(Co-written by Luca Cian, marketing professor in the Darden School of Business) When do consumers trust the word of a machine, and when do they resist it? Our research suggests that the key factor is whether consumers are focused on the functional and practical aspects of a product (its utilitarian value) or focused on the experiential and sensory aspects of a product (its hedonic value).
(Commentary by Laurie Archbald-Pannone, associate professor of geriatric medicine) Deaths from dementia during the summer of 2020 are nearly 20% higher than the number of dementia-related deaths during that time in previous years, and experts don’t yet know why. An estimated 61,000 people have died from dementia, which is 11,000 more than usual within that period.
UVA School of Medicine researcher Zhen Yan has studied exercise’s role in curbing the effects of COVID-19 and said more effort needs to be made to increase activity during childhood. “If we want to protect our kids from deadly COVID-19, we must increase their physical activity and get them healthier,” Yan said. “Too many kids already have preexisting conditions such as obesity.”
(Commentary by William I. Hitchcock, William Corcoran Professor of History) The 1950s are often portrayed as a placid decade of peace, prosperity and “Happy Days.” You might even think that presidential elections were courtly affairs back then. Think again.
(Subscription required) The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers commemorates the roughly 5,000 slaves who built UVA and toiled on its campus here until their liberation at the end of the Civil War. Such a troubling theme could easily have been turned into political poster art. Instead it has given us something rare these days, a memorial worthy of the name, one that stands boldly on the campus to speak movingly of tragedy, suffering, and the dignity of the human spirit.
In 1960, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy brought presidential politics into the television era when they agreed to a series of joint appearances that were simulcast across the three major broadcast networks: ABC, CBS and NBC. “In 1960 over 20 states were considered real battlegrounds, as opposed to about half that today,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
With just three weeks until the presidential election, Joe Biden continues to hold the lead in many polls. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, joins CBSN to discuss their reporting showing President Trump is not making up ground.
Larry Sabato, professor of political science at the University of Virginia, joins Shepard Smith to talk about state and national politics and its impact on voting across the U.S.
For a closer look at the legal questions raised during Tuesday’s confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Judy Woodruff talks to UVA’s Saikrishna Prakash, a former law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, and Georgetown University’s Victoria Nourse, who was chief counsel to Vice President Joe Biden in 2015 and 2016.
Kristine Hall, a policy coordinator at the UVA Medical Center, received a 2020 Visionary Voice award from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center for her work leading Virginia’s policy efforts to respond to and prevent sexual and intimate partner violence.
The study is a blueprint for capitalizing on this habitat’s capacity to store carbon. “It surprised us how resilient these seagrass meadows were,” says Karen McGlathery, a coastal ecologist at the University of Virginia.
Monticello and the University of Virginia, Virginia. Monticello was the home of Thomas Jefferson, who also designed the early buildings that made up the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
In partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, VPM will present a screening of “Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team.”
UVA students living in residence halls will be tested for COVID-19 at least every nine days and those living off-Grounds will be given kits to test themselves, University officials announced on Tuesday.
In a new study published on the preprint server medRxiv*, researchers investigated if testing pooled wastewater samples frequently could be an efficient method of monitoring COVID-19 infections in a building. The researchers collected wastewater samples from a hospital building and dormitories at the University of Virginia, and wastewater from a water treatment plant in Charlottesville, and from a private residence.
The University of Virginia announced Tuesday it is increasing the number of people allowed at gatherings.
The book, “Making Young Voters,” co-written by John Holbein, assistant professor of public policy and education, offers a surprising insight about what kind of education actually influences youth voting behavior – and it’s not necessarily civics class.
Radio interview with Dennis Proffit, psychology professor emeritus, on his op-ed about the psychology of people ignoring COVID regulations.
Fourth-year Savannah Page founded The College Scoop to ease the transition between high school and college for incoming first-generation, low-income UVA students.
Republicans have dominated Georgia presidential elections for a generation, but Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 bid for the White House has made this Southern GOP stronghold competitive for the first time in nearly 30 years. “In Georgia, and in the Deep South in general, the heart and soul of the Democratic Party coalition is Black voters,” said J. Miles Coleman, an election analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.