Nearly 10% of U.S. adults and 3% of children participated in yoga in 2012, up from 5% of adults and 2% of children a decade earlier, says a new survey from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease and Prevention. "I've always thought that it's not a matter of if we are going to include yoga and mindfulness techniques in health care, it's always been when, and the when has arrived," says M. Mala Cunningham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia who founded a program to certify yoga instructors and medical professionals ...
People, and especially men, hate being alone with their thoughts so much that they’d rather be in pain. In a study published in Science last year on the ability of people to let their minds “wander” — that is, for them to sit and do nothing but think — researchers found that about a quarter of women and two-thirds of men chose electric shocks over their own company. “We went into this thinking that mind wandering wouldn’t be that hard,” said Timothy Wilson, University of Virginia professor of psychology and lead author of the study. “People...
The signals came early: Republican legislators blasted Gov. Terry McAuliffe's reiterated call for Medicaid expansion and his push for gun-control measures as unnecessarily divisive. They accused him of pushing the kind of so-called brochure bills that can rile up voters when mentioned in a campaign flier. "It's a very polarized era. Republicans are determined not to build up yet another Democratic governor," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. "Plus, the parties simply don't agree on most matters because of clashing ideology. End of story.&q...
Legal experts tore apart both the state and federal sentencing structures at a symposium Friday at the University of Virginia School of Law. At The Future of Sentencing symposium, hosted by the student-run Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, keynote speaker U.S. Judge for the Southern District of New York, Jed Rakoff, argued that federal judges need to have more leeway when imposing sentences, as opposed to always sticking to mandatory minimums or within strict sentencing guidelines.
Some experts, who contend family structure is crucial for a kid's future, blame the fate of poor children on changes in birth control accessibility, women's participation in the work force, no-fault divorce, and sexual mores since the 1960s. Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, did not dispute the report's findings, but said it was incomplete.
Media Studies assistant professor Christopher Ali joins Coy Barefoot to reflect on today’s historic pair of rulings by the Federal Communications Commission regarding net neutrality and municipal broadband.
Bill Antholis, the new Executive Director and CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, joins Coy Barefoot in studio to consider the future of UVA’s Miller Center and politics in America.
(By Jeffery A. Jenkins, a Professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia) On Friday, the politics surrounding the continued funding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took a surprising, and disappointing, turn for House Speaker John Boehner. Facing restive conservative Republicans who wanted to tie DHS funding to a repudiation of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, Boehner sought to extend funding for the DHS for three weeks and arrange for conference proceedings with the Senate – which on Wednesday had passe...
The District and dozens of other city centers across the country are becoming younger, more affluent and better educated while poverty rates in inner suburbs are rising, according to a study from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The new University of Virginia study shows how the “old doughnut” has been replaced in most cities by a “new doughnut” — wealthier city centers surrounded by a ring of lower-income suburbs, which are, in turn, surrounded by another, farther-out ring of wealthier suburbs and exurbs.
College-age developers, designers, and entrepreneurs from across Virginia and other parts of the country came together for 24 hours to Hack UVa and put their innovative creations to the test. "We want to bring the spirit of innovation that spirit of building something for the sake of building something," said Wil Thomason, a member of the Hack UVa executive board.
The enduring appeal of stories will be at the heart of the 21st annual Virginia Festival of the Book. The festival, which is set for March 18-22, will include everything from children’s author Megan McDonald’s “Stink” series to a football-themed literary huddle to a passel of historians, environmental scientists, local chefs and first-time novelists.
Soon you'll be able to view some of Shakespeare's best-known early works at the University of Virginia. UVa was selected to host Shakespeare's priceless "First Folio," which contains 18 plays published by his friends seven years after his death. They include: "As You Like It," "Julius Caesar," "Macbeth," "The Tempest" and "Twelfth Night."
The University of Virginia is hoping to achieve a level of “zero waste” at Saturday’s men’s basketball game against Virginia Tech. As part of RecycleMania, a competition that calls on more than 350 colleges and universities nationwide to reduce waste and boost recycling and composting efforts, staffers from UVa Dining, the Athletics Department and the Office for Sustainability have teamed up to compost or recycle waste generated at the game.
A Tennessean-led fight for access to public records is drawing support from national press freedom and First Amendment advocacy groups. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Tennessee Association of Broadcasters, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and the University of Virginia School of Law First Amendment Clinic have filed briefs in the case, which is soon expected to go before the Tennessee Supreme Court.
An astronomer at the University of Virginia says it took years of hard work to land one of the most prestigious fellowships in his field. Associate professor Shane Davis won the 2015 Alfred Sloan Foundation Fellowship and now has $50,000 to put into his research on black holes.
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, assistant professor of politics, discusses a recent commentary he co-authored in USA Today, exploring the apparent change in strategy the Obama administration has shown toward combating the thread of ISIL in the Middle East. He underscores the key takeaways about ISIL that Westerners should know.
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) have discovered regions where certain organic molecules somehow endure the intense radiation near the supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy NGC 1068, also known to amateur stargazers as Messier 77 (M77). “ALMA has launched an entirely new era in astrochemistry,” said Eric Herbst of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and a member of the research team. “Detecting and tracing molecules throughout the cosmos enables us to learn so much more about otherwise hidden areas, ...
Jerome McGann believes that Poe has been underrated as a poet. McGann teaches at the University of Virginia, where Poe briefly studied, and his appeal is not to the mob, the reading public, or the circus performers, the practitioners of verse. His jury is the clergy, not the laity, the imperial souls for whom reading is a “textual event.” It is as difficult a brief as defending Bob Dylan as a novelist, or John Lennon as a nice person.
(By Dr. Anita H. Clayton, interim chair of the department of psychiatry & neurobehavioral sciences, the David C. Wilson professor of psychiatry and professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine) In today's pop culture, sex appears to be everywhere, especially as the 50 Shades of Grey books and movie continue to spur conversation about sexual desires and fantasies. But while our society seems more comfortable with women talking about sex, wanting sex and having sex, many still squirm at the idea of having a conversat...
Dr. Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, gave his thoughts on potential 2016 candidates Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul and Hillary Clinton.