UVA’s annual day of giving raised more than $3 million this year. The 24-hour, online “Giving To Hoos Day” campaign has been putting more and more money toward various UVA schools and programs since its launch in 2016.
UVA alumnus Doug Doughty is being inducted as the media honoree in this year’s hall of fame class. To thousands of people who read Doughty’s work every day in the paper or online, his is among The Roanoke Times’ best-known bylines. Most of his career has been spent covering UVA sports, which he has done full-time since 1978.
The Republicans are viewing the November elections with trepidation with many analysts predicting the House could fall to the Democrats. A number of Republicans have already announced they are not seeking re-election. “If you are fighting the toughest war in years and your general retires, that is not a good sign,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA professor of politics.
In other words, “there’s evidence that people do try to treat tasks in accordance with what they believe to be their learning style, but it doesn’t help them,” UVA psychologist Daniel Willingham said. In 2015, he reviewed the literature on learning styles and concluded that “learning styles theories have not panned out.”
Paul Stephan, an expert on international business law at the University of Virginia, said that asking top political figures to intercede in international judicial proceedings is not unusual — especially in countries where the judicial process might leave something to be desired — and that international agreements such as the Bilateral Investment Treaty could apply in such cases.
Walt Heinecke, a professor at the University of Virginia, thinks Charlottesville can do more to fight discrimination. “We are at a crossroads right now,” says Heinecke. On Monday, April 9, Heinecke presented at the monthly NAACP meeting. He's renewing his call to rehire a civil rights attorney to the commission. He also thinks the office should have a federal employment practice agency, and that it should report directly to the mayor and council.
Among the student responses, while supportive of complex, robust debate, University of Virginia Student Council President Sarah Kenny believes hate speech is a “serious assault to [one’s] dignity” and “both impedes the truth-seeking charge of institutions of higher education and compromises the integrity of our democracy.”
UVA’s team InMedBio took home not only first place and $15,000 Friday night but also snagged the People’s Choice award and an extra $5,000. The student startup has designed a five-layer dressing for wounds at a cost-effective price called Phoenix-Aid.
Kevin McFadden at the University of Virginia is receiving a grant for his Classroom Connections project, which will produce 52 radio episodes and an educational outreach campaign. The grant for this project is $460,000.
Though they face a more violent workplace everyday, hospital workers aren’t quick to file charges for a variety of reasons, said Dr. Bruce Cohen, a psychiatrist with the University of Virginia Health System and director of the U.Va. Forensic Psychiatry Residency Training Program, who has studied the subject. Cohen pointed out that hospital workers sometimes feel compelled not to take the issue to the criminal justice system because medical ethics say they’re supposed to do no harm to the patient. But that doesn’t mean a hospital worker gives up the right to press charges simply because he or s...
This past February, just as Bitcoin was shedding more than half its value, Aaron Fernstrom watched a glistening red Mercedes E-class sedan pull into a parking space at the Albemarle rental complex where he was living temporarily. The vanity license plate hinted at the source of funds: “BITCOIN.” “I just shook my head and thought to myself, ‘There goes another one’ — another person who made a quick fortune trading tulips,” Fernstrom, a former venture capitalist, said from his office at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. “There are always those few people who, by pure l...
While money may not be able to buy happiness, a new study co-authored by a University of Utah researcher indicates money and happiness are definitely linked. One of the co-authors of the study was Ed Diener, who has joint appointments at the University of Utah and University of Virginia.
In January, Zuckerberg touted the company’s effort to promote “high quality news” in order to prevent “sensationalism, misinformation, and polarization.” But Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Media and Citizenship, believes Facebook’s problem with misleading news posts is essentially unsolvable in a society that protect people’s right to free speech. “There’s no way to regulate content discrimination in the United States of America,” he says. “That just won’t pass First Amendment muster. That’s just never going to happen.”
A recent study by researchers at the University of Virginia found that, in a sampling of 10,000 infant deaths, 1,375 occurred when the parent was not present and the child was put in an unsafe sleep position. The lesson from the research, said Dr. Rachel Moon of the UVA School of Medicine and UVA Children’s Hospital, is that everyone who watches an infant, like friends and family, should be educated about safe sleep practices.
Reports from the University of Virginia law school say a tool meant to divert “low risk” offenders from prison to ensure room for violent repeat offenders hasn’t diverted thousands of people. The findings will be presented Monday to the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The 35th annual University of Virginia law school softball invitational was held this weekend to help raise money for Ready Kids, which provides educational and counseling services for children.
Risa L. Goluboff, dean of Virginia’s law school and chair of the working group that recommended responses to the August violence, says the university continues to take "a hard inward look" at its history and whether additional changes are needed to make the campus more inclusive.
The lab, part of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, is a high-priority $4.8 million project to bring together researchers across the engineering school to collaborate on a variety of technologies and develop systems for the future.
"A lot of suburbs are urbanizing" as millennials move there and demand city-like benefits, says Hamilton Lombard, an analyst at the University of Virginia's Demographics Research Group. The influx of younger residents has made the suburbs themselves more ethnically, racially and economically diverse.
Jonathan Babcock and Keyawna Griffith appeared before a judge for the first time in their legal careers last month. The third-year UVA School of Law students represented an undocumented immigrant at Arlington Immigration Court as part of the school’s Immigration Law Clinic.