UVA’s club rugby team partnered with the Virginia Commonwealth Games to host a day of adaptive rugby – a non-contact version of the sport. Long distance throwing, kicking, and target practice are just a few of the events that athletes competed in at Madison Bowl Field.
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University recently announced its Institute for Rebooting Social Media’s inaugural cohort of Visiting Scholars. The scholars include David Nemer, an assistant professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies.
“The conclusion of the source being a planet seems robust,” said Ilse Cleeves, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia who was not involved with this study. “This is probably the youngest directly imaged planet in a disk.” Infant planets like this one are hard to find, although not for lack of trying. So far, the search has come up with two other protoplanets, both orbiting the same star. But in contrast to AB Aur b, they have already cleared most of their disk’s material.
“I think at the end of the day, I think it’s going to be hard for Democrats if the environment doesn’t change,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. “It’s not as bleak of an outlook as it is in the House for Democrats, but it’s still a heavy lift in the Senate.”
“The political environment as indicated or revealed by Biden’s approval is basically the same or worse than it was five months ago,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the UVA Center for Politics. Kondik pointed out that Biden’s average approval rating in November stood at 43% and has since dipped closer to 40%. “Democrats really need Biden’s numbers to get better. You’re sort of running out of time for that to happen,” he said.
This deal is worth something from a value perspective. Anthony Palomba, a professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business, says that most streamers want to buy up precious intellectual property to take on goliaths like Netflix. The merger makes a lot of sense, according to Palomba.
Pseudoephedrine works to ease decongestion by constricting the blood vessels in the nasal passages and sinuses, slowing mucus production. However, experts from the University of Virginia’s health blog warn that “those same constricted vessels might also increase your blood pressure and heart rate.” That’s because “pseudoephedrine is chemically similar to adrenaline, so the body recognizes it as adrenaline, causing the blood pressure and heart rate to increase,” pharmacist Kayla Ryan explained via the site.
Author Kathryn Miles pored over evidence and talked extensively with Deirdre Enright, a former attorney for Rice and founder of the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law. Enright said when Miles first called, she ignored her. She felt that most reporters were not interested in doing a deep dive into the facts of the case. But Miles convinced Enright she was ready for it. “She revealed to me that she had the facts. She had read the whole court file, which was not a easy thing to do. And she was not coming at it with any presumptions,” said Enright.
Lucy Guarnera, a UVA assistant professor who studies false confessions, said law enforcement often uses “behavioral lie detection” techniques that look at a person’s actions to predetermine innocence or guilt. But this can be detrimental because “a lot of trauma symptoms look like these behavioral cues of lying,” Guarnera said.
“The [SIDS] rates have been totally stagnant” for the past 20 years, says Fern Hauck, professor of family medicine and public health sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and a SIDS researcher. “I think it’s important that public health professionals be aware that these numbers are not going down.”
Mitu Gulati, a law professor at the University of Virginia, is a world expert on sovereign debt. He told Insider the situation is a “giant mess” that could result in years of “litigation chaos.” Here, he gives his thoughts on what might happen next.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan is running again. Ryan is competing for the 11th consecutive year in the 126th annual Boston Marathon on April 18 and this year is raising money and awareness for veterans.
(Commentary by A.D. Carson, assistant professor of hip-hop and the Global South) A year after winning his first Grammy for “King Disease,” rapper Nas delivered his first solo Grammy performance, a career-spanning medley including songs that ranged from his 1994 debut album to his latest, “King’s Disease II,” which scored a nomination for best rap album this year. It might seem odd that one of rap’s most celebrated lyricists is achieving these firsts now, almost three decades into his career.
The University of Virginia campus has become the showground for an array of creative structures built from natural materials. The Biomaterial Building Exposition (Bio-Build Expo for short) was organized by the University’s architecture school and showcases the possibilities of organic, bio-based materials including salvaged lumber and fungal structures.
He’s known as the “Jackie Robinson of Golf” in his home country of Zimbabwe, and now the University of Virginia men’s golf team is honoring his memory with the 2022 Lewis Chitengwa Memorial Golf Tournament. The UVA golf alumnus was a two-time All-American and earned all ACC honors in the 90s. After UVA, he had a successful career on the Canadian golf tour until he passed away at the age of 26 from meningitis.
According to researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, and Flo Health, women older than forty who give birth to twins have the highest risk. “The size of this study, in over 1 million new mothers, make the findings highly significant and definitive. Most studies on postpartum depression are small and confined to a small region. This study answers questions about risk factors for postpartum depression from a worldwide sample,” said Jennifer L. Payne, MD, the study’s senior author and director of the Reproductive Psychiatry Research Program at the ...
The future of oyster reefs is not all doom and gloom. UVA researchers, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, have published the results of a 15-year study in which they assess the possibility of restoring reefs to their former functional glory. Their findings, published in Conservation Letters, demonstrate that restored reefs can match natural reef oyster populations in about six years and continue to hold strong thereafter.
Off-the-shelf, publicly available indices can also drive value. For instance, the University of Virginia’s hedonometer, which measures overall societal happiness driven by textual analysis of tweets, has been shown as a key predictor of overall engagement with media.
Projections from the University of Virginia predict cases in Virginia will rise for at least the next 2½ months, based on its current course. But mitigating effects — such as higher vaccination rates — could cause cases to subside after a mild bump.
Members of the University of Virginia Police Department recently underwent active threat training.