Maybe you’re a writer by profession, or your career path requires frequent written communications. Even so, you might not be writing in a way that helps your mind get rid of negative thoughts. Remember, one of the elements of flow involves not getting distracted by self-conscious thoughts. Tim Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, recommends writing about the things that make you feel stressed. Get into a routine of doing that two to three nights per week, and see if you find it easier to concentrate on work and get into a flow state.
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine spoke to a private audience at the University of Virginia over the weekend, making some surprising claims about Russia and former President Obama.
In 1917, one-time University of Virginia law student Woodrow Wilson introduced the cloture rule to end a filibuster and allow the United States to enter World War I.A century later, according to former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., filibustering has evolved from a rare process to a routine one, while the ability to filibuster executive and judicial nominees has been extended. “It rings true for me that what’s going on in this country at local, state and federal levels bears no resemblance to the democracy I grew up in,” Feingold said in a speech in UVA’s Rotunda on Monday.
Nine of the eMerge Americas Startup Showcase companies are university-level, and one from the University of Virginia dubs itself as being the next generation of home appliances. Babylon Micro-Farms hopes to disrupt the way food is produced, which founder Alexander Olesen calls "incredibly unsustainable." The system uses proprietary environmental control technology to ensure plants grow in optimal conditions, allowing anyone to grow fresh, sustainable and organic food inside their home.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine is using a new homemade microscope to try and rid the human body of incurable viruses.
For some Americans, salt can be deadly. Their bodies store too much of it, putting them at increased risk for serious medical problems. At the University of Virginia scientists are working on ways to test for salt sensitivity.
(By Sarah Kenny, UVA student council president from 2017 to 2018) We have called for common-sense gun reforms starting with a decrease in the number of guns allowed on college campuses throughout the country.
Alumnus Harold Wright, credited with bringing broadcast television decades ago to the Charlottesville area, is the recipient of The Associated Press' Robert Gallimore Distinguished Service Award. Wright, vice president and general manager of WVIR-TV, was honored Saturday by the Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters.
This year's honorees are Caroline Kelsey from UVA and Yeonwoo Lebovitz from Virginia Tech. Kelsey and Lebovitz will each receive $25,000 to help fund their unique and independent studies of yogurt, probiotics and the human gut microbiome.
The battles underscore an intensity usually lacking in this part of Arizona and are another sign that Republicans have anxiety about the coming congressional midterm elections, when the president's party historically loses seats on Capitol Hill. The volatility and chaos of President Donald Trump's first term has contributed to a sense of dread among many in the GOP. "There are obvious reasons for Republicans to be concerned. The president's approval rating isn't great, (and) special election numbers on the whole are not great for the GOP," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political anal...
(By Michael A. Livermore, UVA School of Law) We have now entered a period of partisan volatility and the resulting policy oscillation has created little or no public benefit. If regulatory impact assessment is to continue to play a useful role during an age of ever greater partisan volatility, OIRA will need to focus not only on the static costs and benefits of regulation, but also on the very real costs imposed on businesses and society by policy oscillation.
(By Shakira Hobbs, research associate in UVA’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) Early January 2017, I and two other Black women engineers were interviewed and discussed the movie ‘Hidden Figures’ and lingering challenges for women of color in engineering. Mixed in our excitement of finding more “like us” was melancholy. We were thrilled to connect with other Black women engineers; however, it was sad to hear that some of the same racial and gender inequities the Black women working at NASA confronted in the 1960s, we were facing as well close to half a century later.
A high-tech microscope developed by scientists at UVA’s School of Medicine has captured images of cancer-causing viruses clinging to human DNA. The new tool could help doctors eventually treat incurable diseases by exterminating viruses such as HPV or Epstein-Bar that embed themselves into cells.
Tricia Cady used to lie in bed awake thinking about babies in her neonatal intensive care ward. NICU babies frequently pull out their breathing tubes and lines, and Cady said she would run over ideas for keeping unplanned extubations at bay. While working on a class assignment several months ago, though, Cady had an idea: a small vest that keeps a baby’s hands free but away from their face and from IV lines and ventilation tubes.
Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine has been an outspoken opponent of President Trump - especially when it comes to the president's military tactics. On Friday, Kaine spoke to a small private group inside the Rotunda’s Dome Room about President Trump's decision to call air strikes on Syria and the current state of the government.
Expect to use around 70% of your home equity. For this analysis, we simply looked at the cost expectations for a family earning $100,000 per year who has $150,000 in home equity but no other savings. Colleges expect you to use 69% of your home equity for a full four-year degree if you’re going to use only the equity in the house. No matter how you’re going to come up with the money, colleges expect you to pay 28% more if you have home equity than if you don’t. This is less of an increase than if you have cash savings but it seems like quite an extra burden given that you’d have to take out a m...
The president's recent decision to destroy chemical weapons plants in Syria has revived efforts from lawmakers, such as Senator Tim Kaine, to roll back what he sees as the post-9/11 “blank check” for firing missiles in the war on terror. From Kaine’s talk Friday at the University of Virginia: For this U.S. Senator, any vote for military action is personal since his eldest son is deployed overseas with the Marines. “If I’m voting on that, I’m thinking about my kid, I’m thinking about his friends, I’m thinking about people he will know that will potentially be in harm’s way.”
An organization at UVA that puts on a free summer camp for children whose parents have been affected by cancer is preparing for its largest fundraiser of the year.
Sibylle Kranz, a UVA professor and child nutrition epidemiologist, says: “There is pretty solid evidence that children who are hungry are not able to focus, so they have a low attention span, behavioral issues, discipline issues in the school. So having children who are well-fed and not hungry makes a difference in their individual performance and also how much they are contributing or disrupting the classroom situation.”
“I do not think the analogy to the Cold War is helpful,” Melvyn P. Leffler, Edward R. Stettinius Jr. professor in UVA’s history department, said. “I think this is more of a typical geopolitical conflict.”