The four ranked specialties are: neonatology (30th), diabetes and endocrinology (34th), orthopedics (tied for 41st) and cardiology and heart surgery (44th).
UVA anthropologist Mark A. Sicoli, an expert on indigenous languages, talks about the rare whistled speech of people in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Two cohorts of 20 to 25 teachers are working at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary to learn techniques to better teach reading and English as a Second Language, and will be certified as reading specialists at the end of the programs.
Chesapeake will surpass Norfolk to become the second-most populous city in Virginia by 2020, according to new projections from the University of Virginia. The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Demographics Research Group made the state-funded population projections. The numbers are shared with policymakers for planning.
On February 24, 1883, seven male patients lost consciousness after receiving their morning liquid medication. Autopsies performed by UVA chemistry professor John Mallet concluded – with the coroner’s jury agreeing – that the medicine had been poisoned with aconitine, a deadly extract of the monkshood plant.
A report from the National Marriage Project (directed by UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox) that looked at more than 1,000 adults found that couples who took time to talk through big decisions together (as opposed to sliding through them somewhat haphazardly) were happier individually and as a couple later on.
The ruling, said UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, means that Blaine Amendments are unconstitutional in at least some of their applications. “The question is how many applications, or which applications,” he said. “The case is not just about playgrounds.” He expects it will be easier for funds to go to religious institutions.
Luca Connolly, a recent UVA graduate and a member of the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition, said she’s not prepared to deny Northam a vote just because of his pipelines stance. Connolly and about a dozen other members of VSEC from six Virginia universities temporarily hijacked the stage at Northam’s primary night watch party to protest the candidate’s pipeline stance.
One of the changes that Henderson enjoys the most is the new and improved signage around the museum. Created in collaboration with UVA graduate psychology students, it provides prompts for parents about how to engage with their children at each exhibit.
Elizabeth Lockwood Atherton: An incoming junior at the University Virginia, she is a Spanish language and culture major and a technology entrepreneurship minor, a member of the Sigma Alpha Lambda Honors Society and the University of Virginia chapter of Love your Melon, an organization benefiting childhood cancer patients.
Miss Julia Murphy Grehan began her summer studying abroad in Lund, Sweden, where she worked with sustainability and business systems. The University of Virginia student will bring back information from this international learning experience for her studies as a systems and information engineer at the Charlottesville school.
(By UVA Ph.D. candidates Sophie Abramowitz, Eva Latterner and Gillet Rosenblith) Even as Corey Stewart’s campaign ended, the fights over Confederate monuments in Charlottesville continued. They might soon reach a new fever pitch, and as they do it’s worth considering an overlooked piece of history around these statues: Their role in displacements of former black residents.
Legally risky, undiplomatic and sometimes wrong, Trump’s Twitter feed is a document for the ages. And historians don’t want to lose it. Argued Russell Riley, co-chair of the oral history program at UVA’s Miller Center for presidential scholarship: “You’re given a much more up-close look at his innate thought processes than I think you’ve gotten from any other president,” he said.
That Jefferson would push back the time of a dinner by several hours is an indication for his respect for religious freedom, even though Jefferson was widely criticized in his time for his accommodation of the Tunisian envoy, said Scott Harrop, a professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and cultures at the University of Virginia.
(By Mary Kate Cary, senior fellow for presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center) After four straight losses in recent special elections for congressional seats, on top of more than 1,030 seats lost nationally by Democrats in state legislatures, governorships and Congress since 2009, the Democratic National Committee needs to figure out the cause of what can only be called the party’s slow death.
In Faulkner’s bedroom are a couple of pairs of riding boots, as well as a placard, numbered 64, which he wore at an Albemarle County horse show. By the time he died in 1962 of a heart attack following injuries received in a riding accident, Faulkner was a Nobel Prize winner, teaching at UVA and no longer living full-time at Rowan Oak. (UVA has most of Faulkner’s papers, and the fascinating exhibit there is on display through July.)
In December, seven law professors – including two from the University of Virginia – wrote a brief supporting plaintiffs' arguments that HB 1523 violates the principle that government should not favor some religious beliefs over others.
The problem for Yoplait was that authenticity – like innovation – almost never tests well. This is a common phenomenon. “Data regresses to the mean,” said James Gilmore, a professor at the University of Virginia and an author of “Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want.” “Something that’s really original, really authentic, it’s probably not going to score that well because people have a knee-jerk reaction against new things.”
“Made by History” will be edited by a team of professional historians. Brian Rosenwald, a historian at the University of Pennsylvania, and Nicole Hemmer, a professor and writer at UVA’s Miller Center, are the site’s editors-in-chief. Each day, you’ll find historical analyses to situate the events making headlines in their larger historical context.
Businesses want to harness even more wind energy, at a cheaper price – and one of the best ways to lower cost is to build bigger turbines. That’s why an alliance of six institutions led by UVA researchers are designing the world’s largest wind turbine.