[UVA Ph.D. graduate] Hanan Ashrawi, the distinguished Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, scholar, women’s rights advocate and best-known spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the Western press, quit her senior post in the Palestine Liberation Organization at the end of 2020, calling for political reforms.
[UVA Ph.D. graduate] Hanan Ashrawi, the distinguished Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, scholar, women’s rights advocate and best-known spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the Western press, quit her senior post in the Palestine Liberation Organization at the end of 2020, calling for political reforms.
Robert Wood Lynn, a UVA Law graduate, M.F.A. candidate at New York University and native of Virginia, was awarded the 2021 Yale Younger Poets prize for a manuscript that explores the challenges of a young person growing up in rural Appalachia.
When a University of Virginia medical student noticed there was a lack of volunteers at free clinics during the pandemic, he built a platform that makes it easier for free clinics around the state to find volunteers.
The study is among the first to demonstrate how making predictions affects human memory. Scientists previously suspected that the hippocampus had a role in statistical learning but had not known how it interacts with memory formation. “This paper is a really nice demonstration of the trade-off where the hippocampus is doing both these things,” says University of Virginia cognitive neuroscientist Nicole Long, who was not involved in the research.
When it comes to near-death experiences – or profound experiences when close to death – a few patterns may clue us in to what happens on the other side. One that comes up quite frequently is the idea of “seeing the light,” which is difficult to fully grasp if you haven’t experienced it yourself. Is “the light” just what society imagines the afterlife to look like, or is it real? We of course had to ask Dr. Bruce Greyson, the world’s leading expert on near-death experiences and author of “After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond,” on the mindbodygreen po...
(Commentary) Today I wrote, “Day 365 of Coronavirus Chronicles – March 15, 2021.” The suggestion to write about your daily life during this time of crisis came from University of Virginia history professor Dr. Herbert “Tico” Braun who said, “Think of your children, your grandchildren, your friends down the road, who will ask you what was it like during that pandemic – ‘What was it called? Corona-something? You know, the one that was named after a Mexican beer … back then in 2020 or ‘21. When was it?’”
“This voting lineup makes clear that Fulton is going to be reversed,” predicted Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor and expert on religious liberty. “At least five, and maybe all six, of the conservatives will protect the Catholic Church from having to place children with same-sex couples or else losing its foster-care mission entirely.”
Understanding and mitigating systemic inequities, and the unique health and wellness challenges they present to the local Latino community, are at the heart of the UVA Latino Health Initiative’s mission and work. Dr. Max Luna, a cardiologist and associate professor at the University of Virginia for the past 13 years, founded the Latino Health Initiative about five years ago.
Greg Roberts, UVA’s dean of undergraduate admission, is concerned about whether the soaring numbers affect his team’s ability to stay focused while reviewing applications. Applications there rose by nearly 17% this year; 43% didn’t include standardized test scores. “The fear is that your team gets exhausted and beaten up reading so many applications all hours of the day for six months, and the end goal is a number and not a person,” Roberts said. “Can colleges and universities continue to read in a way that allows them to make the best, most thoughtful decisions when they’re dealing with such ...
(Co-written by Megan Stevenson, associate professor of law) Every day, jails in the U.S. hold close to half a million people who are legally presumed innocent. When people who have been arrested can’t afford or are denied bail, they are locked in concrete cages that are sometimes littered with excrement, often subject to extreme heat or cold, always rife with disease and violence, and always steeped in humiliation, distress, and fear. In recent years, one-fifth of the incarcerated population hasn’t even been convicted of a crime.
Another study from the University of Virginia found that a female’s chance of being injured in a frontal wreck is 73% greater than the odds for a vehicle occupant who is male.
In another study, economist Christopher Ruhm of the University of Virginia found nationwide underreporting of opioid overdose deaths, a problem that tended to be worst in counties that failed to order autopsies or other post mortem tests to identify drugs linked to deaths. The study concluded that the actual number of deaths due to overdoses of opioids, including heroin and prescription pain drugs, are likely 20 to 35 percent higher each year than reported.
Exercising during pregnancy may let women significantly reduce their children’s chances of developing diabetes and other metabolic diseases later in life, new research suggests. A study with lab mice has found that exercise during pregnancy prevented the transmission of metabolic diseases from an obese parent – either mother or father – to child. If the finding holds true in humans, it will have “huge implications” for helping pregnant women ensure their children live the healthiest lives possible, the researchers report in a new scientific paper.
A scientist at the UVA School of Medicine is developing a gene therapy that could help young girls across the country suffering from Rett syndrome.
Silent and invisible, the COVID pandemic has permeated everywhere and may never die out. It has no battlefields, no spasm of glory, no indelible footage of flames, not even any universally acknowledged villains. The instant politicization of the crisis made it impossible to agree on how extreme a threat it posed or how strenuously to fight it. “There’s no reason to expect that commemorating the pandemic will be any less political than managing it has been,” says Jeffrey Olick, a UVA professor of sociology and history.
Philip Zelikow, a UVA professor of history and a former U.S diplomat, believes that the Great War could have been ended almost two years before it actually did – immediately saving hundreds of thousands of young lives on the western and eastern fronts, and perhaps changing the course of 20th century history for the better. In “The Road Less Traveled,” Zelikow brilliantly tells the diplomatic story of what he calls “the lost peace” of August 1916 to January 1917.
Philip Zelikow, a UVA professor of history and a former U.S diplomat, believes that the Great War could have been ended almost two years before it actually did – immediately saving hundreds of thousands of young lives on the western and eastern fronts, and perhaps changing the course of 20th century history for the better. In “The Road Less Traveled,” Zelikow brilliantly tells the diplomatic story of what he calls “the lost peace” of August 1916 to January 1917.
While most people were all cuddled up inside their homes during the winter snowstorm a few weeks ago, a UVA doctor was traveling through dangerous weather to save a baby’s life. “As they said in the field of dreams: ‘go the distance,’” said Dr. Stephen Early, the pediatric otolaryngologist who took on the challenge.
Every sports card enthusiast has a crown jewel in their collection. For Leore Avidar, the founder and CEO of a new card trading platform called Alt, it’s a one of a kind 2008 Topps Chrome Kobe Bryant Superfractor. UVA alumnus Alexis Ohanian, Reddit cofounder-turned-founder of venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, who also sits on Alt’s board, says his “modern favorite” is a rookie card of his tennis champion wife Serena Williams, one of only ten produced.