You might think that by the looks of a crash test dummy it would represent a wide range of drivers, but despite their blank faces and androgynous features, most dummies used in auto crash tests represent a very specific type of driver -- an average adult male, which UVA researchers say pose a safety risk to women.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an artificial pancreas system that was based on research done at UVA. The new artificial pancreas system is more effective at controlling blood sugar for those with Type 1 diabetes than are existing treatments and could mean an end to finger-pricking for Type 1 patients who use the device.
The architecture profession may have always been "aware" of its impending impact on the environment. However, in the wake of sustainability initiatives, alternative building systems, and even changes in academic curriculum, what is the profession missing? Apparently, it's behavioral science, cross-disciplinary work and asking the question "Why?" A project formed by the journal (Nature Sustainability) and the University of Virginia's Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative had an international group of architects, designers and engineers work with behavioral scien...
According to a presentation given to UVA’s Board of Visitors, the school anticipates $7 million less from the state and at least a $31.9 million increase in costs, about half of which is related to staff and faculty pay increases.
Dr. Fern Hauck was nervous when she moved to Charlottesville more than 20 years ago to take a position at the UVA Medical Center. She worried that the area wouldn’t be as diverse as she was used to – but then she found out about the International Rescue Committee’s local refugee resettlement program.
Dr. Fern Hauck was nervous when she moved to Charlottesville more than 20 years ago to take a position at the UVA Medical Center. She worried that the area wouldn’t be as diverse as she was used to – but then she found out about the International Rescue Committee’s local refugee resettlement program.
UVA professor Benjamin Converse, a social psychologist who has studied goal-making, says people fail to consider obstacles life can throw their way when making new year’s resolutions, but his research also offers a bit of hope.
BRONCO MENDENHALL: Congratulations, first, to Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators on a hard-fought and competitive football game. I'm really proud of my team, the culture that we've established, the competitive spirit, the intensity and the camaraderie that's displayed from beginning to end. We're on a mission to just simply establish that you can have world-class academics and be at the top tier of college football, as well. That's what's happening at the University of Virginia. We were a few plays short today in our execution to win the game, but it was not because of a lack of belief or confi...
Can you keep the magic in Christmas without Santa? This UVA astrophysicist has a few ideas.
The signs on Capitol Hill are increasingly clear that Justice Roberts will join his direct predecessor, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, in presiding over the impeachment trial of a president when he returns from winter recess in the new year. “I think he’ll navigate that, and like Rehnquist, he’s not going to want to make a splash,” said A.E. Dick Howard, a constitutional law professor at the UVA School of Law.
During the House debate on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Rep. Barry Loudermilk closed his remarks with a statement that drew its own headlines. … The passages from the biblical books of Matthew (chapter 27), Mark (chapter 15) and Luke (chapter 23) "pretty much agree on the story," said Douglas Laycock, a professor of law and religious studies at the University of Virginia.
Calls to boycott the New York Times because of the column miss the mark, writes Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA media studies professor and the author of “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.” “A fake boycott of the Times would be meaningless at best, counterproductive at worst,” Vaidhyanathan argues. The only potentially effective response, he says, is to “push at what the leaders of the Times care about as much as their revenue: their reputation for seriousness and responsibility. Shaming the Times works bett...
Economic growth under Trump peaked at 2.9% in 2018. It has slowed since then and will probably end 2019 around 2%, with even slower growth likely next year. That should be good enough to keep the unemployment rate low, but not necessarily enough for Trump to win. Research by Alan Abramowitz of UVA’s Center for Politics shows that an incumbent with a minus-10 net approval rating needs economic growth of between 2% and 3% to win reelection. Trump probably won’t get that in 2020.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies) Just three days before the dawn of the third decade of the 21st century, one of the world’s top newspapers published a column by one if its full-time opinion contributors arguing that one ethnic group is inherently more intelligent than others. In this case, the superior ethnic group in question was, unsurprisingly, that to which the writer belongs.
Technology developed at the University of Virginia is part of a newly-approved artificial pancreas system. UVA Health announced Thursday, January 2, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved the system Control-IQ.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an artificial pancreas system from the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology according to a press release.
What is Virginia football? Well, the Cavaliers, first-time ACC Coastal Division champs, aren’t quite ready to win on a national stage against a top-10 foe. They lack depth on defense and balance on offense. But with a generational quarterback in Bryce Perkins these last two seasons, Virginia conjured memories of the 1990s, when this program was nationally relevant and was a magnet for dynamic skill players.
University of Virginia graduate student Neal Curtis and Sam Lemley walked into the school’s Alderman Library and promised they wouldn’t leave that night until they had found a way to save the old card catalogue. So began a plan that would bring together a community of book lovers, 22,000 pounds’ worth of cards and one rubber ducky.
To cite just a couple of examples, Colgate Darden, a governor from the 1940s, has the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia named after him – appropriate since after he left the governorship he served 12 years as president of the University.
Many museums around the country are taking steps to acknowledge the role of slavery. Among them is an exhibition at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk that explores Thomas Jefferson's evolution as an architect and slave owner. Museum director Erik Neil discusses Jefferson's legacy and slaves.