(Commentary by Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics) With Mississippi now hosting two Senate races this year, 2018’s Senate and gubernatorial races have achieved something of a mirror-image symmetry. On the Senate front, Democrats are defending 26 seats (including two independents who caucus with Democrats from Maine and Vermont) while the Republicans, even with the addition of a special election in Mississippi, are still only defending nine.
Sexual assault survivors told their stories Wednesday as UVA hosted its annual Take Back the Night event at the Sprint Pavilion on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall.
They plus you equals us, and a new community diversity festival planned in conjunction with the Tom Tom Founders Festival hopes to make that point through art, performance and guest speakers. The “We Are Here Diversity Festival” is scheduled for April 14 at the IX Art Park and is sponsored by UVA and the city of Charlottesville.
A new UVA study suggests female athletes are more likely to suffer concussions than men, and recovery could take longer.
UVA alumna Katie Couric returned to Grounds Wednesday to tackle Confederate monuments and racism in America. Couric offered advanced screenings of the first episode of her new documentary series with National Geographic, “America Inside Out.”
Linda Rogge is on her own kind of treasure hunt. She’s a first-year graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is looking for historical traces in an old book of poetry. Rogge is part of the Book Traces project, started a few years ago by Andrew Stauffer, a UVA associate professor of English. He’s leading the search on this day at UNL for old books with personal inscriptions, insertions and writings, marks of ownership and use. He’s been doing this for awhile and knows what to look for.
Standards for how to investigate and report on overdoses vary widely across states and counties. As a result, opioid overdose deaths aren’t always captured in the data reported to the federal government. The country undercounts opioid-related overdoses by 20 to 35 percent, according to a study published in February in the journal Addiction. “We have a real crisis, and one of the things we need to invest in, if we’re going to make progress, is getting better information,” said Christopher Ruhm, the author of the paper and a UVA health economist.
“Men commit the overwhelming majority of mass shootings for basically the same reasons they commit most violent crimes,” Dewey G. Cornell, a licensed forensic clinical psychologist and director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project at UVA, wrote in an email to CNN on Tuesday night.
Humans and machines will not battle for the title of smartest guy in the room. It is a no-contest game as AI continues to evolve and our data sources get more robust. So where does that leave us humans in the face of AI? Edward D. Hess, professor of business administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at UVA’s Darden School of Business, raises an interesting point in his book “Humility Is the New Smar”t: "In the AI age, 'being smart' will mean something completely different."
(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...