(Commentary) Vance is no troll. He comes equipped with a chart, this one from an op-ed written by W. Bradford Wilcox in the Deseret News. Wilcox is the director of the National Marriage Project at UVA, so it may not surprise you to learn his argument centers on why universal day care is actually a net negative for the youngest children, citing research on the effects on Quebecois children in the late 1990s. Wilcox actually raises some interesting points about the effects of separation from parents at a young age on how kids develop that I think warrant further discussion. But the chart Vance a...
"If you go back to when we first started looking at [atomic] nuclei, we used electrons to map out the size of the nucleus," Dr. Kent Paschke, a UVA professor of experimental nuclear and particle physics and co-author of the new study, said. "We sort of made a new picture of the nucleus to explain not just where the protons are, but where all the matter in the nucleus is. What we've learned is the average density inside the lead nucleus. What that tells us is a detail about nuclear structure that we never had before, which is how hard it is to create dense, neutron rich matter."
Now that spring is here, we're planning to spend lots of time in the garden. Health experts say that's a good thing. According to a new study from Britain's Royal Horticultural Society, individuals who garden at least twice per week have improved overall well-being and lower stress levels than those who do not. The study was conducted in collaboration with the University of Sheffield and UVA, and found that frequent gardening was linked with greater physical activity, which supports the theory that gardening is beneficial for both the mind and the body. The study also found that adults with ex...
About 25% of America’s infants are not getting recommended vaccinations to protect them against ailments such as polio, tetanus and chickenpox, according to research done at the UVA School of Medicine.
Getting back in the saddle after an unscheduled dismount and potential noggin clocking is not necessarily the best advice, despite the old adage exhorting you to do so. In fact, a UVA neuropsychologist and dedicated equestrian says it may be best to take an hour, a day or even a week off to check for symptoms of a concussion and assure recovery.
Northern Virginia could reach herd immunity to COVID-19 by June or July, while other parts of Virginia with more vaccine hesitancy may not reach herd immunity this year, according to the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute.
A year to the day after Northern Virginia hit its peak number of hospitalizations for COVID-19, the University of Virginia predicted the region could reach community immunity from the virus by June or July.
Security researchers have found new versions of chip flaws affecting Intel and AMD processors that get around existing mitigations for Spectre attacks, resurrecting vulnerabilities that may affect Intel-based Macs. In a paper published by researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of California, at least three new versions of Spectre attacks have been found affecting micro-op caches in Intel and AMD processors.
Computer science researchers at the UVA School of Engineering and University of California, San Diego, jointly published a paper outlining new Spectre variants that they say affect "billions" of AMD and Intel PCs. The researchers also say they are immune to all existing hardware and software mitigations, and worse yet, potential fixes would have a major impact on system performance.
Nobel Laureate William Faulkner (probably unwittingly) did all aspiring writers a solid by tracking his submissions to literary magazines for a year. The chart, which is part of the University of Virginia Library’s collection, catalogues Faulkner’s 94 submissions to seven magazines from 1930 to ’31. Of those, he placed a total of 12 stories. To be clear, that’s a lot of yeses! But it’s also a lot of nos.
We’re going to dive a little deeper into the list (the Top 20) and highlight the schools you may not realize are some of the top clerkship contenders. Here they are for your viewing pleasure:1. University of Chicago: 27.59%2. Yale University: 25.49%3. Stanford University: 23.08%4. University of Virginia: 17.46%
(Commentary) America’s Founding Fathers supported the right to keep and bear arms, but they also saw that guns didn’t belong on a college campus. In 1824, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison attended a board meeting of the University of Virginia, which was opening the next spring. Minutes from the meeting show that the board decreed: “No student shall, within the precincts of the University, introduce, keep or use any spirituous or vinous liquors, keep or use weapons or arms of any kind…”
The University of Virginia recently released a statement acknowledging Herring’s opinion, but has not yet updated its policy. Emily Porter, a UVA student majoring in media studies and Chinese, said there is support for the vaccine among UVA students, but some students oppose it. “The student population is largely liberal, though I would say there are contrarians and conservatives who might have an issue,” she said. “As a proportion of the student population, the latter is much less. I would also guess that the majority of the faculty and staff would also be in support of it.”
A big event that will help is Final Exercises at the University of Virginia. Clark said at the Draftsman, they're happy both the classes of ’20 and ’21 will be graduating, and separate weekends help, too. The hotel plans to be booked solid.
A first-of-its-kind network of autism centers across the country is aiming to better address the needs of those with the developmental disability by putting the latest research into practice faster. The newly launched 20-site (including UVA) Autism Care Network is a “learning health network,” according to Autism Speaks, which is behind the new collaboration.
In the last few years, university administrators and philanthropists have begun to direct large sums of money to data science, an interdisciplinary field of study. The University of Virginia received $120 million, the largest gift in its history, to establish a school of data science. Data science draws especially from computer science, mathematics, and statistics, but its ambitions sweep across the university. UVA has launched an initiative to hire faculty members with expertise in data science from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Regardless of their disciplinary home, ...
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, Gerald L. Baliles Professor and director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center) President Franklin Roosevelt served an unprecedented 4,422 days in office, but his first 100 set a benchmark by which his successors are inevitably measured.
Computing experts thought they had developed adequate security patches after the major worldwide Spectre flaw of 2018, but UVA's discovery shows processors are open to hackers again.
The health district, UVA Health’s site at the Seminole Square shopping center and area pharmacies are also now offering shots to anyone 16 and older regardless of where they live.
“I think the major brood in (the Charlottesville area) is Brood II, but it would not surprise me if you experienced Brood X in Northern Virginia in 2004, as it is common in the D.C. area,” said Doug Taylor, Commonwealth Professor of Biology with the University of Virginia. “The distinctions can be a bit fuzzy and sometimes there are stragglers.”