Thomas Byrne Edsall, one of the sharpest analysts of class in America, wrote in The New York Times about research done by UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, which studied whites who had college degrees (whom the researchers called the “Social Elite”) and those who didn’t and also were religious conservatives (the “Disinherited”).
Dominion Virginia Power unveiled the first phase of a 452-kilowatt solar array at UVA on Tuesday morning. When complete, the array on a sunny day will generate enough electricity to power 91 homes.
For decades, the United States has been a world leader in the scientific efforts to treat and cure diseases and conditions that harm millions of people. At UVA, researchers and clinicians have developed hundreds of treatments and therapies over the years, and a significant biomedical research industry has emerged in the surrounding community.
Experts say one of every five people in state prison has a serious mental illness, and the rate is even higher at Virginia’s 62 regional jails, but the General Assembly provides little funding for mental health care behind bars. UVA researchers volunteered to find out how many prisoners needed help.
Political experts argue that the trend poses a long-term risk for Democrats. No only does it make it harder to amass at least 270 electoral votes needed to win presidential contests, it also makes it more difficult to win a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA, said Democratic House districts in densely populated areas tend to be overwhelmingly Democratic, with many extra “wasted” votes.
“People don’t realize when they travel overseas that medical care won’t always be comparable to the United States, whether in Mexico, parts of Europe, Africa or Asia,” said Dr. William Brady, a UVA professor of emergency medicine and medical director at Allianz, an international travel insurance provider.
New technology will allow UVA researchers to visit the depths of the ocean and the farthest reaches of the galaxy without leaving the basement of Rice Hall.
Around 200 UVA students and faculty members came together Friday for a town hall on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Dr. Bruce Greyson, UVA professor emeritus of psychiatry and neurobehavioral science and one of the ‘fathers’ of near-death studies, even urged the United Nations to take these matters more seriously. This is because increasing our knowledge of ‘alternative’ experiences and health practices is incredibly important.
(By Kim Tanzer, UVA professor emerita of architecture) Two recent opinion pieces compared Gainesville to Austin, Texas. Whereas forces in Austin have worked for decades to “keep Austin weird,” in Gainesville it sometimes seems our mainstream business community aims to “make Gainesville generic.” I am writing on behalf of an ad hoc group of Gainesville community members, to invite you to help us thank Gainesville’s local business owners – past, current and future.
A Greene County woman recently started a program to help comfort broken hearts brought on by the loss of an infant – and she’s already looking to expand to other parts of Virginia. BB Blankets of Virginia is expanding to the UVA Health System and Harrisonburg’s Sentara RMH Medical Center.
The study’s lead author, Lee M. Ritterband of the UVA School of Medicine, says that the first and hardest step is sleep restriction. “It sounds paradoxical, but we are looking for sleep efficiency,” says Ritterband.
Robert Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education, is sympathetic to the arguments of the child care workers surveyed about QRIS. But he says repealing the system altogether would be a mistake.
David Greenberg at UVA’s Miller Center recounts the legacy of "Silent Cal" Coolidge, who favored "a hands-off leadership style and a restrained view of the executive, delegating tasks to his Cabinet, leaving most issues to the states to resolve." Colleague Jean H. Baker examines the presidency of Franklin Pierce.
UVA media studies professor Aynne Kokas says Americans should consider the possibility that a major Chinese firm owning thousands of American theaters could one day use its massive distribution network to suppress a film that was critical of China.
In case you missed it, there has been a “crisis of replication” in the social sciences recently. Or at least it was discovered recently. In 2015, a large initiative called The Reproducibility Project, led by UVA’s Brian Nosek, repeated 100 published psychological experiments and replicated the results of only a third of them.
Every president, of course, has a different tact for dealing with critics; some better than others, said Barbara Perry, director of Presidential Studies and co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at UVA’s Miller Center.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) After the Bay of Pigs debacle, when U.S.-backed forces tried and spectacularly failed to topple Fidel Castro’s nascent communist regime in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy held a press conference and took blame for the failure. Speaking on April 21, 1961 – just a few months into his presidency – JFK memorably declared, “There’s an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan,” meaning that when something goes right, many will want to take credit for it...
Skanska USA, a division of the Sweden-based construction company, has been chosen for a $142 million renovation and expansion of University Hospital, located on the University of Virginia campus.
If you've ever had problems falling asleep at night, I'm willing to bet you've heard the same advice again and again: Avoid screen time from your computer or phone while you're trying to go to bed. Interestingly, though, new research suggests that actually, the internet can help you with insomnia — as long as you're using it in a specific way. As researchers from the University of Virginia discovered, this same approach works well even through an online module.