(Commentary by Stephanie Bernhard, graduate student) If you want to see an expression of pure despair, ask a college freshman to parse Rachel Carson’s rhetorical choices at 8:00 in the morning. That’s what I’m doing this semester for a composition class I’m teaching at the University of Virginia. The course is called “Representing Climate Change,” and our collective goal is to discover and deploy effective methods of talking and writing about our looming environmental crisis.
Zhang was inspired by an American PhD student, Thomas Talhelm, who put directions on his website on how to make an air purifier with only 166 yuan ($27). Talhelm, the 28-year-old American who inspired Zhang, did not come to China to work on air filters. As a PhD student in psychology at the University of Virginia, Talhelm was in China on a Fulbright scholarship researching cultural differences between northern and southern China. But when the air in Beijing took a turn for the worse in January 2013, it set him on a path that ended with him telling the world about a simple DIY solution fo...
(By Neuropsychologist Donna Broshek and neurologist Dr. Michael Jaffee, who recently launched the new UVa Health System Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Clinic) As spring sports get into full swing, the athletes aren’t the only ones who need to brush up on their skills. Parents and coaches have their own game plan to master when it comes to player safety. Of particular concern is the management of concussions among young athletes.
Even the University of Virginia gave students the day off. "Monday classes are cancelled," wrote spokesman McGregor McCance in a memo to employees at 6:30 a.m. "Non-designated academic division employees do not report."
Investment adviser Victor Landon Harper was passionate about expanding the financial education of his clients and making students around the world aware of how the investing world operates. In 1978, he started writing a column called “Investing” for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which he continued into the 1990s. He dealt with diverse issues, such as “How do I prepare my portfolio for war in the Middle East?” as the United States prepared to send troops into the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
(By Anita H. Clayton, professor of psychiatry and clinical obstetrics and gynecology) Throughout our society, gender inequality is evident -- in politics, employment, pay, attitudes and drug approvals, specifically medications for female sexual dysfunction.
(By Douglas Laycock, law professor) According to the New York Times, and as best I can quickly gather, most other news sources, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a bill “that would have given business owners the right to refuse service to gay men, lesbians and other people on religious grounds.” SB1062, which would have amended Arizona’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, was been egregiously misrepresented both before and after the veto.
Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor who specializes in issues of religious freedom, said controversy over a handful of cases involving social issues is “creating a public that is hostile to the very idea of religious liberty. … The debate has been captured by utterly intolerant people on both sides,” he said. “Everybody wants religious liberty for me, and my opponent ground into the dust.”
Before the founding in 1982 of the Young Writers Workshop at the University of Virginia, residential programs for young creative writers didn’t exist. Though summer programs for aspiring teen poets and novelists may now seem ubiquitous, their absence at the time was a void that founder and director Margo Figgins, herself a poet, rectified when she established the Young Writers Workshop.
John Bound of the University of Michigan and Sarah Turner at the University of Virginia tracked college education through the second half of the 20th century. They found that when states had a large college-age population, public spending per student declined and graduation rates suffered.
(Commentary) On face value, if you read Anita Clayton's Huffington Post piece entitled “The FDA, Sexual Dysfunction and Gender Inequality,” you could not come to any conclusion other that the FDA is overtly sexist.
Perciasepe, 63, has stuck it out at the agency longer than many others in high-profile posts -- even after President Obama picked Gina McCarthy over him to be EPA chief last year -- and he's one of the longest-serving deputies the agency has had since its inception. It didn't hurt that Obama asked him to stay on, but those close to Perciasepe say it's emblematic of his roll-with-the-punches attitude and commitment to EPA. "That says a lot about him personally as well as his loyalty to the agency and its mission," said Jonathan Cannon, a professor at the University of Virg...
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has revealed the dramatic effect the immune system has on the brain development of young children. The findings suggest new and better ways to prevent developmental impairment in children in developing countries, helping to free them from a cycle of poverty and disease, and to attain their full potential.
Recent research indicates that rising private-debt levels also endanger growth. A paper by Moritz Schularick, now at the University of Bonn, and Alan Taylor, at the University of Virginia, has found that rapid total credit growth was the best predictor of financial crisis from 1870 to 2008.
A worker-hungry industry has meant that even the firms in the echelons of the tech space can sometimes err toward excess in their recruitment strategies. The University of Virginia senior Nishant Shukla, who's a top student in computer science and has been recruited for summer internships at, among others, Zynga, Microsoft, and Facebook, told me that, even at those firms, "the interview process is a bit impersonal."
Thirty-five years ago, Dick Vitale was a lost man. He was devastated after the NBA’s Detroit Pistons fired him as head coach (he calls it getting “the ziggy”) and was facing an uncertain future. Then along came television and a fledgling company named ESPN, which brings us to this weekend, when Vitale & Co. bring their act to Charlottesville for the ACC’s game of the year: Syracuse at Virginia with the league championship on the line.
People in Albemarle County had the opportunity to observe the civil rights movement and talk to a key participant on Thursday night. The Crozet Library hosted a film exploring the life and accomplishments of civil rights leader Julian Bond. The film, "Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement," covered events leading to the March on Washington, about 50 years ago, to Bond's lectures as a professor at the University of Virginia, about two years ago.
Growing up as an athlete, Virginia junior pole vaulter Sarah DeVita had always been healthy and in great shape, but that changed late in her freshman season.
A well-known sociologist stopped in Charlottesville to discuss how the design of cities influences social life. Richard Sennett spoke on a concept called "The Open City" in Minor Hall at the University of Virginia Thursday afternoon. He stresses the importance of "street life" and public spaces that facilitate interactions among people of diverse backgrounds.
People working for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission who owned stock in companies under investigation were more likely to sell shares than other investors in the months before the agency announced it was taking enforcement actions, according to a new academic paper. Emory University accounting professor Shivaram Rajgopal, who plans to present the work today at a University of Virginia accounting seminar, said in a telephone interview that while the analysis doesn’t prove misconduct, it points out a suspicious pattern.