Another piece of the funding will go to a University of Virginia graduate student to fund her research. Gwen McGinn will study the importance of root systems and how they relate to ecological conditions.
A statistical study by a computer scientist at the University of Virginia's Predictive Technology Lab shows that it becomes easier to predict the locations of future crimes once data from Twitter is added to existing historic crime pattern data.
Kathleen Flake, the Richard Lyman Bushman Professor of Mormon Studies at the University of Virginia, said the 20th century was marked by women’s new political rights, social standing and personal opportunities. "Quite simply," she said, "a knowledge of the 20th century is impossible without women’s history.”
“When parents talk in a harsh and punitive manner, kids sometimes fight with them through food,” which can lead to overeating, said Patrick H. Tolan, a professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and director of Youth-Nex, the UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. “The emotional arousal and turmoil that goes on when you’re being regularly talked to that way might make you more likely to use food to comfort or calm yourself,” Tolan said.
This year’s NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament may be the last of its kind. This post explores some of the brewing legal issues that may force big changes to future “Final Fours,” and in turn, the legal rights and obligations of the NCAA and its member universities, and athletics personnel and student-athletes.
A volunteer group at the University of Virginia Cancer Center is hosting a free breakfast for the community to learn about the latest research and treatments.
And in yet another study led by Chris Ruhm, a team out of the University of Virginia found that people tend to exercise less during economic upswings and they tend to eat out more. Plus, people who work less have more time on their hands so they sleep more, feel less stressed and spend less time on the road, which results in cleaner air and less accidents. He told The Atlantic, “Interestingly, there’s evidence that short-term reductions in income are actually good for you.” But here’s the kicker: “When times are bad, people are healthier but not happier.”
Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA, visited the Medical School’s Focused Ultrasound Center to see a demonstration of the cutting-edge focused ultrasound technology Wednesday morning. While there, he praised the benefits of government investment in research and development, promoting its place in both state and federal budgets.
After Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Incbought Bausch & Lomb Inc. for $8.7 billion last year, Chief Executive Officer Mike Pearson discovered the budget for the eyecare company’s communications team was 13 times the size of his own. Pearson set about cutting the budget and dismantled Bausch & Lomb’s structure of regional offices, costs he said are emblematic of how inefficient drug companies remain. Corporate excess is catnip to Pearson as he searches for acquisitions to meet his goal of making Valeant one of the world’s top five drugmakers by the end of 2016.
When it comes to selling, “We can all learn to do it better and be more effective in whatever our capacity is,” said Sean Carr, executive director of the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. “Selling a product or service is part of what innovation is all about. If you want to create something new, you need to get other people on board.”
The Cook Political Report Wednesday, following the lead of University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, changed its assessment of the race from leans Democratic to tossup.
Mustapha Farrakhan has had plenty to be down about in the past few weeks as knee tendinitis has kept him out of Melbourne Tigers matches. But he also received a huge boost from the most unlikely of events. That was seeing his alma mater, University of Virginia, win the ACC conference tournament for the first time since 1976 in US college basketball last weekend.
Roanoke lost its true Renaissance man when Dr. Robert Keeley died Sunday at the age of 92. Keeley was a board-certified thoracic and general surgeon, who was appointed a professor of surgery at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and, in addition to running his own clinic, was chief of surgery at both Carilion Roanoke Community and Carillion Roanoke Memorial hospitals.
University of Virginia urban and environmental planning professor Tim Beatley stopped by Grist HQ on a recent swing through Seattle promoting his new book, “Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning.” Here are a few snippets from our conversation, which covered aerial urban trails, our odd relationship with the natural world, and cities that are far greener than the this here emerald one.
(Podcast) Leslie Kendrick, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, discusses the 50th anniversary of New York Times v. Sullivan, one of the most important First Amendment cases in American law.
(Audio) The dean of one of the top engineering schools in the United States, Jim Aylor, promotes a symposium that hopes to dispel myths about modern manufacturing that is coming up there next week.
While touring Piedmont Virginia Community College on Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner pitched a bill aimed at making the total cost of higher education more transparent. In front of a class in the college’s health and life sciences program, Warner touted the Student Right to Know Before You Go Act, which would increase public access to such data as the cost of attendance, graduate earnings and average debt.
Initially, Matthew Gerber didn't believe Twitter could help predict where crimes might occur. For one thing, Twitter's 140-character limit leads to slang and abbreviations and neologisms that are hard to analyze from a linguistic perspective. Beyond that, while criminals occasionally taunt law enforcement via Twitter, few are dumb or bold enough to tweet their plans ahead of time. "My hypothesis was there was nothing there," says Gerber. But then, that's why you run the data. Gerber, a systems engineer at the University of Virginia's Predictive Technology Lab, did ind...
The 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament is decided on the court, and not by posts on Facebook, but if the latter were true, Duke University, the University of Florida, the University of Virginia, and the University of Nebraska would advance to the Final Four at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and the Duke Blue Devils would be cutting down the nets April 7. Facebook shared its bracket with Sports Illustrated, advancing teams in the tournament by number of posts and words related to each school in the two weeks leading up to this past Sunday, when the field ...
Tunkhannock Area graduate and University of Virginia junior Mike Papi might have felt a little homesick Sunday night, as snow blanketed the Charlottesville campus, cancelling school on Monday. And though most diamonds in Northeastern Pa. still show remnants of winter snow, baseball season is in full swing for Papi and the Cavaliers, who have put together a 15-3 overall record and only one loss in five Atlantic Coast Conference games.