Sterling Street returned to the University of Virginia Medical Center last week, less than a year after brain surgery he received there saved his life. It’s not unusual for patients to keep in touch with their doctors, but Street, 18, is taking it a step further — he is in town until Wednesday to shadow one of the neurosurgeons who operated on him last October.
Across the park, another set of tents marked the accompanying Community Health Fair, sponsored by the University of Virginia, Martha Jefferson Hospital and the Virginia Department of Health. There, nurses, medical students and doctors screened people for diabetes and kidney disease and checked blood pressure.
Medical students, doctors, and nurses from the University of Virginia donated their time to identify potential health risks and share tips for healthier living. More than 30 vendors lined up the whites tents out at Washington Park Saturday for a health fair. More and more vendors participate each year to help people in Charlottesville live healthier lives.
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) leadership announced that Airbus has joined CCAM's industry, academic, and government consortium dedicated to manufacturing breakthroughs and advancements in applied research. CCAM academic partners are the University of Virginia, Virginia State University, Virginia Tech and Old Dominion University.
Researchers at the University of Virginia found that it would take 250,000 sit-ups for you to burn 1 pound of fat.
The philosopher Bertrand Russell famously said: “Most people would rather die than think; many do,” and a recent experiment appears to prove him right, at least up to a point. That recent experiment, led by Professor Tim Wilson at the University of Virginia, in which participants were asked to sit alone for up to 15 minutes in an empty room at a laboratory, found that 12 men out of a group of 18 preferred to give themselves mild electric shocks than sit and do nothing.
A recent study conducted by Timothy Wilson, Ph.D., of the University of Virginia, looked at our ability to occupy ourselves with our own thoughts as opposed to the plethora of modern technological options we tend to entertain ourselves with. Here are some examples of TV characters engaging in distractions of their own.
(Analysis) it’s worth noting a study published last month in the journal Science, which shows how far people will go to avoid introspection. “We had noted how wedded to our devices we all seem to be and that people seem to find any excuse they can to keep busy,” said Timothy Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and lead author of the study. “No one had done a simple study letting people go off on their own and think.” The results surprised him and have created a stir in the psychology and neuroscience communities.
Crops grown on large swathes of land acquired in developing countries through “ethical land grabbing” can potentially feed 550 million people worldwide, according to a study (27 June) in the Environmental Research Letters, an open access journal on environmental science. The study quantified the maximum amount of food that could be produced from crops grown on large-scale land acquisitions should investments in agriculture improve crop production and close the yield gap. In contrast, only about 190-370 million people could be fed if this land was left tended to by the local populat...
(Audio) Research Assistant Professor of Systems and Information Engineering Matthew Gerber explains how Twitter could be used to predict crimes.
(Audio) Megan Juelfs-Swanson with University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Demographics Research Group talks about a new wage study.
Promising New Antibiotic Defies Conventional Wisdom on Treating Superbug. U.Va.’s (Audio) Dr. Paul S. Hoffman says, "It's one step in the right direction (into solving antibiotic resistance)."
The Intellectual Property Owners recently published a list of the top 100 universities worldwide granted U.S. patents in 2013, and among them were three local schools: Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia.
Community support will help sustain and grow service at Charlottesville Albemarle Airport, according to a recent report by industry expert Michael D. Wittman, a consultant at Inter-Vistas Consulting in Boston. Wittman’s analysis recently was published in the Virginia News Letter by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Initially a New York-based organization focused on advocacy work, Friendfactor re-launched on the West Coast in July 2012 under Sprague's leadership. During the 2012-2013 school year it organized its first MBA Ally Challenge, crowning the Columbia Business School the inaugural winner. This past school year, with 12 business schools competing, Columbia won for a second time. The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan earned second and third, respectively. The Darden School of Business at the University of Virgini...
With the Big Data market expected to grow to $28.5 million by the end of 2014 and to far exceed $50 billion by 2017, it's time to get students up to speed. That's where IBM comes into play. Rapidly taking over the academic scene, IBM has been forging partnerships with more than 1,000 universities across the globe to advance its mission to narrow the data scientists skills gap. Local schools IBM is working with include the University of Maryland and University of Virginia.
High school students from across the Commonwealth are wrapping up a very special experience over at the University of Virginia. The students are part of the High School Leaders Program at the university’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. It began on July 12th, and the students have spent the better part of the experience grappling with issues that face policy-makers and coming up with solutions.
Inspiring speeches from an ambassador, a former ambassador, a university president and a designated fellow highlighted a joyous ceremony commemorating the closing of the first Young African Leaders Initiative on July 24 at William & Mary. Members of the Presidential Precinct -- W&M, the University of Virginia, James Monroe's Ash Lawn-Highland, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, James Madison's Montpelier and Morven (a foundation that provides administrative services to the University of Virginia ) – were on hand.
Inside a 19th century slave house on the edge of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation, young African leaders are finding historical models to follow – and some not to. "They're here in what might be called the Silicon Valley of democracy, Jefferson's Monticello, Monroe's Highlands and Madison's Montpelier, so [we're] talking a little bit about how civil society has developed here," said University of Virginia Vice Provost for Global Jeffrey Legro. "It's an inspiring place for both what worked, and what didn't work." Twenty-five fell...