(By Jack Hamilton, Slate’s pop critic and a UVA assistant professor of American studies and media studies) The 2016 U.S. Olympic team isn’t dreamy, and it has nothing to redeem. It’s still incredibly fun to watch, and worth rooting for.
The findings show that “once you’re in a committed relationship, your drinking frequency declines permanently, whereas quantity goes back up if you exit that relationship,” said lead author Diana Dinescu, a UVA doctoral candidate in clinical psychology.
A study from economists at UVA and Middle Tennessee State University finds that young people with a part-time job their senior year of high school earned 20 percent more annually six to nine years after graduation, compared to their counterparts who didn’t work.
The National Science Foundation has awarded 18 grants to multidisciplinary teams from across the United States to conduct frontier research focused on neural and cognitive systems. Each award provides a research team with up to $1 million over two to four years. Matthew Reidenbach of the University of Virginia, and Barry Ache and Jose Principe of the University of Florida, received their grant for a computational neuroscience framework for olfactory scene analysis within complex fluid environments.
University officials are imploring students to stay away from the Wertland Street Block Party, and law enforcement officials have pledged to crack down on anyone who breaks the law at Saturday’s event.
As the city of Charlottesville prepares to implement about $30 million of streetscape projects, Albemarle County and UVA officials want to ensure the entire region’s bike and pedestrian infrastructure is improved as a result.
Thirteen local high school students recently participated in the third annual Bio-Med Tech-Girls at the University of Virginia, a weeklong program that offers hands-on exposure to biomedical engineering for teenage girls.
Louis Nelson, a UVA professor of architectural history who has participated in several restoration projects relating to the slave trade, is a member of the international team working on the House of Slaves project.
The General Assembly soon will conduct hearings in order to “get a full picture” of UVA’s $2.3 billion Strategic Investment Fund. UVA Rector Bill Goodwin has stood firm on his school’s financial planning, and he is wise to do so. It is innovative, it is new and he should see the hearings as a useful opportunity to inform.
(Video) Steve Swanson, UVA women’s soccer head coach, was an assistant coach with the U.S. Women’s National Team in the Olympic Games in Brazil.
Gravely, a Fayetteville State University undergraduate and graduate of the UVA School of Law, died Monday in Richmond. He recently resigned as the interim executive director of the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP. He hosted “The Jack Gravely Show” on Richmond’s Rejoice WREJ-AM 990 (formerly WLEE).
Applying her creative ideas and intellectual energy to improving the brand of Washington’s baseball team, UVA alumna Valerie Camillo was thinking of team marketing ideas before the Nationals paid her to.
In Charlottesville, two UVA students have set out to improve so-called town-gown relations with a program that cultivates friendships through gardening.
Shades of Tina Fey, she studied in many of the same classrooms and with the same teachers at UVA. Richard Warner – a professor of acting, not an acting professor – was her adviser. When Lorne Michaels added Zamata to his cast in 2014, Warner told UVA Today that the Cavalier was confident, poised and ambitious and had an offbeat sense of humor.
For the last three weeks, David Guinn has been ascending and descending the walls here at the Graduate Hotel in Charlottesville. The nine-story mural he and his assistant are painting faces UVA’s Grounds. … The other part that hooked him was who he would be collaborating with: Rita Dove, professor of English, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a former Poet Laureate.
While the RealClearPolitics average has Democrats leading by three points on the generic ballot test, that edge is going to have to increase substantially for Democrats to have a chance at retaking the House, explained Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Open-access advocate Brian Nosek, director of the Center for Open Science and a UVA researcher, is calling for psychologists to post their preprints to the site.
“He has a really hard time of just sort of backing down from some sort of fight or argument, and it has caused him to keep a lot of controversies alive that a different kind of campaign could easily deal with,” UVA analyst Kyle Kondik said.
Christopher Ali, who teaches media studies at UVA, said Univision is, like all old-school broadcasters, trying to stay relevant and boost revenue with younger audiences. But another goal might be to combine content.
(By Russell L. Riley, associate professor and co-chairman of the Presidential Oral History Program at UVA’s Miller Center) Although First Ladies have been given important responsibilities in their husbands’ presidencies, none has taken such an active part in policymaking as Hillary Rodham Clinton did.