“We don’t have enough home-based medical care,” said Aaron Yao, an assistant professor at UVA’s School of Medicine. Yao and fellow researchers combed through two years’ worth of data from traditional Medicare, combined it with the Census Tract, and concluded that more than half of Americans live more than 30 miles away from full-time providers of home-based medical care.
Harmer and her collaborator Benjamin Blackman at UC Berkeley and the University of Virginia needed an example to work on, and they found it in the sunflower. Growing sunflowers begin the day with their heads facing east, swing west through the day, and turn back to the east at night.
UVA Professor Jen Doleac and her research partner Ben Hansen found that most employers don’t want to hire ex-offenders for a variety of reasons, often expecting someone just out of prison to be less job-ready than another applicant.
The Virginia Velocity Tour will wrap up a weeklong bus tour of Virginia at The Haven in Charlottesville on Sept. 23, in conjunction with Tomtoberfest, the Tom Tom Founders Festival’s fall block party. UVA alumnus and Village Capital CEO Ross Baird said funding startups is the way to large-scale economic changes. “If you are trying to create economic growth through big institutions it can be incremental, but if you want to make institutional changes, startups are the way to go,” he said.
Starting Aug. 22, 150 ninth-graders will start classes at Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in Deanwood, led by 36-year-old principal and UVA alumnus Benjamin Williams.
While negative campaigning is nothing new, the unpopularity of both Clinton and Trump has the equal potential to mobilize voters or turn them off so much that they stay home, according to Kyle Kondik, who analyzes elections at UVA’s Center of Politics.
(Video) UVA physics professor Lou Bloomfield explains some of the fundamental forces at work in Olympic freestyle swimming, and how swimmers can use science to get ahead.
(Commentary by Jacob Young, a first-year Echols scholar and the son of Michele Young, Democratic candidate for Ohio's 1st Congressional District) In early February, my mother Michele Young found herself on the fence of running for office. She knew it would be a colossal undertaking, and as someone devoted to the family, she was truly torn. I told her, resolutely, to run.
Neelum Patel, a 20-year-old UVA student, supported Bernie Sanders but now plans to vote for Clinton. She doesn’t like Trump’s treatment of minority groups. “The minority vote counts, because we’re expanding,” she said, noting that most people’s families came to the United States from elsewhere. “To say immigrants aren’t worthy of being here, it’s very hypocritical,” she said.
UVA goalie Rachel Vander Kolk is among 36 players named by U.S. Lacrosse to the 2017 U.S. Women's National Team following a three-day tryout at the organization's national team training center in Sparks. The 36 players selected will train in the lead-up to the 2017 Federation of International Lacrosse Women's World Cup in Guildford, England. Ultimately, 18 players will represent the U.S. as the team goes for a third consecutive and eighth overall world title.
UVA’s Leah Smith – who as a kid didn’t like to put her face in the water – swam the 400 in 4:01.92 and won a bronze medal, just behind Jazz Carlin from Great Britain who claimed silver. “This is my first Olympics, so I still haven’t registered that I’m even here, let alone that I won a medal,” said Smith.
The Honor Foundation’s East Coast institute, which prepares special operators for the business world before or shortly after they leave military service. The carefully selected fellows were coached for 15 weeks by business professionals and taught by faculty from some of the nation’s most distinguished business schools, including the University of Virginia.
Several members of the Virginia congressional delegation are calling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to take swift action against mandatory arbitration clauses. Those are provisions tucked away into consumer financial contracts that allow corporations to avoid lawsuits. During a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the proposed rule, Jason Johnson at the University of Virginia said the rule was designed to benefit class-action lawyers.
“Institutional investors may act differently to mutual-fund investors,” says Richard Evans, professor of investments at UVA’s Darden School of Business. “Retail investors tend to follow the trend; they rush in when things are hot and out when they are cold,” he says, whereas institutional investors are more likely to hold on to their investments through market ups and downs.
There’s very little political upside for either Trump or Clinton to force the issue, says Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics. “This issue – full legalization – splits the generations,” Sabato says. Older people boast higher voting rates and are leery of legalization. Younger voters form the hard core of campaign volunteers and are in favor. “So,” says Sabato, “most candidates like to sidestep the issue by focusing on medical marijuana.”
Researchers have discovered another surprising benefit of marriage – happy couples drink less alcohol than their single peers. As well as drinking less frequently, marriage causes couples to cut down on binge drinking – with the exception of some married men, who are bigger binge drinkers than males cohabiting with a partner.
At one point, Xandra – a bot designed by a team from UVA and a company called GrammaTech – exploited a bug that Darpa didn’t even know was there.
Viewers who watch videos in slow motion – as opposed to regular speed – are more likely to feel that the people filmed act with a willful, deliberate, and premeditated intention, report researchers including UVA’s Ben Converse.
While UVA was celebrating victories on the baseball field, a small team of students was cleaning up in another contest – beating more than 150 other schools with a campaign to sell Snapple.
Ryan Hargraves, senior associate dean for admission, is among experts who weighed in about one thing students should know about the transition from high school to college.