Los Angeles is the most segregated city in the United States between whites and Hispanics, and this map illustrates just how divided we are. From the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service comes this very cool Racial Dot Map of the United States made up of 308,745,538 individual colored dots. Whites are blue, Blacks are green, Asians are red, Hispanics are orange, and everyone else is brown. Each dot represents every person counted in the 2010 Census, further color-coded by the race and ethnicity they reported as.
It has been three long years since the first Pitch Perfect film brilliantly turned Hollywood’s outdated expectations upside down (women will go see a women-centric film in the summer? Shocker!), and since then, you’ve probably watched/rewatched the hilarious musical comedy a dozen times. However — chances are there are some even you don’t know. Remember the group singing “The Final Countdown” during the ICCA finals scene? Those guys are the (very successful) real life all-male a cappella group The Hallabahoos from The Univers...
The University of Virginia will host a free traumatic brain injury and stroke awareness fair in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday. Members of the UVa Neurosciences Center’s Brain Injury and Stroke Quality Support teams will provide free blood pressure checks and stroke risk-factor screenings. They also will provide information on reducing risks of brain injury and stroke.
For Josh Wheeler, freedom of speech means having the freedom to say what you want to say, even if your words are hurtful, mean or contrary to the beliefs of others. Wheeler is director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville. The Center is now in its 25th year. To protect free speech, Wheeler says the Center works both “proactively and reactively.” They react to free speech infringements by, quote “intervening in the appeals of court cases involving the First Amendment” as a co-counsel or amicus curiae (friend of...
Acknowledging national and global crises, University of Virginia president Teresa A. Sullivan challenged University of Mississippi graduating seniors Saturday (May 9) to remain engaged, improve themselves and their communities and shoulder responsibilities.
The NFL's chief medical adviser believes the league's player health initiatives will lead to safer conditions for all sports. Dr. Jeff Crandall of University of Virginia cited work to evaluate existing technology and the performance of equipment, both on the field and in labs. For on-field injuries, the league's Head, Neck and Spine Committee and its engineering subcommittee are "trying to characterize the causation scenarios of injuries."
Last fall, University of Virginia School of Medicine student Cullen Timmons placed a stethoscope over his heart in an elective course and heard a troubling sound: a very irregular heart murmur. Timmons, an Athens native, had noticed a slight heart murmur months earlier and didn’t think much of it, but listening to the turbulent swooshing sound of blood flowing through his heart in the class, “Advanced Physical Diagnosis,” he had reason for alarm — and need for immediate medical attention.
The chances of shock food price rises in import-dependent states are rising as the world's population grows and nations become more reliant on global markets, researchers said in a study published on Tuesday. Countries dependent on food imports, and states where rising populations are putting pressure on scarce land and water resources, are the most susceptible to sudden jumps in food prices, the author of the University of Virginia study said.
As the world's population grows so does the demand for food, and a new study now warns that conditions are increasing the chances countries will experience food crises. "In the past few decades there has been an intensification of international food trade and an increase in the number of countries that depend on food imports," said Paolo D’Odorico, one of the study's authors and a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.
A University of Virginia associate dean of students filed a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine Tuesday, alleging that it portrayed her as callous and indifferent to allegations of sexual assault on campus and made her the university’s “chief villain” in a now-debunked article about a fraternity gang rape.
In a historic break from tradition, the University of Virginia has split its Final Exercises ceremony into two this year. Students in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences will walk the Lawn on Saturday morning. Final Exercises for students in all other schools take place Sunday morning.
“I’m gonna really embarrass myself here,” Howard Stern cautioned his satellite radio listeners. “But I watched ‘Pitch Perfect,’ and I liked it.” That 2012 comedy about a female acappella group beloved by teenage girls? It was the shock jock’s guilty pleasure. The film was based on a book by GQ editor Mickey Rapkin, in which he gave a behind-the-scenes look at collegiate a cappella groups from schools such as Tufts University and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia's Finals Weekend 2015 has been expanded to three days this year, May 15-17, to accommodate historic renovations and a larger audience.
Kendall King is the first to admit she’s not necessarily the outdoors type.“Most of us are activists, not athletes," said King, a University of Virginia freshman who set out from Braley Pond Road on Saturday to bike the Atlantic Coast Pipeline route through Virginia with other members of the state’s Student Environmental Coalition.
A new study may add fuel to the fire that erupted last year over the question of whether stopping disease-modifying treatments (DMTs) in multiple sclerosis patients should be considered. David E. Jones, MD, who was among the AHRQ report's critics, told MedPage Today in an email that the MSbase results were "very interesting" but hardly the last word. "The patients are from a registry of observational data, certainly not a high level of evidence," said Jones, an MS neurologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He also agreed with the authors'...
Testing has concluded that a person who had recently traveled to West Africa and had symptoms of an illness does not have the Ebola virus, University of Virginia Medical Center officials said late Monday.
A new study has suggested that world's population-food supply balance is becoming increasingly unstable. Paolo D'Odorico, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and one of the study's authors, asserted that in the past few decades there has been an intensification of international food trade and an increase in the number of countries that depend on food imports and on average, about one-fourth of the food they eat is available to them through international trade and this globalization of food may contribute to the spread of the effects of local shocks i...
The U.S. government’s plan to extract criminal pleas from five global banks related to currency manipulation, along with penalties of billions of dollars, sounds harsh. It may also, say some former regulators and prosecutors, have little bite. The question is whether the latest guilty pleas will keep financial institutions from committing future crimes. The settlements, while momentous, will likely leave unanswered questions, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia who studies corporate crime enforcement.
The parent companies or main banking units of as many as five major banks, rather than their smaller subsidiaries, are expected to plead guilty to US criminal charges over manipulation of foreign exchange rates, people familiar with the matter said. "We need to look carefully at the actual terms of the plea deals to assess just how well these banks are being held accountable, but guilty pleas by major banks at the parent company level will send a message that even the largest U.S. financial institutions can be convicted of crimes," said University of Virginia law school professor Bra...
Nearly three decades ago, E.D. Hirsch Jr., an emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, decried the decline in cultural literacy, which he defined as “the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world” — essentially the fundamentals of “the major domains of human activity from sports to science.”This notion, and Hirsch’s 1987 book, “Cultural Literacy: What every America needs to know,” were embraced by conservatives skeptical of the “relevance” movement in the nation’s classrooms.