What conventional pundits and partisans have to say about that question is entirely predictable. But Yale University Press has made an effort to provide more serious answers through a new series of books overseen by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV—two professors affiliated with the University of Virginia’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture.
UVA professor Brian Nosek explained the psychology behind this during a free interactive session Monday evening at the Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center called “Understanding Implicit Bias.” The session discussed how implicit bias can unintentionally influence our judgment and actions through factors that we may not recognize.
And Larry Sabato, the UVA political analyst, said Stewart could prove a drag for Republican House candidates, perhaps costing the party two or three seats. Republicans hold seven of 11 seats in the Virginia delegation. “That’s a real one-state contribution to the +23 seats (net) Democrats need nationally,” Sabato said on Twitter.
A 1995 study which suggested that kids from richer families are exposed to more spoken words than those from poorer families has long been the subject of controversy. Now, a new study fails to replicate its central finding. These scholars are concerned that Sperry’s study might lead people to believe that family income doesn’t have any bearing on a kid’s exposure to vocabulary, or that a language-rich home life isn’t important. For example, Daniel Willingham, a UVA psychology professor and expert on literacy, pointed in his blog post on the controversy to a body of research that, while not bei...
(Commentary by Bernie Carlson, Vaughan Professor of Humanities and chair of the UVA’s Engineering & Society Department) Over the past few weeks, the news about Facebook and social media in general has been quite poor.
For some time now, scientists have believed that allergies, in general, may set off an immunological chain reaction that leads to atherosclerosis, or a buildup of fatty plaque in the arteries that hardens over time, narrowing the blood vessels. However, the mechanisms that underpin this process are not understood. In the new study, researchers at the University of Virginia Health System wanted to dig deeper. So, they devised an experiment to investigate whether individuals with red meat allergies might be more susceptible to atherosclerosis and, if so, why.
“This novel finding from a small group of subjects from Virginia raises the intriguing possibility that allergy to red meat may be an underrecognized factor in heart disease,” said study leader Dr. Coleen McNamara, a professor of medicine in the Cardiovascular Research Center of the UVA Health System. “These preliminary findings underscore the need for further clinical studies in larger populations from diverse geographic regions and additional laboratory work.”
A new draft agreement between the city, county and the Charlottesville Albemarle Convention & Visitors Bureau establishes an executive board and an advisory board, allows for new performance measures to be developed and designates Albemarle as the CACVB’s fiscal agent. The new executive board includes one councilor, one supervisor, the city manager (or a designee), the county executive (or a designee), economic development officials from the city and county, the executive vice president of the University of Virginia (or a designee) and two industry representatives, one each appointed by th...
Ice hockey at the University of Virginia has seen two iterations, from 1973 to 1978 and more recently from 1995 to this season’s final hurrah. Both teams experienced success, but the privately owned ice arenas that were their homes have been repurposed. Four UVA alumni associated with those early years and a former coach of the men’s team want to make sure version three is permanent and sustainable.
UVA nutrition expert Sibylle Kranz says that for both kids and adults, “weekend dietary intake is very different from weekday. On weekend days, we seem to have more of what we call ‘celebration food.’ It’s birthday parties, or going to the pool and getting something from the vendors there, or families getting together and having big meals.”
The notion of human rights began to take shape after the Holocaust, so it is not surprising that Jews played an important role in their emergence. In his new book, UVA historian James Loeffler explores how a small group of Jewish lawyers and activists from around the world inspired the human rights movement and the creation of entities such as the United Nations that, sadly, have failed to fulfill the promises of their ideals.
Three years ago, Caitlin Murtaugh, a UVA construction project coordinator, started Girls Day to encourage girls to pursue construction trades. This year’s event gave more than 80 girls the chance to learn more about facilities management, get a behind-the-scenes look at worksites and talk with women about careers in typically male-dominated fields.
On Wednesday, Hampton native, UVA alumna and current Charlottesville resident Margot Lee Shetterly received the city’s Distinguished Citizen Medal for drawing national attention to an important chapter to its history in her book “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.”
On Wednesday, Hampton native, UVA alumna and current Charlottesville resident Margot Lee Shetterly received the city’s Distinguished Citizen Medal for drawing national attention to an important chapter to its history in her book “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.”
Alexis Gravely joined the center’s tax policy team in May. Gravely is a rising senior at UVA and the assistant managing editor at The Cavalier Daily, the University’s independent student newspaper. Her reporting on last August’s white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville earned her a Virginia Press Association award for breaking news. She serves as the center’s inaugural fellow from the Emma Bowen Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at diversifying the media by pairing talented students of color with internships at news organizations.
Brace for Republicans in more Trump-favoring conservative states like North Dakota or Montana to "run as big Trump fans," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Stewart, too, has risen on the backs of undocumented immigrants, touting with each political rung he has tried to climb a policy that Prince William County approved in 2007.Three years after Prince William enacted its policy, it paid $385,000 for the University of Virginia to study the effects. Among the findings, according to a 2010 Washington Post article: Hispanics – most of whom were in the country legally – were avoiding the county, and it “did not succeed in implementing an immigration policy without damaging its reputation as a welcoming place to live.”
Scores of Americans may unknowingly have a sensitivity to red meat, which could be raising their risk of heart attacks or strokes, new research claims. But the findings suggest a subgroup of the population may be at a heightened risk for a different reason – a food allergen to a sugary 'toxin', says the research team at the UVA Health System.
CvilleBioHub still awaits approval from the DHCD for $75,000 grant. The nonprofit supports local companies and professionals within the Charlottesville biotech community. The project is supported with in-kind donations from a handful of local biotech companies and UVA’s Economic Development group.
At the University of Chicago about 20 percent of freshmen choose who is in their room and more than half at the University of Virginia. Students use Facebook or college matchmaking apps – or meetings for accepted students – to find roommates.