Demographic researcher Dustin Cable's Racial Dot Map is staggering both visually and statistically. From afar, the most racially diverse pockets of the United States appear like blended watercolors in shades of purple and teal. Zoom all the way in, though, and each dot represents a single person, all 308,745,538 of us.
Republican officials are looking to promote a fresh group of diverse rising stars to help resolve their election woes, while frustrated party elders insist that all Republicans must offer more solutions for the nation's most pressing issues. The RNC on Thursday was introducing the first four members of its "Rising Stars" program, including Karin Agness, founder and president of the Network of enlightened Women, or NeW. The Indiana native started the organization for conservative university women in 2004 while at the University of Virginia.
Inventor and tech firm founder Tim Barber and Greg Carr, voice-mail company founder and global philanthropist, will join the Idaho Technology Council Hall of Fame during an induction ceremony at Boise Centre on the Grove Oct. 23. Barber earned undergraduate degrees in philosophy and physics from the University of Virginia, and went on to obtain a doctorate in Mathematics from Princeton University.
Researchers have devised a way to shoot focused beams of ultrasound through the skull to calm essential tremor, potentially the first non-invasive approach for hard-to-treat forms of the involuntary-shaking disorder. “This was the first trial to treat a movement disorder, a neurologic disease, in which we suppressed essential tremor,” Jeffrey Elias, the lead researcher and an associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, said in a telephone interview. “It’s one of the first to use ultrasound to treat something in the brain, no...
The feature story highlights the close relationship between Chris Long, his brother Kyle Long, and Nate Collins, a former teammate of Chris Long’s at U.Va. All three are now linemen in the NFL.
One of the great and sometimes overlooked resources for researchers on modern presidents is the Oral History Project of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. The oral histories they compiled were invaluable resources for my own Reagan book research almost ten years ago, saving me the trouble of having to re-interview many key people. There was one file that was closed to researchers, however—the oral interview with William P. Clark, whose passing we noted here last weekend. He had stipulated that it was not to be opened before his passing, and today the Miller Cent...
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors is restarting talks about a controversial police firing range. After many concerns about building the range near the Old Keene Landfill, Wednesday the board agreed on a new location: the Milton site owned by the University of Virginia.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have found that a common medical test can do much more than they previously thought. MRI scans are typically used in diagnosing Coronary Artery Disease. Doctors say the scans also allow them to give stress tests to patients with CAD to determine their risk for heart attack.
(Editorial) This month, governing board members approved a plan that makes federal student loans - up to $28,000 over four years - a major component of need-based aid starting in 2014. It is a strategy that all but assures the average debt of a U.Va. graduate will grow closer to the national average. Virginia Beach business owner Helen Dragas, the embattled former rector, was one of two board members to recognize the negative effects of the proposal. She lamented the prospect of decreasing access by requiring students of little or modest means to assume a decade or more of debt in order to stu...
A new study from the University of Virginia and AOL argues that e-commerce purchases are increasingly taking place on mobile devices, and that iPads are far and away the preferred device for e-commerce transactions that aren't made via desktop or laptop.
The University of Virginia will hold several events marking the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a Dream" speech.
The University of Virginia has tapped an Ivy League school department chairman to fill a new position: executive vice president for health affairs, a post officials described Wednesday as “part of a reorganization of the university’s health efforts.” In the new job, Dr. Richard P. Shannon, currently chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will report directly to UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan and serve as a member of her cabinet.
Demolition of the EconoLodge at the University of Virginia is slated to begin Monday. Owned by the UVa Foundation, the hotel closed July 31 because it was losing money, said Jim Fitzgerald, a university spokesman.
Smartphones have gotten good enough to provide nearly continuous, closed-loop, outpatient control of blood sugar in people with diabetes, according to a recently published study. “We showed that it is possible. Frankly, there were voices saying that it was not possible,” corresponding author Boris Kovatchev, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Diabetes Technology, tells MobiHealthNews.
A significant accomplishment of the past year, spearheaded by the Crater Planning District Commission, was the launch of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems. It is a collaboration of academic partners (Longwood University, Virginia State University, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University), major private sector companies, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership and Fort Lee and it provides industry and government with transformational improvements in the design and analysis of logistics systems for military, commercial, consumer and emergency ap...
Steven Rhoads, a professor who teaches a class on sex differences at the University of Virginia, said he analyzed decades worth of research on sexuality and biology for his book "Taking Sex Differences Seriously" to conclude that men and women are "hardwired" differently. Hookups have deeper psychological costs for women, he said, noting that anecdotes from his students back up the research: Female students often tell him they are hurt by casual sex in a way that male students are not. The boys don't know it, he said, because the girls don't want to tell them.
The wit and wisdom of President Ronald Reagan never – ever – gets old. Newly released and previously unknown details of how the then-Governor of California handled college protestors has been published upon the recent death of William P. Clark, a close Reagan advisor, among other things. Clark gave his testimony to the Presidential Oral History program of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.
From routine checkups to mental health assessments, a local nurse practitioner is making a difference in teen health. In this week's Stephanie's Heroes CBS19's Stephanie Satchell is featuring Dyan Aretakis who helped start the UVa Teen Health Center years ago and is still working to keep teens healthy.
Thanks to our friends from the presidential-recording project at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center (who obviously are far more industrious this month than most of us), here’s how the conversation goes: It’s the evening of Aug. 11, and Nixon is talking to his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman. After four minutes and seven seconds of conversation that we can assume was important and business-related – since it was excised as classified information – the president seems to be fishing around for news.
Arlington Young Democrat Atima Omara-Alwala has been elected president of the Young Democrats of America, becoming the first Virginian and the first African-American to hold that role. Omara-Alwala is a Richmond native, a 2003 graduate of the University of Virginia with a Master’s in public policy from George Mason.