The study, carried out jointly at UVA, Columbia Business School and Harvard Business School, looked at how people felt about those who pay an exact amount when settling up with friends and family members.
Miss Greater Richmond, Davina Seoparsan, a recent University of Virginia graduate who’s gearing up for law school, is also heading to Lynchburg to compete for Miss Virginia. Like Swanson, she said she’s not bothered by the swimsuit competition — although “it is a little bit of a relief” to know she won’t face that experience if she reaches the Miss America stage. More importantly, she said, taking the pressure off a woman’s looks and body and focusing instead on her goals and personal drive will encourage more women to participate — which means more positive role models for younger girls. “I t...
(Commentary) Bob Tata's story has been told in this newspaper before, but never by someone who has known him for more than five decades.
he University of Virginia Buildings and Grounds Committee met Thursday, to discuss several new ideas.The committee was presented with a new plan for the softball stadium. UVA says its goal is to make this stadium one of the best in the country.
With new low-frequency radio telescopes coming online, astronomers think that they may be on the verge of making the first positive detection of radio emission from an exoplanet. The catch: To be picked up by today's telescopes, the radio emission would have to be way stronger than Jupiter's — about 100,000 times stronger for planets within a 65-light-year radius of Earth, estimates Jake Turner, an astronomy Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia. But, says Turner, that's not a deal-breaker.
The ceremony was the crowning achievement for a governor who already has begun filling a trophy case of accomplishments five months after taking office.“Northam has achieved a term-defining accomplishment in the first year,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “He’s a MD anyway, so he may become known in history as ‘the Medicaid Governor.’”
Political analysts were not surprised by the tone of the speech, as Flake has emerged as a leading Republican critic of the president. But that criticism would not likely carry Flake in a race against Trump, they said. “I don’t think that at this moment there is a big appetite amongst potential Republican primary voters to not support the president in 2020,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter based at the University of Virginia. “If Flake had a great standing amongst Republicans, he probably would be running for U.S. Senate.”
Carbon recapture also fails to critically question consumption habits, and the emphasis that our global economy places on growth and hegemony. Rodrigo Castro Cornejo, a scholar of climate politics at the University of Virginia, expressed this dilemma at the 10th International Modelica Conference in 2014. “It is our predicament that we live in a finite world, and yet we behave as if it were infinite," Castro Cornejo said. "Steady exponential material growth with no limits on resource consumption and population is the dominant conceptual model used by today's decision makers. This is an approxim...
Although ShotSpotter has helped police across the nation find victims of fatal shootings and recover stolen weapons, there is no data to show its rate of effectiveness or to quantify its return on investment for police departments. Jennifer Doleac, a University of Virginia researcher who has studied ShotSpotter for four years, told the Cincinnati Enquirer "there isn't any evidence" the system reduces gun violence.
No other developed country has a higher a rate of sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs), which occur in infants younger than 1 year. Sudden unexpected infant deaths include cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or accidental suffocation and strangulation during sleep or in a sleep environment, although sometimes the cause cannot be determined. “The United States is the only developed country for which this is an issue,” said Dr. Rachel Moon, lead author of the recommendations for a safe sleeping environment for infants from the American Academy of Pediatrics. In many cases of SUIDs, “...
Breastfeeding is another way mothers can reduce their child’s risk of SIDS, which is the leading cause of death for infants younger than one year old, according to an international study conducted by the University of Virginia Health System. The study found that a minimum of two months of breastfeeding can reduce a baby’s risk of SIDS by nearly half. Further, these results are also applicable to mothers who both breastfeed and bottle feed their babies.
For Freedoms, an artist-run organization, is launching a national campaign today to design billboards to get people more interested in the November midterm elections. Locally, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and the Rutter Family Art Foundation have joined the initiative. The University of Virginia and Randolph College in Lynchburg have also signed on, according to a press release.
The University of Virginia Cancer Center is joining 69 National Cancer Institute centers in urging people to get vaccinations and screenings to help eliminate cancers related to human papillomavirus.
In February of this year, the university announced that it would continue to examine its history by establishing the president’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation.
The University of Virginia unveiled a $5 billion fundraising campaign Thursday that will add money for faculty, fellowships and student affordability during the school’s bicentennial. The public phase, if approved by the full Board of Visitors on Friday, will begin in fall 2019 and run through the spring of 2025.
Many classrooms are sacrificing the discovery and critical thinking skills that arise through play in favor of academics, UVA researchers found, led by the education-policy researcher Daphna Bassok.
Professor Saras Sarasvathy, a renowned scholar of entrepreneurship at UVA’s Darden School of Business, has discovered that successful entrepreneurs are not only relentless “askers,” but they also have a repertoire of asks for different startup scenarios.
UVA Researchers say current seat belts are not made to protect nearly 110 million Americans. That's a third of the nation's population, and that's how many people are considered obese.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies and director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, and Baratunde Thurston, futurist comedian, writer and activist, talk about Facebook's data-sharing policy with device makers and Apple's attempt to differentiate its privacy policies from Facebook's, and personal data exposure online ... and what to do about it.