Joel G. Anderson, a UVA assistant professor of nursing, writes about his personal experiences with a family member suffering from dementia, and how it propels his research into the disease.
Michael Coscia is no one’s idea of a 21st-Century Wall Street wizard. Coscia has become the unlikely poster child for the market crime of the moment: spoofing, a kind of electronic pump-and-dump scheme that traders use to profit at others’ expense. “The world of electronic trading is best understood by thinking in terms of the pit,” said Robert Webb, a finance professor at the University of Virginia. “We can mislead ourselves into thinking it’s something beyond human comprehension.”
Get ready for the culture wars to roar back during the presidential primary elections. As a broad field of GOP candidates tries to break out of the pack and give themselves a legitimate shot at the nomination they are going to be targeting the early primary states. What they’ll find is a primary electorate with a disproportionately high percentage of evangelical Christian voters. Evangelicals “dominate” many of the states that hold primaries on or before March 8, according to an analysis by Geoffrey Skelley of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. By the tim...
A University of Virginia official has won this year’s Paul Goodloe McIntire Award from the Regional Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Marcus Martin (pictured) was honored Thursday night during the chamber’s annual dinner. He’s a UVA vice president and the school’s chief officer for diversity and equity. Martin was one of the founders of 100 Black Men of Central Virginia, which was created to help African-American males. UVA head baseball coach Brian O’Connor was the featured speaker.
(Cowritten by Kathryn Laughon, Associate professor of nursing at the University of Virginia) In an effort to draw support from women, the NRA is attempting to position guns as a women's issue, asserting that females should be "armed and fabulous." Past president of the NRA, Sandra Froman, recently told a group of University of Virginia law students that because women are smaller and weaker than men, they need guns for personal safety. Guns, Froman implied, are the latest way to assert your feminism.
Starting next year, those covered by Humana insurance will get in-network access to the University of Virginia’s hospitals, clinics and physicians located in Culpeper, Charlottesville and throughout Central Virginia. The university recently announced the agreement, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2016.
How would you like to able to see your doctor – without actually seeing your doctor, except perhaps on computer screen? Telemedicine could expand swiftly in New Jersey with the help of new legislation. Virginia has been a focal point for the growth of telemedicine. The University of Virginia Center for Telehealth has helped connect patients with providers 50,000 times.
Saying sorry for any minor transgression may not help the children feel better, but the quick apology can help you mend relations with them, the findings show. "What was surprising was that children who experienced a minor transgression and heard an apology felt just as bad as those who did not hear an apology," said the study's lead author Marissa Drell from University of Virginia in the US.
A University of Virginia psychology study says apologies are important to everyone, even young children. The study, published this week in Social Development, finds that while apologizing may not heal the hurt caused, it does mend relations between people. "What was surprising was that children who experienced a minor transgression and heard an apology felt just as bad as those who did not hear an apology," said Marissa Drell, a PH.D. candidate in psychology at UVa and the lead author of the study.
The state Board of Education decided Thursday to continue to keep a close eye on the Pine Bluff School District, which has nearly half of its traditional schools in academic trouble. The district has been using a University of Virginia school-improvement model, which Education Department officials have said has helped. The university has committed to the Pine Bluff district a year at a time and has had a better relationship with the district this year, Wilde said. The School Improvement Unit is working alongside the University of Virginia to have a unified plan to elevate student achievement.
In the early 1800s, Thomas Davenport, a poor, young, self-taught blacksmith in Vermont tinkered with magnets to create, and eventually receive a patent for, the first electric motor. Nearly 200 years later, middle-schoolers in Albemarle, Virginia, are tinkering with modern 3-D printing technology to reconstruct and model his historic invention. The Albemarle County Public School District—in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Virginia—is creating this project-based curriculum with nearly $3 million in support from the Department of Education's I...
The University of Virginia announced Monday two faculty members who will address students this spring during Finals Weekend. English professor and former Poet Laureate Rita Dove is slated to address the graduates of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences on May 21. Paul G. Mahoney, dean of the School of Law, will speak to the graduates of the university’s other 10 schools and the Data Science Institute on May 22.
The University of Virginia will hold a survey on diversity and race relations on Grounds next spring. UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan made the announcement at a Thursday afternoon meeting of the Board of Visitors. Sullivan said the survey would give the administration “a benchmark so we can understand where we have issues and show us how to address those issues.”
The University of Virginia’s Cavalier Marching Band will take part in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. UVA’s marching band is only one of 10 bands selected in April 2014 out of more than 170 applicants to take part in the traditional Thanksgiving parade in New York City. The parade, set for 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 26, generally draws in 50 million television viewers and more than 3 million live viewers.
UVA offers no merit scholarships to its students, but the Charlottesville-based Jefferson Scholars Foundation does. “We exist to serve the University of Virginia,” says James H. “Jimmy” Wright, the foundation’s president.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce named Dr. Marcus Martin as the 2015 McIntire Citizenship Award recipient. Martin is the vice president and chief officer for the Office of Diversity and Equity at UVA.
The “Black Girls Matter” forum was the second in a pair of public meetings arranged by The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at UVA.
A new study has revealed that apologies are important even to six to seven year-old children as they are undergoing dramatic and important changes in cognitive development. Lead author Marissa Drell of the University of Virginia was surprised to see that children, who experienced a minor transgression and heard an apology felt just as bad as those, who did not hear an apology. However, those who heard the transgressor say "I'm sorry" actually shared more with that person later. The apology repaired the relationship even though it did not mitigate their hurt feelings.
UVA’s Applied Metabolism and Physiology Lab has been testing individuals to see how and to what degree exercise can be used to combat the disease.
The Darden School of Business has been named one of the best graduate schools for entrepreneurship studies. Darden ranked 13th among graduate schools in a survey by The Princeton Review that will be published in Entrepreneur magazine.