Using satellite photos and computerized mapping technologies, an international research team counted all of the lakes on Earth. They found about 117 million lakes, covering almost four percent of the world’s land surface, not counting the glaciers on Greenland and Antarctica, according to a new study.It is the first time the world’s lakes have been counted using a reliable method, the study claims.The research team from Sweden, Estonia, France and United States undertook the study to help them understand more about the role of lakes in the global carbon cycle and other natural...
As our knowledge of the molecular structure of Ebola virus increases, so does our chance of preventing and treating the outbreaks of deadly hemorrhagic fever that it causes. Now, a new crystallography study from the US shows how a key Ebola protein - important for virus replication - could be a target for new drugs....In this new study, published in the journal Acta Crystallographica Section D, researchers from the University of Virginia (UVA) used crystallography to obtain the structure of a key protein of the Zaire strain of Ebola virus - the strain circulating in DRC. ... Using X-ray crysta...
High school seniors from the late 1990s who worked 20 hours per week now earn about 4.4 percent more than those students who didn’t work, a recent National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) paper indicates. Teens who worked in the 1970s saw a larger wage premium, 8.3 percent, after graduation.“The average effect, it’s not as big as it used to be but it’s still positive,” said Christopher Ruhm, professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia and co-author of the NBER paper with Charles Baum of Middle Tennessee State University. College-...
According to the paper by Charles Baum and Christopher Ruhm, working in high school still increases earnings for a decade after graduation, but by much less than it used to.
For each year motherhood is delayed, career earnings increase by 9 percent, work experience by 6 percent and average wage rates by 3 percent, according to a 2011 paper by Amalia Miller, an associate professor of economics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Women who have college degrees and jobs in professional and managerial fields see the greatest gains, she found. “Later first births allow women more time to invest in schooling, work experience and on-the-job training that will, on average, increase their lifetime wages,” Miller wrote in an e-mail.
A map produced by researches at the University of Virginia provides an insightful look into the racial diversity -- or lack thereof -- for cities and states in the country.The map shows San Antonio is overwhelmingly Hispanic (63% to be exact) but has pockets of white, black and Asian communities. ... The visualization, produced by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, includes more than 308 million dots, one for each person residing in the United States at the location they were counted during the 2010 Census.
... Dr. Ami Riscassi of UVA explains that, “Researchers are still trying to understand the fundamental drivers of mercury deposition and transport, and the Shenandoah National Park is the ideal place to do this. In this higher elevation, atmospheric mercury can be stored in the soils and potentially be a long-term source of mercury to downstream environments. Here at the top of the watershed, we are the first stop to understanding how changes in atmospheric mercury are going to affect water resources at the park and downstream.”
... One of the most extraordinary facts that I picked up while researching a book about belief and the brain came from the American psychologist Timothy D. Wilson. In Strangers to Ourselves (2002), he describes a study that suggests that, at any given moment, the brain is capable of receiving more than 11 million bits of information. And yet we are consciously aware of fewer than 40. How does the brain parse this maelstrom of input? It does it by telling stories.
A patient who recently returned from Africa and was exhibiting Ebola-like symptoms tested negative for the virus, University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan told students Monday evening.
Medical experts in the area want to help families take the proper steps to start mapping out the future before it is too late.The Charlottesville Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (POST) Collaborative is hosting a community conversation on the topic. Members of the group include Martha Jefferson Hospital, the University of Virginia Medical Center, and Hospice of the Piedmont.The event's keynote speaker is emergency physician and nationally-known author Doctor Monica Williams-Murphy. She is set to address the audience on the importance of speaking honestly and openly about the end of ...
By law professor Micah SchwartzmanAlthough a lot of attention in Hobby Lobby was focused on whether corporations could claim rights of religious free exercise, the better argument for proponents of the contraception mandate was that corporations should not receive accommodations that impose significant burdens on third parties, including their employees. Until Hobby Lobby, and perhaps even after it, the Court has never granted an exemption to a for-profit corporation that shifted substantial costs onto identifiable non-beneficiaries.
Efforts are underway to make big changes in Virginia. One resolution looks to put a stop to what some say is unfair redistricting.OneVirginia2021 is a grassroots organization hoping to get support from every city and county in the commonwealth. The first student chapter is at the University of Virginia.The group asked City Council to pass a resolution saying the city supports the push for a nonpartisan redistricting committee. "To propose and have an amendment passed to Virginia state Constitution,” said Ann Laurence Baumer, a student member of OneVirginia2021. Council passed the re...
Embattled NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell continued his push to show the league is taking domestic violence and sexual assault matters seriously, announcing in a letter to teams and staff members Monday morning four women will help shape the league's policies going forward. … The league also has retained as senior advisors Lisa Friel ‘83, the former head of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit in the New York County District Attorney's Office; NO MORE co-founder Jane Randel; and Rita Smith, the former executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
In 1897, the New York Times inveighed against what it called “Two Curable Evils.” Evil One was lynching. Evil Two? Football. A few weeks earlier, on October 30, a fullback for the University of Georgia named Richard Von Albade Gammon had tried to tackle University of Virginia halfback Julien Hill. “Von,” as he was known, missed and fell hard, chin-first. He died of massive head trauma later that night.It didn’t take long after the Princeton-Rutgers game of 1869 (the first officially-recognized American football gam...
Longwood University is apologizing for its silence during Massive Resistance in Prince Edward County.Massive Resistance was Virginia's answer to a landmark Supreme Court decision banning racial segregation in the nation's schools.Prince Edward public schools closed their doors for five years rather than comply with the court. Many other localities in Virginia also stubbornly resisted, creating separate whites only schools.Longwood President W. Taylor Reveley IV said the university practiced a "conspicuous silence" during that era.Besides the apology, Longwoood establish...
Police in Charlottesville, Virginia, are pouring over cellphone records, trying to find a University of Virginia student who vanished during a night of partying with friends. Hannah Elizabeth Graham, 18, was last heard from after 1 a.m. Saturday.Graham’s apartment is off campus and, according to police, she and other students were drinking heavily that night; “fairly well intoxicated,” police said. Graham was seen at a pizza shop before she and a classmate headed to another party, which they left at 12:15 a.m., with Graham appearing to be walking home alone.But Graham may hav...