About one of every five women in this country will develop a benign breast tumor at some point in her life. Removal requires surgery, which leaves a scar, but University of Virginia scientists are testing a whole new approach -- using ultrasound to remove tumors.
It's time to stop debating the value of a college education, say a pair of professors from New York University and the University of Virginia. Instead, they say in a new book, parents and employers should ask whether schools are doing much to help students become productive adults.Sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa tracked more than 1,600 students during college and about 1,000 for two years after their 2009 graduation dates. Their findings are dismaying: Of the students who didn't go immediately into graduate school, slightly more than a quarter earned above $40,000 a year in ...
Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates is the story of a generation’s difficult transition to adulthood. Surveys and interviews with nearly 1000 recent college graduates who also featured in the earlier book reveals that a large number are having difficulty finding jobs, living somewhere other than a parent’s house, assuming civic and financial responsibility, and even developing stable romantic relationships.
The Washington Post article to which Spittle’s father alerted his son referenced a University of Virginia study conducted by an immunologist named Scott Commins. Desperate, Spittle tracked down Commins and sent an email. ‘Hey, I read this article,” he wrote. “I may have this thing. Can you test me?”Commins responded the next day, and in early November, Spittle drove to Charlottesville, Virginia where his blood was tested for reactions to cat, dog, pork and beef extract. Results showed high antibody levels for Alpha-Gal. He was allergic to red meat.
How an entirely new approach to handheld ultrasound imaging made its way from the university to the clinic. ...With more than a dozen portable vascular imaging devices already in the mix, it’s reasonable to wonder why any company would choose to enter this competitive space.The technology behind the Sonic Window was developed by a startup company called PocketSonics (Charlottesville, VA), founded by three University of Virginia professors: Travis Blalock (electrical and computer engineering), John Hossack (biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering), and William Walke...
A reformist Muslim will speak at the University of Virginia's College at Wise this month in what will likely be a timely lecture, a college official said Wednesday.Irshad Manji, founder and director of the Moral Courage Project, a program designed to help students make values-based decisions, will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 24, said Kathy Still, the college's director of news and media relations.The lecture is sponsored by the Colgate Darden Lecture Fund and is free and open to the public. It will be held in the David J. Prior Convocation Center.Manji's latest book is "The Tr...
By Mark Edmundson, U.Va. professor of English... If we Americans continue to create generations of stolid Achievers, we’re going to lose what edge we have. We’re going to become blander and more bureaucratic, less daring and less adventurous. Intelligence is marvelous. But Plato insisted that the leading citizens in his ideal state, the Republic, were both smart and highly spirited. And if a republic is going to be worth anything, they have to be.
... football's popularity shows no sign of fading.According to University of Virginia Prof Mark Edmundson, it's because football represents what the US has become."Football is a warlike game, and we are now a warlike nation," he writes in the Los Angeles Times. "Our love for football is a love, however self-aware, of ourselves as a fighting and (we hope) victorious people."Back when the US was more pacifistic - when it had to be dragged, kicking and screaming into world wars - baseball was the national pastime."That game is skill-based, nonviolent and leisurely...
The convictions of two mentally disabled half-brothers were vacated and the two men were ordered released by Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser in North Carolina on Tuesday. … Brandon Garrett of the University of Virginia School of Law has done extensive research on the question of why people confess to crimes they did not commit.
All four people were taken to the University of Virginia Medical Center to get evaluated. However, the medical director of the Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVa says that their symptoms might've been a reaction to something else. “People have significant allergies to molds and that can cause you to have a runny nose, irritated eyes, wheezing or things like asthmatics have, but it depends on if you are sensitive to molds,” says Dr. Chris Holstege. He says that you can have an allergic reaction to mold that would cause symptoms like coughing, sneezing or a runny nose, but that the ...
Landrieu, already vulnerable, could face more trouble if the residency narrative sticks. "It inevitably leads to a TV commercial that says, 'when she first went to Washington, she was one of us. Now she's one of them,'" said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
"Judge Spencer deserves credit for shutting down the defense's early attempts to politicize the charges," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. He thought the defense efforts were aimed at encouraging any Republicans on the jury to reject the prosecutors' case as merely a Democratic attack on a GOP politician."Only one juror, if he or she hangs tough, can cause a mistrial after all," he said.But Sabato said, "This long-suffering jury deserves the benefit of the doubt. They have endured a major disruption in their lives, carefully listene...
And that, in turn, means Republicans may end up spending millions of dollars on a Senate race that they once thought was a lock.“That primary really damaged Roberts,” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. “You never bet against a Republican in Kansas,” he added. “But it’s going to force the national Republicans to divert substantial resources to Kansas.”
Attempts to tighten voter identification laws have drawn political praise and criticism, said Geoff Skelley, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.“Studies indicate that strict voter ID rules are most likely to inhibit elderly indigent minority voters,” Skelley said in an email. “There is debate on the significance of the impact of such laws, but at the end of the day, at least some citizens will have a harder time exercising the right to vote because they lack a common form of ID such as a driver’s license.”
Mark Martin ’98 (LL.M.), a UNC-Chapel Hill law school grad with a master of laws degree from University of Virginia and 22 years judicial experience, has been selected N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice. But to keep the seat, Martin must win public election.
Why do bedbugs keep showing up in the greatest city in the world? It turns out that human error is as much to blame as the resilience of the six-legged critters.Recent bedbug discoveries in New York City's subway system and in the midtown Manhattan offices of Pacific Investment Management are only the latest chapters in a long, creepy story for Gotham residents. And even if recent incidents don't approach the worst of the city's infamous bedbug invasion of 2010, New Yorkers and the city's many annual visitors can reasonably ask why the nighttime menace cannot be eradicated.A bi...
Andrew V. McLaglen, a British-born director whose work in American westerns on television and in the movies starred such notable screen cowpokes, gunslingers and lawmen as John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, James Arness and James Stewart, died on Saturday at his home in Friday Harbor, Wash. He was 94. ... He graduated from what is now the Cate School, near Santa Barbara, where he made his first amateur movies, and spent a year at the University of Virginia.
Creating a campus culture that draws clear lines in the sand regarding appropriate sexual behavior requires the combined efforts of students and the administration. It is good that students are spearheading some of the efforts to call attention to sexual assault, its danger and its prevention. But we also want students to know that relying on campus adjudication procedures for something as serious as this is not necessarily the best option.
Some student groups are acting on their own. One in Four, a national non-profit targeting campus sexual assault, now has chapters at more than than a dozen colleges and universities, including the U.S. Naval Academy, The University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Virginia. Their programs are directed at both male and female students.
Seven Society: Founded around 1905, this University of Virginia secret society is extremely secretive and its members are only revealed after their death. However, its presence is clear, with multiple markings of the number seven throughout the campus. It is also known for its philanthropic efforts benefiting the university.