A University of Virginia study from 2005, With Sadness Comes Accuracy; With Happiness, False Memory, found that happiness tends to generate false memories while unhappiness dredges up accurate ones.
“The common thread is that there’s a Democrat in the White House who’s not that popular,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan research group at the University of Virginia. “It wouldn’t be surprising if any of those states went Republican.’
“I research how technology makes the state and the state makes technology,” Vera Katelyn Wilde says. Her work has proved that automation can inflame racial issues—she’s working on creating the nation’s first police profiling database—and that lie detectors are ethically questionable. Government-run technology, Wilde says, “lets the state assert the right to look through people’s bodies and other boundaries, often without probable cause.” So far, she has won more than a dozen awards, including a hard-to-get National Science Foundation disser...
While disapproving of a congressional calendar that keeps lawmakers away from work two thirds of the year, congressional experts argue that that is merely a symptom of the larger problem of partisan gridlock and the inability of Republicans and Democrats to agree on any major issues or tactics. “If Congress really wanted to assert itself, they'd do it,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “Planes, trains, and automobiles work better than ever. It has nothing to do with their schedule, and everything to do with the deep polarization that divide...
(By Erika Herz, Associate Director of Sustainability Programs at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and Andrea Larson, a professor of entrepreneurship at Darden; adapted from an original Darden case by Larson and Mark Meier) The big idea: Entrepreneur Brent Constantz, a coral reef scientist, was well aware of the destructive effects of carbon dioxide (CO2). In 2007, he founded Calera Corp. to make cement, the main binder for concrete, by mimicking nature’s low-energy process. The company soon discovered a host of other waste reuse, waste reduction and revenue-generatin...
Tuition at the University of Virginia could increase next year, with out-of-state students seeing a hike of more than $2,200. The university’s Board of Visitors will meet in Abingdon to vote on the issue Wednesday. The proposed increase for in-state students is 4.7 percent, or $468, which is close to last year’s $452 hike. But under the plan, out-of-state students would pay an additional $2,268, an increase of 6.2 percent.
If you’ve heard the name Jen Sorensen, it may be because she’s the 2014 winner and first female recipient of the prestigious Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning—or because she’s been published in C-VILLE Weekly for more than a decade.
As Christians prepare to celebrate Easter, the new issue of Virginia Quarterly Review offers an essay by Carlene Bauer called “A Difficult Balance: Some Thoughts on the Intersection of Faith and Fiction.” It’s a searching, candid piece about the discomfort of hovering between certainties.
Deborah Lawrence, Professor of Environmental Sciences, discusses a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that warns of dire consequences if the world does not act quickly to curb carbon emissions.
(Audio) Trinh Thuan, a professor of astrophysics from the University of Virginia, has just won the French Legion of Honor for his work promoting science and international collaboration.
Unpublished research by university scientists is exempt from the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting an attempt by skeptics of global warming to view the work of a prominent climate researcher during his years at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia student leaders are making strides to combat sexual assault. Student council passed a resolution at its meeting Tuesday night to raise awareness and offer more resources to survivors. SMART, which stands for Sexual Misconduct Awareness Recovery and Tangible Resolution, will involve student groups and administrators.
Geoff Skelley, a veteran analyst with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said Beyer’s massive war chest is a huge advantage, and suggests he could afford television ads where others cannot. “That could be helpful, especially in a low-turnout election, just to get more name recognition,” Skelley said. “[But] in a race like this it’s kind of difficult to get a read on it. It’s been a while since he’s been in the political mix.”
“Whenever you work out, you have some muscle breakdown. It’s when you try to outdo someone else or you are not ready for repetitive or challenging exercise that you can do severe damage to the muscle fibers,” said Dr. Chris Holstege, director of the Medical Toxicology Division at the University of Virginia Medical School. Holstege is currently treating three civilian cases of rhabdomyolysis.
But pollsters aren’t convinced that Peterson is as vulnerable as the NRCC is making him out to be. For instance, University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato lists the 7th as a “Likely Democratic” as does the Cook Political Report.
"Generally speaking, when candidates want to make it clear that they're thinking about running, they make it clear," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "There's no reason (for Pence) to close the door. But it's not as though you don't have a large number of hungry candidates already running. I can't see any of them who are going to bow out because Mike Pence has gotten in."
Jamestown High School alumni JT Castner and Taytem Riley are business majors in college. They're now business partners, too, after coming together to develop a mobile app they hope will change the way people listen to music in public spaces such as bars, restaurants and gyms.
The ruling drew applause from academics, disappointment from the institute and some concern from open-government advocates.
If a stranger approaches you with a raised arm on Thursday, don't be alarmed – it's just National High Five Day, an unofficial holiday during which participants raise money for charity by engaging in an all-day high-five-a-thon. The holiday began on the campus of the University of Virginia in 2002, when a group of students set up a stand giving away free high-fives in the middle of a quadrangle. "We discovered two things," Greg Harrell-Edge, executive director of the National High Five Project and one of the original UVA group, told PEOPLE. "One, it's real fun ...