Insomnia and related excessive daytime sleepiness is a troubling trend in the United States. Now, a new study finds that web-based cognitive behavior therapy is effective and can help adults sleep better. Lee M. Ritterband of the UVA School of Medicine led the clinical trial. His team evaluated the efficacy of the intervention from nine weeks to one year and included 303 adults.
November was Transgender Awareness Month, but a UVA student group is not letting the month go without one final celebration and hoping to help move the student-LGBTQ community forward.
A UVA graduate student felt that stress might be defined differently for African-American grad students, so he decided to put his theory to the test. DeVante Cunningham pulled from his own experiences to fuel his research on coping with stress for people of color.
Tens of thousands of University of Virginia students and community members gathered Thursday on the Lawn for a night of performances and festivities.
(By Aniko Bodroghkozy, UVA professor of media studies) Pablo Larraín’s film “Jackie,” starring Natalie Portman as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, suggests that some of the oxygen for the “who killed JFK” narrative has finally started to thin out.
While older studies did show a relationship between increase in size of a fund and diminishing performance, a November study by Richard Evans and Marc Lipson of UVA and Javier Gil-Bazo of Universitat Pompeu Fabra looked also at the way in which the scope of a manager’s responsibilities affects performance. The upshot is that there look to be diseconomies of scope, just as there can be diseconomies of scale in investment management.
As Yale Law Professor Heather Gerken and UVA Law Professor Richard Schragger have both argued in the context of gay rights, local protections of rights do not reject a role of the federal government. Instead, they enforce the federal Constitution – rightly aiming at eventual vindication at the federal level.
UVA faculty members are digging deep into all the mayhem that was the 2016 presidential election. In an effort to make sense of the race and results, political scholar Paul Freedman broke it all down Wednesday.
On end-of-the-year surveys, my English students generally ranked vocabulary assessments as the bane of their existence. UVA Professor Carol Ann Tomlinson uses an apt analogy. “It never made sense to me to ask students to memorize lists of words,” she writes in the foreword to Sandra Whitaker’s book “Word Play.” “That would be like asking them to memorize the phone book instead of learning about the people in town.”
"It fits into Trump's message that he's trying to do business in an unusual way, by bringing in these outsiders," said Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor in presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. But Trump and his team, she added, won't be able to draw on the same sort of life struggles that President Barack Obama did, in crafting policy to lift poor and middle-class Americans.
The vote in November continued the process, which began in August 2015, of electing new deputies and senators to Haiti’s congress. Mr. Moïse should appoint members of the opposition to his government, says Robert Fatton, a political scientist at UVA.
(By George E.L. Barbee, an original Batten Fellow at UVA’s Darden School of Business) When it comes to making lasting change in the world through business innovation, the simplest concepts are often the best.
Rubbing his hands together for warmth in the chilly autumn air, Wes Iseli on Tuesday morning was just getting started on his annual 24-hour marathon of magic outside the Ruckersville Walmart. For the past decade, the Ruckersville native has endured the frigid temperatures and lack of sleep to perform magic and illusions to help the Children’s Miracle Network. This year was Iseli’s final magic marathon, but it will not be his last time raising money for children in need.
If you battle insomnia, an online program from UVA could lend a hand. Researchers there created what's called the "sleep healthy using the internet program", or SHUTI.
People find help for all sorts of maladies online. Now, insomnia might be one of them. A web-based interactive program, developed at UVA, may help chronically sleepless individuals get needed shuteye without taking medication or spending time on a therapist's couch, a new study suggests.
“Band the Box” policies may actually increase discriminatory hiring. A joint research conducted by the University of Virginia and the University of Oregon suggested that the policies decreased the chances of employment by 5.1 percent for young, low-skilled black men, and 2.9 percent for young, low-skilled Hispanic men.
The 17-year-old daughter of David Corn, a liberal writer and Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones, challenged senior Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway at an event Wednesday by asking her about past comments the president-elect made on sexual assault. Conway, who was Trump’s campaign manager during the latter part of his election run, spoke to a group of high school students enrolled in an Advanced Placement government class at an event sponsored by UVA’s Center for Politics, the Hill reported.
Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday told a 17-year old high school student she is "mean" and using "sexual assault to try to make news." Conway, now a senior adviser to the Trump transition team, was the first woman campaign manager to deliver the White House to a presidential candidate. Speaking with a group of students at an event in Washington hosted by UVA’s Center for Politics, Conway was asked how she was able to support Donald Trump, a man who apparently admitted to acts of sexual assault against women, and who has been accused of sexual assault by about a ...
A University of Virginia tradition is set to light up the Lawn Thursday night. Put on by the fourth-year class, Lighting of the Lawn is when the holiday lights on the Rotunda are lit for the UVA and Charlottesville community.
In response to a high-school student who asked how she, as a woman, could justify supporting President-elect Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway said she and many other women are tired of others expecting them to think a certain way. Conway, the first woman to manage a successful presidential campaign, spoke at an event sponsored by UVA’s Center for Politics before taking questions afterward.