Robots, cardboard chairs, and other feats of engineering were on display Tuesday, during the final week of the Summer Scholars STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) Program. For five weeks, 20 Albemarle High School students put on their thinking caps, challenging themselves to build, problem solve, and create. The program, held at the University of Virginia, was put on by Albermarle High School and the Center for Diversity in Engineering.
The University of Virginia Children's Hospital is one of eight hospitals getting a boost thanks to people buying groceries. Customers at Giant and Martin's were able to donate to the stores' annual Children Miracle Network $1 paper balloon campaign. The campaign, which ran from June 21 through July 4, raised more than $560,000.
University of Virginia Health Systems is receiving high honors from U.S. News and World Report in its 2015-2016 “Best Hospitals” guide. The diabetes and endocrinology program is tied for 39th, putting UVA among the top 3 percent of hospitals in the country with a nationally ranked program.
Does your child spend too much time watching TV? If the answer is yes, it’s time to rethink your parenting methods and spend more time with your child. A recent study by the University of Montreal found that two-year-old children who spend more than two hours a day watching TV were more likely to be verbally and physically abused before the age of 11 or 12. Director of the Youth-Nex Center at the University of Virginia (UVA) and a professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education, Patrick Tolan, who called the study impressive, says there are ways for paren...
Professor Ed Murphy, astronomer at the University of Virginia. Facebook. Ed joins Coy to explore everything you need to know about the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.
A study this year in Personal and Individual Differences examined a decade’s worth of data on a diverse group of 164 teenagers to see if “disagreeableness” persisted from adolescence into adulthood. The study revealed that those who are disagreeable as friends and partners during youth are more likely to remain disagreeable into early adulthood. “The key here is that even though all adolescents can be disagreeable at times, there is a subset of them who don’t seem to mature or adapt their behavior to resolve conflict,” says Dr. Christophe...
A local couple is determined to change the system when it comes to gun purchase rights for those who have a documented history of treatment for mental illness and have demonstrated that they are a harm to themselves or others. Richard Bonnie, a professor of both law and psychiatry at the University of Virginia, is a member of the Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy. The group supports the idea of a Gun Violence Restraining Order. “By itself, mental illness is not necessarily associated with violence to other people.”
The Charlottesville Community Health Fair, in conjunction with the 26th Annual African American Cultural Arts Festival, will be held on July 25, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Booker T. Washington Park on Preston Avenue on the lower level. "This is the eighth consecutive year for the Charlottesville Community Health Fair," said Dr. Marcus L. Martin, vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity at the University of Virginia. "The health fair is held in conjunction with the African American Cultural Arts Festival, which has been held for the past 26 years."
So what's the use of these books? National Journal, in an essay earlier this year titled "Soapbox Lit," generously suggested that the act of producing such a book helps a candidate and his advisors to think through issues thoroughly. I personally prefer the explanation of the University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, who infelicitously draws a parallel to China's Great Cultural Revolution: "True believers want a little red book to wave in the air while they chant the name of their chosen leader." (That should answer your question about why e...
A new study finds nearly a third of breast cancer survivors in Appalachia are not taking the critical, potentially life-saving follow-up treatment – despite having insurance that would pay for it. “Almost a third of the prescriptions for adjuvant hormone therapy were not filled, which is much, much higher compared to what we usually see in commercially insured populations,” said Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences. “Usually it ranges from about 10 [percent] to 15 percent, so this is almos...
LeiLei Secor is a 19-year old University of Virginia student. She’s spending her summer working for her local congressman near Albany, New York where she grew up. She’s also the owner of Designed by Lei, an Etsy store that has made more than $100,000 in three years. She’s using that money to pay her way through college.
Before the University of Virginia Health System and Novant Health finalize the formation of a new Northern Virginia Regional Health System that will own UVa Culpeper Hospital, administrators want to hear from the community. UVa Culpeper Hospital CEO Greg Napps said UVa Health System will still have a significant ownership position in the new company while Novant Health will be the managing partner.
Free samples: Here’s why you might want to dodge the folks who dole them out. Shoppers who munched on bits of frozen pizza and ice cream were five times as likely to buy them as people who turned down the snacks, according to a study led by the University of Virginia. Why? “Reciprocity,” says Brian Wansink, Ph.D., director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and author of “Slim by Design” (William Morrow, 2014), who was not involved in the study. “The person who gave you the sample was so nice, you don’t want to let them down. Just remember their salary ...
Patients in hospitals often complain they can't get a decent night's sleep for all of the bright lights seeping under the doors of their rooms, interruptions by the staff, and the noises from machines. Still, adequate sleep is essential for good health, and is especially important in recovering from an illness or surgery.Lisa Letzkus, a doctoral nursing student at the University of Virginia may have found a way to help patients get a better night's sleep — a red-colored light bulb.
The U.S. Green Building Council and the University of Virginia School of Medicine announced that they have been awarded a three year, $1.2 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to advance their Green Health Partnership. This research initiative, led by Chris Pyke, Ph.D., and Dr. Matthew Trowbridge directly addresses longstanding gaps in the availability of practical tools to promote healthy places.
The University of Virginia has chosen its next architect. Alice J. Raucher has been working as a projects planner and chairwoman of a design team for Yale University.
It might seem like a stretch to suppose that a single word can lead to any of these actions. But language can powerfully affect how we view the world — and what sorts of costs we're willing to bear — in ways that are hard to appreciate. One good example of this is a related, everyday word that defines the relationship between car and pedestrian without us quite realizing it: jaywalking. "In the early days of the automobile, it was drivers' job to avoid you, not your job to avoid them," says Peter Norton, a University of Virginia historian, told me f...
The term “vocational education,” which means preparing students for a certain trade, such as auto repair or beauty school, initially began in 1917 to reduce unemployment and improve wages, and in the 1940s and 1950s, vocational education expanded to other subjects beyond agriculture and industrial work such as science, math and foreign language education. Philip Zelikow, co-author of America’s Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age, and White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia, said the best way to provide vocational education wo...
No case has affected the community of Wheaton, Maryland more than the mysterious disappearance of Sheila and Katherine Lyon, two sisters who went to a mall in March 1975 and never returned home, said John McCarthy, the prosecutor representing their hometown. Murder trials in which a body has not been recovered are atypical but happen, University of Virginia Law Professor Darryl Brown said in an interview with The News & Advance last spring. He referenced a website operated by former prosecutor Tad DiBiase, which lists hundreds of known “no body” murder trials in the country, th...
In a recent article on The Art of Manliness, Brett and Kate McKay shared some of the benefits from their marriage, taking note that it took place when they were 22 and 24, respectively, which is considered young by today's standards. He noted that researchers from the National Marriage Project found that "culturally, young adults have increasingly come to see marriage as a 'capstone' rather than a 'cornerstone' — that is, something they do after they have all their ducks in a row, rather than a foundation for launching into adulthood and parenthood...