Bone-deep exhaustion from lifting, minding, tending and worrying, coupled with the ache of not wanting to miss a moment, can separate caregivers from the healing sleep they need to walk a profound path. But on a recent morning, as gentle notes rippled from the strings of Kate Tamarkin’s harp, a patient’s weary mother closed her eyes and slept. “Music can have a profound effect on the caregivers, as well as patients,” Tamarkin said. Tamarkin, a certified music practitioner and music director of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia, coordinates the M...
UVA physicists have developed a new technique that combines magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear medicine.
In 1996, Australian farmers reported weeds that were highly resistant to the herbicide Round-Up. Now, 20 years later, a UVA economist says American farmers may also be finding that weeds can fight back. Federico Ciliberto and two of his colleagues studied the chemicals used by 5,000 farmers and discovered they were using more herbicides – specifically, products other than Round-Up.
(Co-written by Vikram Jaswal, a UVA associate professor of psychology) How to educate children with disabilities is one of the most difficult conversations in education. One couple makes the case for their autistic daughter's inclusion: opportunity and access.
As exposure to community violence increases for adolescent men of color, symptoms of depression subside and violent behaviors increase, according to new research published in the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology by UVA researchers and colleagues at two Chicago-area universities.
A polarizing issue has struck a little closer to home with the University of Virginia men’s basketball team posting a photo of members kneeling on a UVA court. It would be inconsistent of us – all of us – to revere Thomas Jefferson on the one hand and on the other to condemn students at his university for exercising the principles he laid down.
The results of the first statewide survey since last week's presidential debate are in. Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump 42 to 35 percent in Virginia, according to a new survey by the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University. “The debate win for her probably energized her base a bit more. Democrats had something to be excited about when perhaps they had been struggling,” said Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics.
The recent revelations about Donald Trump's taxes will not hurt him with his base, a top political analyst said Monday. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said there is "not a chance" that Trump's huge reported 1995 loss and possible years of getting shielded from income taxes would affect how his strong supporters view him. He said Trump's statement that he could "stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody" without losing voters may not have taken it far enough. "I actually think he could shoot multiple people and, as long...
Despite being a perennial battleground, Ohio may look very different this year from previous elections, thanks the peculiarities of Trump's candidacy. Trump is picking up votes in traditionally Democratic parts of the state, like the blue collar Mahoning Valley around Youngstown, while he seems to be turning off college voters in traditionally Republican suburbs around major cities. "It's easy to imagine there being some big swings from 2012 in different parts of Ohio, but it may be that those swings largely cancel themselves out, giving Clinton a path to win the state despite Tru...
Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte’s independent streak was put to the test Monday in the first televised debate of a neck-and-neck New Hampshire race that could determine party control of the Senate. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said the New Hampshire race might ultimately hinge on whether Mrs. Clinton meets or exceeds President Obama’s 5.5-point margin of victory in 2012.
Political analysts, including Republicans opposed to Trump, noted he has had bad weeks before and may be exhibiting a pattern. Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at UVA’s Miller Center, said there was no way to predict what would happen during the last five weeks of the election.
A showdown between two middle-aged white men that some Twitter users predict will be akin to "watching paint dry," the goal of this debate is to go easy on the zingers and woo undecided voters. "Given the polarizing nature of the two major-party nominees and the incredible attention paid to each of them, the vice presidential debate in 2016 may be even more of a sideshow than it normally is," said Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, Political Analyst at UVA’sCenter for Politics) For the first time since Ohio rejected Kennedy in favor of Richard M. Nixon in 1960, it seems quite possible that the Buckeye State will find itself on the losing side of a presidential election this year.
In a 2016 study, researchers from University of California, Berkeley and UVA discovered that the highest indicating factor for teacher retention is whether or not teachers feel that they are part of a productive and meaningful community – one where their voices are heard, valued and collectively used to inform practices and policies on school campuses.
A second working paper released this summer, by UVA economist Jennifer Doleac and University of Oregon economist Benjamin Hansen, analyzed Labor Department data for U.S. cities, counties and states that had adopted ban-the-box policies. They found black and Hispanic men ages 25 to 34 and lacking college degrees were less likely to be employed after the laws took effect.
The TJPDC is finalizing an organizational study of the area’s transit agencies. That will be presented in November to a regional body known as the Planning and Community Council, made up of two city councilors, two Albemarle supervisors and top University of Virginia officials.
Many people are giving up on balancing religious and civil rights protections and instead are committing to "their side winning the culture war," said Douglas Laycock, a renowned religious freedom scholar and professor at the UVA School of Law, during a presentation at the Religion News Association's annual conference.
While at first glance it may be disheartening that children are absorbing the negativity of this election, Vikram Jaswal, the director of UVA’s Child Language and Learning Lab, saw a silver lining in the results.
Digital “brain-training” games promising to improve users’ memory, focus or attention and stave off mental decline simply don’t have enough solid evidence to make their ambitious claims, a wide-ranging review of scientific literature alleges. UVA psychology professor Daniel Willingham, who was not involved in the review, said the field suffers from a placebo effect that’s “bigger than anybody would have guessed.”
The UVA men’s basketball team has taken to social media to lend its support to combating racial inequality. Late Thursday, several Cavalier basketball players tweeted pictures of the entire team wearing black clothing while kneeling in unison with their arms locked together on a basketball court. Each of the players’ Twitter posts included the message “Kneel for Injustice. Kneel for Equality.” along with the photo.