Facebook “can’t win at this game,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a University of Virginia professor of media studies whose 2018 book “Antisocial Media” critiques Facebook’s effect on democracy and society. Because it’s so huge — 2.2 billion global users and counting — and so difficult to police, he said, “it will always be vulnerable to hijacking and will never completely clean up its content.”
Five years after the UVA Medical Center’s Hospital to Home program launched, a team of researchers began analyzing the program. In a recent study, they found the program helped to reduce patient death rates and hospital readmissions and also saved the hospital money.
Another study, conducted by researchers at Utah State University and the University of Virginia for the Journal of Marriage and Family, revealed that generosity is linked to happier, longer marriages, and a lack of generosity can increase the likelihood of divorce.
Researchers at the University of Virginia are now able to explain why obesity causes harmful inflammation, which often leads to diabetes, clogged arteries, and other health problems. Their findings may eventually lead to a medical treatment for the inflammation, which so often causes other health problems for obese Americans.
Emerging evidence suggests that a “potent” drug could prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease — but only if a person takes the medication long before symptoms of this condition make an appearance.
The new research from the University of Virginia demonstrates that one of the key mechanisms preceding specific neuron cell death in the disease involves the movement of calcium through channels on cell surfaces. The scientists hypothesized that cell death could be prevented by closing a certain receptor that allows calcium to flow and ultimately cause neuronal destruction.
The Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law filed a pardon request last year with the governor’s office and last week sent a letter to Gov. Ralph Northam warning that unless Trudy Eliana Munoz Rueda, 53, is pardoned, she will be deported when she leaves the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women.
In 2019, the University of Virginia will have two women in top executive roles for the first time. In one of his first actions since taking office Wednesday, President Jim Ryan on Friday announced the appointments of Liz Magill as executive vice president and provost and J.J. Davis as executive vice president and chief operating officer. The Board of Visitors approved their appointments, as well as that of Alex Hernandez as dean of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, at its retreat in Northern Virginia.
The University of Virginia’s President’s Commission on Slavery began in 2013 after a trickle of universities began digging up old stories of founders and professors who had owned slaves. UVA’s commission also has been a model for other schools, in both the North and South, to begin studying their own history.
It wasn’t the first time the 31-year-old Doolittle directly offered his opinion on a matter few high-profile professional athletes would touch. Last May, Doolittle and Dolan wrote an op-ed about veterans’ issues. Later in the year, Doolittle, who attended the University of Virginia, spoke out against what happened in Charlottesville.
Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He is also the author of a new book, “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.” [Henry Farrell] asked him questions about the book.
If the data on the effects of workplace abuse are so clear, why do so many companies hire and promote manipulative and selfish people? UVA business school professor Peter Belmi and the author carried out a series of experiments involving more than 900 participants.
After a decade of rapid growth, international enrollment has declined over the past few years. This has university administrators worried, as tuition revenues fall, leading some to make budget cuts. Public research universities may be particularly concerned since many have become more reliant on international students since the mid-2000s. Recent research I conducted with John Bound (University of Michigan), Breno Braga (Urban Institute) and Sarah Turner (University of Virginia) shows fee-paying students from abroad have allowed public universities to weather state budget cuts, and that has kep...
Driving on the right was not always the norm. Throughout the Middle Ages, traffic tended to stick to the left (though this was more a general rule-of-thumb than enforced regulation). Even before that, Roman soldiers marched on the lefthand side. Historians are not entirely sure why. Many think this was because it suited swordsmen, the majority of whom were right-handed. Being on the left, the thinking goes, meant that when they drew their weapons, their sword-wielding arm would be in the middle of the road and could therefore best strike oncoming foes. Peter Norton from the University of Virgi...
Salon reached out to Kyle Kondik of Sabato's Crystal Ball and UVA's Center for Politics to ask whether the disparity between poll numbers and election results in 2016 could indicate tampering – and whether Americans should be concerned that the 2018 midterms could be compromised. Kondik says he thinks the 2016 result was on the level, statistically speaking.
UVA’s Hamilton Lombard says blacks and Hispanics have lower educational attainment rates, which is causing the sluggish recovery. “The construction industry, which is one of the best jobs for people without a college degree is just barely starting to recover now. So I think – and this is what we’ve seen in the past, and we’re definitely seeing it in this recovery – people with lower educational attainment rates are the last to really feel the recovery.”
There's a compelling opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education Review this week titled "The University Run Amok!" Adam Daniel and Chad Wellmon, both employed at the University of Virginia, warn convincingly that modern-day American universities have stretched themselves too thin trying to provide services that, the authors argue, were once provided elsewhere. The authors' purpose is not to explain the disintegration of public institutions. But it's worth asking why so many have collapsed.
The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously approved a $100 million program designed to support telehealth and telemedicine programs for underserved populations, including remote patient monitoring programs that have shown past success in treating rural patients with diabetes and veterans. Prior to the FCC vote, the agency had issued a press release trumpeting support for the program. Among those backing the proposal included Dr. Karen Rheuban, a pediatrics professor at the University of Virginia, medical director of the UVA Office of Telemedicine and a former American Telemedicine A...
Autistic adults could remain more happy if they use Facebook in moderation, a new study has found. According to researchers at Fielding Graduate University and University of Virginia while use of Facebook in moderation helped boost happiness in adults with autism spectrum disorder the same results were not seen for microblogging platform Twitter.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Medical Center have learned that the risk of autism may be determined by the bacteria in a mother's gut. It's a discovery that may lead to new ways to prevent the neurodevelopmental disorder.