In 1991, Dyan Aretakis decided to tackle the high rate of pregnancy among Central Virginia teenagers. She founded UVA’s Teen Health Center, which has helped dramatically reduce local teen pregnancy rates and offers dedicated mental health, sexual health and behavioral health services to local teens. As a nurse practitioner, Aretakis was committed to treating teens with respect and helping them to take ownership of their health, according to colleagues and her family. Aretakis died Sunday in Crozet at age 63 after a yearlong battle with glioblastoma.
Research suggests that smartphones can inhibit people from offering help to strangers on the street, reduce how much we smile at unfamiliar faces in a waiting room and even lessen our trust of strangers, neighbors and people of other religions or nationalities. "People don't talk about or realize that we actually get quite a lot from casual social interactions," UVA social psychologist Kostadin Kushlev said.
The heavy-handed expansion of the regulatory state was a hallmark of Barack Obama’s presidency – and the nation, under his presidency, had the economy to show for it. “The broad trend of environmental regulation during the Obama administration,” Jason Scott Johnston, a UVA law professor, told Reason magazine, “was to use the coercive threat or reality of regulation simply to try to shut down entire industries and entire types of economic activity.”
Much has been written about Nantucket’s whaling history and the period of decline that followed, but a new book gives us a different perspective on the how that transition impacted the residents of the Island. Host Mindy Todd interviews Everett Crosby, emeritus professor of history and chair of the medieval studies program at the University of Virginia, whose new book is titled “The Making of Nantucket Family Lives and Fortunes in the Nineteenth Century.”
For a White House that has frequently drawn parallels to the turmoil of the Watergate era, Cohen’s sentencing adds one more tick to the list. For a White House that has frequently drawn parallels to the turmoil of the Watergate era, Cohen’s sentencing adds one more tick to the list. Herbert W. Kalmbach, President Richard Nixon’s personal lawyer, received a prison sentence on June 17, 1974, exactly two years after the Watergate break-in, for funneling hush money to Watergate defendants. “In Watergate, he’s the money, the bagman,” says Ken Hughes, an expert on Watergate at UVA’s Miller Center.
Virginia quarterback Bryce Perkins was named the 2018 Dudley Award winner Wednesday night at the annual Richmond Touchdown Club awards banquet. He is the ninth Cavalier to win the award since 1990, and the first Virginia quarterback to hoist the trophy since Matt Blundin in 1991.
Claudio and Danielle Reyna experienced tragedy upon the death of their son, Jack, but his memory and legacy endure and are carried on in part by another son and U.S. youth national team standout, Giovanni. Claudio Reyna was a three-time NCAA champion at the University of Virginia.
Thanks to two UVA graduate students, inmates at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail are trading in bars for keys that’ll prepare them for life after lock-up.
(By Charlie Tyson, a doctoral student at Harvard University.) Tyson graduated in 2014 from the University of Virginia, where he majored in political and social thought and in English. Gary Alan Fine’s “Talking Art” (University of Chicago Press, 2018), a report on three M.F.A. programs in the Chicago area, offers us an ethnography of visual-arts education: a dispatch from M.F.A. island. Art school, Fine finds, is a subculture, with an austere patois and peculiar rites of praise and humiliation.
Increased drought and longer spans of hotter weather are causing outbreaks of infectious bacteria and parasites, said Howard Epstein, an ecologist at the University of Virginia. The caribou and reindeer populations are also declining due to a boon in predators and because extreme weather events are occasionally triggering droughts.
Why is a warmer Arctic worse for reindeer? There are multiple reasons. Howard Epstein, an environmental scientist from the University of Virginia, who was one of the many scientists involved in the research behind the Arctic Report Card, said warming in the region showed no signs of abating. "We see increased drought in some areas due to climate warming, and the warming itself leads to a change of vegetation."
With overall melting, especially in the summer, herds of caribou and wild reindeer have dropped about 55 percent — from 4.7 million to 2.1 million animals — because of the warming and the flies and parasites it brings, said report card co-author Howard Epstein of the University of Virginia.
Somebody Told Us So Book of the Year“Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy” by Siva Vaidhyanathan. Speaking of greed, you know how each week seems to bring another story of some Facebook perfidy against its users? Vaidhyanathan, a professor at University of Virginia, explains how this cycle of abuse is embedded in Facebook’s very DNA.
UVA professor and psychologist Daniel Murrie told the jury that while Fields was not legally insane at the time of the attack, he had inexplicable outbursts as a child and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 6. He was later found to have schizoid personality disorder. Murrie said Fields went off his psychiatric medication at 18 and built an isolated “lifestyle centered around being alone.”
Even though melting ice has freed up more land for grazing, herds of caribou and wild reindeer across the Arctic tundra have declined by 56 percent over the last two decades, cutting populations from 4.7 million to 2.1 million. "The long-term warming trend may be taking a toll on some of the Arctic's most majestic animals," said Howard Epstein, a UVA professor of environmental sciences.
(Video) It's looking more like Christmas at UVA Medical Center on Tuesday, with the snow and Christmas tree.
For the 35th consecutive year, the UVA Health System held its annual Lights of Love ceremony. The ceremony featured a tree-lighting ceremony that raises funds for projects that will benefit families and patients.
One possible explanation for the higher frequency of deaths after rat bites could be diseases associated with them, according to Dr. Christopher Holstege, a UVA professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics.
Animal life is cratering in response to these year-round changes. Caribou and reindeer herds have lost more than half their animals since the 1980s, said Howard Epstein, a professor at the University of Virginia.
“Kinky Boots” producers announced that former UVA football star Tiki Barber will take over the role of “Don” in the Tony Award-winning musical at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre beginning Jan. 21. He will play a limited run through March 3.