After founding member and lead singer Dave Brockie died of a heroin overdose in 2014, Blothar (a.k.a. Michael Bishop) became the lead singer. Bishop was the original Beefcake the Mighty bassist before leaving GWAR to earn his PhD in music and go on to lecture at the University of Virginia. Now firmly entrenched in his new post, he is fronting the group into its fourth decade.
Civil rights lawyer Cecile M. Scoon has made history as the first Black woman elected to lead the League of Women Voters of Florida. “League members repudiated times in the 1920s and later in the 1960s when white League members were not as welcoming to Black women.” said Scoon in a news release. “My election was a rejection of that troubling past and an embracement of diversity, equity and inclusivity.” Scoon is a graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law school.
Henry Wynne’s arrival in Eugene, Oregon, for the 2021 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, where he’ll be racing the 1500 meters, can be compared to the part of a movie where we see our hero reach the pinnacle after long-fought ordeals along the way. His journey since graduating the University of Virginia in 2017 fits that mold.
Nia Augustine’s family never thought she would go to college. In fact, before she applied, her family didn’t really understand the point. “My mom’s first question was ‘why?’” This put Augustine’s decision into perspective. “For some people it is assumed they will go to college from birth. This wasn’t how it was for me.” In May, Augustine graduated from UVA with a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology.
Rising fourth-grader Marco Montero-Butler joined his older sisters Nalani and Leila Butler to publish “Sprinkles,” a children’s book focuses on adapting to the changes in life. … Nalani graduated from Hayfield in 2020 and completed her first year at UVA.
Tyler Busch from Newark, a Mount Pleasant High School graduate attending the University of Virginia, was one of several older students who participated in helping craft the legislation. He wants Black history education to go beyond enslavement. “Some of the inventions and the contributions that black people have made to America outside of their free labor,” said Busch.
Machine learning has allowed video producers to create images that look real but are actually fakes, and viewers can’t often tell when they’re being tricked. Now, two students from the University of Virginia have come up with a way to spot bogus video.
Edward Diener, a playful social psychologist who was nicknamed Dr. Happiness for his pioneering research into what defined contentment, died on April 27 at his home in Salt Lake City. He was 74. Dr. Diener, who retired from the University of Illinois in 2009, subsequently resumed teaching psychology at the University of Utah and the University of Virginia.
Martin Hehir leads a very hectic life, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. He just wrapped up medical school in Philadelphia, and begins his residency in anesthesiology on Monday at the University of Virginia. He’s a married dad of two young girls, and has been living at his in-laws’ house in his old hometown of Washingtonville while shifting from one life to another. All the while, Hehir, 28, has transitioned from training for the Olympic marathon – where he came up about a minute shy of his goal a year ago – to the more manageable 10,000 meters. He says he’s running about as well as he ev...
Mediators Selena Cozart and Frank Dukes of the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation at the University of Virginia congratulated The Montpelier Foundation, Montpelier Descendants Committee, and the National Trust on this historic partnership. “We hope that the brave conversations that nurtured new relationships and that led to this truly momentous agreement will inspire other organizations to action.”
Some were using medications that cross the blood-brain barrier: the ACE inhibitors captopril, fosinopril, lisinopril, perindopril, ramipril, and trandolapril, or the ARBs telmisartan and candesartan. Nation’s team found, patients on those medications had a slower decline in memory performance over three years, versus those on non-crossing blood pressure drugs. Dr. Robert Carey, a UVA professor of, said the findings raise an “extremely important” question of whether certain blood pressure medications are better for slowing memory decline.
Investment in early childhood education has become more stratified, said Daphna Bassok, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia. In recent years, there’s been a boost in funding for some preschool programs focused explicitly on learning and development, with the goal of preparing children for kindergarten. But Virginia still devotes limited dollars – beyond what’s required – to match the federal subsidies supporting other types of providers. “What it’s led to is a system that’s incredibly fragmented and inefficient, but also where some kids have acce...
Two law professors with expertise in technology are waving red flags of danger. Writing in Foreign Affairs magazine, Robert Chesney of the University of Texas and Danielle Citron of the University of Virginia describe scenarios that could launch a war. Imagine the consequences of a video showing a nation’s leader announcing that missiles have been fired at another country, or of an ISIS leader announcing a chemical attack — videos that could cover the world in minutes and that cannot be determined to be fake.
Patients are looking to feel comfortable and safe when they return for imaging, but academic centers need to balance those concerns with their own mission of education and research, said Dr. Arun Krishnaraj, associate professor of radiology and medical imaging at UVA and chair of the American College of Radiology’s Commission on Patient- and Family-Centered Care. “For us as an academic department, it’s important to provide education and to do research, while still providing care that is safe,” he said.
(Podcast) On this episode, Margarita Mooney-Suarez of the Princeton Theological Seminary; Jenet Erickson, a fellow at the Insitute of Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute; and Brad Wilcox, a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a professor at the University of Virginia, join Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the Republican response to family policy.
A UVA Health doctor is going the extra mile on Friday to raise awareness about the ongoing opioid epidemic and treatment options. “I will be setting off on a nearly 600-mile trip across Virginia,” said Dr. Mark Cohee, a primary care doctor.
“I think an exchange program is a great opportunity to have a longterm cultural immersion in another part of the world while continuing studies,” says Marc Johnson, executive director of global affairs at UVA’s Darden School of Business, which offers exchange programs with partner schools such as Stockholm School of Economics, Melbourne Business School and the Indian School of Business. “There’s just a qualitative difference in spending two weeks in a country and spending two months in a country, living, studying and engaging with fellow students,” says Johnson. “We think it’s a great way to b...
Speaking of Psychology: How ‘open science’ is changing psychological research, with Brian Nosek, PhD
(Podcast) Is psychology research in a crisis or a renaissance? Over the past decade, scientists have realized that many published research results, including some classic findings in psychology, don’t always hold up to repeat trials. UVA psychology professor Brian Nosek, of the Center for Open Science, discusses how psychologists are leading a movement to address that problem, in psychology and in other scientific fields, by changing the way that research studies get funded, conducted, and published.
Kyle Kondik, a House election analyst at University of Virginia, notes that while Pelosi has few votes to spare, she maintains an advantage: her caucus is more “ideologically cohesive” than past Democratic majorities, which featured several conservatives.
Educators are trying to tamp down any panic parents might feel over a lost year for their children. Remote learning may have gone badly for many families, they say, but don’t assume that kids need to be held back. “I’m not one of those people who thinks, ‘Oh, this is a lost generation; these kids have lost this year, and therefore nothing will be normal,” said Anna Shapiro, an early childhood researcher at the University of Virginia.