Ahmed’s shop is one of very few women-only hair salons nationwide, according to Elisabeth Becker, a UVA postdoctoral fellow who researches urban Muslim communities. Becker said the demand among Muslim Americans for women-only spa services far exceeds the supply.
Students from the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and five Southwest Virginia high schools will post warning stickers on alcohol products at participating convenience stores on March 14 and 15. Prosecutors, law enforcement officers and community volunteers also will participate.
It was surely his personal warmth and joyful curiosity in life and culture, coupled with his intellectual prowess and passion for improving our world, that enabled him to found and successfully lead Virginia Humanities for so many years.
The first change users might notice is their address book, said Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship. While your Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp contacts might be quite different now, if the services combine to some degree, your contact lists will, too.
Said Andrew Hayashi, a tax law expert at the University of Virginia School of Law: "The spirit of the moment is that people feel like capital income is under-taxed."
These girls may well hold the keys to helping scientists fully understand sex and gender differences in autism, says Kevin Pelphrey, Harrison-Wood Professor of Neurology at the University of Virginia.
“Marriage remains the gold standard for families when it comes to stability and commitment,” said Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and senior fellow of the Institute for Family Studies, which commissioned the survey.
The findings were based on a survey of nearly 16,500 parents in 11 countries, including 2,344 from the UK. Scientists at the University of Virginia worked on the project for the U.S.-based Institute for Family Studies.
While much research into hearing loss has focused on the hair bundle, UVA's discovery spotlights the foundations those antennas stand on. The finding suggests that genetic predisposition can cause this "cuticular plate," as the foundation is known, to weaken over time.
Research at the University of Virginia’s Department of Neuroscience, published Friday in the journal “Nature Communications,” indicates that defects in the cuticular plate, the foundation for auditory receptors in the inner ear, appear to lead to progressive hearing loss.
The University of Virginia Foundation is offering one of three local sites that are in the running.
If administered early enough, one drug may be able to prevent all symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease to curb the condition, according to a study from the University of Virginia, published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
In a few years, he would earn a scholarship to play basketball at the University of Virginia. He would force himself into Coach Tony Bennett’s rotation, bringing himself to the doorstep of his goal.
“This idea of making her the face of the Democratic Party hits a lot of boxes for them,” said Nicole Hemmer, author of “Messengers of the Right,” about the conservative media’s impact on politics. “She is young, a symbol of the party moving to the left, and she isn’t afraid of the word ‘socialism.’”
College graduates and working professionals who want to develop their business skills may benefit from enrolling in an MBA degree program. The University of Virginia is among 20 universities which outperformed their peers to earn a top spot among the 2020 U.S. News Best Business Schools.
Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and the University of Virginia are a few of the area universities that did well in the rankings, said Anita Narayan, the managing editor for education at U.S. News and World Report.
The Virginia Department of Transportation’s motto, “We keep Virginia moving,” is the imperative behind the “Essentials of Engineering Excellence Program,” VDOT’s latest employee training and education partnership with UVA’s Center for Transportation Studies.
Three small satellites that were developed at four public universities in Virginia, including UVA, will be lifting off into space next month. They’re part of what’s called the Virginia Cubesat Constellation mission.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, has suggested Facebook’s move wasn’t about privacy at all: Zuckerberg has never appeared to care much for privacy, Vaidhyanathan wrote, but he cares about winning.
Two architects, an oceanographer and a federal judge are the recipients of the 2019 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals. The awards, which are the highest honors presented by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and the University of Virginia, recognize contributions in fields in which the third president excelled or that he admired.