Research conducted by UVA psychologists indicates that the “cool kids” in middle and high school don’t stay that way. The things that make a 13-year-old socially desirable and admirable – risk-taking behavior, seeking social status through friendships with other popular people – gradually seem less desirable to others as they get older.
With an entire Greek alphabet of COVID-19 mutants and variations doing their best to prolong the pandemic, developing a one-dose shot of immunity against the novel coronavirus seems like a dream. For UVA’s Dr. Steven Zeichner, it’s a quest.
University of Virginia students reacting to the news of head coach Bronco Mendenhall stepping down – most aren’t too happy. After six seasons with the Wahoos, some students we spoke with are in complete shock. We’re told he’s been a staple in the UVA community. A coach many students admire and look up to. “I’m honestly kinda confused. I didn’t see it coming,” said fourth-year Nicholas Chuckas.
The SMU Mustangs and University of Virginia Cavaliers will play each other in the inaugural Wasabi Fenway Bowl at Fenway Park on Dec. 29 at 11 a.m.
Outgoing Charlottesville School Board member Leah Puryear recently retired as director of Upward Bound, a program based at the University of Virginia that helps equip high school students with the tools needed for success in college. She’s led that program for nearly 40 years, according to Wynne Stuart, associate provost at UVa for academic support and classroom management. “Leah has positively affected the lives of not only the individual students, but also many families,” Stuart said during the meeting.
(Podcast) Too often, the focus on behavior is through a negative lens. Instead of working against misbehavior, we should start by identifying and teaching desirable behaviors and forming strong classroom relationships to support them. Join Shannon Rice and Wendy Amato (of UVA’s School of Education and Human Development) as they redefine the context around behavior and give recommendations for successfully managing it in your classroom.
Here is how University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox sums up our new marital expectations: Prior to the late 1960s, Americans were more likely to look at marriage and family through the prisms of duty, obligation, and sacrifice. … But the psychological revolution’s focus on individual fulfillment and personal growth changed all that. Increasingly, marriage was seen as a vehicle for a self-oriented ethic of romance, intimacy, and fulfillment. In this new psychological approach to married life, one’s primary obligation was not to one’s family but to oneself; hence, marital success w...
How do colossal Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops fossils get from the ground to the natural history museum? And could that process—which involves not just paleontologists but a largely uncredited group of staff and volunteer fossil preparators—have the power to make science more transparent, trusted, inclusive, and effective? These are two of the questions tackled by University of Virginia social scientist Caitlin Donahue Wylie at yesterday’s Zócalo/Issues in Science and Technology event, titled “Can Dinosaur Fossils Make Science More Accessible?”
Abraham Sutherland, adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, told Cointelegraph that the law’s amendment to tax code section 60501 is “a major threat to digital assets.” The law would require “any person” who receives more than $10,000 in digital assets to verify the sender’s personal information, including Social Security number, and sign and submit a report to the government within 15 days, according to Sutherland. Failure to comply could be a felony. “Miners, stakers, lenders, decentralized application and marketplace users, traders, businesses and individuals are all ...
Ioannidis’ theoretical claims had little impact until a major scandal involving fraudulent psychology research in the Netherlands in 2011 created headlines around the world. At this point University of Virginia psychologist Brian Nosek decided to test the proposition that most published research was unreliable or biased. His ambitious approach was to assemble a team of 270 researchers who attempted to replicate 100 prominent, published psychology experiments. If the original results were legitimate and true, these studies should be easily repeatable. Nosek’s ground-breaking investigation took ...
Consumers love it when there is something to choose within the product category. Therefore Volvo, Mercedes or Volkswagen have a different brand image. An interesting question for marketing managers is how you can profile a brand in such a way that it is different from the competition. We asked Kimberly Whitler, who wrote a book on this subject. On this subject Whitler wrote the book, “Positioning for Advantage: Techniques and Strategies to Grow Brand Value.” Whitler is professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. In addition, she worked at com...
Make sure you double check where you’re purchasing products from this holiday season. Scammers are on the prowl. Naomi Cahn, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, says supply chain issues have accustomed people to be more lenient when it comes to delivery times. Scammers will try to take advantage of these delay. If you are being scammed, you may not receive a package you ordered at all.
Researchers at the University of Virginia are tracking the omicron variant of COVID-19, but there are some concerns about how fast the search is going. One doctor says data collection is running behind. Dr. Amy Mathers coordinates genomic sequencing through UVA’s labs, which pinpoints variants in positive COVID-19 test. Mathers says doing that takes time, causing a lag in variant tracking. “The public health effort for sequencing is reliant on labs finding positives, batching them up, labeling them, and getting them sent to the state. So that’s a lag, because they do it in batches just because...
By and large, the defendants do not have any assets, and so getting that money would be a trial in itself. The amount for punitive damages may at this point be mainly symbolic, as damage awards are often reduced by the judge, or on appeal, according to UVa School of Law professor Douglas Laycock, who specializes in damages and other related areas of the law.
But some legal experts think it’s likely that Carson v. Makin will become an extension of Espinoza. Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia School of Law professor and an expert on religious freedom who filed a brief in support of the parents in this case, called Maine’s argument “completely untenable after Espinoza.” “The concept of a religious institution that doesn’t do anything religious is pretty much an empty set,” Laycock says. “It’s a distinction based on a difference that doesn’t exist in the real world.”
In 1921 the British painter and printmaker C.R.W. Nevinson declared that “The most beautiful products of the modern world are a Rolls-Royce car and a skyscraper.” Nevinson was not alone in making a connection between modern consumer products and the skyscrapers then going up in New York and other American cities. A current exhibition at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, “Skyscraper Gothic,” shows how Jazz Age skyscrapers with their characteristic stepped-back profiles grew, in part, from the emulation of Gothic architecture.
(Commentary) With this sudden change in my prognosis, several persons came forward urging us to get a second opinion on alternative treatment options, checking in at the University of Virginia Neuro-oncology Center. They cited the significant cancer research on brain cancer being done by medical specialists in this critical neuro arena. We were fortunate to be able to arrange an almost immediate consultation with David Schiff at UVA’s Department of Neurology.
The state of Maryland has agreements with the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and several private laboratories to perform sequencing, Anderson said. Positive coronavirus tests are being referred to the labs for sequencing if they meet criteria that could make them likely to contain a variant, such as if the person being tested had been exposed to someone with a known variant, was reinfected with the virus or had been traveling.
Other academics and biopharmas are looking at genetic approaches to heart disease. A team at the University of Virginia, for example, found that several naturally occurring gene variants influence the buildup of fatty plaques in blood vessels, which can lead to heart attacks or strokes. The team also found that one gene, MIA3, plays a central role in forming protective caps to stabilize plaque lesions in blood vessels.
“War,” French politician Georges Clemenceau famously observed, “is too important to be left to the generals.” And as Philip Zelikow’s new book makes clear, peace might be too important to leave to certain politicians—and their friends. Zelikow, a University of Virginia professor with several tours in the U.S. government, has written an important book, “The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-17.” Zelikow argues—convincingly—that there was a missed opportunity to achieve peace in the middle of what would later become known as World War I.