We have a desire to go into space to find out what’s on other worlds and to learn more about dangers such as Cosmic radiation. Nine University of Virginia students have teamed up with NASA to send a cosmic ray experiment 23 miles into space on a giant high-altitude balloon to determine how much radiation is too much. The students have been working on the project for 2 years and the NASA balloon with payload will launch any day now.
These have not been easy days for Republican presidential candidate John Kasich. A spate of fresh polls shows he is fading not only in New Hampshire but also in his own state of Ohio. In addition, Kasich’s support in New Hampshire has tumbled at the same time that Bush has unveiled a massive TV blitz in the state, relying on his overwhelming financial advantage to launch a war of attrition. “He’s trying to kill Kasich off,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “They’re trying to kill off the credible candidate...
President Richard Nixon believed that years of aerial bombing in Southeast Asia to pressure North Vietnam achieved "zilch" even as he publicly declared it was effective and ordered more bombing while running for reelection in 1972, according to a handwritten note from Nixon disclosed in a new book by Bob Woodward. Woodward cites the work of Ken Hughes of the University of Virginia's Miller Center to show that "the massive bombing did not do the job militarily but it was politically popular. Hughes argues with a great deal of evidence that the bombing was chiefly designed so ...
Larry J. Sabato is not an easy man to stump. The longtime University of Virginia professor has been analyzing American politics for decades, but he says he doesn’t know what to expect out of the bizarre, highly publicized Republican presidential campaign.
Due to the proliferation of devices cropping up in schools, the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia is now partnering with the Jefferson Education Accelerator — an incubator that helps education technology businesses develop — to help product designers evaluate their wares before introducing them into the market. “At the larger level, it’s an effort to bring evidence to bear in the education technology marketing world,” said Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School.
With a reporter's eye and an artist's heart, Svetlana Alexievich writes of the catastrophes, upheaval and personal woes that have afflicted the Soviet Union and the troubled countries that succeeded it. Her writings, characterized by plain language and detail so visceral it's sometimes painful to read, won her this year's Nobel literature prize. "Her goal is to communicate the history of human feeling. The very fact that it transcends any easy category is part of what makes it great," said Andrew Kaufman, a Russian literature scholar at the University of Virginia.
Stephen Colbert has promised to follow Hollywood's example in sucking up to China -- a practice that has become a huge moneymaker for American film studios. In an episode of the "Late Show" this week, the host fawned over China's achievements and vowed to get himself some of that "sweet and sour renminbi." Still, the phenomenon that Colbert is talking about -- Hollywood casting the Chinese in a flattering light in order to do better in that box office market -- is definitely real. Aynne Kokas, an assistant professor of media studies at Unive...
A former University of Virginia triathlete is defending her new nickname Saturday morning at the Ironman All-World Championships in Hawaii. Seeded first in her age group, 24-year-old Cammie Fausey, nicknamed the Ironwoman, says her faith, family, and friends are all among the things that motivate her.
Obesity is linked to a number of cancers, among them cancer of the endometrium, the lining of the uterus. Weight-loss surgery may reduce that risk, according to a new study by University of Virginia researchers.
The current Republican uprising in the House of Representatives isn't entirely unprecedented -- but to find similar scenarios, you have to go back about 100 years. "They really had a lot of concerns about procedure and tactics and things like that, the same sorts of things that you see today," University of Virginia Prof. Jeffrey Jenkins told CBS.
UVA has partnered with facilities around the world from Stanford and UCSB to Europe and Israel, and talks are in the works with a site in Buenos Aires, Argentina. According to Dr. Daniel Chernavvsky, Assistant Professor of Research at the UVA Center for Diabetes Technology, a multi-center adult trial, AP@Home, will be completed here in the U.S. within the next couple of months. The European AP@Home is still underway. According to Dr. Kovatchev, a large-scale study is to begin next year and serve as the definitive trial intended to establish closed-loop (AP) control as a viable treatment for Ty...
It took an architect lying on the floor, sticking his head into a hole and looking up to realize: There was something there. The something initially was nothing – an empty space. But an empty space in the Rotunda that Thomas Jefferson designed at the University of Virginia is something. It’s one of the most-studied buildings in the country, said Brian Hogg, senior historic preservation planner in the Office of the Architect for the University, so renowned that it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. They don’t expect surprises. And so the discovery led the workers to keep...
Dr. William Brady is a professor of emergency medicine at UVA, so he’s well qualified to help if a passenger gets sick or is injured in flight, but he says the job is difficult. For one thing, planes have minimal equipment, medications and space.
(By Courtney Bartholomew, a fourth-year student at the University of Virginia) My swimming career is coming to a close. In 160 days, I will no longer be a student-athlete at the University of Virginia. Who knew four years would go by so quickly? I remember sitting in the pool classroom for my first official team meeting and practice like it was yesterday. Then I was nervous for the future. What would the next four years hold for me? And now, I am still anxious for the future. However, this case of nerves is different. I feel nervous for life after swimming and college.
Michael Karnjanaprakorn thinks anyone can be a teacher -- doers, dreamers, thinkers, tinkerers. Anyone, yourself included. No college degree, formal training or accreditation required. All you need is knowledge and passion, and an eagerness to share both. The 33-year-old entrepreneur and world champion poker player’s mission in life is to democratize education throughout the world, one online class at a time. Karnjanaprakorn practices what he preaches, personally instructing four of his own classes on his passion project. All are fittingly focused on how to succeed in...
The Virginia Baseball program will hold the 2016 Step Up to the Plate event and 2015 National Championship Ring Ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2015, at 6 p.m. at John Paul Jones Arena. The annual fundraiser is one of the highlights of the Virginia Baseball calendar, but takes on a special tone this year as UVA also will present its first NCAA championship team with its national championship rings.
Another Way of Living: The Story of Reston, VA, a documentary about Reston, will make its film festival debut at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville on Nov. 7. “From the beginning, Reston was shaped by its Virginia context and it continues to grow in that context today,” she said. “The University of Virginia is an ideal setting to have a conversation about how Simon’s vision developed over 50 years and how it can inform community development moving forward.”
The new MRI facility is a modular building nestled into the University of Virginia Medical Center. The building was created off-site in Pennsylvania by a company called NRB. It was then shipped in chunks to Charlottesville where it was installed. UVa is going to use the modular building to help do more MRI scans for patients in a more permanent facility.
The same economic downturns that hurt our financial well-being help our physical health, it turns out. A new working paper on the health effects of economic crises is the latest to support this argument. The paper was written by Christopher J. Ruhm, a University of Virginia professor of public policy and economics. It was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private nonprofit based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The National Institute of Health is giving millions of dollars to a new project at the University of Virginia. Researchers at UVA are trying to save lives by determining when and why sugar causes heart failure. They say the heart usually uses fats as fuels, but it turns to sugar during high stress situations for easy energy. Their new study uses new high tech tools to monitor the deadly effects of glucose addiction.