Four students from New England are among 32 Americans named as Rhodes scholars for the 2016 academic year. The New England winners include Harvard seniors Grace Huckins of Weston, Massachusetts, and Garrett Lam of Wellesley, Massachusetts; University of Virginia senior Russell Bogue of Guilford, Connecticut and Hannah Schneider of Hamden, Connecticut, who graduated from Georgetown University this year.
As Bethany Teachman , a professor in the University of Virginia's 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. "The awkwardness is likely fueled in part by your perception of how it's supposed to go and what's actually happening, rather than [an actual] problem," she says.
Virginia was the first state in the nation to require that kids entering the sixth grade be vaccinated against human papilloma -- a virus that causes cervical, oral, throat and other cancers. Parents can opt out of that requirement, and many of them do. Virginia ranks 44th in the nation when it comes to HPV vaccination. A team of nurses at the University of Virginia is looking at that problem and making recommendations. Some parents think it’s unnecessary, since HPV is sexually transmitted, but Assistant Nursing Professors Emma Mitchell and Jessica Keim-Malpass sa...
Most of us have days at work when we walk around with a spring in our step and perform our tasks with gusto — and other days when our feet drag and we just can’t seem to get motivated. A new study encourages employees to look more closely at the people around them as one reason for that disparity. A team of researchers that included Gretchen Spreitzer, a management professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, found that some employees are “de-energizers” who spread their dispiriting attitude to others. In nonacademic parlance, these people are known ...
A legal historian specializing in civil rights has been selected as the 12th dean and the first woman to lead the School of Law at the University of Virginia. Risa L. Goluboff's appointment, which is effective July 1, was announced Friday.
A legal historian specializing in civil rights has been selected as the 12th dean of the School of Law at the University of Virginia. Risa L. Goluboff’s appointment, which is effective July 1, was announced Friday. She will be the first woman to lead the School of Law.
On behalf of the University of Virginia, President Teresa A. Sullivan accepted a prestigious award from Association of International Educators, for the University’s efforts to globalize its curriculum and research. The 2015 Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization was presented last week, at a ceremony in Washington, DC.
The softball field at Jack Jouett Middle School in Albemarle County has a whole new look thanks to University of Virginia baseball players and coaches. The team worked with the Carson Raymond Foundation to spruce up the field Sunday.
On Sunday, 25 University of Virginia Nursing students were at the Haven to hold a health fair for residents and clients. The health fair included health screenings--which included blood pressure measures, hearing and vision tests, and BMI Measurements.
A discovery by UVA researchers could change the way doctors treat patients with high cholesterol.
Nursing students from the University of Virginia are helping people in Charlottesville live healthier lifestyles. Members of the club "Nursing Students Without Borders" hosted a health fair at The Haven in downtown Charlottesville.
Called a MadiDrop, the porous, biodegradable ceramic tablet is designed to release silver ions that will disinfect water. One tablet can be reused continuously for six months. “There’s nothing quite like it on the market today,” said UVA’s James Smith.
Several Martinsville and Henry County musicians who are members of the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Marching Band will be marching with that band at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The local musicians are Jacob Wilkins, 2015 graduate of Bassett High School, a drum major at BHS and tuba player; Virginia Crabtree, 2014 graduate of Martinsville High School and former MHS drum major, and who plays clarinet; Andrew Lynch, 2014 graduate of Magna Vista and MVHS drum major, who plays tenor saxophone; and Katie Hairston, 2015 graduate of Magna Vista and who plays baritone, accordin...
Cruz also lacks support from his Republican colleagues in Congress, whom he’s alienated with his anti-establishment rhetoric, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Guy Aiken is an ethicist and historian of American Quakers at the University of Virginia. “What is ethically permissible is not always what is ethically preferable,” he says. “It may be that it is ethically permissible for Sidwell Friends to say that this is the Washington Home’s responsibility solely. But I think Quakers hold themselves to a different standard.”
The University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project director Bradford Wilcox, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies, also consulted on the survey. He said the “I’m-OK-you’re-not-OK” answers could indicate respondents are failing to look past the pop culture stereotypes of lousy marriages — or they’re failing to consider the weaknesses within their own unions.
The National Institutes of Health awarded a four-year, $1.9 million grant to support research at the School of Medicine that explores a real sweet heart of a question: Can the heart become addicted to blood sugar?
“If we really wanted a foolproof system, we would shut down immigration entirely,” said UVA’s David Martin, who’s previously held posts at DHS and the State Department. “The alarm is way overblown.”
Written when the future Nobel laureate was in his early 20s, “Twixt Cup and Lip” was discovered in the University of Virginia archives.