Research has found out why sleep can put people with epilepsy at an increased risk of sudden death. Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine looked at how sleep and seizures slow the heart rate.
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is pleased to announce the winners of six of the 2021 Regional Student Conferences. Region I Winners - Masters Category: 2nd Place – “Employing CARS to determine flame temperature of ethylene/air counterflow diffusion flames,” Sean Alberts and Chloe Dedic, University of Virginia.
9. Past Life Phobias. One UVA study found that some children who claim to recall their previous lives suffer “unusual” phobias that they say are related to those past lives – and specifically the way they died. For example, a child might have an intense fear of water that she attributes to drowning in her past life.
Health officials are warning that COVID-19 vaccination rates have declined by 30%, leading to an increase in cases. UVA anesthesiology and critical care medicine associate professor Dr. Ebony Hilton says misinformation has led to vaccine hesitancy and to a political divide in vaccinations.
(Video) There are new signs the U.S. is on the road to recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Cases and deaths have plummeted to the lowest point in months. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at UVA Health, discusses U.S. efforts and the nation's role in the global fight.
Annaliese Griffin was driving to get ice cream with her best friend TaKiya “TK” Howard on Monday night when she realized they were near another friend’s house. They decided to stop and say hi to Tyler “TY” Johnson, who lives in Englewood. The three high school seniors talked about prom, heading to college and basketball – all three have committed to playing Division I basketball in college (Griffin at UVA). About 11:55 p.m., they heard a gunshot.
Katie Hill took quite the non-traditional path to the National Football League. The Nashville native has tackled both the White House and Capitol Hill, and now, she’s transitioning to the world of professional sports after being named the NFL’s new senior vice president of communications on Wednesday. Hill, who has a bachelor’s degree in classical Greek from UVA, has done a myriad of jobs in corporate America.
(Commentary) No, he’s not resident and I’m kinda guessing he’s not going to be president. But if Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy doesn’t remind you of Will Rogers or Yogi Berra, you aren’t paying attention. Born in Mississippi, this Kennedy graduated from Vanderbilt University and the UVA School of Law before attending Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. In 2016, Kennedy was elected to the U.S. Senate from Louisiana. Regardless of how you view the politics, Kennedy is one funny man and has become known for his folksy expressions, wit and humor.
A Charlottesville civil rights advocate who has worked with a variety of local, state and national organizations will take over the helm of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, organization officials announced Wednesday. Mary Bauer, the current chair of the Charlottesville Human Rights Commission, will replace Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, who served for nine years as the state ACLU’s executive director. Bauer is a UVA School of Law graduate who has long worked on behalf of minorities and civil rights.
Not only is [UVA lumnus] Gordon Sutton, president of family-owned petroleum distributor Tiger Fuels, going solar by adding rooftop panels to Tiger Fuel’s chain of convenience stores and gas stations, he also is growing solar by purchasing Altenergy, the Charlottesville-based developer who designed and installed those arrays.
Improving accessibility for individuals with disabilities isn't just about building ramps or creating more parking spots. It’s the communication that plays a key role, but that is often overlooked. A Charlottesville start-up is training local businesses on how to improve disability etiquette. Joe Jamison, the founder of VisitAble and a UVA graduate, said that not all businesses can make large changes like adding elevators. Instead, his start-up is able to provide other ways of creating an accessible environment.
Teaching college-level biology over the past year has also posed challenges. "STEM fields, biology and some of these other very content heavy, mechanism-driven courses are difficult in person, let alone on Zoom," said Sarah Kucenas, a UVA professor of biology.
Platonic parenting, according to Naomi R. Cahn, a law professor and director of the Family Law Center at the UVA School of Law, is an international movement that probably got a boost from the pandemic because dating slowed down and the ticking of the biological clock may have seemed much louder.
The daily rhythm is a twist on a traditional schedule that’s popular in Montessori and Waldorf education circles. “Rather than focusing on what time things happen, we’re focusing on the general flow of what happens next,” says Theresa, a Seattle-area mother of two who is the creator behind Montessori in Real Life. For kids, the benefits are clear. “Young children really thrive on routines and set ways to do things,” says Angeline Lillard, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of “Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius.”
"Economically, it is taking longer for young adults to find the kind of stable jobs that make them feel financially ready to have kids," said Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. "Culturally, people are investing more in education and work—and they accord less importance to family."
Paul Seaborn, an assistant professor of commerce at UVA, agrees that debt capital markets are essential for mature consumer products industries, but he also thinks cannabis is going to stay weird for a long time yet. "Every month, every year the industry is becoming more normal, but that doesn't mean that it's gone mainstream by any means," said Seaborn. "There's going to be a need for companies like this one who specialize in cannabis."
(Video) Stephen Mull, UVA’s vice provost for global affairs, has argued that Iran and the West could enter diplomatic procedures to try to reach agreements on their common interests. The U.S. Senior Foreign Service officer has suggested a diplomatic intervention could help resolve tensions between the West and Iran. Mull, who spearheaded the U.S. enactment of the Iran nuclear deal, added that reaching agreements on both parties’ interests in common could help “make hostage-taking go away.”
(Audio) UVA Vice Provost for Global Affairs Stephen Mull, former U.S. ambassador to Poland and lead implementer of the original Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, discusses the talks surrounding a nuclear deal with Iran. He spoke with Bloomberg's David Westin.
(Commentary) Here’s the real problem: The oversight board was a flawed idea from the start. Such self-regulation “is an excellent way to appear to promote particular values and keep scrutiny and regulation to a minimum,” UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan observed last year.
Academics and policy experts have been pushing for Facebook and other social media companies to permanently ban the former president. UVA School of Law professor Danielle Keats Citron and University of California, Berkeley, computer science professor Hany Farid wrote in Slate in February: “The decision around Trump’s ban will be among the first the Facebook Oversight Board will make, but it is hard to imagine a more consequential case. The world is watching to see if the board is capable of speaking truth to power, to both Zuckerberg and Trump. In saying enough is enough, the board will show t...