UVA is conducting one of the first long-term experimental studies of how classroom-management techniques affect teachers’ stress and effectiveness in instruction.
“This study does fit with prior research showing cow’s milk is associated with taller stature over time,” says Mark DeBoer, a UVA pediatric endocrinologist who was not involved with the research. He also highlights potential limitations of the findings.
UVA is the first university to calculate how much nitrogen its emitting. Now, it’s taking steps to reduce those emission.
UVA senior Jordan Young has just one meet left with the Virginia Cavaliers, the NCAA track and field championships. Young says it's the competition that has kept him dedicated to throwing for the past decade. Young is an eight-time All-American and qualified for two events at the NCAA championships.
Although DDIG grants – first awarded to PhD students 50 years ago – will continue to be awarded through NSF’s programs in archaeology, anthropology and a few other fields, the lack of awards for future environmental scientists will have a substantial impact, according to critics of the NSF’s decision. “The damage on science will be substantial – in a field like organismal biology that has a culture of training very independent student researchers (unlike more molecular fields, wherein students operate in more of an apprentice model), this leaves an enormous gap at the early career stages,” wri...
A new study led by Northern Illinois University geography professor Wei Luo calculates the amount of water needed to carve the ancient network of valleys on Mars and concludes the Red Planet's surface was once much more watery than previously thought. NASA's Mars Data Analysis Program provided funding to conduct the investigation. Professor Alan Howard of the University of Virginia and NIU Ph.D. student Xuezhi Cang collaborated on the research and co-authored the Nature Communications article.
In an editorial, Dr. Rachel Moon and Dr. Fern Hauck from the Department of Pediatrics and Family Medicine at the UVA School of Medicine stand by the new AAP sleep arrangement recommendations for safety reasons. It also helps a mom who is nursing on demand throughout the night; she can better monitor her baby and notice if his or her breathing changes.
Furman University has established a task force that will explore the Greenville school's historical connections to slavery, the university announced this week. As part of this effort, Furman has joined the Universities Studying Slavery Consortium headquartered at the University of Virginia. The consortium consists of 26 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced on Monday that $450,000 of a $2.7 million research fund will be put toward initiatives involving cybersecurity, information technology and drone research. $100,000 was awarded to the University of Virginia for a "high-bandwidth line-speed network processing framework."
UVA’s Curry School of Education is helping clinicians across the country find innovative ways to treat people with sports injuries.
Sometime in the early 1720s, a Native American man went to Charleston and gave Francis Nicholson, then colonial governor of South Carolina, a map inked on deerskin. “This was a map that was meant to illustrate a trade relationship,” Max Edelson, a historian at University of Virginia, told “BackStory” radio.
With growing national concern about this country’s enormous prison population, there’s new attention on a program that puts University of Virginia students behind bars to study Russian literature with those who are serving time.
"The president stirs up a lot of emotions in people," said Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law at UVA and senior fellow at the Miller Center. "You're going to find a lot of people will go into Comey's testimony who hate Trump, and are inclined to think he’s already committed an impeachable offense, while others who love Trump will try to find falsities left and right in what he says."
Margaret Doyle, a junior at the University of Virginia, has been studying climate change and its effect on animals, specifically mosquitoes that carry deadly diseases. “A hotter earth will lead to a lot more hungry mosquitoes with the potential to spread fatal disease,” Doyle says. “Unfortunately, with the president’s recent cuts to science and medical research, I’m worried that the necessary disease-vector research will be placed on the back burner and not given the urgent attention it deserves.”
Fox Animation has acquired the Michelle Cuevas middle grade book “The Care and Feeding Of A Pet Black Hole,” which is due to be published in September. Cuevas wrote “Confessions of An Imaginary Friend,” which came out in 2015 and Fox Animation is also developing. She earned her M.F.A. in creative writing at UVA in 2009.
UVA’s Curry School of Education is helping clinicians across the country find innovative ways to treat people with sports injuries through the 2017 Art and Science of Sports Medicine Conference.
Many parents have wrangled with the difficulty of following guidelines, such as the updated recommendations against bed-sharing, which nonetheless acknowledge that mothers often fall asleep in bed with their infant, and confusion about the safety of swaddling infants for sleep. The updated recommendations on room-sharing were actually intended to offer parents some leeway after six months, says Rachel Moon, lead author of the recommendations and head of pediatrics at UVA’s School of Medicine.
An organization is putting sport team managers front and center by developing a team of what they're calling “managers on a mission." Spencer Godine, a football manager and rising fourth-year student at UVA, was selected as one of 20 from across the country's thousands of NCAA and professional teams to provide educational and living aid to children in Ghana.
When Gene Corrigan could be seen approaching the chapel at Fork Union Military Academy, it truly could be said that Sonny Randle and the University of Virginia were at peace with each other. It was Corrigan, as UVA’s athletic director, who hired Randle as the Cavaliers’ head football coach prior to the 1974 season. It was also Corrigan who fired Randle after the 1975 season. No one could have wanted the position more than Randle, who was buried Wednesday, and no one could have done a more complete job of butchering the opportunity at his alma mater.
Second-seeded Virginia, playing its first true road game in the NCAA Tournament in eight years, lost to regional host and top-seeded TCU, 5-1, on Sunday. Should Virginia beat DBU on Monday afternoon, it’ll get the Frogs at 8 p.m. Eastern Monday. A win then and it’s a winner-take-regional game Tuesday with TCU.