Fitness instructors, you may have noticed, are always nattering on about breathing: "Breathe through the nose," "Control the breath," "Push up on the exhale." There's a reason for that. "Your breathing matches the level of activity," says David Hryvniak, a physical rehabilitation and medicine fellow at the University of Virginia Health System and team physician for several of the school's sports teams. "If you run and jump you will breathe through both your mouth and nose to get the proper amount to oxygenate the body."
Fitness instructors, you may have noticed, are always nattering on about breathing: “Breathe through the nose,” “Control the breath,” “Push up on the exhale.” There’s a reason for that. “Your breathing matches the level of activity,” says David Hryvniak, a physical rehabilitation and medicine fellow at the University of Virginia Health System and team physician for several of the school’s sports teams. “If you run and jump you will breathe through both your mouth and nose to get the proper amount to oxygenate the body.”
In images released last Thursday by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, dwarf planet Pluto features breathtaking views of majestic icy mountains, streams of frozen nitrogen and and haunting low-lying hazes. But what has scientists so stunned? The scenes are a little too familiar. "We did not expect to find hints of a nitrogen-based glacial cycle on Pluto operating in the frigid conditions of the outer solar system," said Alan Howard, a member of the mission's Geology, Geophysics and Imaging team from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
When Pope Francis sets foot on American soil this week, he will be visiting a Catholic community that wields vast influence on account of its size, wealth and political power. But he will also be confronting a flock increasingly divided on the direction he is taking the Catholic Church. “Among standard-issue conservatives, economic conservatives in particular, there is concern that the pope is singing from the liberal playbook and doesn’t appreciate how capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty,” says W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia...
(By Jacob Marthaller, a graduate student in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and Coordinator of the Religion and Film Project for the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion.) As Pope Francis’ trip to the Philippines last January revealed, where Francis goes people pay close attention. Americans should expect no less enthusiasm from his journey here this week to Washington D.C., New York City and Philadelphia.
In the weeks following the first national championship in program history, there was little time for Virginia’s baseball coaches to celebrate the Cavaliers’ unlikely run to legendary Omaha status. That Virginia’s Three Musketeers went right back to work shouldn’t come as a surprise. That’s been a staple of the Cavaliers program since Brian O’Connor was hired in the summer of 2003 and enlisted Kuhn and McMullan to join him.
A new exhibit at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia dances the eyes from the sublime to the exquisite. "Cavaliers Collect" offers an eclectic mix of art ranging from a large, shimmering orb of blown and carved glass to the captivating gaze of an Irish lad painted by the American master Robert Henri. There are a Grandma Moses, a Bob Dylan, even a Rodin and a Picasso.
The University of Virginia Health System plans to open an orthopedic clinic at UVa Culpeper Hospital this fall, adding increased access to specialized orthopedic care for patients in the Culpeper region.
Good neighbors in one part of the Valley are helping miracles happen for children at UVa Medical Center by using "miracle buckets." Five gallon plastic buckets were provided by Children's Miracle Network hospitals to use as building blocks in a nationwide design contest. People could vote on Facebook for which building-design they liked the most.
The University of Virginia is leading the first effort to use noninvasive focused ultrasound to treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Since 2011, UVa has been a center for research in focused ultrasound, the use of high-intensity sound energy to destroy damaged or diseased tissue. Now researchers say they’re confident it could help treat a range of symptoms in Parkinson’s patients sometimes known as dyskinesia, including tremors and involuntary movements.
Addressing the intersections of religion and politics, U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid will deliver the University of Virginia’s inaugural Joseph Smith Lecture on Religious Liberty on Sept. 26. Sponsored by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Religious Studies, the afternoon event will feature an interview with Nevada’s senior U.S. senator, now serving his fifth term.
Attempts to use first-year, like freshman, as both adjective and noun (“There go the first-years”) have mostly fallen flat, perhaps because the singular seems still to want something to modify. The University of Virginia, where Thomas Jefferson’s educational philosophy calls for students to be named after their year, presents an apparent exception. But I checked with a friend who attended UVa, and she reports a peculiar phenomenon. Students might ask, “What year are you?” and receive the answer, “I’m fourth year” rather than &ldquo...
The University of Virginia will request about $140 million in additional state funding over the next two fiscal years. The university’s board of visitors on Thursday approved the request, which includes $90 million in operational funds and $50 million in capital funds.
A simplified financial-aid calculator — much easier to use than the federally mandated calculators that most colleges create — has begun spreading beyond Wellesley College, where it began two years ago. In a statement announcing Virginia’s plan to use the new calculator, the university president, Teresa Sullivan, said she hoped it would help “avoid the possibility of losing prospective students due to misperceptions about cost.”
(By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley, at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia) It was a debate with winners (certainly Carly Fiorina) and losers (sorry, Scott Walker). Mainly, though, the Reagan Rumble reinforced the strengths and weaknesses that voters already associate with each of the candidates. Already, millions tuned in mainly to cheer for their current choice.
Above the surface, the banded region shows that Pluto has a distinctly-layered atmosphere that extends about 100 kilometres above the surface. It's mostly made up of nitrogen - the same nitrogen that freezes into ice on the surface. "We did not expect to find hints of a nitrogen-based glacial cycle on Pluto operating in the frigid conditions of the outer solar system," said Alan Howard of the University of Virginia, a member of the mission's geology, geophysics and imaging team.
The reviews of the second Republican presidential debate are in, and they’re not good for Gov. Scott Walker. Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia said Walker “made the least of his time.”
If you are a white person who grew up in the United States, you are very likely racist. This does not mean that you are a bad person, or that you treat people of color badly, or even that you believe, consciously, you are better than dark-skinned people. The majority of white people who take the implicit association test (IAT) for racial bias do demonstrate biases against dark-skinned people. In a 2007 study of over 2.5 million IAT responses, University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and colleagues reported that 68% of participants demonstrated negative implic...
Fourteen years ago, a leading drug maker published a study showing that the antidepressant Paxil was safe and effective for teenagers. On Wednesday, a major medical journal posted a new analysis of the same data concluding that the opposite is true. “This paper is alarming, but its existence is a good thing,” said Brian Nosek, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, who was not involved in either the original study or the reanalysis. “It signals that the community is waking up, checking its work and doing what science is supposed to do &md...
Facing some of America’s biggest education challenges, Benjamin Castleman thinks small. In his new book, The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies can Improve Education, the University of Virginia education professor argues that the humble text message can boost student achievement, improve study habits and help students stay on track in the transition from high school to college.