Imagine trying to moderate every puppy photo or birthday greeting, said Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship. He believes moderating content is ultimately impossible because you can't create a system that works for everyone from Saudi Arabia to Sweden. "The problem is the very idea of the social media system -- it is ungovernable," he said. "Facebook is designed as if we are nice to each other. And we're not."
With drug overdose the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., and opioid addiction driving the epidemic, medicine is aggressively turning to new approaches to treating pain. Emerging trends focus on improving physical and emotional health and counseling patients to realize their own role in relieving their pain, says Bhiken Naik, a UVA anesthesiology and neurosurgery professor.
(By Nancy Deutsch and Joanna Lee Williams, professors at UVA’s Curry School of Education) Study after study shows that feeling secure, embraced by family, and validated by peers are among the most important developmental needs for young people as they explore new ideas and seek positive ways to contribute to society.
Despite such reassurances, 56 percent of Americans believe that automation destroys more jobs than it creates, according to a new study by Ipsos Public Affairs and UVA’s Center for Business Analytics.
Children and their families will be able to trick-or-treat on UVA’s Lawn on Halloween. Residents of the rooms and pavilions on the Lawn will greet children and hand out treats from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 31.
Hillary Clinton will be the keynote speaker at UVA’s Women’s Global Leadership Forum in November. The forum will explore issues facing women during UVA’s history and highlight challenges for the next century.
A symposium at the University of Virginia this week will try to make history relatable and personal through a series of speeches, discussions and events about race and higher education.
(By Brian Balogh, history professor and co-host of the nationally syndicated podcast “BackStory”) Last week President Trump signed several executive orders, including one that expands access to “Association Health Plans.” We really can’t blame the president for not knowing the scope of associations, though.
“The two biggest factors are the flexibility of your hamstrings and and the range of motion of your hip joints,” says Jeffrey Jenkins, a physiologist at the UVA School of Medicine. “But the other big factor is the relative length of your arms and your torso to your legs.”
The UVA Breast Care Program now has some extra cash to put toward supporting breast cancer research. A Charlottesville family donated $270,000 to the program following its annual Women’s 4-Miler.
(By Mark Edmundson, professor of English) Milo’s coming: What are we going to do? That question was being urgently asked at the University of California at Berkeley not long ago. Milo Yiannopoulos, right-wing jester and provocateur, was scheduled to speak on the campus. I’m not against Yiannopoulos and company having the right to speak, far from it. But should universities be sponsoring them?
Despite having the blessing of Gov. Terry McAuliffe and an unpopular president weighing on his GOP challenger, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam's 2017 gubernatorial campaign is being warned about a November "surprise" that could deliver a stunning defeat and potential blow to McAuliffe's 2020 bid. The hometown political guru, the UVA Center for Politics ‘Crystal Ball,' said that GOP challenger Ed Gillespie could be that surprise. Noting questionable polling, Northam's lackluster support and past gubernatorial campaigns showing a late conservative surge, the Center's Geoffrey Skelley wrote in the Crystal...
"One concern that is kind of hard to be able to analyze is: Where is African-American turnout for Democrats? Barack Obama becomes a very nice surrogate ... where [attracting] those extra few votes really could count," says Geoffrey Skelley, an elections analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. Northern Virginia, Skelley adds, "is perhaps the most critical part to the entire ballgame for Democrats. If turnout [there] lags in some way, that could be game-over for Democrats.”
(By Ira Bashkow, UVA associate professor of anthropology) The recent violence in Charlottesville likely won’t be the last attempt by white supremacists to stoke racial conflict. An anthropologist offers insights to other communities that might face similar challenges.
(By Cale Jaffe, assistant professor and director of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic at the UVA School of Law) Last week the Trump administration took action to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which had been the Obama administration’s signature program for reducing carbon pollution linked to climate change-related impacts such as more destructive hurricanes and longer wildfire seasons. For Virginians eager to build a diverse and resilient energy industry here at home, Trump’s action is a blind leap in the wrong direction.
SPICMACAY is a student-run organization that focuses on bringing Indian culture and music to UVA’s Grounds. On Sunday night, they filled an auditorium to listen to poetry and classical music performed by an acclaimed Indian singer as well as famous musicians.
The UVA Medical Center is expanding its vascular center and moving into a new facility Monday. It will host patients in a new location and receive more advanced equipment.
The outpatient trial was led by Frank Doyle and Eyal Dassau from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and included collaborators at the William Sansum Diabetes Center in Santa Barbara, California; Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; the University of Virginia's Center for Diabetes Technology; and the University of Padova.
Projects funded through Science Everywhere participated in a research study conducted by University of Virginia professor Robert Tai, who is analyzing the results to better understand the impact this type of outside-class learning experience has on student engagement and success.
According to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, nearly one in five Virginians will be age 65 or older by 2030. The trend is no different in Henrico County.