The UVA review was conducted because there have been mixed findings about whether women and girls have differences in concussion incidence and recovery, said senior author Donna Broshek, a neuropsychologist and co-director of UVA Health System’s Acute Concussion Evaluation Clinic.
UVA catalysis specialist Robert J. Davis and coworkers to study zeolite Y and its effect on the pyrolysis of JP-10. Zeolite Y is a porous aluminosilicate catalyst used commercially for petroleum cracking. JP-10, exo-tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene, is a high-energy, nearly single-component hydrocarbon fuel used in specialty jet-propulsion applications. Because of its compositional simplicity, JP-10 is often used in combustion research.
For instance, out of the 330 people exonerated by DNA evidence as of 2015, 24 percent of those convictions involved informant testimony, according to research by UVA law professor Brandon Garrett.
A recent examination of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, performed by UVA economist Christopher Ruhm, estimates that states may have undercounted opioid deaths by 20 to 35 percent between 1999 and 2015. That translates to thousands of deaths each year.
The design of the study, in Science Advances, which involved observing almost 9,000 people at 256 coffee shops in six different Chinese cities, is a surprisingly clever way for scientists to observe cultural differences in the real world, researchers who weren’t involved in the study told Science. The study’s authors, from the University of Chicago’s business school, Beijing Normal University, and UVA, wanted to know if the cultural differences of farming wheat and rice persisted through non-farming generations. Across local coffee shops and big chains like Starbucks, they observed that on wee...
In the university’s iconic rotunda, I meet 20-year-old student, Elma Adusei. She shows me one of the prized student rooms overlooking the main lawn. I can’t say I’m as excited as she is – all it has is a bed, a wardrobe and a sink. Students have to walk across the lawn to the bathrooms. “We wear our university dressing gowns like a badge of honor!” Elma says.
The UVA Board of Visitors moved forward Friday with a decision to demolish University Hall. Along with Onesty Hall, The Cage and the Sports Medicine complex, U-Hall has been slated for removal since March.
Dr. Linda Martin, the program’s lead surgeon at the UVA Medical Center, said the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery program, initially introduced in 2013 as a trial for patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery, has reduced the amount of opioids patients use, decreased health care costs and shortened patients’ length of stay for specific thoracic surgeries.
“Today’s adults are not spending a lot of time shopping like my parents’ generation did,” said Kim Whitler, a marketing professor at UVA’s Darden Business School. “Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, they’re all time-starved and want to order groceries while they’re riding a bus to work.”
“Often, racism is dismissed under the guise of humor,” says Shilpa Davé, a UVA professor and author of “Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film.” “There is always an undercurrent of truth to it and there is also an undercurrent of censure and satire.”
For the first time in five seasons, the Cavaliers are part of the ACC’s championship weekend. Virginia made the tournament as the fourth and final seed, getting in ahead of North Carolina thanks to a confusing and contested tiebreaker.
A native of Konongo Odumasi, Ghana before moving to Millbrook, N.Y. as part of the Right to Dream Academy when he was 10 years old, Opoku competed for the University of Virginia for three seasons where he made 53 appearances and recorded 16 goals and nine assists. Opoku was named to the All-ACC Second Team in 2016 and 2017.
The UVA Transplant Interest Group teamed up with other organizations Thursday to bring awareness to the growing list of people who need organ transplants.
A UVA doctor who’s treated many victims of gender violence wants the Albemarle School Board to reconsider a decision to part company with the Sexual Assault Resource Agency. Kathryn Laughon made her request during the board’s Thursday night meeting. She says SARA has made many valuable contributions to the health of county students.
Though the documents are posted online, where anyone can look at them, the National Archives didn’t provide any digital tools to search them. “Little instant gratification for those who will ask this afternoon, ‘what’s in there?’” tweeted UVA political scientist Larry Sabato.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutionality of the two special counsel bills in September, which included testimony from legal scholars and experts, John Duffy of the UVA School of Law said the “transfer of removal authority from the Executive to the Judicial Branch is almost certainly unconstitutional” under Booker and Graham’s proposal.
Teaching poets is no easy task. For one thing, it demands an especially keen awareness of a student’s feelings – sensitivity was important in creative writing courses long before these days of microaggressions and snowflakes – as well as an air of authority. Gregory Orr manages to transfer that balancing act to the page in “A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry.” Author of a dozen books of poetry, former poetry editor of the esteemed Virginia Quarterly Review, founder of UVA’s M.F.A. program in writing, and a professor for over 40 years, Orr achieves a tone that is simultaneously experience...
The UVA Health System developed and implemented a special recovery program for thoracic surgery patients that is getting them home sooner while decreasing both health care costs and opioid use.
A group of economists – UC-San Diego’s Karthik Muralidharan and Paul Niehaus and UVA’s Sandip Sukhtankar – conducted a randomized experiment and found that the program raises earnings for low-income households by 13.3 percent, mostly because it bid up wages in the private sector. It also increased employment in the private sector, amazingly.
Numerous studies show that nature has a physiological, measurable impact on us and until now we didn’t know how much about that impact. “Nature is not something optional, it’s something that’s absolutely essential,” according to Tim Beatley, UVA’s Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities.