Psychology researchers at the University of Virginia say they may have a way of testing whether a person is racist or not. It's called the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and 2 million people have already taken it online.
As University of Virginia forensic clinical psychologist Dewey Cornell explained in a guest post here earlier this year, kids are 100 times more likely to be murdered outside of school than in. In fact, the school building is just about the safest place your kid can be.
Two University of Virginia faculty members received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Stephen Cushman, a professor of English and Sarah Kucenas, an assistant professor of biology, are among 13 faculty members in Virginia public universities honored by the Council.
This week’s Senate report on the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation methods is neither the first nor the worst time the agency has run afoul of its congressional overseers. Frederick Hitz, who served for three decades in the CIA, including eight years as its inspector general, said the report shows that the agency just isn’t very good at hostile interrogations. “We didn’t know how to do it,” Hitz, who’s now an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said in a phone interview. “It’s not because these are fire-breathers w...
Software billionaire Paul Allen says he's committing $100 million to create a new institute in Seattle focusing on the mechanics of human cell biology. The institute's executive director is Rick Horwitz, who served as the director of the federally funded Cell Migration Consortium for 10 years and has spent the past 15 years doing cell research as a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
(By Jeff Bergner and Gerry Warburg. Jeff Bergner is a lecturer at the Batten School of the University of Virginia, who formerly served as Republican staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as Assistant Secretary of State. Gerry Warburg also teaches at the Batten School, where he is an assistant dean, and formerly served as a Senate Democratic leadership aide.) Congress is weighing whether to vote to authorize the use of force against the terrorist organization ISIS, prodded by members as ideologically diverse as Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine and Kentucky Republican Se...
This week’s Senate report on the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation methods is neither the first nor the worst time the agency has run afoul of its congressional overseers. Frederick Hitz, who served for three decades in the CIA, including eight years as its inspector general, said the report shows that the agency just isn’t very good at hostile interrogations. “We didn’t know how to do it,” Hitz, who’s now an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said in a phone interview.
Physicians and professional piercers agree that over the last six years, plastic surgery on enlarged earlobes has become common enough to earn a name: Earlobeplasty. Anecdotally, though, the trend is clear, as are the sociological reasons for it. Giant bejeweled earlobes are marks of beauty, nobility, bravery, or wisdom in many indigenous and ancient cultures. (The Buddha is often depicted with stretched lobes.) In modern Western cultures, not so much. "These individuals are now thirtysomething. They're done rebelling - I know that's a judgmental thing to say," said Universit...
Willa Brown, a graduate student in history at the University of Virginia, delves into the deeper meaning of lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his flannel-wearing, bearded progeny, who seem to have migrated en masse from Minnesota to populate hipster neighborhoods in urban areas everywhere.
George Gelnovatch conducted two training camps for the University of Virginia men’s soccer team this season. There was the traditional session in August, when the Cavaliers gathered in Charlottesville to begin plotting their return to the College Cup.
A study recently published in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery demonstrated that an app can be an effective replacement for joint evaluation. The study, from researchers at the University of Virginia Health Systems, tested the Clinometer app as a replacement for the goniometer tool. A goniometer tool is the clinical and research “gold standard” in evaluating the range of motion for patients’ joints.
Rappahannock County is in the midst of a type of growth that cannot be controlled by zoning, or any other way: the numbers of gray-haired folks are zooming upwards. A research and analysis unit of the University of Virginia, the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, has put numbers to the coming growth in the population of older people; the researchers have done the figuring for the entire commonwealth, and here is what they see ahead for our county: Just six years from now, in 2020, the center expects there will be more than 2,700 people over the age of 60 in Rappahannock. Okay so far. The...
Only about 20 percent of campus sexual assault victims go to police, according to a report released Thursday that provides insight into why so many victims choose to not seek criminal charges.
Three friends who came to Jackie’s aide said her description of what happened to her that night differs from what she told Rolling Stone. In addition, information Jackie gave the three friends about one of her attackers, called “Drew” in the magazine’s article, differ significantly from details she later told The Post, Rolling Stone and friends from sexual assault awareness groups on campus. The three said Jackie did not specifically identify a fraternity that night.
C.J. Libassi analyzes the benefits of full-day kindergarten described in a new randomized study by Chloe R. Gibbs, at the University of Virginia. The preliminary results show that full-day kindergarten is beneficial for all children, especially for Hispanic children.
A religious freedom bill that sailed through the House in a lame-duck session of the Michigan Legislature is being widely criticized as legalizing discrimination against gay people. University of Virginia Law professor Douglas Laycock, a legal scholar and religious liberty advocate, told The Lansing News/MLive criticism against the bill is “way overblown.”
A Haitian presidential commission is recommending sweeping changes, including a new prime minister and government to stabilize the country. “The commission offers a way out of the crisis if Michel Martelly accepts all of its recommendations; but then we will deal with new complicated negotiations about the new electoral council, the new prime minister and the new head of the Supreme Court,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti expert at the University of Virginia.
Everybody knows somebody who refuses do their business in a public restroom because public restrooms are ew. Contrary to popular belief, a recent study found public bathrooms are not that dirty compared to the rest of your environment. Your hands, the floor, stuffed between couch cushions — these are all places your remote has lived, probably for extended periods of time. You might have coughed or sneezed on it without realizing. A University of Virginia study that looked at cold viruses on household surfaces found TV remotes to be among the germiest, so wipe that sucker d...
Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that Virginia has been awarded a $17.5 million federal Preschool Expansion Grant that will allow the Commonwealth to serve as many as 1,600 additional at-risk four-year-olds in new, high-quality preschool classes. The grant also will fund a state-level effort — led by the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning at the University of Virginia (UVA) — to improve preparation and professional development for preschool teachers and administrators.
Palma Pustilnik, an attorney at Central Virginia Legal Aid Society in Charlottesville, has been retained as counsel to the woman identified as "Jackie" in the Rolling Stone article. The article, titled "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA," highlights what they call a "culture of rape" at the University of Virginia.