(By Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies) Are we hurtling toward a point of peak advertising? Our attention is becoming so completely harvested that there may be little more of ourselves to give. The implications for newspapers, television networks and Internet companies could be dire.
The contribution of senescent cells to atherosclerosis has remained murky, but the new study provides “the best evidence that they are important,” says cardiovascular pathologist Gary Owens of the UVA School of Medicine, who wasn’t connected to the research.
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, says lawn signs really don't matter in the grand scheme of the campaign.
(By John M. Owen, professor of politics and faculty fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) At a Berlin conference of diplomats, academics, journalists and activists last March, a British colleague asked me how the same country that elected Barack Obama twice could be so close to replacing him with a man who is his diametrical opposite.
"All of these states are ones where Democrats have outperformed the top of the ticket in recent key Senate and/or gubernatorial races," said Kyle Kondik, who follows gubernatorial elections for The Crystal Ball, a UVA political newsletter.
The latest Crystal Ball Electoral College map from Larry Sabato reflects Republican Donald Trump’s sagging poll numbers and predicts a loss for Trump that will be worse than the drubbing Mitt Romney suffered in 2012 (and possibly as bad as the slaughter John McCain suffered in 2008).
The three counties around Cincinnati typically provide 2-to-1 margins and strong turnouts for the Republican nominees, and were credited with delivering the votes George W. Bush needed to clinch his 2004 re-election. In his book “The Bellwether,” Ohio native Kyle Kondik, of UVA’s Center for Politics, describes Butler, Warren and Clermont as a Republican “super-county.”
As the hills of Charlottesville flash their autumn colors, another rite of the season will be taking place: the 29th Virginia Film Festival, with more than 120 movies, from regional premieres to likely Oscar candidates, and a handful of stars. It is a four-day happening next week, Thursday through Sunday, at sites around the city, including UVA.
The idea of a driverless fleet of electric cars powering an autonomous ride-hailing service is a popular one right now – especially since Tesla announced that all its new vehicles are now equipped with the necessary hardware to achieve full autonomy through software updates. I think it could be a good opportunity to revisit a study from earlier this year that tried to estimates the cost of what we know now as a “Tesla Network ride” in a Model 3. The study, published in April by T. Donna Chen of the University of Virginia, Kara Kockelman and Josiah P. ...
The Albemarle County, Charlottesville and UVA police departments are working with the Shelter for Help in Emergency to help identify victims of domestic violence.
The State Council of Higher Education’s declaration that private gifts ought not affect public support is right on the money. The statement follows last summer’s revelations that UVA had amassed a Strategic Investment Fund worth more than $2 billion.
As many as 10 million Americans have a disorder that affects their everyday lives, uncontrollable shaking called essential tremor. Doctors are finding new ways to use focused ultrasound on the brain to treat it. UVA researchers just finished up a clinical trial and one young man’s life is changed forever because of it.
UVA research psychologists Jessica Witt and Dennis Proffitt set up a table beside a softball game. For a free sports drink, ballplayers – 47 in all – were asked to partake in a brief psychology experiment.
A recession – or even a decline in economic momentum – could rapidly expose the new president to criticism and change the ability of the new administration to accomplish its goals. “When the economy goes south in the first term, it’s a treacherous situation for a president hoping for re-election,” said Nicole Hemmer, a UVA presidential historian.
A small study out of the University of Virginia found that seasonal depression may be linked to a genetic mutation in the eye that makes SAD patients less sensitive to light.
A growing body of research suggests that “ban the box” – a popular progressive policy meant to help people with criminal records get jobs – should be nixed. In a working paper, Benjamin Hansen, an economics professor at University of Oregon, and Jennifer Doleac, a public policy and economics professor at University of Virginia, wrote, “These findings support the hypothesis that when an applicant’s criminal history is unavailable, employers statistically discriminate against demographic groups that include more ex-offenders.”
Leaders from Oman visited UVA on Wednesday to host a forum on health. The Minister of Health of Oman, Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Saidi, has seen his country's lifespan double over the past 40 years. Today, it is almost comparable to countries in the Western world.
More than 3,600 people live in Staunton, Waynesboro or Augusta County and commute to Charlottesville or Albemarle County for work. A survey found 96 percent support for bus service between Harrisonburg and Charlottesville, with the University of Virginia, UVA Medical Center, downtown Charlottesville and James Madison University as top destinations.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has selected UVA business professor William J. Kehoe to receive the prestigious Chamber Paul Goodloe McIntire Citizenship Award.
The drone industry likely will absorb some coal workers as part of a new grant package announced Wednesday by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. A $1.42 million portion of the grant will help three schools, including the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, in cyber security education.