It was a group project of staggering proportions. University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and his colleagues at the nonprofit Center for Open Science got help from over 350 scientists to repeat 100 high-profile psychology experiments published in 2008 — the largest replication study to date. In August, they announced the results in Science, forcing psychologists to face some hard truths about the reliability of their field’s studies.
Immigrants don’t just bring their labor to the United States; they bring their needs, too. Just as native workers demand food, clothing, housing and entertainment, so, too, do immigrants. That creates job opportunities. A recent study by researchers at Indiana University and the University of Virginia, for instance, found that each new immigrant produces about 1.2 new jobs. Most of these new positions are filled by domestic workers. Typically, we hear that immigrants “take our jobs.” If this were true, however, we would expect the unemployment rate to rise significantly as th...
With winter on its way, a group of University of Virginia students decided to take action and give back to kids in need. UVA's Iota Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. kicked off a coat drive to help students in need at Clark Elementary School.
The U.S. has polarized attitudes on paid family leave because of how disparately couples treat work and family issues, said Brad Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia.
“Students too often forget they’re residents of Charlottesville,” said Abraham Axler, Student Council president. “We really appreciate the opportunity to have a direct conduit between us and the city. We want to think of ourselves as more than just students.”
"If you ask people if they think climate change is an important issue they'll say yes, but if you think of it comparatively to other important issues it kind of falls to the wayside," says Geoffrey Skelley, of the Center for Politics.
(By Dyanna Jaye, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia) Hailing from six different universities, we were all members of the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition, a statewide student network with a goal of halting new fossil fuel infrastructure in our state. Now — beginning today — crucial intergovernmental negotiations will take place in Paris, France. The aim: the first universal agreement on climate change. Virginia is more than a drop in the bucket within this global effort.
The list of what a child needs in order to flourish is short but nonnegotiable. Food. Shelter. Play. Love. Something else, too, and it’s meted out in even less equal measure. Words. A child needs a forest of words to wander through, a sea of words to splash in. A child needs to be read to, and a child needs to read. Reading fuels the fires of intelligence and imagination, and if they don’t blaze well before elementary school, a child’s education — a child’s life — may be an endless game of catch-up. “Reading follows an upward spiral,” s...
Climate is the average weather over a 30-year period, and it changes all the time, just like the daily weather. Unfortunately, gauging climate change with daily weather is nearly impossible. "Here at the climatology office,” said Jerry Stenger, Head of the climatology office at the University of Virginia. “We're often asked the question 'is the weather we're having due to global warming?’""The answer is yes, but not by much. The variations of so many other things completely swamp that," said Stenger. Stenger said that the increase in ...
It’s time to shed a bright light on one of Bay Street’s most annoying and well-hidden practices. It’s known as “closet indexing” and occurs when a financial planner, bank or mutual fund company sells you a fund that is supposed to be actively managed but actually hugs the market benchmark. New research suggests that Canada’s mutual fund industry has earned the dubious distinction of being the world leader in closet indexing. In their paper, Indexing and Active Fund Management: International Evidence,” four professors of finance – Martijn Cremers ...
During a recent TV interview, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson was asked which Founding Father impressed him the most. "I’m particularly impressed with Thomas Jefferson, who seemed to have a very deep insight into the way people would react and tried to craft a constitution in a way that would control people’s natural tendencies and control the natural growth of government," Carson replied during a Nov. 22 broadcast on C-SPAN. Peter Onuf, a retired University of Virginia professor who specialized in Jefferson, wrote in an email, "Jefferson never...
Virginia is projected to get a 12th U.S. House seat after the 2020 U.S. census, according to demographers at the University of North Carolina, which portends continued upheaval over the state’s district boundaries. A 12th U.S. House seat would give Virginia its largest congressional delegation since the 1850s, when the state had 13 representatives and it still included the territory now known as West Virginia, said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Virginia is projected to get a 12th U.S. House seat after the 2020 U.S. census, according to demographers at the University of North Carolina, which portends continued upheaval over the state’s district boundaries. A 12th congressional seat also would raise Virginia’s number of electoral votes to 14, further fueling this swing state’s importance in presidential elections. That would be Virginia’s largest number of electoral votes since it had 15 in the 1860 presidential election. A 12th U.S. House seat would give Virginia its largest congressional delegation since the 1...
Novant Health and the University of Virginia Health System are finalizing details of a joint venture that will bring community hospitals in northern Virginia from both groups under the same umbrella. UVA Health System officials and Novant Health leaders are working out the last details of the partnership's structure, with the expectation it will be launched next month.
Donna Spruijt-Metz, professor of psychology (research) and director of the Mobile Health Collaboratory at USC’s Center for Social and Economic Research, and Kayla de la Haye, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, have teamed up with researchers at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science to devise a data-driven method for combating obesity. But instead of focusing on what people eat, the study will observe family dynamics while eating — and what triggers overeating.
Researchers at the University of Virginia are gauging the community's support for a study of patients who have a condition that causes prolonged epileptic seizures. Usually no data can be collected from people receiving treatment without their prior consent but because patients suffering from this condition cannot provide consent during a seizure, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed a special set of rules.
Students at the University of Virginia are trying to make people think more about sustainability when it comes to the food that they buy. Environmental science students are wrapping up a two week study of Clark Café at UVA, tracking people's choices. They give foods a sustainability rating label of one to five stars based on the amounts of pollutants, in the form of carbon and nitrogen, used in the food's production.
A student bus service bound for a stop at the University of Virginia crashed on a Richmond highway Sunday night. The accident happened around 7:15 p.m. on the Powhite Parkway in Chesterfield County. Representatives from Home Ride of Virginia confirmed to NBC29 that the bus was traveling from Virginia Commonwealth University with its next stop in Charlottesville when it crashed.
“People feel like the future is hopeless and they don’t know where to begin,” said Carol Manning, director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
The University of Virginia is leading a growing effort to reduce its “nitrogen footprint” — its net impact on nitrogen pollution.