The study was done by Christopher Hafen, a research scientist at UVa.’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning (CASTL), who worked with Florida Atlantic University and Finland’s University of Jyväskylä.
Take a step toward better understanding an American soldier with what Kevin Powers called a "powerful, and powerfully necessary, collection” with Christine Leche's "Outside the Wire: American Soldiers' Voices from Afghanistan." (University of Virginia, 176 pp., $23.95)
Artists in the University of Virginia Dance Department and Concordance Contemporary are teaming up for this year's Tom Tom Founder's Festival. They've created a dance score for the downtown mall, which organizer Paul Beyer says will channel some of the mall's original inspiration.
New research, co-authored by Christopher Hafen, a research scientist at UVa.’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning (CASTL), finds that it is really bullies who dislike victims, not the general peer group.
The town of South Boston is taking a step into the future with new energy efficient housing. Two "eco-mod" home units are being built in the Poplar Creek subdivision, and the goal is to make them efficient and affordable for low income families. It's the result of a partnership between the town, the University of Virginia and a community housing development non-profit.
Regent University associate law professor Brad Jacob, along with University of Virginia constitutional law Professor John C. Harrison, argue that most scholars agree that the Second Amendment may be regulated - through universal background checks, for example, or bans on military-style assault weapons or high-capacity magazines - without infringing upon the guaranteed right to bear arms. We argue over degree.
Increases in ground-level ozone, especially in rural areas, may interfere not only with predator insects finding host plants, but also with pollinators finding flowers, according to researchers from Penn State and the University of Virginia.
The numbers of women engineers still aren't what they should be, said Frances Marshall, acting scientific director for the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility.
In the current issue of its Computer Society's Computer magazine, the organisation addresses the important challenge of building gender diversity in computing. Alfred C. Weaver, director of the University of Virginia's Applied Research Institute, and a professor of computer science, pointed out that the problem started from reception age and extended through undergraduate education and on to graduate school and industry.
...With our partner, the University of Virginia Health System, we have world-class care in place for our heart attack and stroke patients, ensuring individuals receive the finest treatment in life-threatening, time-sensitive situations.
By Kevin R. Campbell, a cardiac electrophysiologist who blogs at his self-titled site...As a resident at the University of Virginia, I had some exposure to an inpatient hospice unit. Although it was often sad to see patients slip away, my experience there made a huge impact on my development as a physician. In my residency experience, I had the benefit of watching the interactions and care provided by experienced hospice nurses and physicians. The thing that affected me the most was the concern in the eyes of the caregivers–the connection that each of them made with the...
Academic leaders are trying hard to show they’re gung-ho about online education, especially after seeing what happened to Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, who was targeted for ouster amid criticism she wasn’t embracing it fast enough. Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C., recalls the president of a major university admitted to her that he wasn’t sold on MOOCs, but he was embracing them “because we have to.”
Lawson and Dr. Romesh Wijesooriya came to Church Hill with three other couples from the University of Virginia. The men, who’d been housemates, decided to make good on a college dream of moving together to a neighborhood where they could live out their principles of Christian community development. Racial reconciliation and social justice are central to their vision.
Knopp, founded in 2004, was named for Walter Knopp, an ALS patient who gave a gift to the University of Pittsburgh to research ALS treatments. Company founders licensed technology from the University of Virginia, where researchers discovered the utility of dexpramipexole in treating ALS.
new research shows that among dialysis patients, Hispanics tend to live the longest and Whites live the shortest. Examining the reasons for the survival differences could help improve care for all patients with kidney disease.
The newest housing units in town use energy sparingly, are virtually air-tight, feature a design that originated in Germany and are now ready for rental occupancy. And if all works out, the ecoMOD — the creation of a University of Virginia architecture and engineering team — could become a viable, low-cost, permanent housing option for everyone.
discovery of unknown disease correlations was reported by William Knaus and his colleagues at the University of Virginia Health System, who detected a strong correlation between a peptic ulcer disease and renal failure using a combination of text- and data-mining techniques.
To demonstrate how predictive analytics has been used in data-driven black-box trading, Siegel turned to John Elder, now head of the largest predictive analytics services firm in North America, who claims that “Wall Street is the hardest data mining problem.” (p. 74) Early in his career, while still a graduate student at the University of Virginia, Elder reverse engineered a black-box trading system that claimed 70% accuracy with its predictions on whether the S&P 500 would go up or down the following day.
Former Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño is by his own account an endangered species: He’s a Republican Latino. And when it comes to securing the Hispanic vote, Fortuño told a crowded lecture hall Monday at the University of Virginia, the Grand Ole Party has it all wrong.
A McIntire School of Commerce team’s business case, co-authored by professor R. Ryan Nelson, dean Carl Zeithaml and alumnus Gardner Bell, won the NextBillion Case Writing Competition for social enterprise case studies. The study looked at an Indonesian bank’s strategy to grow financing for small and micro enterprises, including women entrepreneurs, amidst a time of crisis for microfinance institutions.