Some of the underlying reasons for the female protective effect could be purely social in nature, says Kevin Pelphrey, professor of neurology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. How girls tend to be raised — encouraged to socialize with peers, practice social graces and play with toys that resemble people — is “almost like an early intervention program for being highly social,” he says.
Dr. Christopher Holstege, chief of the division of toxicology at the University of Virginia, said he could find no ongoing clinical trials of cannabis as a treatment for cancer in humans. Studies also don't typically use cannabis in its raw form, he said. "Researchers tend to use more purified products as opposed to raw plant material in part because they want to know exactly what is being used in the study," Holstege said.
(Commentary) The good news is that one of the most influential staffers on the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, has already pulled together financing from foundations and formed a study group to examine the pandemic. Zelikow, a lawyer and professor at the University of Virginia with deep ties to the Bush administration, not only ran the day-to-day 9/11 Commission staff efforts, but he was the principal author of the best-selling Commission report. Zelikow was Tom Kean’s alter-ego with the 9/11 Commission — trusted by the Democratic and Republican members. Congress ought to look to him again to...
Kirt von Daacke, a professor of history at the University of Virginia specializing in the antebellum, American South, said UA is facing the same fate as other public institutions across the Mason-Dixon line. In Charlottesville, von Daacke and a group of historians, community members and experts have worked to excavate markers of slavery on Grounds, uncover information about the lives of enslaved people, and change the physical landscape that previously erased enslaved people’s work and contributions.
“Justice Breyer is both supremely analytical and very creative,” says Risa Goluboff, the dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, who clerked for him in the 2001-02 term. “When you are watching him work through those hypotheticals, he is working the problem. Some of it may be funny because he is coming up with funny hypotheticals. But it is deadly serious. You are watching his brain try to solve the problem.”
Who is your favorite celebrity? Chances are, they’re in a Super Bowl ad this year. While Super Bowl ads usually feature a bevy of big names, this year, advertisers have gone even further. “The vast majority of ads are including big starpower, from athletes to actors to chefs,” UVA marketing professor Kimberly Whitler said.
Advertisers are hoping to deliver a dose of escapism with light humor and star-studded entertainment amid the pandemic, high inflation and tensions between Russia and the Ukraine. “Marketers are recognizing Americans have had a very heavy, difficult two-year period and are responding by bringing some good old-fashioned entertainment for Super Bowl Sunday,” said Kimberly Whitler, marketing professor at the University of Virginia.
UVA’s latest COVID projection model shows most of the states' health districts have a declining trajectory. UVA says Virginia could get below 2,000 cases a day by mid-March, or they could pop in mid-February if mitigation measures were to stop.
A spotlight is being shone on mental health care for college students and the University of Virginia is facing a tall task. Many students are seeking help and, as a result, numerous resources need to be tapped into. With students back on UVA Grounds, and in-person classes back to the norm, the demand for other in-person services has also increased.
This year, the U.S. Supreme Court looking at hot button and controversial topics, from abortion to guns. There is also the question of appointing a new justice before the midterm elections in November. Experts from UVA’s Miller Center \ are weighing in on the cases that have the potential to reshape the future of America and discussing who's likely to get President Joe Biden's first high court nomination.
As [UVA alumna] Margaret Brennan marks her fourth anniversary as “Face the Nation’s” consummate moderator, she reflects on navigating formidable news stories and the family life that keeps her light on her feet.
A second-year UVA student and her younger sister went on a family trip to Peru and came home with more than the usual warm vacation memories or splendid tales of Machu Picchu. Instead, the sisters, who were 13 and 17 at the time of the 2019 trip, came back with a plan to build a medical clinic.
Research from UVA’s National Marriage Project studied the role of generosity in the marriages of 2,870 men and women. Couples with the highest scores on the generosity scale were far more likely to report that they were “very happy” in their marriages. … James A. Coan, a UVA neuroscientist, recruited 16 married women to take part in a study about how holding hands affects the brain.
Tonie Marie Gordon works for the NSF, not as a federal employee but as an employee of SRI International, a nonprofit research firm created by Stanford University in 1946 under the name Stanford Research Institute. Gordon went to Youngstown State for her undergraduate degree and the University of Virginia, where she received a doctorate in sociology in 2015. On graduating, Gordon decided not to pursue a career in academia, because she wanted to address “the concerns that shaped” her early life.
(Essay by alumna Lauren Coleman) My desire to learn more about Black History intensified as I entered my first year at the University of Virginia. As double English and African American studies major, I took courses on “Food in the African Diaspora,” “African American Theater,” “Racial Politics,” and “Public Health.” People often ask me, “What can you do with an African American studies degree?” My response… Change the world.
Katherine Larson successfully integrates science and art in such a way that highlights the overarching narrative of the exploration of the human condition. Larson herself has a background in science; she is a molecular biologist and field ecologist. She graduated from the University of Arizona with dual degrees in English and Ecology and Evolutionary biology. She then went on to obtain a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia. Her unique way of blending two different disciplines together into one unit, one form, one poem effectively blurs the seemingly stagnant barr...
Gavin Oxley, a pre-medical student at the University of Virginia, said, “As part of the Mildred Jefferson Medical Fellowship, the opportunity to attend the National Pro-Life Summit events greeted me with some of my first interactions with what it looks like to live out the pro-life movement as a medical professional and inspired me to know that perseverance of convictions and truth can be a reality in the field.”
“The number of retirements is high. I think some of it can be chalked up to, there are some Democratic members that don’t want to serve in this environment,” said Kyle Kondik with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
“It’s a two-tiered governorship,” says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “The public figure is Glenn Youngkin in his suburban dad outfit and singing ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy,’ smiling a lot and telling us how he’s going to unite everyone. But right out of the gate, he went far right on everything,” Sabato says.
UVA law professor Dick Howard, who helped draft revisions for the 1971 constitution, said that the constitution was written to ensure that when it comes to education policy, “the conversation begins with the Board of Education and the General Assembly.” Howard says the staggered appointments for state Board of Education members were meant to ensure that “some time has to pass before a new governor can put his stamp on the board” and to “keep the schools from being buffeted about every time there is an election.” … Rich Schragger, a UVA constitutional law professor, agrees – adding that the ide...