“It sure doesn’t sound good,” Dr. Christopher Holstege, the chief of UVA’s Division of Medical Toxicology, said of the snortable chocolate, adding that he was especially concerned for people who have asthma or children with growing lungs.
Here to ask and answer the query are academics Daniel Ansari and Daniel Willingham. Willingham is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992, and whose research focuses on the application of cognitive psychology to K-12 schools and higher education.
The authors, led by a team from the University of Virginia, say that larger babies have up to 130 percent increased odds of being overweight or obese later in life.
Consider the architects who designed the buildings where University of Virginia law students have labored mightily during the past 200 years.
The first opponent of Republican Rep. Scott Taylor has announced his candidacy for Virginia’s second congressional district. Democrat Dave Belote, a veteran, UVA graduate and chair of the Virginia Beach Democratic Party, announced on Wednesday he will run against Taylor in 2018.
Alexis went to school in Ellicott City, Maryland, before graduating from the University of Virginia in 2005 with degrees in commerce and history. He’s most famous for co-founding social news website Reddit. Along with partner and fellow Virginia graduate Steve Huffman, the innovator set up the now-global name at the age of just 22.
(By UVA student John Patterson, an intern with Loudoun Now) Foreign Trade Zone 137 turned 30 this year, and through decades of stimulating the region’s import-export business, it’s established a central yet little-known role in Loudoun’s economic development.
The UVA Center for Politics rated Democrats the most vulnerable party. Although Republicans currently carry a narrow majority, Democrats are defending the most Senate seats during the 2018 cycle.
The University of Virginia – which Virginia considers a state agency – has had apprentices in its facilities department for 35 years. Last fall, 500 people applied for the program, and just 13 were hired, giving it a lower acceptance rate – 2.6 percent – than the university itself.
Our mission is to empower the next generation of global leaders through education, collaboration, and digital networking. We unite two of America’s premier universities, William & Mary and the University of Virginia, William Short’s Morven, and the homes of three Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, James Madison’s Montpelier and James Monroe’s Highland.
It was not by happenstance that Davis Love III was seated at the head table at Boar’s Head Pavilion a couple of weeks ago, the evening that University of Virginia COO Pat Hogan announced the redesign of Birdwood Golf Course. Love – the 2016 U.S. Ryder Cup captain and the winner of 21 PGA Tour events during his illustrious golf career – is also in the golf course building business with his brother, Mark, and lead architect Scot Sherman.
New research from the University of Virginia suggests smartphone dependency has consequences beyond the physical. It is eroding societal trust.
(Commentary) The evidence is in “The Millennial Success Sequence” published by the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies and written by Wendy Wang of the IFS and W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia and AEI. The success sequence is this: First get at least a high school diploma, then get a job, then get married, and only then have children.
Free agent Mike Scott, a former UVA standout, has agreed to a one-year, veteran minimum deal with the Washington Wizards, reportedly worth $1.7 million.
Ashli Rianna Sterling – who moved to the U.S. from Jamaica as a child – said she’s most excited to be able to vote. Sterling, a rising second-year student at the University of Virginia, said she is going to take more of an interest in politics at the local level now that she’s an eligible participant.
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato says the discord of the past few years is not a rip in the national fabric, just the ugly and soon-to-be-over death throes of the Baby Boomer generation as it collectively shuffles off center stage and, soon, the entire mortal coil.http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article159529204.html
The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia reprinted “Books as a Way of Life,” reflections on collecting and textual scholarship by Gordon N. Ray, one of the major book and manuscript collectors of the mid-20th century.
A.D. Carson just scored, arguably, the dopest job in academia. Last month, Carson moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, to take on the role of assistant professor of hip-hop and the global south at the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music.
(By R. Edward Freeman, University Professor, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor, academic director of the Institute for Business in Society, and senior fellow of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at UVA’s Darden School of Business, and Tina R. Opie of Babson College) This piece focuses on one other common way people express their authentic selves – their outward appearance – from two perspectives to see how this plays out.
One of the most oft-cited studies questioning the efficacy of Medicaid is a 2010 study of surgical outcomes from the University of Virginia. The researchers found that in-hospital mortality for Medicaid patients was worse than for uninsured or privately insured patients, though lower than Medicare patients. Despite all that, it turned out that Medicaid patients actually did better than some other patients in such surgeries as lung resections, pancreatectomies, and aortic aneurysm operations, and had fewer complications in some categories. A blanket conclusion that Medicaid patients did worse s...