Meredith Sutton, an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, told researchers at the AGU meeting that microplastics are expected to be found downstream of urban centers. However, they are increasingly found downstream of agricultural areas as well. Sutton and her colleagues suspected that fertilizers made from sludge at wastewater treatment facilities might be a source, so they conducted a controlled experiment in Nebraska. After rainfall, they found that much higher concentrations of microplastics (mainly fragments) ran into streams from fields treated with sludge-based fertilizer...
Her House bill 1488 would amend the Public Procurement Act to clarify that public agencies can set minimum wage and labor standards for contracted workers. She notes the University of Virginia has struggled with this ambiguity in the state code for years.
Margaret Riley, a professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia, said Sentara might not have been able to avoid penalty altogether by self-reporting its breach, but it could have reduced it.
(Commentary by Syaru Shirley Lin, Compton Visiting Professor at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) As Taiwanese voters prepare to go to the polls Saturday to elect their next president, they are choosing between two candidates who take fundamentally different positions on an issue whose implications go far beyond Taiwan: how to preserve a country’s democracy and freedom while maintaining economic relations with a neighboring giant that wants to subsume it.
Results from safety crash tests have a direct impact on how cars are designed to make them safer. But if safety tests prioritize adult men, what does that mean for women? A recent study from the University of Virginia revealed that a seat-belt-wearing woman is 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a frontal car crash than a man.
The West Baltimore-based accelerator offers a four-month program to help build startups driving purpose and profits. The sixth cohort, which returns with the theme of “Urban Resilience and Smart Cities,” is scheduled to run from March to June. Up to 10 companies will be selected. “We’re also really excited about the new curriculum updates we’ve made with our partners at the Darden School of the University of Virginia and our plan to use different forms of financing, like revenue-based redeemable equity, that will help us extend and improve our program for more ent...
The University of Virginia’s School of Nursing announced a $20 million gift from Joanne and Bill Conway to support the enrollment of over 1,000 students in its programs over the next decade, according to a press release from UVA's Office of University Communications.
The University of Virginia’s School of Nursing announced Thursday that it has received its largest-ever gift. The $20 million donation from Washington, D.C.-area billionaire philanthropist William E. “Bill” Conway Jr. and his wife Joanne will support the enrollment of more than 1,000 nursing students during the next 10 years.
A new semester launched Wednesday for UVA’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, which offers educational opportunities and outings for adults in the community. Meadows Presbyterian Church hosted “A Taste of OLLI,” giving people a chance to become familiar with course offerings and meet members and instructors.
UVA Health is using technology to help people in rural areas cope with all the stress that comes with cancer.
“The book is fictional," said Kenneth J. Hughes, historian with UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. "There’s no real reason to believe it. That said, Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is fictional too. And it’s great. And ‘The Irishman’ is a great movie too.”
There are several other types of mental shortcuts people take, according to Ben Castleman, a UVA associate professor of education and public policy. People put off making choices, which may mean missing deadlines for school applications. One strategy, Castleman said, is to “rely on some kind of social norm or social reference. So, especially when we face uncertain decisions, it’s pretty common to say, ‘Well, what do other people I know do? What do people like me do?’”
Among those making the biggest jumps from last year in the annual rankings of education researchers are UVA’s Sarah Turner. Other UVA scholars listed in the top 200 include Carol Tomlinson, Daniel Willingham, Robert Pianta, Josipa Roksa, Benjamin Castleman, James Wycoff and Daphna Bassok.
(Commentary by Ken Hughes, research specialist at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) Once, not so long ago, congressional Republicans were impeachment’s constitutional stalwarts. They stood up for the House of Representatives’ “sole power of impeachment,” a power granted in the Constitution, including the right to subpoena witnesses and evidence. Even when the president under investigation was a Republican. Even when the Republican political base threatened to turn against them. But that was when the president was Richard Nixon, not Donald Trump.
"We forecast moderate to high levels of active transmission of influenza to continue for most U.S. states for the next couple of weeks," according to a report from researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia who work in a research partnership with AccuWeather.
(Commentary) A recent study from the University of Virginia updated those findings, adding that as the female representation of officers within an area increases, so do the reporting rates of violent crimes against women in the area. Female officers make women in the community feel safer to come forward.
According to a new study, the eating pattern in the United States has worsened in the past 50 years. “With highly processed foods readily and cheaply available at any time of the day or night,” Ali Guler, a professor of biology at the University of Virginia, said. “Many of these foods are high in sugars, carbohydrates, and calories, which makes for an unhealthy diet when consumed regularly over many years.”
Two grad students convinced the University of Virginia to save and store its library's card catalog, arguing that researchers and historians can use the cards.
Even if legal scholars believe that past precedent could potentially clear the way for Trump’s strike, some express discomfort with both the underlying law and the real-world results. “Many of the legal issues here are contested,” UVA law professor Ashley Deeks said. “Which legal framework even applies to the killing? What does it mean for a threat to be imminent? Is that even the proper test for today?”