Emma Terry, programs and communications manager for UVA Arts, said after the meeting that an arts group had been meeting for about nine months to come up with this idea. “It was just getting together and talking about what we as the arts, individual artists and leaders of arts organizations, what we thought was missing in our city and our county,” she said.
“We should really be concerned about the influence these companies have on the ways we structure out thoughts and our lives,” says Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies. “Our everyday interaction with Google and Facebook seems to imply no danger or annoyance. But that doesn’t mean there is nothing to worry about.”
(Commentary) As we welcome Jim and Katie Ryan and their family back to town, I can’t help taking some extra real estate in this month’s column to talk about just how incredibly physically active the next UVA president and his wife are. But, even more importantly, is the way they go at it.
A group of UVA researchers wanted to explore the reasons why exercise, specifically aerobic exercise, has so many benefits. They looked into how exercise affects our muscles on a cellular level, discovering the reasons behind why exercise is so vital to human life.
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications describes how exercise helps the body to keep the cells in the muscles healthy and strong. "Whether muscle is healthy or not really determines whether the entire body is healthy or not," says lead researcher Prof. Zhen Yan, of the UVA School of Medicine.
A charity and memorial softball tournament was held over the weekend in memory of a girl who died of childhood brain cancer. This year marked the fourth year of the tournament, which raises money for childhood cancer research at UVA.
Local and international experts will gather at UVA to share ideas on how to tackle the opioid epidemic. The conference on Tuesday will focus on solutions developed by community members and health care professionals.
Weeks after protests in Charlottesville turned deadly and ignited nationwide outrage, a few of our favorite musicians teamed up to offer a healing hand to the community with song. On Sunday, well-known stars, like Justin Timberlake, Ariana Grande, Stevie Wonder, and Pharrell Williams rallied behind Dave Matthews Band, as they put on an emotional Concert for Charlottesville at the University of Virginia.
Thousands of members of the Charlottesville community filled Scott Stadium on Sunday night for A Concert for Charlottesville. The concert was spearheaded by the Dave Matthews Band, and the lead singer himself kicked off the show by sharing his love for this community.
On Sunday night, “A Concert for Charlottesville” brought groups of people to Scott Stadium for a night of musical and social harmony.
Dave Matthews took the stage first, solo. The organizer of Sunday’s A Concert for Charlottesville told the crowd of tens of thousands at the University of Virginia’s Scott Stadium, “look how many people can come together this quickly for unity.”
Student dining at UVA has begun chopping some of its greens and herbs from an unlikely source: trays of ultraviolet-lit plants set up in Clark, Newcomb and Observatory Hill halls. The innovative hydroponics system is the brainchild of UVA alum Alexander Olesen, who founded Babylon Micro-Farms last year.
Peter Norton, an associate professor in UVA’s Department of Engineering and Society, thinks that riding in the back is likely a holdover of the days when people rode in horse-drawn carriages, along with the aristocratic baggage that comes with all that.
When he found out about A Concert For Charlottesville, Brett Ratner decided he couldn’t just stand by and watch. The acclaimed filmmaker said he felt instantly compelled to get involved, opting to direct and film the show taking place Sunday night at UVA’s Scott Stadium.
The idea that people have different styles of learning -- that the visually inclined do best by seeing new information, for example, or others by hearing it -- has been around since the 1950s, and recent research suggests it's still widely believed by teachers and laypeople alike. But is there scientific evidence that learning styles exist? "The short answer is no," says UVA psychology professor Daniel Willingham.
Poison frogs become poisonous by isolating chemicals from their food and storing them in their skin. One such compound, epibatidine, is a stronger painkiller than morphine, but has not been tested in humans because even low doses are deadly to rodents. But for the frogs themselves, this powerful neurotoxin is totally impotent.Another open question centers on the order in which these mutations arose, says UVA evolutionary biologist Edmund Brodie III, who was not involved in the work. “It’s a reasonable conclusion that frogs evolved this resistance first and then [made] compensatory changes afte...
"Looking only at costs distorts the picture greatly," said David Martin, an emeritus professor of law at UVA. "Refugees who stay idle in a first asylum camp cannot contribute to the host society, whereas those who are resettled mostly do, especially over time."
"We are starting to hear concerns out of Washington for the first time ever that Facebook is starting to get too powerful," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies and the author of “The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)” and an upcoming book on Facebook. "Those suspicions are growing and they are putting pressure on Facebook."
“Facebook’s algorithms created these categories of anti-Semitic terms,” says UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of “Anti-Social Network,” a book about Facebook due out later this year. “It’s a sign of how absurd a human-free system can be, and how dangerous a human-free system can be.”
Health care professionals and community members will soon join forces at the University of Virginia to tackle the growing opioid epidemic. It's all part of a conference coming up next week.