Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, served as lead researcher for a study that had some not so surprising results. According to his team’s findings, there is a significant positive correlation between prejudice, low intelligence, and social conservative ideology, reports LiveScience. Brian Nosek, a social and cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia, believes that this study will trigger a storm of controversy. They’ve pulled off the trifecta of controversial topics, said Brian Nosek, a social and cognitive psychologist at the Universit...
Twitter has gone to the dogs. University of Virginia student Henry Conklin has created a Twitter account that he says tweets every time his dog, Oliver Twitch, barks.
(Coauthored by Jay Shimshack, Associate Professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia) Environmental information disclosure and environmental transparency programs seem virtually ubiquitous in the business world. Consumers, employees, investors, activists, regulators and the general public regularly encounter product-level hazard warnings, read eco-labels, hear about firms' carbon emissions, and listen to the media debate the latest NGO-sponsored green company rankings. The programs that produce this environmental information may be inexpensive, politically expedie...
A national shortage of special education teachers is inspiring the University of Virginia to offer a new training program. The Curry School of Education is starting its first ever Special Education Masters Program at its Northern Virginia center.
The regional planning commission plans to begin studying ways to improve the area’s transit systems to grow overall ridership, but the review most likely will not lead to the merger of city and University of Virginia bus services.
The University of Virginia is offering a new Masters of Teaching in special education program this fall, but it's not at the Charlottesville campus. The UVa Curry School of Education says the program will be offered at the university's northern Virginia campus.
This summer six undergraduate students participated in an eight-week fellowship program on the campus of the University of Virginia entitled the Leadership Alliance Mellon Initiative. The program seeks to encourage students from underrepresented minority groups to pursue graduate studies in the humanities, education, and social sciences. Four of the six students at the University of Virginia’s program are from historically Black colleges and universities.
A plan to use CO2 to replace the water used in controversial energy technique fracking has been met with a mixed reception by experts contacted by The Register. New Scientist reported on work done by Andres Clarens and his team at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, to pump CO2 into fracking sites, which could act as a form of carbon sequestration, and so be a better solution than the water currently used.
The class of 2015 left college with the most expensive degrees in U.S. history, ones they couldn’t pay for. Student loan debt is at an all-time high, exceeding credit card debt and just trailing housing debt. Virginia ranked sixth best in the nation for student debt, according to a recent WalletHub study. University of Virginia director of Financial Aid Scott Miller offers tips for how students can relieve the burden.
Addyi also won't help women who doctors label as having a normal appetite for sex, according to Dr. Anita Clayton. Clayton works as a consultant with Sprout Pharmaceuticals and is interim chair of the department of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville. "It doesn't make you have hypersexual interest," Clayton said.
Some schools have banned junk food. Some have added longer gym classes, new nutrition classes, or even required standing desks. But childhood obesity rates are still about three times higher than they were in 1980. Now schools are adding another tool to the fight for fitter kids: Architecture. "We all know statistics about the childhood obesity epidemic, and we all know that despite our best efforts working very intensely at the individual level—or even at the population level—we haven't made as much of an inroad as we really want to," says Matt Trowbridge, an associa...
Republicans on Wednesday warned Gov. Terry McAuliffe that his plan to reappoint the Virginia Supreme Court justice at the center of a toxic political showdown could subject her rulings to legal challenge. But Republicans said McAuliffe’s actions could not only cloud Roush’s tenure but also give aggrieved litigants reason to challenge her authority on the bench. A University of Virginia law professor and the principal draftsman of the current version of the state constitution agrees with them. A.E. Dick Howard, the U-Va. law professor, said if Republicans challenged McAuliffe’...
When Dr. Matthew Trowbridge first began his pediatric practice, he thought a lot about how to protect children from sickness and injury. “ Prevention is really the number one thing, and as I started to look around at killers of young kids, they were things like motor vehicle crashes, and I realized that the way we build our communities had not been really looked at in a systematic way.” And today, as a professor at UVA’s school of medicine, he’s thinking about how to design cities and neighborhoods where children and adults can lead healthy lives.
To overcome these obstacles, Pew Research Center conducted an Implicit Association Test (IAT), a technique that psychologists say measures subconscious or “hidden” bias by tracking how quickly individuals associate good and bad words with specific racial groups. The categories were based on a widely used scoring scale developed by psychology professor Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia, a pioneer in the use of the IAT to measure subconscious racial bias. Overall the experiment found that most people in the five racial groups had some degree of bias toward the ...
An international initiative ranks the University of Virginia as one of the best hospitals in the U.S. for babies and their mothers. The children's hospital and women's services have worked for three years to receive the designation as a baby-friendly birth facility. The recognition comes from the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund.
A new study reveals what our travel habits say about our personalities. According to new research in the Journal of Research in Personality, extroverts prefer the ocean, and introverts go for the mountains. Here are a few interesting takeaways from the researchers at University of Virginia, directly from the work: “People preferred the ocean over mountains when they wanted to socialize with others, but they preferred the mountains and the ocean equally when they wanted to decompress alone.”
Finally, and most excitingly for the world of self-powered wearables, a team at the University of Virginia recently announced a new microchip which uses energy generated by a combination of sources including body motion, body heat and sunlight.
The University of Virginia is joining a growing cadre of universities offering an undergraduate program that aims to prepare future science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers. The state flagship announced Wednesday that the engineering school will team with the Curry School of Education to provide undergraduates with a dual-degree program that will offer a five-year bachelor’s and master’s degree.
David Touve, assistant professor of commerce and director of the Galant Center for Entrepreneurship.talks with WINA News about the new undergraduate minor in entrepreneurship offered this fall at the University of Virginia.
This fall, students studying engineering at the University of Virginia can also get a degree in teaching at the same time. The Curry School of Education and the School of Engineering are offering a 5-year, dual-degree program where students can graduate with a degree in engineering and a master's degree in teaching.