“Advantages beget advantages.” That’s the conclusion of a series of studies from researchers from Stanford University and the University of Virginia published Monday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes. “Individuals with relatively high social class are more overconfident,” they concluded. And, they said, others buy into it.
A multidisciplinary research effort funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, involving scientists from the University of Virginia and several other institutions, is developing gas-to-liquid technology to convert the components of natural gas to liquid products at lower pressures and temperatures than those utilized in current industrial processes.
K-12 educators are invited to attend an institute that will help them “demystify computer science.” St. Anne's-Belfield School and UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development are hosting the Computer Science Institute in July. It is open to teachers from all disciplines.
More than 7,000 students collected a diploma from the University of Virginia this weekend-- among them Dallas Ducar, who had two previous degrees from UVA. This one was especially meaningful – marking an academic and personal triumph.
During her year helming the University of Virginia’s Lawn, Joan Lee said she tried to make the heart of UVA more close-knit and inclusive.
Just a small amount of dynamite will bring down 5,000 pounds of concrete from University Hall’s iconic clamshell roof on Saturday. With a push from a plunger, a series of charges drilled into the structure will explode, bringing the roof down and simultaneously moving it away from other buildings, according to Joshua Campbell, president of Renascent Inc., the company tasked with the iconic University of Virginia structure’s demise.
The cardiac Cavaliers struck again, as No. 3 seed Virginia rallied from five goals down to beat unseeded Maryland, 13-12, on Matt Moore’s goal with 3:15 left in overtime. The win punched the Cavaliers’ first ticket to the Final Four since 2011, when they beat Maryland to win the national championship. UVA will face Duke or Notre Dame next Saturday in Philadelphia.
The University of Virginia got its ticket punched Saturday for Philadelphia and the NCAA’s “final four” of men’s lacrosse. The Cavaliers erased a big deficit and stunned Maryland, 13-12, in overtime in the NCAA Quarterfinals at Hempstead, Long Island, New York.
The University of Virginia has won its 10th consecutive ACC Rowing Championship. The Cavalier women edged Duke 95-90 in the overall team standings over the weekend at Lake Hartwell, South Carolina.
Chris Long on Feb. 2 stood on The Fox Theatre Stage and delivered a message that transcended the physical feats he achieved in his 11-year NFL career. Long delivered the speech in Atlanta after winning the 2019 Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. The night would serve as one of his final public appearances as a professional football player. Saturday evening, the Virginia legend announced his retirement in a Twitter post, alongside an image of him raising a red solo cup against a picturesque landscape.
A Central Virginian whose jersey was retired by the University of Virginia is retiring after 11 years in the NFL. Chris Long, son of Hall-of-Famer Howie Long, announced Saturday night in a tweet that he's stepping off the football field.
One of the University of Virginia graduates took some time on Sunday to reflect on the transitions in her life while preparing for one more. Dallas Ducar is a transgender nurse practitioner getting her third degree from UVA in psychiatric mental health.
Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, has been a longtime supporter of same-sex marriage. What’s made him unusual is that in recent years he’s been trying to make the case to liberals that “same-sex marriage and religious liberty can co-exist.” In 2017, he co-authored an article at Vox with another law professor to argue that Jack Phillips, the Evangelical Christian baker in Colorado at the center of the Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court case, should be allowed to follow his conscience to not bake a cake for a same-sex wedding.
Mr. Northam’s political survival reflects both a changed U.S. political landscape in the Trump era and the specifics of Virginia’s leadership crisis, said Larry Sabato, who directs UVA’s Center for Politics. Mr. Sabato said politicians in both parties took note of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s defiance after the emergence in October 2016 of an “Access Hollywood” video of him talking about groping women.
U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, who represents the Grand Rapids area, on Saturday became the first Republican in Congress to break with Trump on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. "Amash has always marched to the beat of his own drum, and he’s been one of the more persistent Trump critics in the party," said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology) It turns out that feminism and faith both have high expectations of husbands and fathers, if for very different ideological reasons, and that both result in higher-quality marriages for women. This is a key conclusion of our new report, “The Ties That Bind: Is Faith a Global Force for Good or Ill in the Family?” from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institution.
“Pennsylvania, along with Michigan and Wisconsin, denied Hillary Clinton the presidency in 2016,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “The Democrats’ most obvious path to winning back the White House in 2020 involves holding Clinton’s states and recapturing these three states, all of which were decided by less than a percentage point.”
(Video) A dean at the University of Virginia said her final goodbye to the Class of 2019, as she too, prepares to leave the University. Dean Dorrie Fontaine is retiring from her position as dean of the School of Nursing.
This treatment can help people who suffer from substance abuse disorders that are related to opioid use for pain relief.
An estimated 1.7 million Americans suffer from substance abuse disorders related to opioid use for pain relief, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Ken Hsu, a chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, and his graduate student, Myungsun Shin, has identified an enzyme that "chews up fat" molecules to produce chemical signals that control inflammation.