In early 2018, NASA will send its Cold Atom Laboratory, worth $70 million, to the International Space Station. The fully automated rig will create Bose-Einstein condensates and conduct other cold atom experiments in orbit, using the weightless conditions to achieve record-low temperatures and make new discoveries in quantum mechanics and gravity. Physicists will of course be trying to reach the lowest possible temperatures, which could produce new quantum effects. According to UVA physicist and Cold Atom Laboratory experimenter Charles Sackett, researchers are confident they can achieve temper...
Solid supporting data for the model’s impact on health costs and treatment outcomes – particularly in peer-reviewed journals – have been scarce, hobbling the ability of these practices to convince larger employers to enroll their workers, says Carolyn Engelhard, who directs the health policy program at the UVA School of Medicine. “Employers don’t want to put out $50 more a month per employee when they are already paying for their health insurance, unless they feel like it’s worth the investment,” she says.
Very few Americans will say outright that they support neo-Nazism, white nationalism or the so-called alt right. But that doesn’t mean they don’t express support for some of the same racially charged ideas and attitudes that such extremists espouse. A new poll conducted by Reuters and Ipsos with the UVA Center for Politics in the aftermath of the Charlottesville rallies found what it called “troubling racial attitudes.”
A recent study from researchers at the University of Virginia has found having a childhood best friend can play a significant role in your mental health as an adult. And it’s no wonder – you survived the toughest period of your teenage years with them, after all.
The complication occurs because the public areas of universities – Sproul Plaza at Berkeley, the West Mall at the University of Texas at Austin, the Lawn at the University of Virginia – have long been treated as limited public forums, differentiated from classrooms, libraries, and laboratories. Limited public forums are those set aside for expressive activities in line with the educational mission of welcoming a variety of speakers, ideologies, and ways of thinking. After the debacle in Charlottesville, the University of Virginia determined to undertake a review of campus rules and security re...
Fiery torch demonstrations on the UVA campus – like those that marked the Unite the Right rally in August – will no longer be legal following action by a university board.
Eagles defensive end and UVA alum Chris Long was outspoken after conflicts escalated from a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in August. On Tuesday, it was announced that Long would be making efforts to help his hometown. Long will be donating his first six game checks to fund scholarships in Charlottesville.
Towering at 6-foot-9 and 6-11, Darden students Dan and Mike Friedman, twin brothers, know the struggle when it comes to shopping. Tapping into an untapped market, the two launched "Tall Order.com," a fashion-forward sock company for men sizes 12 to 20.
The school’s choice of a new president is inspiring widespread cheers, and for good reason. It could scarcely have done better than Jim Ryan, currently the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
(Commentary by Elgin Cleckley, research assistant professor of architecture) I am an African-American resident of Charlottesville, an alumnus of the University of Virginia and a UVA architecture professor. For as long as I can remember, I have moved through my city with a sensitivity to the built environment. But since August 12, I sense a new vibration in the air.
The Virginia gubernatorial race is seen as an early referendum on the Trump administration and a lot of money is expected to pour into the race, especially from outside groups. “Over 540,000 people voted in the Democratic primary for governor, which is a nonpresidential primary record in the state of Virginia,” said Geoffrey Skelley, an associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. “That fits into the building narrative that Democrats around the country are very engaged at the moment.”
A recent study conducted by W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, and a colleague at American University suggests that women see bigger salaries when they're single compared to their married counterparts.
It was a day for the kids at the John Paul Jones Arean on Sunday for the inaugural Hoos Care Kids Fair. The event was put on by Hoos Care and the UVA Children's Hospital Committee.
The ninth president of the University of Virginia will have an academic background, a love of Bodo’s Bagels and a strong history with UVA’s School of Law. The Board of Visitors unanimously approved him at its meeting Friday to lead the university, following next summer’s departure of Teresa A. Sullivan.
The Confederate plaques on the UVA Rotunda have been taken down. The plaques were removed by crews early Sunday morning.
UVA is removing Confederate plaques from its Rotunda, strengthening its ban on open flames and giving funds from an old KKK pledge to the Charlottesville violence victims as it grapples with the Aug. 11 white nationalist rally on its campus.
The UVA Board of Visitors voted to implement some of the changes called for in the report the University issued addressing what it could have done better during and leading up to the August violence and protests in Charlottesville.
Two plaques with ties to confederate history are off the University of Virginia’s Rotunda. Employees in UVA’s Division of Facilities Management took down two plaques that commemorated the lives of fallen Confederate soldiers with ties to the University.
(Subscription required) Scott C. Beardsley doesn’t make an ominous first impression, but he is of a sort that unsettles many academics: the so-called nontraditional leader. Before becoming dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business, he spent 26 years at the management-consulting firm McKinsey. Beardsley has more company on campuses these days, as detailed in his new book, “Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia.” http://www.chronicle.com/article/Everything-Is-a-Business-/241204?cid=wcontentlist