If Bronco Mendenhall isn’t the most accomplished coach ever hired by the University of Virginia, he needs to be mentioned prominently in the discussion.
Thursday night marked the 15th anniversary of the Lighting of the Lawn at the University of Virginia. Thousands of people were greeted with a variety of musical and dance performances culminating in a traditional light show at the end of the night. According to the university, more than 12,000 low-energy LED lights are being used this year.
This week, two shooters opened fire on a workplace holiday party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding at least 21. Not much is known about the shooters yet, other than the fact that all four of their weapons were legally purchased, according to the New York Times. What we do know is that the events in San Bernardino are far from unique: Statistics show that there’s a mass shooting, defined as one in in which at least four people died, almost every day in America. To most people watching, this frequency suggests that, with Congress gridlocked, mass shootings ...
A group of UVA inventors has already won tens of thousands of dollars for an idea for pets that may have implications as a human male contraceptive.
Women account for 34 percent of the Darden School of Business' students and that number is growing as more women are getting into the school from around the world.
Scientific discoveries are often the product of painstaking research over years, but once in a while laboratories get lucky. Such was the case at the UVA Immunology Center, where an effort to better understand the immune system led to a finding that could help treat anemia.
Bronco Mendenhall, the head coach at Brigham Young University for the last 11 years, is the new head football coach at the University of Virginia, director of athletics Craig Littlepage announced today, Friday, Dec. 4.
Thursday night marked the 15th anniversary of the Lighting of the Lawn at the University of Virginia. Thousands of people were greeted with a variety of musical and dance performances culminating in a traditional light show at the end of the night. According to the university, more than 12,000 low-energy LED lights are being used this year.
As world leaders meet in Paris for the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference, a University of Virginia student and two alumnae also are at the talks, pushing for change.
Was the pressure to publish tempting authors to improperly tweak their findings in order to create more cohesive stories? If researchers could report just the one finding they felt comfortable with, Rajendran mused, perhaps “there would be no need to be dishonest.” Those ponderings eventually spurred the creation of Matters. Launched on 5 November, the open-access online journal aims to boost integrity and speed the communication of science by allowing researchers to publish discrete observations rather than complete stories. Because good stories are more satisfying than ones with ...
Donald Trump has a big beef with Big Media over the presidential debates. The GOP presidential front-runner says the TV networks have been using the prime-time presidential debates to make millions of dollars. Advertising Age, the industry bible, agrees. We asked University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato, one of the country’s leading political thinkers, to join us in helping the rookie presidential candidate think bigger. Trump should use his speech tonight in Prince William County to go bigger and better. Sabato told us there is “No question the networks are making b...
Consumers today can get food and rides and tubes of toothpaste on demand at any hour of the day. They can order used cars, up for sale, to be brought to their doorstep for a test drive in mere hours. Startups—clamoring to cater to consumers’ desire for all things white-glove and personalized—have encouraged new users to outsource their laundry, their driving, their parking, their shopping, and more. But even the business leaders who are helping to revolutionize today’s consumer lifestyle disagree about whether this is a golden age that can last—or one built on gre...
An IRS proposal that would change the way charities report donations has nonprofits in the Shenandoah Valley rallying in opposition. It would make them collect private information that puts donors at greater risk for identity theft. A professor of law and taxation, at the University of Virginia, George Yin, offered his take. “What this does is it gives an alternative to the charity to report it and then the taxpayer can still get the deduction without the receipt,” said Yin. Yin doubts many nonprofits would fill out the optional form.
A recently-released survey from the National Survey of Engagement – commonly called ‘Nessie’ – featured a student poll that brought to question whether students are being adequately challenged by their universities. The survey first discovered that admissions had no correlation to the level at which students felt they were challenged. The selectivity wasn’t a guarantee for academic rigor or a high-quality educational experience. Josipa Roksa, an associate professor of sociology and education at the University of Virginia, suggested that researchers look closely at...
National political groups are bigfooting their way into state elections through ad campaigns, part of a growing trend in which groups independent from candidates or parties are taking a larger role in shaping the narratives of political campaigns. “National groups may be digging deeper down the ballot because the money may be more valuable the more you go down the ballot,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “However, the Kochs intervened and didn’t win. The [school board members] were recalled, which shows ju...
(By Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia) For a thousand years, the societies of the Western world transmitted and preserved much of their written cultures on and between the skins of beasts.
According to a study recently published in the Journal of Child Development, the cool kids in school (you know, the ones who had blonde and black hair extensions in at the same time and carried their PE kits in Jane Norman bags) are not likely to be successful in later life. The study, entitled 'What Happened To The Cool Kids', chronicled ten years of research as scientists followed the lives of 180 teenagers from the ages of 13-23 to see how their lives developed. Professor Joseph Allen from the University of Virginia was involved in the study and said: "It appears that while so-...
Some University of Virginia doctors have been recognized for going after a rare and deadly disease. Pulmonary fibrosis is the name for more than 200 lung diseases that are still largely unknown. The disease happens when the lung tissue becomes damaged or scarred. A patient may go see their general practitioner, which may lead to a misdiagnosis. That’s when specialists at UVa come in to give the patient better treatment.
As Bethany Teachman , a professor in the Department of Psychology, puts it, awkward situations can be boiled down to "an incongruence" between what's happening and what you think should happen, or between what two people think should happen.
"This variant has been studied for years, but this study provided more convincing evidence on the role of this genetic variant in smoking cessation by analyzing a significant large number of smoke samples," said UVA professor Ming Li.