Look at racial maps of many American cities, and stark boundaries between neighboring black and white communities frequently denote an impassable railroad or highway, or a historically uncrossable avenue. You can see echoes of that pattern in Pittsburgh today on this map drawn using the racial dot map created by Dustin Cable at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
From the outside, Wednesday's meeting made it look like a calculating Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was actually betting against Donald Trump -- cozying up to him in hopes of earning an endorsement if Trump's campaign ultimately collapses. "Politically this is a smart move by Cruz. While no one can know for sure, there is a fair to good chance Trump will drop out or cease active campaigning at some point," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Transfer rates among U.S. college students are at a high, with a recent report showing that more than one third of students choose to transfer universities at least once during their academic careers. Farrell McGurl, a University of South Carolina (USC) transfer who enrolled at the University of Virginia (UVA) her second year, found that the process was relatively straightforward. “I was fortunate with the people that helped me,” McGurl says. And fellow UVA transfer Michelle Gahagan agrees.
The Hwa Chong Institute (HCI) is an elite high school in Singapore that enrols only the best-performing students and then gives them access to advanced equipment, including an atomic force microscope and cell-culture incubators. The tools would be the envy of many a university, but to director of studies Har Hui Peng, that is not enough. She has always wanted to give her students an extra challenge, and a flavour of doing science in an interconnected world. She got her chance a decade ago thanks to a lucky encounter with George Wolfe, a US educator who told her that he was setting up the...
The University of Virginia has just been awarded the Capital One Cup all sports championships for men’s sports. The award was presented by Chris Long an ex-football player for UVa.
Phenomenal new research at the University of Virginia has discovered a previously hidden structure in the brain that links it to the immune system. This breaking news changes the way scientists and doctors look at and study the brain, and will replace decades of medical textbook teaching materials which state that these vessels do not exist. Additionally, this discovery literally redirects the way neurological diseases, including Alzheimer’s, autism and multiple Sclerosis are studied and treated from this moment forward.
The University of Virginia and the U.S. Army have joined forces to address the defense needs of the nation. Together they will tap into resources involving new technology and new research.
These were the first words out of the mouth of Matthew B. Crawford, the author of the newly published “The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction,” as he stood at the top of the west ramp. Mr. Crawford is a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. “It makes me feel like I’m a citizen of something important,” Mr. Crawford said. “It makes me feel as I imagine a citizen of Rome might have felt. I feel elevated.”
Limberbutt McCubbins is running for president, and the five-year-old feline isn’t pussyfooting around. Besides launching a campaign website and accompanying social media accounts, Limberbutt has caught some media attention (though some seem unaware of his animal nature), nabbed an endorsement, and even inspired a line of campaign swag. Does that mean cats are exempt from the age requirement? Probably not, said Michael Gilbert, a professor of election law at the University of Virginia. "In jest, the expression of one thing (persons mu...
When you hear bad news, you might feel your ‘heart drop’ or have to deal with ‘heart ache.’ There’s more to these metaphors than simply describing intense emotions – they point to the fascinating way our bodies experience these feelings, both emotionally and physically. But surely that doesn't make sense - we all know that the heart is simply a symbol for love and pain, and that all the "feeling" is done by our brains. So how exactly do intense emotions trigger specific sensations in our chest? The simple answer is: scientis...
Plans for an $8 million indoor practice facility for the University of Virginia are moving forward. Tuesday night, the Albemarle County Planning Commission (ACPC) recommended the approval of a special-use permit to the UVA Foundation to construct the facility on the Birdwood Golf Course.
An indoor golf facility, planned for the University of Virginia golf teams and members of the Birdwood Golf Course, is one step closer to becoming reality.
On Tuesday, a student group donated new toys and books to the University of Virginia Children's Hospital, which provides primary and specialty care in more than 30 specialties to children throughout the state.
The U.S. Green Building Council has teamed with the University of Virginia School of Medicine to work out how to measure the health impacts of buildings. It’s the next step to expanding the green building agenda to a broader more holistic definition of “green” applied to the health of the humans within the machine, so to speak.
In a groundbreaking research that may pave the way for a male contraceptive, scientists have identified key molecular events that could play a critical role as sperm and egg fuse to create new life. “This report expands our fundamental understanding of the molecular architecture at the site of sperm-egg fusion,” said John Herr from the University of Virginia Health System in U.S.
In the coming months, a low power FM (LPFM) student radio station will launch at University of Virginia with the call letters WXTJ-LP. After operating as a streaming radio station for a few years (initially called WTJX), students will soon be taking their shows to the terrestrial airwaves in Charlottesville, Virginia (at 100.1 FM) alongside their community radio counterpart WTJU-FM. In an interesting twist, University of Virginia will be home to two very different non-commercial FM radio stations.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA) announced today that they have been awarded a three year, $1.2 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to advance their Green Health Partnership. This research initiative, led by Chris Pyke, Ph.D., (USGBC) and Dr. Matthew Trowbridge (UVA) directly addresses longstanding gaps in the availability of practical tools to promote healthy places.
Over the past year, video footage from around the country of law enforcement officers killing citizens, many of them black, has brought scrutiny on policing in the streets. Yet, another disturbing police problem has drawn far less attention: Use of force by cops in schools. Dewey Cornell, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies school safety, suggests that the rise of school cops has been based on misguided fear. After Sandy Hook, the NRA proposed putting them in every single school in America. But relative to overall gun violence, "schools are...
Greece may have a deal with its creditors, but we've seen this movie before. For now, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has to sell a bailout plan to the Greek parliament that is similar to the one Greek voters rejected just over a week ago. "He'll certainly face challenges," said William J. Antholis, director and CEO of the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs and a former managing director of the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. "There are many within his party and various opposing parties that will ask the question: '...
When a woman waits to start having kids for just an extra five years, from the age of 30 to 35, it can have profound consequences. Women who had their first child between the ages of 21 and 33 earned 6% more for every year they waited to start a family, Amalia Miller, an economist at the University of Virginia, reports in a paper published in the Journal of Population Economics. If Miller's findings can be extended to women who had their first child at 35, that means a woman who waits five more years to start a family will be earning 30% more per year tha...