UVA will kick off its bicentennial celebration Oct. 5 with a weekend of events officials expect will draw at least 20,000 people. The Bicentennial Launch Weekend will mark the first of a series of 200th anniversary events commemorating UVA milestones.
The choice between automated care and no care at all may be a false one, says University of Virginia Professor and sociologist Allison Pugh. There are, she says, two paths before us: "There's the possibility that we would revalue care work, recognize it, bring it out of invisibility, and call it what it is to be truly human. On the other hand, I can see the way we could continue devaluing it by relegating it to algorithms and robotics or machines."
President Trump needs a disciplined public relations expert — and the opposite of ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci — to fill the post abruptly left vacant yesterday, experts said. “Use him as a guide of what not to do,” said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. “My only suggestion on Scaramucci’s open post is that a communications professional should fill it. Scaramucci is the polar opposite of a good appointee.”
Although most people don't broadcast in advance their intention to engage in criminal activity, University of Virginia Assistant Professor of Systems and Engineering Information Matthew Gerber has discovered that the use of Twitter can help predict crime. Gerber's research and work developing statistical crime prediction methods will be presented on Tuesday, August 1, 2017, at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, Md.
(By Charles Mathewes, the Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, and Evan Sandsmark, a Ph.D. student in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia) With a billionaire real estate tycoon occupying America’s highest office, the effects of riches upon the soul are a reasonable concern for all of us little guys. After all, one incredibly wealthy soul currently holds our country in his hands. According to an apocryphal exchange between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, the only difference between the rich and the rest of us is that th...
New growth projections from the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service have sparked renewed discussion on everything from schools to shopping. But there’s a demographic shift already changing the face of the Shenandoah Valley that calls for greater planning and resource allocation: our aging population.
Area residents met Monday to discuss themes for a more permanent mural on the wall at the U.S. 250 Bypass exit ramp to Barracks Road. Since July 2016, representatives from Albemarle County, Virginia Department of Transportation, the Charlottesville Mural Project and ArtInPlace have been working to improve the current appearance of the wall. The project is estimated to cost between $9,000 and $12,000 plus labor, and currently $10,500 has been pledged by Out of Bounds, the University of Virginia’s vice provost for the arts and the Canterbury Hill Neighborhood Association. VDOT and Albemarle are ...
"Some of these areas are gold mines today, but those luxury resorts in parts of coastal Georgia, South Carolina and around the Chesapeake were havens for African-American life and culture,” says University of Virginia historian Andrew W. Kahrl.
The newly disclosed documents are believed to amount to only about 1 percent of the remaining unreleased records, according to Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of the book The Kennedy Half-Century.
At the end of their first year, more than a third of registered nurses are ready to quit. That’s why the University of Virginia’s nursing school has launched a new program to beat stress and build resilience.
About a dozen amateur and professional scientists gathered in Charlottesville this past weekend to discuss ways to increase these labs’ visibility to the public, and how to make them more financially sustainable. Charlottesville Open Bio Labs hosted the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Community Labs Workshop to foster collaboration between labs throughout the region. Shaun Moshasha, a 2013 graduate of the University of Virginia, founded Charlottesville Open Bio Labs in 2015.
Cigarette use among teens has dropped sharply in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control, but the number of teens who are vaping is growing exponentially. "The rate of vaping in teens has gone up by 900 percent," said Tzu-Ying Chuang, a University of Virginia medical student who reviewed the latest teen vaping research while working at Downtown Family Health Care clinic this summer.
Adam Russell, an anthropologist and program manager at the Department of Defense’s mad-science division Darpa, laughs at the suggestion that he is trying to build a real, live, bullshit detector. But he doesn’t really seem to think it’s funny. The quite serious call for proposals Russell just sent out on Darpa stationery asks people—anyone! Even you!—for ways to determine what findings from the social and behavioral sciences are actually, you know, true. Or in his construction: “credible.” Really, though, no one knows what an answer will look like. In fact, one of the first people to subm...
"McCain goes back to the mid-1980s, and he remembers the way it used to be, when you really did have a lot of bipartisanship," said Larry Sabato, a political scientist and director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "That's gone by the wayside. We've been polarized for a long time, but we've never been this polarized since the Civil War, thanks to Donald Trump.
And it won't be just dogs, planner Ran Chen adds. One idea that's been floated is having condo ventilation hooked up to areas where cat owners keep litter boxes to cut down on smell. That may sound far-fetched, but Mona El Khafif, a professor of architecture with the University of Virginia, says it's definitely possible. "They have ventilation for all kinds of things … For sure you could incorporate that," she said.
Farmers’ markets are an integral component of Virginia agriculture, the Commonwealth’s number one industry, and Governor McAuliffe has designated August 6-12, as Virginia Farmers’ Market Week to recognize their important role in the Commonwealth. According to a 2017 economic impact study by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, agriculture has an economic impact of $70 billion annually and provides more than 334,000 jobs in the Commonwealth. Virginia has nearly 250 farmers’ markets today (compared to 88 in 2006) with 3,500 farmers sellin...
While kindergarten still offers a fun learning environment, it’s certainly more focused on academic achievement. Kindergartners often know the alphabet and have solid counting skills prior to the first day of school. “Kindergarten is the new first grade” isn’t just an anecdote, it’s a fact. New research from the University of Virginia compares kindergarten and first-grade classrooms between 1998 and 2010, finding that kindergarten classes have become increasingly like first grade, with more time spent on academic instruction and, ultimately, higher educational expectations.
A group of three University of Virginia scientists has developed a new way to look at the leg muscles of athletes, looking well below the surface to see how athletes can improve their games.
The New York Times recently released a study from the University of Virginia that studied of the effects of football on the brains of deceased NFL players. The results are astonishing. Out of 111 brains examined, 110 of them had some level of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE.
Once named “the unluckiest president in America” by Fortune Magazine, University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan has been wrapped up — fairly or unfairly — in several nationally publicized crises since she took office in 2010. But going into the final year of her contract, the turbulence surrounding the university has mostly subsided, and relations with the Board of Visitors have improved since 2012, when the board voted to fire her before public pressure forced board members to reverse their decision.