Before loosening the boundaries, Claudia Allen, a child psychologist at the University of Virginia Family Stress Clinic, said it’s important for parents to know their child, know their environment and prepare their child.
“This straightforward exchange of ads for some valuable content often has an obligatory feel to it,” said Matthew Crawford, a research fellow at the University of Virginia and author of the recently published book, “The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction.” “Intrusive advertising is just the tip of a much larger cultural iceberg,” Crawford said. “We’re living through a crisis of attention and, it’s fair to say, a widespread sense of mental fragmentation. Often it feels that our attention isn’t ou...
In traditional curriculums, these topics tend to be covered in separate, three-credit classes. It’s a system that, according to Ryan Nelson, a professor and associate dean for the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, doesn’t prepare students adequately. “It doesn’t really represent reality, what really happens in businesses is cross-functional in nature,” says Ryan Nelson, a professor and associate dean for the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, one of the handful of other business schools teaching the i...
People who pay restitution early in the process may be trying to show an acceptance of responsibility for their actions, says Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. “The hope, I think, is to obtain leniency in sentencing,” he tells PEOPLE.
Commentary by University of Virginia student, Jake Lighter. You can read more from Jake on Baseball Essential. [Ironically, Chris Marinak helped lead the project to design MLB’s state-of-the-art, instant-replay system, which after a little more than a year of implementation, feedback (positive and negative) and adjustments, will back up calls for a second World Series beginning Tuesday.
A Charlottesville man has made it his mission to help war veterans adjust to civilian life and now he has gained national attention. This month, Sean Gobin was named a 2015 Top 10 CNN Hero. The veteran Marine and University of Virginia Darden School graduate returned home from three combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2012 and used long distance hiking as a way to process his war experiences.
The retired Marine and University of Virginia Darden School grad started a program called Warrior Hike. Gobin takes men and women to "walk off the war" on the Appalachian Trail.
Several of the babies, all who, before turning 1-year-old, had heart surgery at UVA with Dr. Gangemi, came together to celebrate baby Finn’s homecoming.
Shige Oishi, psychology professor at UVA and the study’s lead author, says the findings likely reveal that the problems cities face might outweigh the benefits afforded by walking.
A small, start-up company in Charlottesville is set to tackle the problem of contaminated water worldwide, with a small, silver-infused ceramic pill – the MadiDrop.
The University of Virginia will host its annual “Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn” for families on Oct. 30 from 4 to 6 p.m. The event takes place a day earlier than normal in order to alleviate visitor parking concerns and other conflicts that would have been inevitable with Saturday’s home football game.
With Dr. Carrie M. Rochman, a radiologist with the University of Virginia Breast Care Program. In general, average-risk women should begin screening between ages 40 and 45 and continue screening every year as long as they are in good health.
Will Shortz, crossword editor for The New York Times and a 1977 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, will deliver the school’s 2016 commencement address in May, school officials announced.
A lot of headlines followed the results of a large-scale initiative called the Reproducibility Project, recently published in Science magazine, [conducted by Brian Nosek, UVA psychology professor,] which appeared to show that a majority of findings from a sample of 100 psychology studies did not hold up when independent labs attempted to replicate them.
At the University of Virginia, studies showed that when happy couples held hands, the calming effect on the brain was similar to that caused by pain-relieving drugs. But unhappy couples did not show the same benefit. … James A. Coan, the University of Virginia professor who conducted the hand-holding studies, said couples who find they have an ambivalent relationship should not panic about the study findings, but should feel motivated to work on the relationship and seek counseling before their problems become intractable.
Researchers at the University of Virginia recently identified a previously undiscovered network of vessels directly connecting the brain with the immune system; the authors concluded that an interplay between the two could significantly contribute to certain neurologic and psychiatric conditions. [Jonathan Kipnis, a professor in U.Va.’s Department of Neuroscience and director of U.Va.’s Center for Brain Immunology and Glia, led the research.]
The “book” is a water filter and instruction manual for how and why to clean drinking water. It’s made of a new type of paper, created by scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Virginia, that costs only pennies to produce.
Edward Hess, a professor of business administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, weighs in on struggling Chinese companies.
“Remotely sensed data, information that we get from aerial photographs or other imagery from aircraft or satellites, is absolutely crucial for environmental research,” says Howard Epstein, an ecologist at the University of Virginia.
“The short-term consequences should have shown up by now,” said George Yin, a professor of law and taxation at the University of Virginia and former chief of staff of Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation, one of the most influential tax positions in the country.