Carbon recapture also fails to critically question consumption habits, and the emphasis that our global economy places on growth and hegemony. Rodrigo Castro Cornejo, a scholar of climate politics at the University of Virginia, expressed this dilemma at the 10th International Modelica Conference in 2014. “It is our predicament that we live in a finite world, and yet we behave as if it were infinite," Castro Cornejo said. "Steady exponential material growth with no limits on resource consumption and population is the dominant conceptual model used by today's decision makers. This is an approxim...
Although ShotSpotter has helped police across the nation find victims of fatal shootings and recover stolen weapons, there is no data to show its rate of effectiveness or to quantify its return on investment for police departments. Jennifer Doleac, a University of Virginia researcher who has studied ShotSpotter for four years, told the Cincinnati Enquirer "there isn't any evidence" the system reduces gun violence.
No other developed country has a higher a rate of sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs), which occur in infants younger than 1 year. Sudden unexpected infant deaths include cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or accidental suffocation and strangulation during sleep or in a sleep environment, although sometimes the cause cannot be determined. “The United States is the only developed country for which this is an issue,” said Dr. Rachel Moon, lead author of the recommendations for a safe sleeping environment for infants from the American Academy of Pediatrics. In many cases of SUIDs, “...
Breastfeeding is another way mothers can reduce their child’s risk of SIDS, which is the leading cause of death for infants younger than one year old, according to an international study conducted by the University of Virginia Health System. The study found that a minimum of two months of breastfeeding can reduce a baby’s risk of SIDS by nearly half. Further, these results are also applicable to mothers who both breastfeed and bottle feed their babies.
For Freedoms, an artist-run organization, is launching a national campaign today to design billboards to get people more interested in the November midterm elections. Locally, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and the Rutter Family Art Foundation have joined the initiative. The University of Virginia and Randolph College in Lynchburg have also signed on, according to a press release.
The University of Virginia Cancer Center is joining 69 National Cancer Institute centers in urging people to get vaccinations and screenings to help eliminate cancers related to human papillomavirus.
In February of this year, the university announced that it would continue to examine its history by establishing the president’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation.
The University of Virginia unveiled a $5 billion fundraising campaign Thursday that will add money for faculty, fellowships and student affordability during the school’s bicentennial. The public phase, if approved by the full Board of Visitors on Friday, will begin in fall 2019 and run through the spring of 2025.
Many classrooms are sacrificing the discovery and critical thinking skills that arise through play in favor of academics, UVA researchers found, led by the education-policy researcher Daphna Bassok.
Professor Saras Sarasvathy, a renowned scholar of entrepreneurship at UVA’s Darden School of Business, has discovered that successful entrepreneurs are not only relentless “askers,” but they also have a repertoire of asks for different startup scenarios.
UVA Researchers say current seat belts are not made to protect nearly 110 million Americans. That's a third of the nation's population, and that's how many people are considered obese.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies and director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, and Baratunde Thurston, futurist comedian, writer and activist, talk about Facebook's data-sharing policy with device makers and Apple's attempt to differentiate its privacy policies from Facebook's, and personal data exposure online ... and what to do about it.
Elsewhere in California, Democrats have all but secured candidates to take on politically vulnerable GOP incumbents Jeff Denham, Steve Knight, Mimi Walters, and David Valadao. “Democrats remain alive in all of their targets, which was not guaranteed going into Tuesday night,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of the election forecaster Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA.
Republicans are about to select their candidate to take on incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine. Whichever candidate emerges as the winner next week will face a huge financial challenge. Kaine has no opposition in the primary, and he’s already raised more than a million dollars. Geoff Skelley at the UVA Center for Politics says it’s noteworthy that none of the Republicans in the race have posted fundraising numbers anywhere close to that.
Albemarle County is joining local efforts to memorialize John Henry James, who was lynched there in 1898. On Wednesday, the Board of Supervisors discussed collecting soil from the lynching site as part of the Equal Justice Initiative memorial project. UVA professor Jalane Schmidt and Andrea Douglas, director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, are leading a pilgrimage to the EJI museum in July to place the jars of soil in the museum and pick up a monument to James.
Official recommendations from health authorities in the United States and the European Union agree that most people would benefit from eating more seafood. But their warnings to avoid fish that have higher mercury concentrations, such as swordfish and bluefin tuna, are having the unintended consequence of scaring consumers away from the fish counter altogether. Jay Shimshack, a UVA associate professor of public policy and economics and an expert in environmental and health policy, agreed that poor communication has had unintended, adverse consequences for the public health, as seen by the resu...
(Commentary by William I. Hitchcock, Randolph P. Compton Professor at UVA’s Miller Center) In 2018, the D-Day story carries even more power and weight because we live in a political climate that denigrates the very sources of strength that made the D-Day invasion such a dramatic success.
Another goal within the plan is to have all school principals complete the UVA development program — the top in the nation — and get teachers more involved in the development of curriculum and assessments.
The UVA School of Architecture has appointed Felipe Correa as the Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor and new chair of architecture. Correa is currently an associate professor and director of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design program at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University. He will start the new position on July 25.