"A lot of evidence has shown that materialistic people tend to have weaker social ties and are not as socially integrated as less materialistic people," says James E. Burroughs, a professor of commerce at the University of Virginia and an associate editor at the Journal of Consumer Research. "What Pieters did is take this a step further by showing how it contributes to loneliness – a loneliness that reinforces this problem and drives people toward material objects because they're easier to deal with than trying to restructure one's life to bring meaningful relation...
Crowds are a given on the day after Thanksgiving. But as night fell and shoppers iced bruises and sorted plunder, the University of Virginia women’s soccer team found itself with one more bit of congestion to conquer. Black Friday at Klockner Stadium offered but a single invitation to the College Cup in stock, and the Cavaliers had waited far too long to leave empty-handed. A full year after a disappointing early exit in the NCAA tournament, with all the sprints, weight sessions, practices and games that came in the interim, they were going to leave with it in their possession this time....
Some ambitious people in Charlottesville got up early to exercise and make room for their big Thanksgiving feast. They laced up and headed out in the cold air to run in and volunteer for the 32nd Annual Boar's Head Turkey Trot in Albemarle County. The Boar's Head Turkey Trot benefits the University of Virginia Children's Hospital, which is in the process of constructing the new Battle building.
"This study presents data from a large bank of injuries in a young population and those data will ultimately help answer some of the questions of how and why there are differences," Susan Saliba said. Saliba is a physical therapist, athletic trainer and associate professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She was not involved in this study.
Here is the list of people we are giving thanks for in 2013: … Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Chair of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, who we at Tenured Radical first met when he was finishing his dissertation in American Studies at the University of Texas. Well, we weren’t surprised when his book, “The Googlization of Everything – And Why We Should Worry” pioneered early critiques of the Internet utopia. Siva continues to be one of the kindest, sanest, smartest and funniest voices on and off the web. And he has a really cute puppy too.
(Editorial) A new facility soon to serve senior citizens exemplifies the kinds of solutions that will be necessary in the shifting health care environment. We note that Virginia’s deputy secretary of health and human resources praised programs such as the new Blue Ridge Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly as examples of health care reform initiatives that do, in fact, work. The new program, part of a national PACE project, is a collaboration among the University of Virginia Health System, the Jefferson Area Board for Aging and the Virginia-based nonprofit Riverside Health.
Hackathons – sometimes called hack days, hackfests or codefests – seem to be popping up with increasing frequency on college campuses nationwide. Yale University, University of Virginia, New York University and Emory University all hosted their inaugural hackathons this month.
Two sisters in Albemarle County are hoping to make the holidays more special for the young patients at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital. They're making teddy bears to deliver to the kids spending the holidays in the hospital.
A push is underway in Virginia to take political redistricting out of the hands of politicians. Charlottesville has become a makeshift bivouac for a team working to put a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot in November 2016. “There’s an increasing understanding among the public and voters that hard party gerrymandering is counterproductive and hurts good governance,” said Bob Gibson, executive director of the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.
The UVa/Virginia Tech matchup is one of the biggest football games of the season, but before any play starts, the tailgating begins and University of Virginia fans believe they do it best.
Q&A with Emily Giffin, best-selling author and U.Va. law graduate.
(Commentary by Thomas R. Frantz and former U.Va. Rector John O. “Dubby” Wynne) With the election behind us, Virginia's leaders now turn to a host of familiar issues. Sustaining the momentum for higher education reform and reinvestment, should occasion bipartisan cooperation.
Nonoperative treatments, including physical therapy, were just as effective at reducing pain and disability as spinal fusion surgery for patients with lumbar degenerative disc disease, according to a recent study. Researchers with the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center and the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, reviewed 200 consecutive patients with back pain and concordant lumbar discogram who were offered the option of spinal fusion then followed up with the patients to compare outcomes of those who chose fusion or nonoperative treatments, such as physical therapy...
There are plenty of good reasons that otherwise accomplished people have adopted a behavior that seems doomed to failure, analysts say. The biggest reason is to please constituents, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "Over the years, I have come to realize that a good portion of the public doesn't know the difference between introducing a bill and passing a bill -- or at least they seem to give legislators about equal credit for simply trying, as opposed to actually achieving," Sabato said. "Introducing a bill means a lawmak...
While she supports the breast density notification law in effect in Virginia since 2012, Jennifer A. Harvey, M.D., head of the Division of Breast Imaging and a professor of radiology at the University of Virginia Hospital Health System, stresses that education for all those affected is critical. “I’ve had more questions from healthcare providers about supplementary screening than I have from patients,” said Dr. Harvey, a presenter of the RSNA 2013 Special Interest Session: Breast Density: Risk Assessment, Communication, and Approaches to Supplemental Imaging. “But I bel...
Rob Vaughan, nursing a cup of morning coffee, recently looked through a window at an autumn-tinged lawn where wonderful things have occurred. As the only president the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities has had in its nearly 40-year history, he has been instrumental in bringing these memorable things to pass in the grassy area outside his office. One day a year, the lawn serves as a stage on which the heart and soul of some of the most precious Virginia traditions are showcased.
(Editorial) But does legislative meddling in the admissions processes of the commonwealth’s public universities address the problem? No. Because the problem is not one of too many out-of-state students, but one of too few state dollars to support those very institutions.
Supporters argue that the law requires disclosing donations, and that should keep politicians from selling their votes, but Michael Gilbert, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, says the opposite could also be true. Campaign finance disclosure may actually promote corruption.
Richard Bonnie, director of The Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, was a member of the Shafer Commission – the American equivalent to the Le Dain Commission – which reported in 1972. Then, as now, Bonnie held serious concerns about the effect of marijuana on the developing adolescent brain, the association between marijuana and mental health crises, and the onset of addiction. Yet “there didn’t seem to be significant evidence that used moderately over the long term that the drug was seriously harmful,” says Bonnie, noting...