Murrells Inlet native Natasha L. Mikles has been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Virginia. Mikles, in the Department of Religious Studies, is a doctoral candidate and is among 20 national recipients of the fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Murrells Inlet native Natasha L. Mikles receives dissertation fellowship from University of Virginia
In his new book, Ohio native Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics combines history and statistics to explain that the state stands out among its swing states as a bellwether because of its remarkably reliable record of mirroring national sentiment.
Before it broke in March, one month after launch, Japan’s Hitomi X-ray satellite managed to gaze at the Perseus galaxy cluster – one of the Universe's most massive objects, 250 million light-years from Earth. And researchers discovered that superheated gas at the cluster's heart flows much more placidly than expected. Understanding how turbulence roils this gas allows astronomers to explore how galaxies form and evolve. “Clusters are one of our most important probes of cosmology,” says Craig Sarazin, a UVA astronomer who was not involved with the work.
The “Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump clash may well set a new record for partisan differences between the sexes,” said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Despite egalitarian attitudes toward parenting in predominantly progressive academia, other studies also indicate men are much more likely than women to use parental leave for professional gain. A 2012 study by UVA political scientist Steven E. Rhoads found a majority of male professors believe parenting should be shared equally between the sexes.
Kelley Stuck has been named UVA’s vice president and chief human resources officer. Stuck is currently the interim vice president of human resources at the University of Missouri.
Interest in Andy Warhol’s art, both for its content and its execution, is as strong as ever in large part because the message he so consistently conveyed is as true now as it was decades ago. Through Sept. 18, The Fralin will showcase a small collection of Warhol pieces that is centered on defining characteristics of his career.
Chloe Fuller, 7, has battled cancer for two years. She and her family wanted to help other kids who are fighting the same battle. Chloe’s been traveling between Page County and Charlottesville, where UVA Children's Hospital doctors helped cure her. Their initial goal was to collect around 700 crayons and coloring books; they ended up with over 4,000.
The best reason to keep DST is a report from UVA’s Frank Bratten School of Leadership and Public Policy that credits it with reducing “robbery by 51 percent, murder by 43 percent and rape by 56 percent during the ‘extra’ hour of evening daylight.”
Annette Gordon-Reed is a Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who wrote the definitive history of Sally Hemings and her family. Peter Onuf is professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, which Jefferson founded, and senior fellow at Monticello’s International Center for Jefferson studies. Gordon-Reed and Onuf write in their book, “It is impossible to understand 18th and 19th century America, and the country the United States has become, without grappling with [Jefferson] and his legacy.”
Kevin Owen, co-founder of Rivanna Medical, said, “And obviously we worked in an ultrasound research lab, so it was a good idea, and easy for us to try and develop something to solve this problem.” Owen and Will Mauldin came up with the idea in a science lab at the University of Virginia.
Kyle Kondik at UVA’s Crystal Ball agreed. “If Trump turns off some well-off, well-educated Republicans, a county that could flip from Romney to Clinton is Chester, which has both the state’s highest median income and the highest percentage of residents over 25 years old with a four-year degree.”
Like many hypothetical implications of Brexit, it’s unclear whether a “Made in U.K.” backlash will actually happen. But there’s no doubt it’s a concern. “Even that uncertainty in and of itself has implications,” said Sonal Pandya, associate professor of politics at UVA. A previous study led by Pandya and fellow UVA business professor Rajkumar Venkatesan showed that country-based brand marketing can have an impact on sales during times of international conflict.
UVA Women’s Services and UVA Children’s Hospital were among just 1 percent of reporting U.S. hospitals to meet all four maternity care standards from the Leapfrog Group, a national patient safety organization.
Democrats have recruited a Macomb County assistant prosecutor to be their new congressional candidate to face Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop in the 8th District. The handicappers at UVA’s Center for Politics rated Bishop a “safe Republican” after actress Melissa Gilbert dropped out.
So far, there has been no rigorous proof of the existence of such many-body localization. Now, theoretical work by John Imbrie at the University of Virginia provides such a proof – although relying on one very reasonable assumption.
UVA ranks No. 4 among public universities, No. 5 in the South and No. 19 among research universities.
In a 1991 interview, Irving I. Gottesman – then a UVA professor of psychology – said he hoped to uncover the underlying causes of schizophrenia, a psychological disorder that was first identified centuries ago but is still widely misunderstood. At the time of his death on June 29, Gottesman was a professor at the University of Minnesota, but he spent 16 years at UVA.
The Leapfrog Group, a national patient safety organization, says UVA Women’s Services and UVA Children’s Hospital are among the top facilities in the United States for maternity care.