Charlottesville-based Rivanna Medical, founded by two University of Virginia alumni, developed a pocket-sized ultrasound for doctors during delivery.
Taking a longer-range view, an American Enterprise Institute report in April found that teens with involved fathers were 98 percent more likely to graduate from college and those with “very involved” fathers were 105 percent more likely to graduate. While the author, Brad Wilcox, of the University of Virginia, cites father involvement as a likely cause, Naomi Schaefer Riley speculates that it’s because fathers grant children more independence than mothers typically do.
One of the major hurdles for the big data industry, which the report laid out, was a major skills gap between the number of qualified workers and the expected demand over the next few years. Some area schools have taken a notice to the expected shortfall in qualified employees. George Washington partnered with IBM for a big data master's program last year, and the University of Virginia earlier this year received $10 million for its Data Sciences Institute.
The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the nation's next poet laureate will be Charles Wright, a retired professor at the University of Virginia.
(Includes video of Wright reading his poem “When the Horses Gallop Away from Us, It’s a Good Thing”)
“What I consider the holy grail of this exhibit because it was the most amazing thing for us to acquire are the handwritten pages of (John Steinbeck’s)‘ The Grapes of Wrath’,’” Farber said. The pages were not in any of the major Steinbeck archives, but Farber traced them to the University of Virginia library. The college was reluctant to lend the writings to the Autry, but Farber kept pleading with them until they agreed. “The Grapes of Wrath” pages are one of the key items in the show because it is within that the term “Mother Road” ...
According to a statement prominently displayed on the Semester at Sea website, the University of Virginia and the organization that has offered a multiple country study abroad program to students of all majors since 1963 have "mutually agreed" to end their relationship. UVa will no longer be the academic sponsor for Semester at Sea, effective May 31, 2016.
For anyone who felt awkward as a teenager and desperately wanted to be popular like the ‘cool kids’ at school, a new study may seem like poetic justice. Scientists have found that teenagers who act cool in early adolescence are more likely to experience a range of problems in early adulthood, compared to their geeky peers. Children who are revered at school, for example, are more likely to have alcohol and drug problems, become involved in crime, and have problems in relationships. According to a decade-long study by researchers at the University of Virginia, cool teens who seek ou...