Today two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN announced a discovery that finally links the two heaviest known particles: the top quark and the Higgs boson. “We looked at many different decay modes of Higgs bosons,” says Chris Neu, a UVA physicist who worked on the CMS analysis. “This process is so rare that we needed to combine results from different Higgs signatures to maximize our sensitivity and establish the top-Higgs signal.”
In an initiative led by the Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, the Charlottesville Office of Human Rights and the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, local artists will design posters and billboards to educate citizens about the history of slavery and ongoing racism in the city, and also hold public art-making sessions and conversations.
Moving to a new town or even a new neighborhood is stressful at any age, but a new study shows that frequent relocations in childhood are related to poorer well-being in adulthood, especially among people who are more introverted or neurotic. The researchers tested the relation between the number of childhood moves and well-being in a sample of 7,108 American adults who were followed for 10 years. “We know that children who move frequently are more likely to perform poorly in school and have more behavioral problems,” said the study’s lead author, Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia....
The U.S. Farm Bill of 2014 allowed state departments of agriculture and colleges to cultivate hemp for research purposes. UVA, Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and James Madison University all have research in progress.
Alderman, the university’s main library, opened in 1938 when it only had to serve 3,000 students, and is in dire need of repair. The first phase of the $160 million project, set to begin in 2020, would demolish the Old and New Stacks, replacing them in 2023 with compact shelves that meet fire code. Safe stacks are necessary, staff, students and faculty agree. But the question is how to ensure that the library’s books remain readily available.
The National Institutes of Health invests nearly $37.3 billion annually in medical research. More than 80 percent of the funding is awarded through nearly 50,000 competitive grants to more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 universities, medical schools and other research institutions in every U.S. state and around the world. At No. 46, UVA received $66,907,817 toward 155 awards.
Mount Vernon recently planted an industrial cultivar of hemp to expand its interpretation of George Washington’s role as an enterprising farmer. Under the 2015 Industrial Hemp Law enacted by the Virginia General Assembly and working with the Dr. Michael Timko with UVA’s industrial hemp research program, Dean Norton planted industrial hemp seeds across a 1,000-square-foot area.
A large European study recently published in the journal Lancet says the heart-healthy benefits from moderate drinking are slight, while the risk of stroke and other fatal heart conditions are significant. Dr. Christopher Holstege, chief of UVA’s Division of Medical Toxicology, applauds the study’s scale, saying, “It gives us a lot to look at and discuss.”
Two and half years ago, Bradford and Bryan Manning had separated while shopping at Bloomingdale’s in New York City, only to meet back up having bought the same exact shirt. Like so many blind people, they’d let their fingers do the shopping and had picked out the softest, most comfy long-sleeve crewnecks they could put their hands on. They left with a brilliant idea: They’d create casualwear clothing driven by a sense of touch rather than sight and use the profits to fight blindness. That’s what they’ve done with Two Blind Brothers. Bradford and Bryan grew up in Charlottesville and went to the...
Sen. Bill Stanley, R-Franklin, joined the scramble to replace Rep. Tom Garrett, R-Buckingham, as the Republican nominee for the 5th District on Thursday night. Stanley enters the race as a possible front-runner, Larry J. Sabato, a political analyst and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said on Twitter. “Could be a formidable nominee. Already vetted. Best-known candidate in contest yet.”
Far more emphasis is needed on prevention rather than preparation for violence, said Dewey G. Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist at UVA. “Even an ordinary drill is likely to elicit distress from students as well as parents and staff,” Cornell said.
Robert Berry, a former middle school teacher who was twice named Teacher of the Year in Virginia, began his term at the end of the Council’s April 2018 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C. Berry currently teaches mathematics methods courses in the teacher education program at the University of Virginia.
The latest Reuters poll now has Republicans leading the Democrats. If the trend continues, Republicans could actually get to the 60 seats needed for a filibuster-proof Senate, enough to overcome any Democratic objections. The math tilts Republican. As explained by Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics, “Democrats are defending 26 of the 35 Senate seats being contested this year, including 10 seats in states that President Donald Trump won in the last presidential election. If one uses such seats as a proxy for the most vulnerable Democratic-held Senate seats – a reasonable metric – th...
In May, UVA held an LGBTQ Health Care Symposium to discuss the unique needs of those patients, and what hospitals and health care providers can do to provide the best care.
(Co-written by Brian Moriarty, professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business) Despite the global dominance of the Coke brand, its independently owned bottlers make the brand a local business for many communities. For the community of Kerala, India, criticism of the brand became a flashpoint both locally – and globally.
Our entire top three is different this year. Chicago is at No. 1, the University of Virginia School of Law is No. 2 and Duke Law is No. 3.
Efforts led by a UVA Medical Center doctor have led to a recommendation that more Americans should be screened for colorectal cancer. “In the last 10 years, we’ve gotten a variety of new evidence in colorectal screening,” said Dr. Andrew Wolf, an associate professor of medicine and a general internist at the Medical Center. “Colorectal cancer is really reaching into younger and younger populations.”
“The 10th is a district that Hillary Clinton carried, but has a Republican member of Congress in Barbara Comstock, so it’s a high-level target for Democrats,” said Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Comstock will, to some degree, probably be hanging on for dear life. She may be able to pull it out. But at the same time, we rate that race as a toss-up.”
Documentary filmmaker Leslie Cockburn won the Democratic nomination earlier this month for the House of Representatives race in Virginia’s 5th district. Almost immediately afterwards, the Republican Party of Virginia accused her of being a “virulent anti-Semite,” citing a book she had written years ago that was highly critical of U.S. policy toward Israel. “For a Democrat to win in this district, they have to win very large margins in the Charlottesville region,” Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics said. “That’s really your only path. … [The accusation] puts her on the defensive, it ...
The new bargaining system, which resembles what is known as plea bargaining in the West, allows criminal suspects to negotiate deals with prosecutors in exchange for information on another criminal. Out of 330 DNA exoneration cases in the U.S., 22 percent involved informant testimony that was used as evidence to convict, according to Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the UVA School of Law.