(By Michael Livermore, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, who argued the case, and Jayni Hein.) The U.S. Department of the Interior announced last week that it is canceling future lease sales in federal Arctic waters off Alaska’s northern coast, a decision that places future Arctic offshore drilling on ice. This decision signals a clear shift in Arctic offshore leasing policy and marks a victory for environmentalists who have long highlighted the risks inherent in leasing in this remote and unpredictable region.
Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers in Charlottesville will soon have access to a unique support system, thanks to a new federal grant awarded to the Memory Disorders Clinic at the University of Virginia. The program will focus on providing information and support to people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and their families.
When Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia in 1819, chemistry was still a new science, only recently detached from the arcane darknesses of medieval alchemy. But within a few years Jefferson’s university had a fully firing chemistry lab, the remains of which university officials revealed this month. Tucked at the edge of a lower level in the university’s famous rotunda, the “chemical hearth” was among the first in the country. In 1820 the US had only 40 colleges or universities, and 25 offered courses in chemistry, although those classes were usually linke...
In the 1980s and ‘90s, he taught at several universities, including American, Drexel, Williams, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard universities and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia has a large volunteer community, giving students the chance to give their free time to those who will certainly benefit from it. Cavs In The Classroom is a [Madison House] volunteer program that gives elementary students more one on one attention, altering the learning environment.
The presentation included an interview with Dr. Jim Tucker, associate professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia, who has studied the cases of children, usually between the ages of 2 and 6 years old, who say they remember a past life.
W. Bradford Wilcox, a visiting scholar at AEI and the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, argued that the “role of husband and father is transformative for men,” and that the link between marriage and economic growth is demonstrated by the fact that men who are married with children are more likely to participate in the workforce.
Jane Friedman, a professor of digital publishing at the University of Virginia, describes catfish as an ongoing but “not that significant” threat. (“It increases the noise for everyone, sure,” she wrote by email, “but for any author building a long-term career, it’s not hard to distinguish yourself from low-quality opportunists.”)
“Jim Webb does things because he’s motivated by beliefs,” Larry Sabato, director at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told me. “He clearly thinks the Democratic Party has gone too far to the left, and the Republican Party too far to the right.”
New research from Eileen Chou, assistant professor in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, finds that e-signatures can potentially make people behave in more dishonest ways. It turns out people are less willing to lie and cheat when they handwrite and sign their full names instead of using an e-signature, computer generated user code or other form of identity verification.
The museum produced “Lifelines” in collaboration with the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, which supplied more than half of the works. The show will run until September 2016.
UVA biologist Colleen Ingram and a team of researchers from several U.S. universities and the American Museum of Natural History conducted genetics studies of different mole-rat populations from Africa, and compared them to the genetics of a long-studied mole-rat population.
University of Central Florida’s YWLP is a satellite program to the University of Virginia, where the program was founded in 1997. The after-school curriculum-based mentoring program assigns one middle-school girl to one undergraduate or graduate UCF student.
Thomas Jefferson was an educated man who loved learning so much that he founded the University of Virginia. And, this week, UVA discovered one more fascinating bit of Jefferson nostalgia — a chemistry lab tucked away behind a hidden wall of the college’s Rotunda, which the former president designed.
Dr. Jim Coan, associate professor of clinical psychology and director of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Virginia, says Ebert was right. We “immerse ourselves in the perspective of another person,” Coan said. “And in doing that, we start to subtly accrue those perspectives into our own universe ... and that’s how empathy is generated.”
Dr. William Brady, a professor of emergency medicine and internal medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, said, “Before you get on a plane, you need to ask yourself the question: Is it appropriate for me to get on this plane based on my current health situation?” Brady is co-author of a New England Journal of Medicine article highlighting how doctors can respond to the most common in-flight medical emergencies during commercial air travel.
The normal heart is powered by fatty acids – but under stress, with a condition like high blood pressure for example, the heart switches to another fuel – sugar. “Eventually leading to enlargement of the heart, thickening of the walls and failure,” says Bijoy Kundu, a research scientist at UVA who got a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to track glucose entering the hearts of laboratory rats. Using advanced imaging technology, he hopes to identify this pattern before the hearts are damaged.
The publication ranked the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business 12th among full-time MBA programs.
A University of Virginia engineering professor is exploring ways to improve polymer membranes to make desalination simpler and less expensive. Geoffrey M. Geise, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, believes the membranes can also be used to help create and store clean energy.
In children, it’s possible to instill self-awareness about bullying through schoolwide interventions. Catherine Bradshaw, a psychologist and associate dean at the University of Virginia who studies bullying prevention, has found that the most effective approaches are multilayered and include training, behavior-modification guidelines, and systems for detailed data collection.