Researchers from UVA and Fielding Graduate University found that while happiness and Facebook use increased together up to a certain point, the beneficial effect of social media use then waned. The researchers propose that that ability to interact with others on Facebook, instead of in more challenging face-to-face interactions, may help protect these individuals against mental health issues associated with ASD such as depression.
Lilia Abron graduated with a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Iowa – the first black woman in her field. On Monday, she told students at UVA’s Batten School that she knew as a young person she wanted to help people, but didn’t exactly know how – until she read Rachel Carson’s seminal book on the chemical industry and the environment.
UVA professors and students – teaming up with Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division engineers and scientists through the Naval Engineering Education Consortium – are developing a better understanding of the capabilities and limitations of 3-D printing, and their teamwork is positively impacting Navy programs.
Jim Ryan will begin his tenure as UVA’s next president Aug. 1, moving his start date up by two months. On Monday, Ryan sent an email to UVA faculty and students that also discussed eventual departures of Pat Hogan, executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Tom Katsouleas, executive vice president and provost.
Editor-in-Chief Susan Goldberg asked John Edwin Mason, a UVA professor of African history and the history of photography, to dive into the magazine’s nearly 130-year archive and report back. What Mason found was a long tradition of racism in the magazine’s coverage: in its text, its choice of subjects, and in its famed photography.
This makes four years in a row in which Virginia was either the best or second-best state for higher education. Schools in this state have a graduation rate of 71 percent, or second-highest in our study, and offer their students great long-term value.
“By applying this technology to different regions, we can ensure the efficacy of this tool in countless growing conditions for a myriad of plants,” said Xi Yang, a UVA assistant professor who designed this study’s SIF monitoring system.
For every 100 children born to parents living in the city six years ago, just 73 enrolled in first grade this school year, according to data compiled by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, where researcher Hamilton Lombard called the metric one of the best available indicators of a school district’s desirability.
Tasks often feel easier to perform as we gain experience with them, which can have unintended consequences when the task involves rating a series of items, according to findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. "We find that increased experience makes the evaluation process easier, which, in many instances, leads to an upward trend in judges' evaluations," says study author Kieran O'Connor of UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce.
This brings us to another area where U.S. systems are outranged: ground vehicles. Researchers at the University of Virginia successfully 3-D printed a drone body in one day. By snapping in place an electric motor, two batteries and an Android cell phone, they made a fully autonomous drone that could carry 1.5 pounds approximately 50 kilometers – six times the range of the U.S. Hellfire missile.
The University of Virginia School of Law and the University of Pennsylvania Law School round out the top five on our list, with a respective 56 percent and 52 percent of 2017 J.D.s heading to the biggest 100 law firms. (Both schools moved up three spots this year.)
(Commentary) UVA law professor Brandon L. Garrett has studied nearly all of the trial transcripts from wrongful convictions later exposed by DNA-based exonerations. "There is a national epidemic of overstated forensic testimony, with a steady stream of criminal convictions being overturned as the shoddiness of decades' worth of physical evidence comes to light," he wrote last year.
UVA’s North Research Park may seem like the North Pole in relation to Central Grounds, but mixed-use development soon might open the area to food, retail and residential. Changes could propel the research park to the big leagues of university research parks, which are now viewed as revenue engines for universities.
Joe Harris is a proud UVA alum, so he was ecstatic to see his Cavaliers win the ACC Tournament in his backyard at Barclays Center. Virginia beat the University of North Carolina in a thrilling 71-63 final on Saturday night. It was the school’s third ACC tournament win, it’s second in this decade.
“Most presidents, when they come into office, have a much more nuanced and complicated notion of loyalty than this idea of protecting the president and simply saluting and saying, ‘Yes, sir,’ and, ‘No, sir.’ And some of it may very well be rooted in the excesses of Nixon, because that highlighted the consequences of that sort of value-free embrace of loyalty,” said Russell Riley, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center.
Every company wants to nurture the next Steve Jobs, or develop the next equivalent of the iPhone for their industry, but what should they do while waiting for a similar visionary to appear? Instead of buying into the “Moses myth” – venerating a small cluster of genius individuals with the power to part waters – companies can tap on design thinking to systematically build a bridge, according to UVA Darden School of Business professor Jeanne Liedtka, “It’s not one or the other – you can do both.”
(Co-written by UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project) There is another form of “privilege” that is often overlooked in contemporary debates about children’s welfare and futures: that of growing up in a stable two-parent family – loving and being loved by one’s two parents, who are also committed to one another and to the integrity of their family.
The UVA Board of Visitors is working to make major changes at the university that stem from the violence of last August in Charlottesville. At the board’s meeting on Friday, it approved a number of new programs that all aim to make the University safer and more inclusive for students of all backgrounds.
The UVA Board of Visitors has now formally selected a site for a new softball stadium. Concepts of potential designs show the new stadium at the corner of Massie and Copeley Roads, where there is currently a practice field.
Larry D. Terry will take the post July 1 along with a courtesy appointment in UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy. Terry is currently the founding director of the University of North Texas in Dallas’ Urban SERCH Institute, which provides data and policy ideas to connect university and city leaders on the topic of urban development. He is also an assistant professor in UNT’s Master of Science in Public Leadership program.