the main campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. It had 75 volunteers.
The FCC builds its coverage maps using data that ISPs report twice a year in what's called the Form 477. There are two main problems with this report. "Form 477 just creates this wildly distorted image of a competition in broadband that's nonexistent," said Christopher Ali, a UVA assistant professor of media studies and a former FCC employee who's writing a book about rural broadband policy.
“You can typically track ancestry back to the 1870 Census, when the vast majority of African-Americans in the United States are listed as individuals in the U.S. census,” UVA history professor Kirt von Daacke said. Before then, he said, “enslaved people show up as statistical references.”
Spring on Neptune is twice as long. The planet experiences distinct seasons, but “I don’t think we’ve been able to observe Neptune long enough with enough detail to say for sure how spring in one hemisphere differs from any other season in terms of atmospheric activity,” says Anne Verbiscer, a UVA planetary scientist.
They were four kids, baby faced and slender, wide-eyed and talented. They were barely of legal driving age. But they had grand visions. One summer 2016 afternoon, as they walked from John Paul Jones Arena to the old Cavalier Inn, Kyle Guy, Ty Jerome, Jay Huff and De’Andre Hunter contemplated their future. What if, the four Virgina freshmen imagined, they could help Virginia be among the best teams in the ACC in three years time? Fast-forward to March 12.