The Garden Club of Virginia funded and restored UVA’S Pavilion Gardens and their signature serpentine walls, an act that must make Thomas Jefferson, a renowned nature guy, very pleased. You can check out the rest of the campus’s Colonial Revival landscaping from the Rotunda looking out on the Lawn, and also learn about the role of African-Americans in the school’s gardens.
For professors who don’t like being told what to do, Dan Heath’s recommendations might not sit well. In response, he pointed listeners to someone who’s learned how to make the conversation perhaps more approachable: Michael Palmer, a UVA associate professor of chemistry who works to help faculty design deeply memorable moments in class through an activity called “the dream exercise.”
With access to naloxone reducing the risk of overdose death, more dangerous drug use – including higher doses – may become more appealing, researchers speculated. Such increased abuse may even lead to higher death rates, according to Jennifer Doleac, one of the study’s authors and a UVA assistant professor of public policy and economics.
No car? No problem. In the next few years, UVA and the UVA Foundation have a goal of making it easier for students, staff and tenants to walk and bike through Grounds and the North Research Park.
The most important question he may not be prepared to answer is far more philosophical. It has little to do with engineering fixes or the technicalities of Facebook's privacy policies in 2014. It's this: How can Facebook ward off tomorrow's crisis if its guiding principle is and always has been connection at all cost, maximizing the flow of data between people and their friends – as well as advertisers and apps? And if it radically alters that ethos – the one that allowed it to grow to 2.2 billion users and counting – can it sustain itself? "This could be a missed opportunity if it’s focused o...
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics) With Mississippi now hosting two Senate races this year, 2018’s Senate and gubernatorial races have achieved something of a mirror-image symmetry. On the Senate front, Democrats are defending 26 seats (including two independents who caucus with Democrats from Maine and Vermont) while the Republicans, even with the addition of a special election in Mississippi, are still only defending nine.
Sexual assault survivors told their stories Wednesday as UVA hosted its annual Take Back the Night event at the Sprint Pavilion on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall.
They plus you equals us, and a new community diversity festival planned in conjunction with the Tom Tom Founders Festival hopes to make that point through art, performance and guest speakers. The “We Are Here Diversity Festival” is scheduled for April 14 at the IX Art Park and is sponsored by UVA and the city of Charlottesville.
A new UVA study suggests female athletes are more likely to suffer concussions than men, and recovery could take longer.
UVA alumna Katie Couric returned to Grounds Wednesday to tackle Confederate monuments and racism in America. Couric offered advanced screenings of the first episode of her new documentary series with National Geographic, “America Inside Out.”
Linda Rogge is on her own kind of treasure hunt. She’s a first-year graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is looking for historical traces in an old book of poetry. Rogge is part of the Book Traces project, started a few years ago by Andrew Stauffer, a UVA associate professor of English. He’s leading the search on this day at UNL for old books with personal inscriptions, insertions and writings, marks of ownership and use. He’s been doing this for awhile and knows what to look for.
Standards for how to investigate and report on overdoses vary widely across states and counties. As a result, opioid overdose deaths aren’t always captured in the data reported to the federal government. The country undercounts opioid-related overdoses by 20 to 35 percent, according to a study published in February in the journal Addiction. “We have a real crisis, and one of the things we need to invest in, if we’re going to make progress, is getting better information,” said Christopher Ruhm, the author of the paper and a UVA health economist.
“Men commit the overwhelming majority of mass shootings for basically the same reasons they commit most violent crimes,” Dewey G. Cornell, a licensed forensic clinical psychologist and director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project at UVA, wrote in an email to CNN on Tuesday night.
Humans and machines will not battle for the title of smartest guy in the room. It is a no-contest game as AI continues to evolve and our data sources get more robust. So where does that leave us humans in the face of AI? Edward D. Hess, professor of business administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at UVA’s Darden School of Business, raises an interesting point in his book “Humility Is the New Smar”t: "In the AI age, 'being smart' will mean something completely different."
(By UVA professor Anne Garland Mahler) Shepard Fairey, the graphic artist known for the iconic 2008 Obama “Hope” poster, as well as the Trayvon Martin and Women’s March posters, wants to donate a mural near the site where Heather Heyer was murdered by a white supremacist car attack on Aug. 12. The proposed mural, which depicts a leaf with seven blades with Heyer’s face in the middle, was conditionally approved by the city’s Board of Architectural Review but is now tabled due to community criticism.
An app called Cyracom is now available to all medical staff and can translate up to 200 different languages.
While the state’s overall growth, 5.9 percent, is the lowest since the 1920s, according to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, population increases continue in the regions where Republicans often are distinguished by their unpopularity: the Northern Virginia-to-Richmond-to-Hampton Roads crescent.
UVA researchers say babies who die during their sleep while being watched by someone other than their parents were often placed in unsafe sleep positions.
UVA is studying how passengers react to self-driving cars. Perrone Robotics, based a few miles away in Crozet, has developed a proprietary software platform for running autonomous vehicles. The Commonwealth Transportation Board has moved to allow testing on express lanes on Northern Virginia.