UVA has now invested nearly $1 million in the early stages of student and faculty startups, joining the growing number of schools investing in homegrown enterprises.
UVA economist Jennifer Doleac analyzed the data and concluded “black and Hispanic men without college degrees are significantly less likely to be employed after 'ban the box' than before." Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow observed: “The fact that more African-Americans are hired when employers utilize criminal background checks indicates that in the absence of better information, employers use race as a proxy for criminal history.”
A dry fall and an even drier January are creating some concerns for Virginia farmers. That’s worrisome if the dry spell continues much longer, said Jerry Stenger, director of the state office of climatology at UVA. “We could be in a bad situation regarding water supplies for everyone once we get to the beginning of the growing season,” Stenger said.
Reputable health information and medical advice is widespread on the internet. But, in spite of abundant material, patients are far from equipped to consume the complex literature, a team of Pennsylvania-based researchers has reported. According to the research, the only hospital whose articles required less than an eighth-grade reading level was the University of Washington Medical Center, which reached a 7.9-grade level. The UVA Health System, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University were close behind, all floating around the eighth-gr...
There is an optimal point to how much money it takes to make an individual happy, and that amount varies worldwide, according to new research. The research by Jebb and Tay was supported by Purdue's Department of Psychological Sciences. Also contributing to the study were Ed Diener and Shigehiro Oishi from the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
To study how lasers transform metal surfaces to create complex, multiscale roughness and drive the ejection of nanoparticles, a team led by UVA materials scientist Leonid Zhigilei used Titan to simulate more than 2 billion atoms over thousands of time steps. “The initial attempts to visualize the atomic configurations were very time-consuming and involved cutting the system into several pieces and reassembling the images produced for different pieces,” Zhigilei said. “SIGHT, however, enabled the researchers at the University of Virginia to take a quick look at the whole system, monitor the evo...
The UVA Police Department is using the social media monitoring program Social Sentinel in an effort to more effectively respond to threats made online. The program will cost UVA $18,500 a year, according to documents provided by the university.
The University of Virginia’s main library is preparing for a major renovation, and while the work is going on many books will be stored in a new location. A few will be digitized or sent to special collections, and the older ones have been checked for surprising contents.
Psychologists from UVA and Purdue University analyzed World Gallup Poll data from 1.7 million people in 164 countries, and cross-referenced their earnings and life satisfaction. They came up with a bold conclusion: The ideal income for individuals is $95,000 a year for life satisfaction and $60,000 to $75,000 a year for emotional well-being. Families with children, of course, will need more.
UVA is encouraging its faculty to teach students about the history of race at the University and in the Charlottesville community. The University is putting together a team of faculty across all schools and departments to take part in the new “Teaching Race at UVA” initiative.
I have an encased basketball on my bookcase from Virginia’s 1982-83 season, autographed by the entire team and coaching staff. It was given to me by Terry Holland as a memento. For 36 years, that basketball has been a reminder of the Cavaliers’ glory days, a magical period when being No. 1 in all the land was expected. Totally unexpected was Virginia’s first No. 1 ranking since those days. The news came early Monday afternoon and spread like wildfire through Wahoo Nation.
The UVA basketball team is just the fourth team ever to rise to No. 1 in the Associated Press poll after starting the season unranked. Virginia has a record of 23-2 and is ranked No. 1 for the first time since December of 1982 during Ralph Sampson's senior season.
The UVA men's basketball team has climbed to the top spot in the latest Associated Press men's basketball poll. Fans are reacting to the men's No. 1 ranking.
Despite their overtime one-point loss to cross-state rival Virginia Tech last Saturday, the Cavs moved up one spot to No. 1 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll. Virginia is the fourth team since 1990 to go from unranked in the preseason to the top of the poll, along with Baylor (2017), Syracuse (2010), and Duke (1990).
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – a once-rising Republican star – made an appearance in Charlottesville on Monday to discuss the next generation of politics. Christie appeared for a taping of “American Forum," a weekly public affairs broadcast that airs at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
According to a 2017 study by the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center, Martinsville will lose roughly a third of its residents over the next three decades. The research indicates that Martinsville will be Virginia’s second-fastest-shrinking locality, behind Buchanan County.
The lawsuit employs a unique legal strategy intended to force the embattled firm to provide substantial financial compensation to Weinstein’s alleged victims before an impending sale of the company. “It’s a creative intervention on behalf of victims,” said Anne Coughlin, a UVA law professor. “It’s an interesting use of the law to say, ‘We’re going to take a stand on behalf of the women you abused, harassed and victimized.’”
Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey and 2016 presidential candidate, visited Charlottesville Monday to film an episode for "American Forum." Christie sat down with Douglas Blackmon, host of "American Forum," inside UVA’s Miller Center for Public Affairs.
Gameday has come to Charlottesville three times now, and all three times the Virginia fan has sunk the three point shot for a cool $18 grand. Tyler Lewis did it in 2015 (we interviewed him). Andrew Board did it in 2016. And now, your 2018 winner is first year student Angus Binnie.