Brian Williams studies the intersection of race and public safety. As he settles into a new post as associate professor of public policy at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy, he wanted to expand scholarship beyond the classroom walls. Williams gathered his UVA students to join government officials, law enforcement and residents from across the state Saturday to lobby ideas for improving relationships between police and the communities they serve.
Another new Schwarzman Scholar is Varun Sharma, the valedictorian of that class. Sharma, 21, studies commerce and international economics at the University of Virginia. "It's a blessing and I'm really, really excited to go," Sharma told The Jersey Journal. "China has been a big part of my life for a while."
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, says that JFK’s father, the influential businessman and politician Joseph Kennedy, played up his son’s hero status during campaigns, as did the newspapers and magazines, but that JFK himself didn’t wear it on his sleeve.
The dean of the UVA School of Engineering has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS awards this lifetime honor to people who have made “extraordinary achievements in advancing science.” Dean Craig H. Benson was recognized along with 415 others from around the world in the Nov. 28 edition of Science.
UVA political analyst Larry Sabato said Bush's stature among the country's 45 presidents has grown in the quarter century since he left office. “It's pretty obvious as people look back, and as people are recollecting the Bush presidency, it looks a heck of a lot better than it did at the end of it,” he said. “Bush of course was defeated for re-election and most people at the time considered him a failed president because of a recession during his time in the White House. But now I think we can see in retrospect that he was actually quite successful,” Sabato added, particularly in foreign affai...
An automated pop-up screen in the electronic ordering system reduced unnecessary testing for Clostridioides difficile — formerly called Clostridium difficile — infections and saved on overall costs, according to study findings published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Dr. Gregory R. Madden, an infectious disease clinical fellow at the UVA Medical Center, explained that the most common test used in hospitals to detect C. difficile — the nucleic acid amplification test — is unable to differentiate between infection and colonization in patients.
Political observers say Kasich's path to the White House is narrow – if it exists at all. "At this point, it doesn’t seem like there is a path for John Kasich to be the next president of the United States," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
The University of Virginia’s Long-Term Ecological Research Project has just received a $6.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study climate changes, rising seas and encroaching civilization on the coast’s ecosystems. UVA has been doing this for 36 years.
The district has entered into a $135,000 grant-funded contract with the University of Virginia, which has a track record in assisting urban school districts in their turnaround programs. The work touches a variety of components, including screening principals to make sure they are suited for work in an urban setting, with large populations of children who live in poverty.
In 2010, VMFA and the University of Virginia, with a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, used digital technologies to study the statue for evidence of ancient pigments, finding traces of a man-made blue and an organic pink. Combined, they form purple, a significant color in the imperial court.
In 2016 heart-rending pictures of aquatic creatures tangled up in the unforgiving grip of plastic six-pack rings sent the New York creative agency We Believers on a mission to develop alternative packaging for its client, Florida-based craft microbrewer Saltwater Brewery. The sustainable six-pack experiment could have begun and ended with Saltwater, but the co-founder of We Believers, Marco Vega, is a graduate of UVA’s Darden School of Business who spent time as a process engineer at Procter & Gamble.
Attending a very selective school affects women’s personal lives, the research by economists at UVA, Virginia Tech and Tulane University shows. “This pattern is certainly suggestive that the school that you attend has a big influence not just on the skills that you gain, but also on your aspirations and your expectations,” UVA professor Amalia Miller said.
Women in Virginia are more than twice as likely to reach the age of 85 than men. That’s according to Kathryn Crespin at the University of Virginia, who says women are twice as likely to face disability in old age and three times as likely to face Alzheimer’s.
UVA’s first consecutive bowl appearances since 2004-05 became official Sunday afternoon when the Belk Bowl selection committee announced that the Cavaliers will face South Carolina at noon on Dec. 29 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Specifically, Mendenhall said that he loves the quality of the game and the messaging that it sends in qualifying for a high-tier bowl game. “It reflects progress and it reflects the new standard as part of our program. I love the chance to match up against an SEC opponent.”
Tech entrepreneur Carrington Guy is an Alexandria native and University of Virginia graduate. He’s currently the chief operating officer of Biproxi, a new online marketplace and transaction platform for mid-size commercial real estate transactions. We wanted to know whether this is the Craigslist or Zillow of commercial real estate.
Spencer Shanholtz at the University of Virginia says the homeownership rate for people under the age of 34 is rising much faster than the general population of adults — that’s especially true in exurban areas around Washington. DC, Hampton Roads and Richmond. “The young Virginian age group is seeing the most gains now primarily because they saw the largest decline during the recession. They’re the most vulnerable to swings in the economy and therefore they’re rising faster than most at this point.”
ARBs and another class of blood-pressure drugs called angiotensin converting-enzyme inhibitors, or ACE inhibitors, are often the first drugs doctors recommend to lower a patient's blood pressure, according to Dr. Robert M. Carey, dean emeritus at the UVA School of Medicine. "These are recommended as first line therapy for high blood pressure," said Carey, who co-chaired the clinical practice committee of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. "So when you get recalls, you do start to worry about what the alternatives would be."
However, there have been rumblings of discontent in the academic world, with disagreement about what IAT scores actually reveal about a person. Multiple studies have found IAT results are not strongly reproducible in an individual: one day you might have a “moderate” bias and the next day you might come out in the clear. Brian Nosek, of the University of Virginia, who was part of the team that developed the IAT, acknowledged that the extent to which the result measures a meaningful trait had been misconceived and said the test should not be taken in this spirit.
The University of Virginia’s public radio station will be moving to a new location on Ivy Road in March.