Researchers at the University of Virginia recently conducted an experiment that sent high school seniors text reminders about steps to finish the FAFSA. They found that those students were 5 to 8 percentage points more likely to enroll into a two-year institution compared with a similar group of high school seniors who did not receive the texts.
In a recent study published in Science, scientists at the University of Virginia found that people would rather be electrically shocked than spend time alone with their thoughts.
The work was recently supported with a Catalyst grant from the Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation. The $200,000 grant will fund a collaborative three-pronged study to advance this regenerative compound. ... Jeffrey Holmes, a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at University of Virginia and the third recipient of the grant, will use his portion to lead a study designed to study how this compound could treat heart damage. The compound is a peptide related to gap junctions, the subcellular structures that provide chemical and electrical connectivity between cells, inclu...
Massage therapy has many powerful health benefits that are consistently being supported by scientific research. One of the most impactful is it’s ability to reduce anxiety and stress. Jim Coan, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia, is the author of a study that determined that physical touch directly reduced anxiety. He stated, “We know that anxiety decreases immune function and makes you get sick more often. If touch can help you be less anxious, you’re more likely to stay well.”
Many operas are set in Europe – sung in Italian or German, but the Ash Lawn Opera in Charlottesville plans to bring the art form closer to home with a performance of Susannah -- a story set in Appalachia. ... To promote the show, Kreisel scheduled pop-up performances in Charlottesville and she took some cast members south to the University of Virginia at Wise, where music students took part in a master class.
Gov. Chris Christie's aide in charge of setting up and running the office in charge of rebuilding New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy is leaving the position for family reasons, the governor's office said yesterday. Marc Ferzan will be replaced as the executive director of the Governor's Office of Recovery and Rebuilding by Terrence Brody, Christie's office said. Ferzan is becoming a teacher at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, where his wife, Kimberly Ferzan, has joined the law school faculty.
(With video) Media City in 2012 introduced a filmmaker-in-residence program, Mobile Frames, which this year will see five artists from across North America producing new work in Windsor. Kevin Everson, an Ohio native and former Guggenheim fellow who teaches film at the University of Virginia, has been in Windsor since early June and wraps up his residency on July 11. This year marks his fifth appearance at Media City. Over his career, Everson has made nearly 100 shorts and seven feature films.
Douglas Laycock, a leading authority on religious-freedom issues at the University of Virginia Law School, said the Wheaton ruling “gives hope” to religious plaintiffs, but he cautioned that the high court might ultimately endorse an opt-out solution that will not satisfy religious nonprofits.
We checked with several law professors who focus on immigration and none of them had heard of the estimate Labrador cited. ... David Martin, who teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law, also expressed skepticism. "I’d guess this is just a straight-line projection applying the growth rate we’ve seen this year," Martin said. "But the administration is trying hard to break and reverse that trend."
“Of course, they’ll say one of the reasons they chose Ohio is because it’s the ultimate purple swing state,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, who has attended every convention since 1976. “OK, that’s true, but history suggests [a convention] doesn’t have much of an impact on the general election,” he said.
A couple years later, Wu landed a teaching job at the University of Virginia and started collaborating with Lawrence Lessig, who had just founded Creative Commons. Lessig encouraged him to write a paper about broadband discrimination in 2003. In this paper, Wu coined a term to describe a concept that would keep giant corporations from taking over the internet, a process that had already begun in his own estimates. Wu called this idea network neutrality — net neutrality for short.
Moving is no fun, but my move was a pleasant experience, with the great help of Student Services. They worked tirelessly, packed china carefully and worked almost non-stop for three days to get all of the treasures Allan and I had purchased all over the world moved safely. I was so impressed with Student Services that I want to tell you something about them. College students who were attending the University of Virginia started the company in 1973. They wanted to supply general labor and earn money for tuition. This idea evolved into a full-service household goods moving company, which now off...
Washington and Lee University says it is removing Confederate battle flags from its campus. The move was announced in a lengthy email from university president Kenneth Rusio to faculty and students on Tuesday.This spring, a group of law students demanded the school banish the flag from campus and repudiate one of its namesakes, Gen. Robert E. Lee. The group at the private liberal arts college found the flag troublesome in part because they had to pledge to an honor code in its prescence at the Lee Chapel.The Roanoke Times reports (http://bit.ly/1kAR38d) that while the flags will be removed...
The small but vocal faculty association at the University of Virginia is focusing on representation on the school’s Board of Visitors and pay for non-tenure track professors this academic year. The Association of American University Professors, which has a membership of about 53 professors at UVa, elected Peter Norton, an assistant professor of engineering as president earlier this month. The association was formed, in part, as a response to the Sullivan crisis.
It’s an unusual case, and one that brings up serious questions for the University’s medical center, which, like other public hospitals, is facing a future of major shortfalls as it struggles to fund its mandate to care for all patients, regardless of their ability to pay: Should care providers consider financial impact an essential part of the health care equation? And should a public hospital sue its way to a secure bottom line?
Top students from selected schools will work in teams to develop research concepts. They will be given access to NASA suborbital platforms to fly their science payloads. In total, ten schools were selected based on proposals applicants submitted. All of them will have the opportunity to launch scientific instruments on a variety of vehicles provided by NASA. ... University of Virginia students will launch a small satellite, known as the CubeSat Cosmic Ray Dosimeter, to measure cosmic rays.
An advanced manufacturing research center in Prince George County is getting a new partner. Officials say Spatial Integrated Systems Inc. has joined the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing as an industry member. The Virginia Beach-based company will provide digital 3D equipment and software used by commercial and military equipment manufacturers. The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing does research for a group of manufacturing companies under a partnership with Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia.