(By UVA professor Anne Garland Mahler) Shepard Fairey, the graphic artist known for the iconic 2008 Obama “Hope” poster, as well as the Trayvon Martin and Women’s March posters, wants to donate a mural near the site where Heather Heyer was murdered by a white supremacist car attack on Aug. 12. The proposed mural, which depicts a leaf with seven blades with Heyer’s face in the middle, was conditionally approved by the city’s Board of Architectural Review but is now tabled due to community criticism.
An app called Cyracom is now available to all medical staff and can translate up to 200 different languages.
While the state’s overall growth, 5.9 percent, is the lowest since the 1920s, according to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, population increases continue in the regions where Republicans often are distinguished by their unpopularity: the Northern Virginia-to-Richmond-to-Hampton Roads crescent.
UVA researchers say babies who die during their sleep while being watched by someone other than their parents were often placed in unsafe sleep positions.
UVA is studying how passengers react to self-driving cars. Perrone Robotics, based a few miles away in Crozet, has developed a proprietary software platform for running autonomous vehicles. The Commonwealth Transportation Board has moved to allow testing on express lanes on Northern Virginia.
One institution where millions of dollars is being spent to make sure everyone has a say in how universities remember and mark the past is the University of Virginia. On a warm comfortable night last fall, dozens of people sang and weaved their way through the north side of the University cemetery, to pay their respects. The unmarked grave shafts of 67 African-American slaves were discovered just six years ago. One year after the discovery of the unmarked graves, UVA formed its President’s Commission on Slavery and the University.
A new national report lead by UVA professor James Galloway claims the environmental pollution problems caused by humans can actually be reversed by humans.
There are many things that give wealthy students an academic edge in college – a good high school education, resources to pursue extracurricular activities and expensive tutors, to name a few. Now, UVA professor Josipa Roksa argues helicopter parents are also a help.
As the automotive industry moves us tantalizingly closer to a sci-fi future of roadways thrumming with such self-driving cars, Virginia has positioned itself as a hotbed for developing and testing autonomous vehicle technologies – in large part due to innovative research work coming out of state universities such as Virginia Tech and UVA.
On January 25, the Washington Post ran an article by the author of a new book related to Thomas Jefferson with the headline “How Did We Lose a President’s Daughter?” In the first sentence, the author writes: “Many people know that Thomas Jefferson had a long-standing relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings. But fewer know that they had four children, three boys and a girl, who survived to adulthood.” “It is shocking that anyone would say he fathered all the children,” Robert Turner, a professor at the University of Virginia, told me in a phone call recently. Turner is one of the f...
Black lives matter. And in the struggle to reduce racism, the Black Lives Movement matters. That's the encouraging conclusion of new research, which reports both conscious and unconscious pro-white bias decreased during the early years of the political and social crusade. "Anti-racist social movements like Black Lives Matter may have an effect of moving all racial groups toward more egalitarian racial attitudes," write Jeremy Sawyer of City University of New York and Anup Gampa of the University of Virginia.
Given these potential challenges, the president could try to avoid Congress altogether and unilaterally direct DOD to fund the wall. To do so, the administration would have to find legislative language that allows the president to transfer funds for other purposes, said Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, a UVA law professor.
UVA’s Daphna Bassok asks if kindergarten is really the new first grade. The expectation that kindergarteners – aged 5 or 6 – can read is now commonplace. Yet this is counter to all the evidence. A Cambridge study comparing groups of children who started formal literacy lessons at 5 and 7 found that starting two years earlier made no difference at all to a child’s reading ability aged 11, “but the children who started at 5 developed less-positive attitudes to reading, and showed poorer text comprehension than those who started later.”
The approach fits the persona of a president who, despite boasts about his deal-making prowess, largely won office by casting himself as a “pugilistic” populist who would not allow the stagnant ways of Washington to deter him, said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA has received a $2 million gift from the J. Sanford Miller family to endow the directorship of the Fralin Museum of Art. The Bicentennial Professors Fund, a $75 million initiative launched last December, will match the gift with $1 million.
In the first fully funded project of the Bicentennial Professors Fund, a $2 million gift will endow the director’s position at The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA. The University announced Thursday that it would match the gift from the J. Sanford Miller family with $1 million from the Bicentennial Professors Fund for a total of $3 million.
A disturbing new UVA study reveals that sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, occurs more often when babies are left with people other than their parents. SIDS is the leading cause of death for babies between the ages of one month and one year.
A study written in part by a UVA professor of pediatrics found that babies who died in the care of someone other than a parent often were placed in unsafe sleep positions or locations. Professor Rachel Moon contributed to the study, which examined infant deaths, sleep practices and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Michael Palmer, director of UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence, who also helped develop the center’s Course Design Institute, is one of a group of authors who published an analysis of STEM teaching at 2,000 colleges and universities, finding lectures remain dominant – despite finding after finding questioning their effectiveness.