Max Prokopy, director of the SPEED Clinic at the University of Virginia, has studied the techniques of elite runners. He said he agreed that the data from the feet alone isn't always complete. "You need more detail than foot insoles could give," Prokopy said. "You need a full biomechanical exam." Still, the new wearable technology is good for getting feedback quickly, and allowing the runner to try different postures, styles or strides, he said.
Why did Misskelley confess? He was “borderline mentally retarded, with an IQ of 72, yet police persisted with his lengthy interrogation,” wrote Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, in a post on the Harvard Press Blog. “The few recorded pieces of the interrogations showed police using leading questions to try to tell him what had happened, something that interrogators are trained not to do because it contaminates a confession. We do not know what threats or other techniques were used to secure that confession.”
"The strongest predictor of future violence is past violent behavior," Shannon Frattaroli, an associate professor of health policy and management at the Center for Gun Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins University, said in remarks quoted by the University of Virginia's UVA Today publication. Frattaroli and other consortium researchers spoke at the University of Virginia Dec. 2 when the consortium released a 45-page report outlining state-policy recommendations.
The University of Virginia is in the clear, but two other Virginia institutions have been put on warning by the regional agency that oversees accreditation standards.
Max Mulcahy got a perfect score on an Advanced Placement microeconomics exam at Boise High School last spring. He is one of only 33 in the world out of more than 67,600 students who took the exam.
Sarah E. Turner, a U.Va. economics professor, and her Stanford University colleague, Caroline M. Hoxby, made the Chronicle’s “2013 Influence List” for their research devising an inexpensive way to get high-achieving, low-income students to consider selective colleges, an idea that has received widespread attention this year.
Virginia Tech’s new president is an engineer — an expert in nanotechnology, one of the developers of energy-saving light-emitting diodes and holder of 16 patents in optoelectronics. Such a description might evoke the stereotype of a cubicle-dwelling introvert, but that’s not the type of person Virginia Tech is getting with the hiring of Timothy D. Sands, one of his longtime colleagues at Purdue University says.
Hormonal signals work the way a lock and key work. We have receptors (the locks) that receive signals from hormones (the keys). “[BPA] is almost like a little master key because it can fit into many of these little locks that are in your body and in your cells,” says Emilie Rissman, a behavioral neuroendocrinologist at the University of Virginia. Rissman and other researchers are finding that when humans and other animals are exposed to BPA during critical developmental windows such as in the womb and in infancy, the chemical can scramble cellular signals and leave lasting biologic...
Rich Williamson, a former aide to three Republican presidents who lost a widely watched race for the United States Senate in 1992 to Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, died in Chicago on Sunday. He was 64.
A few weeks ago Daniel Willingham, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia, wrote a belated review of Paul Tough’s 2012 best-seller, “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character.” Though short, Willingham’s review deserves mention because the subject that Tough’s book addresses is not dead – if anything, the linking of grit and character to future success has become more pervasive than ever.
Phillippe Sommer, director at the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Virginia says failure isn’t negative, but rather an expected obstacle in entrepreneurship. “I think you have to look at obstacles and failures not as a terminal experience, but as an opportunity to learn about what you could do differently,” Sommer says. “You learn from your mistakes.” Sommer helps students with their start-up ideas in UVA’s i.Lab, an entrepreneurship incubator. He says students in the program understand failure, and minimize risk as much as possible...
The men’s College Cup semifinal pairings are set for Friday night at PPL Park in Chester, Pa.: No. 3 Notre Dame (15-1-6) vs. No. 7 New Mexico (14-5-2), 5 p.m.; No. 5 Maryland (16-3-5) vs. No. 8 Virginia (13-5-5), 7:30 p.m. The final is Sunday at 3 p.m. All matches are on ESPNU.
Psychology researchers at the University of Virginia found the extent to which people are smiling in their Facebook photos predicts “future life satisfaction.” J. Patrick Seder and Shigehiro Oishi measured the “smile intensity” in samplings of Facebook profile photos of incoming University of Virginia freshmen. They then measured the self-reported “life satisfaction” of the same people nearly four years later as they were about to graduate. The researchers concluded, “smile intensity was a unique predictor of changes in life satisfaction over time.&rdq...
Guest Larry Sabato, politics professor and director of U.Va.’s Center for Politics, discusses U.S, conservatives’ views on Nelson Mandela.
More than 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson drew a survey map, known as a plat, of the Albemarle land he purchased for his friend and protégé William Short. The survey map has changed hands multiple times since then, and will do so again this weekend when it heads to the Quinn & Farmer auction block in Charlottesville. [Note: The land is now Morven, owned by the U.Va. Foundation.]
(Commentary) As professor Eric Patashnik of the University of Virginia once observed, the real impact of the budget process has been to create a "fiscalization" of policy, whereby "programs are routinely debated not in terms of their substantive merits but rather of their budgetary impact."
It is customary in higher education to dismiss rankings as misleading and arbitrary, quantifying things that don’t much matter about colleges and universities. But one list of undisputed significance is compiled each year by the National Science Foundation: the top institutions ranked by total research spending. Such money supports laboratories, attracts top faculty and graduate students and gives many undergraduates a chance to learn through experimentation. [The University of Virginia ranks 59th overall, at $383 million.]