Reprint of Matt Kelly’s article about UVA civil war historian Gary Gallagher.
Carole Havrila, a registered dietitian at the University of Virginia Cancer Center, said research shows that if people eat better and exercise, they can probably reduce colorectal cancer incidence by about a third. “I think the more important take on this is how powerful it can be when we change our eating and we eat healthier,” she said.
Tip #1: Focus on Career Experimentation Alex Haddock, Darden School of Business (University of Virginia), interned at Goldman Sachs. Haddock, a rising Second Year at Darden, suggests that you go beyond the career exploration offered through recruiting. During the recruiting process, you will have access to top companies that will try to give you a sense of what it’s like to work in different fields and functions. However, business school offers many other opportunities to learn about new roles and industries – and the chance to actually use and experiment with the skills required i...
Students at the University of Virginia are helping to build a school and getting a workout at the same time. They’re hosting their 8th Annual Bike to Uganda Campaign. The money raised from the campaign goes towards the nonprofit organization Building Tomorrow. The organization raises money to build schools for children in Africa.
Jason Maris was Director of Photography of the film, “Imba Means Sing. The film will be presented alongside two photo exhibits, “Education of the Negro: a photographic study” by Dr. Horace Mann Bond and “Proving Grounds” by Jason Maris. This exhibit is also perfect since it’s about human rights and education — which our film is as well. Finally, Dr. Bond’s son, Julian Bond, is who inspired my passion for Africa. He was my advisor in college at the University of Virginia. Through him, I became academically interested in Africa, and then socially, ...
At UVA’s law school, Richard Bonnie says Americans don’t have an absolute right to own a gun. He quotes Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia who, in 2008, stressed government can impose limits.
UVA’s Benjamin L. Castleman, who has done research on college access, said that across a variety of programs, like organ donation and retirement plans, participation tends to be much higher when taking part is the default. That same principle, he said, can be applied to college entrance exams.
A number of industries that depend heavily on cheap immigrant labor would be devastated -- especially agriculture. “There would be an abrupt drop in farm income and a sharp rise in food prices,” said James McLaren, UVA professor of economics with expertise in international trade, economic development and the political economy.
Many current and former leaders of Charlottesville, Albemarle and the University of Virginia assembled Sunday afternoon to learn more about the events preceding the university’s desegregation. President Teresa Sullivan and Dean of Students Allen Groves were among the UVA officials who attended the event.
Members of the Kappa Delta sorority at the University of Virginia spent Sunday afternoon preparing for Halloween with the Girl Scouts of Virginia Skyline Council. They painted pumpkins on the Lawn at UVA and sorority members gave the Girl Scouts tips on how to paint some very artistic pumpkins.
The James Madison Regional Library hosted the Swanson Case Commemoration Sunday afternoon to recognize a groundbreaking civil rights lawsuit in Charlottesville. Gregory Swanson was a black attorney that was barred from applying to the University of Virginia School of Law in 1950. Swanson filed suit in the old United States District Court which is now the library's McIntire Room.
The idea that there could be a relationship between the immune system and brain disease isn't new. Autoantibodies were reported in schizophrenia patients in the 1930s. Subsequent work has detected antibodies to various neurotransmitter receptors in the brains of psychiatric patients, while a number of brain disorders, including multiple sclerosis, are known to involve abnormal immune system activity. 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 i...
(By Allan Stam, dean of the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) What will America's next war look like? The challenge of divining our best course in Syria presses the question. As our nation learned through hard experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a conundrum that often confronts U.S. leaders who propose to engage in the world's conflicts.
By UVA sociologist Bradford Wilcox, Robert I. Lerman and Joseph Price are the authors of the report “Strong Families, Prosperous States: Do Healthy Families Affect the Wealth of States?” Our new study found that strong families are an important vehicle for lifting growth
The American Cancer Society (ACS) announced that it was adjusting its recommendations for breast cancer screenings. It now advises women to begin annual screenings at 45 years of age, rather than 40. “Ideally any good screening test should find early disease such that better treatment options and outcomes are available to the patient. Recognizing the limitations of mammography, screening mammography is the only test proven to do this for breast cancer,” said Dr. Brandi Nicholson, medical director of breast imaging for the University of Virginia Health System and UVa Culpeper Hospit...
The American Cancer Society announced last week its latest recommendations for women with average risk for breast cancer to start yearly screening at 45 years old, five years later than when women typically start getting annual mammograms. Dr. Brandi Nicholson, medical director of breast imaging for the University of Virginia Health System and UVa Culpeper Hospital, said breast cancer is the number one cancer affecting women and is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths for women.
The recent Justice Department settlement with GM was the latest in a long line of coddling arrangements for giant corporate scofflaws. Do large corporations and their executives have a get-out-of-jail free card that protects them from prosecution for criminal wrongdoing? University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett found more than 300 of these deferred prosecutions in the past decade, many involving big, publicly traded companies.
More than 2,700 attendees and 200 speakers are expected to flock to Salt Lake City for the World Congress of Families IX, which kicks off Tuesday. W. Bradford Wilcox, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and the director of the National Marriage Project, is nationally recognized for his research on marriage and relationships. On Thursday, Wilcox will speak alongside other economists and social scientists on a panel titled "Marriage, Economics, and Poverty."
Albemarle County’s anti-solicitation ordinance, which recently was suspended as it undergoes legal review of its constitutionality, was fine as it was, but recent court cases do now put it in question, a University of Virginia law professor says. Leslie Kendrick, a law professor at UVA, said if it had not been for cases such as one in Massachusetts and one in Charlottesville, she wouldn’t see any reason why the county’s ordinance would need to be reviewed.
“It definitely doesn’t address poverty, and it may not work for everybody,” said Patricia Jennings, an associate professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and the author of a book called “Mindfulness for Teachers.”