A new study published Monday in Nature Plants breaks down the environmental cost of producing a loaf of bread, from wheat field to bakery. The study is "very interesting, very complete," says James Galloway, an expert on nitrogen cycles at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the new study. "This is exactly the kind of thing that should be done with other food commodities."
The shift to digital has an impact across sectors whether it is news media, retail, finance or telecom. Professor Rajkumar Venkatesan of UVA’s Darden Business School discusses the importance of subscription models and why businesses should focus on customer lifetime value, and integrated online and offline strategies to drive growth.
The University of Virginia estimates that it spends $20 million a year complying with unfunded federal mandates, just for its academic division, reports Karin Kapsidelis with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The estimates come in response to a Congressional request for information as part of a review of federal review of unfunded mandates.
Planners have narrowed down ideas for a memorial to enslaved laborers at the University of Virginia and expect to have a proposal for university officials by the summer. Members of the design team met Monday at the School of Architecture to talk with students and faculty about three proposals – all of them involving displays on or near the Lawn, at the heart of UVA Grounds – being batted around in the final stretch of the planning process.
"The Supreme Court left it a little unclear where the line is," said Leslie Kendrick, a professor at UVA’s School of Law. "The law has to take into account the speaker's state of mind. But what state of mind does that have to be? We don't know."
UVA media studies professor Aynne Kokas, author of the new book "Hollywood: Made in China," breaks down how the movie market in China is exploding.
UVA’s Rotunda stands as Jefferson’s masterpiece and may be the greatest building in the United States. The recent renovations have restored the building’s centrality. The reopened place represents the University in the intellect as well as on postcards.
On the occasion of the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture last September, the museum created greater visibility for these narratives and formed new discourses on race. The Architect’s Newspaper sat down with Mabel O. Wilson, an architect, associate professor at Columbia and an alum of the University of Virginia, to discuss her new book, “Beginning with the Past,” which details the hard-fought process of realizing the museum.
There’s a difference between those who harshly criticized Obama because they saw the Affordable Care Act as government overreach and those who cast him as un-American and a tyrant based on false allegations about his race or religion, notes Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
Obama Labor Secretary and Hillary Clinton-backer Tom Perez narrowly won the race to become Democratic National Committee chairman. Almost immediately after taking the podium, Perez named Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, a Bernie Sanders supporter in the Democratic presidential primary, as deputy chair. Dr. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, spoke to CBSN about the Democrats' moment of unity.
In Charlottesville, for instance, even though Lee may be “America’s Most Honored Traitor,” according to UVA research archivist Ervin L. Jordan Jr. He balked at the $700,000 estimated cost of moving the statues of Lee and Stonewall Jackson. “That money could be better serving us, in these tax-starved times, for more beneficial purposes,” Jordan said.
Over the next few months, Gardner will have to decide when the party will embrace Trump – and when it won’t. “His charge over the next two years is to put Republicans in the Senate first,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “When that means supporting Trump, he will support Trump. When that means opposing Trump, he will oppose Trump.”
While some children of divorced couples do have difficulty understanding why two people who get along well couldn’t simply have remained married, the alternative is much worse. Robert E. Emery, the director of UVA’s Center for Children, Families, and the Law, notes that while Paltrow’s term “conscious uncoupling” is “awkward … I think of her and her ex as setting a positive example for other parents. I have great respect for anyone who puts their kids first in divorce.”
George Rutherglen, a UVA professor of law for the past 40 years, said he found it “baffling” that Wood asked for court approval to assist the partnership without Lindenburg having signed off on it. When told that Wood actually worked on the Lindenburg matter, Rutherglen said: “I think this is very dubious. It’s very dubious to switch sides without the consent of the former client. It’s very dubious to keep the money. You keep pushing the envelope on ethical violations, you expose yourself,” he said. “I don’t know why the state is doing it. I don’t know why the attorney is doing it.”
A film agreement between the U.S. and China expires today, paving the way for a new round of talks that could mark the first major deal between the two economic giants under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. “There is a lot of interest on the Chinese side to potentially increase the number of Hollywood films that are represented in the market," Aynne Kokas, UVA assistant professor of media studies, said.
Keeping blood sugar at healthy levels may soon get easier. UVA researchers have made an artificial pancreas, essentially a smart insulin pump connected to a continuous blood sugar monitor and a smartphone app.
Drug-resistant bacteria can lurk in the pipes of hospital sinks, and a new study shows that these dangerous bacteria can also make their way out of sinks and continue on to reach patients. To trace the path from pipe to patient, the researchers built a lab with five identical hospital sinks that were all connected via plumbing. It was "the only sink lab we are aware of in the U.S.," senior study author Dr. Amy Mathers, an associate professor of medicine and pathology at the UVA School of Medicine, said in a statement.
Antibiotic-resistant superbug bacteria grow up hospital drains and can splash out into sinks and onto counters, researchers reported Friday. "There has recently been an alarming increase in sink-related outbreaks worldwide," Dr. Amy Mathers of the UVA Health System and colleagues reported.
As BBC News Science Correspondent Tom Feilden noted last week, "Science is facing a 'reproducibility crisis' where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, research suggests." This isn't just his journalistic opinion, but the conclusion of UVA’s Center for Open Science, which estimates that roughly 70 percent of all studies can't be reproduced. And this includes the field of climate change, by the way. It's a disaster.
The number of positive lymph nodes can help guide treatment for locally advanced head and neck cancer, according to a recent study. In the analysis, the use of chemoradiotherapy was associated with a statistically significant improvement in overall survival compared with radiotherapy alone. Additionally, “Survival benefits of CRT versus RT alone increased in patients with multiple positive lymph nodes,” lead author Dr. Daniel Trifiletti, UVA School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote.