When you hear bad news, you might feel your ‘heart drop’ or have to deal with ‘heart ache.’ There’s more to these metaphors than simply describing intense emotions – they point to the fascinating way our bodies experience these feelings, both emotionally and physically. But surely that doesn't make sense - we all know that the heart is simply a symbol for love and pain, and that all the "feeling" is done by our brains. So how exactly do intense emotions trigger specific sensations in our chest? The simple answer is: scientis...
Plans for an $8 million indoor practice facility for the University of Virginia are moving forward. Tuesday night, the Albemarle County Planning Commission (ACPC) recommended the approval of a special-use permit to the UVA Foundation to construct the facility on the Birdwood Golf Course.
An indoor golf facility, planned for the University of Virginia golf teams and members of the Birdwood Golf Course, is one step closer to becoming reality.
On Tuesday, a student group donated new toys and books to the University of Virginia Children's Hospital, which provides primary and specialty care in more than 30 specialties to children throughout the state.
The U.S. Green Building Council has teamed with the University of Virginia School of Medicine to work out how to measure the health impacts of buildings. It’s the next step to expanding the green building agenda to a broader more holistic definition of “green” applied to the health of the humans within the machine, so to speak.
In a groundbreaking research that may pave the way for a male contraceptive, scientists have identified key molecular events that could play a critical role as sperm and egg fuse to create new life. “This report expands our fundamental understanding of the molecular architecture at the site of sperm-egg fusion,” said John Herr from the University of Virginia Health System in U.S.
In the coming months, a low power FM (LPFM) student radio station will launch at University of Virginia with the call letters WXTJ-LP. After operating as a streaming radio station for a few years (initially called WTJX), students will soon be taking their shows to the terrestrial airwaves in Charlottesville, Virginia (at 100.1 FM) alongside their community radio counterpart WTJU-FM. In an interesting twist, University of Virginia will be home to two very different non-commercial FM radio stations.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA) announced today that they have been awarded a three year, $1.2 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to advance their Green Health Partnership. This research initiative, led by Chris Pyke, Ph.D., (USGBC) and Dr. Matthew Trowbridge (UVA) directly addresses longstanding gaps in the availability of practical tools to promote healthy places.
Over the past year, video footage from around the country of law enforcement officers killing citizens, many of them black, has brought scrutiny on policing in the streets. Yet, another disturbing police problem has drawn far less attention: Use of force by cops in schools. Dewey Cornell, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies school safety, suggests that the rise of school cops has been based on misguided fear. After Sandy Hook, the NRA proposed putting them in every single school in America. But relative to overall gun violence, "schools are...
Greece may have a deal with its creditors, but we've seen this movie before. For now, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has to sell a bailout plan to the Greek parliament that is similar to the one Greek voters rejected just over a week ago. "He'll certainly face challenges," said William J. Antholis, director and CEO of the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs and a former managing director of the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. "There are many within his party and various opposing parties that will ask the question: '...
When a woman waits to start having kids for just an extra five years, from the age of 30 to 35, it can have profound consequences. Women who had their first child between the ages of 21 and 33 earned 6% more for every year they waited to start a family, Amalia Miller, an economist at the University of Virginia, reports in a paper published in the Journal of Population Economics. If Miller's findings can be extended to women who had their first child at 35, that means a woman who waits five more years to start a family will be earning 30% more per year tha...
In Iqaluit, Nunavut, labourers are working long hours to finish the region’s first mosque before winter. And they’re doing so without eating or drinking anything, even water, for almost 22 hours each day. How Muslims living in nearly 24 hours of daylight should observe Ramadan is a fairly new question for the faith’s leaders, says Shankar Nair, a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia.
Malcolm Brogdon and three former University of Virginia athletes will compete at the 2015 Pan American Games, held July 10-26 in Toronto.
The University of Virginia Foundation will go before the Albemarle County Planning Commission on Tuesday to present its plan for a state-of-the-art facility for its men’s and women’s golf programs.
(By Philip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia) As the Greek economy teeters, there is still time and opportunity to make sure that Ukraine's economy is not next. The stakes in Greece's future are high. The stakes in Ukraine's future are even higher and the United States should not be a bystander.
New work on the skeletal remains of scarlet macaws found in an ancient Pueblo settlement indicates that social and political hierarchies may have emerged in the American Southwest earlier than previously thought. "In general, most researchers have argued that emergence of hierarchy, and of extensive trade networks that extended into Mexico, would coincide with what we see as other aspects of the Chaco florescence: roads being built outward from Chaco and the formation of what are called Chaco outliers that mimic the architecture seen in the cultural center," said Stephen Plog, profes...
Even though it is no longer a planet, Pluto is holding a lot of interest these days.
Students at the University of Virginia will soon be better prepared to join the workforce thanks to a complete revamp to the school's Career Services Department. The former University Career Services is changing its name to the UVA Career Center.
(By Kelsey Johnson Kelsey Johnson is an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia) Should Pluto be a planet? As an astronomy professor, I get asked this question a lot, and I will admit that I am grateful people actually care. By comparison, I don’t recall nearly the same level of popular outcry when a new domain was added to the phylogenetic tree in biology. Astronomy seems to occupy a special place among the sciences in terms of popular interest, and for many people their first exposure to astronomy is through the planets.
A Commentary by U.Va. Astronomer Kelsey JohnsonMy first indication that something was off was an email from a colleague: "Congratulations on your cool science result getting some press. Also congrats on the apparently successful gender reassignment surgery." Seeing your work and your name in the news is exciting. But seeing yourself identified with the wrong gender is demoralizing. Sloppy reporting to be sure, but why does it matter? The women who set the path before I came along had to deal with much more egregious social norms and behaviors. By comparison, these "small" t...