“I’m gonna really embarrass myself here,” Howard Stern cautioned his satellite radio listeners. “But I watched ‘Pitch Perfect,’ and I liked it.” That 2012 comedy about a female acappella group beloved by teenage girls? It was the shock jock’s guilty pleasure. The film was based on a book by GQ editor Mickey Rapkin, in which he gave a behind-the-scenes look at collegiate a cappella groups from schools such as Tufts University and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia's Finals Weekend 2015 has been expanded to three days this year, May 15-17, to accommodate historic renovations and a larger audience.
Kendall King is the first to admit she’s not necessarily the outdoors type.“Most of us are activists, not athletes," said King, a University of Virginia freshman who set out from Braley Pond Road on Saturday to bike the Atlantic Coast Pipeline route through Virginia with other members of the state’s Student Environmental Coalition.
A new study may add fuel to the fire that erupted last year over the question of whether stopping disease-modifying treatments (DMTs) in multiple sclerosis patients should be considered. David E. Jones, MD, who was among the AHRQ report's critics, told MedPage Today in an email that the MSbase results were "very interesting" but hardly the last word. "The patients are from a registry of observational data, certainly not a high level of evidence," said Jones, an MS neurologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He also agreed with the authors'...
Testing has concluded that a person who had recently traveled to West Africa and had symptoms of an illness does not have the Ebola virus, University of Virginia Medical Center officials said late Monday.
A new study has suggested that world's population-food supply balance is becoming increasingly unstable. Paolo D'Odorico, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and one of the study's authors, asserted that in the past few decades there has been an intensification of international food trade and an increase in the number of countries that depend on food imports and on average, about one-fourth of the food they eat is available to them through international trade and this globalization of food may contribute to the spread of the effects of local shocks i...
The U.S. government’s plan to extract criminal pleas from five global banks related to currency manipulation, along with penalties of billions of dollars, sounds harsh. It may also, say some former regulators and prosecutors, have little bite. The question is whether the latest guilty pleas will keep financial institutions from committing future crimes. The settlements, while momentous, will likely leave unanswered questions, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia who studies corporate crime enforcement.
The parent companies or main banking units of as many as five major banks, rather than their smaller subsidiaries, are expected to plead guilty to US criminal charges over manipulation of foreign exchange rates, people familiar with the matter said. "We need to look carefully at the actual terms of the plea deals to assess just how well these banks are being held accountable, but guilty pleas by major banks at the parent company level will send a message that even the largest U.S. financial institutions can be convicted of crimes," said University of Virginia law school professor Bra...
Nearly three decades ago, E.D. Hirsch Jr., an emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, decried the decline in cultural literacy, which he defined as “the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world” — essentially the fundamentals of “the major domains of human activity from sports to science.”This notion, and Hirsch’s 1987 book, “Cultural Literacy: What every America needs to know,” were embraced by conservatives skeptical of the “relevance” movement in the nation’s classrooms.
Sen. Marco Rubio, whose muscular foreign policy doesn’t hesitate to exert U.S. influence or military might around the world, revved up an audience in South Carolina recently by referring to a line from the movie thriller “Taken.” “He’s citing his committee assignment in the Senate to suggest he is better informed than the governor-candidates, but that’s not enough to convince people he understands the world,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
The House Financial Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, led by chairman U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) will hold a hearing on The Dodd-Frank Act and Regulatory Overreach at 9:30 a.m. EST on May 13. Witnesses in the hearing include Paul G. Mahoney, dean and professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Though plentiful in and around many galaxies, newborn examples of globular cluster are vanishingly rare and the conditions necessary to create new ones have never been detected until now. “We may be witnessing one of the most ancient and extreme modes of star formation in the universe,” said Kelsey Johnson from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “This remarkable object looks like it was plucked straight out of the very early universe. To discover something that has all the characteristics of a globular cluster, yet has not begun making stars, is like finding a din...
We have had cities for more than 6,000 years. Until very recently, a child could walk without fear anywhere in them. In 1900, nobody was killed by a car in the United States. . .because there were no cars. Just 20 years later, as Peter Norton, a professor at the University of Virginia, found in his book "Fighting Traffic," more than 200,000 people were killed by cars. In 1925 alone, cars killed about 6,000 children. Cities and life in cities had changed. We should have started to make cities different to accommodate cars, where every other street would be for pedestrians on...
Schools of education can also play a critical role. They are preparing the next generation of educators—and have a responsibility that extends beyond the university and into the classroom. Leading education school deans are now collaborating to transform the way we prepare educators. Earlier this spring, we helped launch a unique ed tech accelerator with the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, in order to bring educators together with entrepreneurs, investors with academics to cultivate a more collaborative, outcome-focused discussion about education technology.
Kids and teens who suffer a concussion worry about their academic skills in the weeks afterward, and older kids and those with more severe symptoms seem to worry the most, according to a new study. “The persistence of symptoms clearly is the most significant factor in academic impact,” said Susan Saliba, a physical therapist, athletic trainer and associate professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
A free health clinic will return to Wise County this summer. The annual Remote Area Medical Clinic will be held July 17 to 19 at the Wise County Fairgrounds in Wise. The annual clinic is a collaborative effort between several organizations, including the University of Virginia Health System, to provide free health services.
In his important new book in defense of the liberal-arts tradition, commentator Fareed Zakaria points out that the “notion that young people are somehow callow and morally unserious is not a new charge.” Nearly three decades ago, E.D. Hirsch Jr., an emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, decried the decline in cultural literacy, which he defined as “the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world” — essentially the fundamentals of “the major domains of human activity from sports to science.”
The risk of self-delusion is ever-present in the days leading up to a wedding. “There is a basic view today that couples perceive the wedding as the signal that they have succeeded in landing someone,” said Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. This is especially true, he said, “for those couples in their 20s and 30s with good jobs and money saved. They view marriage as the capstone moment. They have arrived.”
For the first time, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) believe they've caught a globular cluster just before its birth some 50 million light years away. “We may be witnessing one of the most ancient and extreme modes of star formation in the universe,” lead author Kelsey Johnson of the University of Virginia said in a statement.
Is Florida the key state for the upcoming 2016 presidential election? Is it the decider – whichever candidate takes its 29 electoral votes, takes the White House as well? After spending a few hours fiddling with vote maps we think there’s a good argument that’s the case. The foundation of this theory is the fact that over the past 15 years the nation’s electoral map has been unusually stable. University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato and the crew at his “Crystal Ball” newsletter make this point in their newest issue.