The UVA football team held its annual Meet the Team Day Thursday night at Scott Stadium. Hundreds of fans got autographs and pictures taken with the team.
David Berman, the poet and musician best known for leading the indie rock band Silver Jews, died Wednesday at the age of 52, his record label announced. No cause of death was mentioned. Born in Williamsburg in 1967, Berman grew up in Virginia and Texas before moving to Hoboken, New Jersey with UVA classmates and Silver Jews co-founders Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich.
Dewey Cornell, professor of education at the University of Virginia, says that school shootings have to be understood in the context of gun violence across the nation. "For every shooting in a school," he says, "there are more than 1,600 shootings outside of school. From this perspective, U.S. schools are much safer than the surrounding community. The nation does not have a school violence problem, but a gun violence problem."
UVA alumnus David Berman, the reluctant songwriter and poet whose dry baritone and wry, wordy compositions anchored Silver Jews, a critically lauded staple of the 1990s indie-rock scene, died on Wednesday at age 52, his record label announced.
To fight climate change, UVA environmental scientist Deborah Lawrence says sustainable strategies should be less like a silver bullet, narrowly hitting a single target, and more like a silver buckshot, that explodes on impact and scatters pellets in different directions.
A crude video of Katherine E. Brandt’s “death rattle” appeared on Twitter on Saturday, about 11 hours before she succumbed to ovarian cancer. Her wife, Kimberly D. Acquaviva, had posted it there. For Acquaviva, a nursing professor at the University of Virginia whose scholarship focuses on end-of-life issues, academic interests and personal suffering have for the past six months uncomfortably intertwined.
More recently, during Barack Obama’s presidency, governors still formed a major component of the nationwide political discussion, with Republicans such as Rick Perry of Texas, Jeb Bush of Florida and Chris Christie of New Jersey dominating the GOP opposition. But Larry Sabato, a professor at the University of Virginia who has written extensively about governors for decades, said Trump’s election demonstrates that voters may no longer prioritize that experience.
Venting is pervasive in the workplace. According to Kristin Behfar of the University of Virginia, as reported by Fortune, the average employee either vents or hears someone else vent about four times a day.
In the past, the only way to determine salt sensitivity was by placing a patient on a stringent, two-week long salt-restricted diet. A faster, more convenient test has been developed by a team of researchers led by Kwabena Sarpong of the UVA School of Medicine.
Anderson raised his concerns in April, after he says new information came to light during the testimony of a researcher involved in an unrelated recent case. At that time, Anderson released sworn testimony from University of Virginia professor Janet Warren, who was hired by the Boy Scouts to conduct a study of the organization's sexual abuse files. That report found that 12,254 children were allegedly abused by 7,819 Scout leaders.
"So many kids do get services while they are in high school, and then when they leave, there may not be a safety net or services available to them," said Dewey Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist and education professor at the University of Virginia. He said the age of greatest risk "for serious acts of violence is in the late teens and early 20s, after the high school years."
Another Democrat has joined the contest to attempt to wrest Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District from Republican control. Dr. Cameron Webb is a hospitalist, assistant professor of medicine and a director of health policy and equity at the University of Virginia.
Over the past two decades as crime rates fell and incarceration rates rose, some have argued, according to UVA Professor Brandon Garrett, “that one way to begin dialing down ‘mass incarceration’ without simultaneously jeopardizing the historically low crime rate is to put risk assessment back into sentencing.”
(Commentary by Neeti Nair, associate professor of history and Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars) BJP is so convinced about the lack of support for its move in Kashmir that it has brought in even more troops to maintain ‘law and order’. Kashmir is in lockdown. The special status of Jammu and Kashmir has been ‘scrapped’ as though it were a mere doodle, and not the only semblance of legal fiction that continues to tie India to Kashmir. To be fair to the Bharatiya Janata Party, this had always been on its agenda.
(Commentary) Philip Zelikow, a former State Department official who teaches at the University of Virginia, warned that he sees “a one-in-three chance of major crisis over Taiwan in the next year or so.”
“For many reasons, I agree that our adversarial system is a very flawed way to assess expert testimony. I don’t agree, however, that the qualities of a good scientist would necessarily be incompatible with persuasiveness,” said Barbara A. Spellman of the UVA School of Law. “A good scientist, who is also a good teacher, should be able to explain things in ways that jurors would find understandable and, therefore, if appropriate, persuasive.”
The human body is made to move, and physical activity is a requirement for lifelong health. But exercise-related injuries are a significant concern few people think about until it’s too late. “I think a lot of people, especially those in their 20s and 30s, are interested in doing a lot of exercise, but they’re not really thinking about injuries,” says Dr. Brian Werner, a UVA orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist.
Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics says most people do agree on at least one move: universal background checks. But he says the reason bills failed during last month's special session is partisanship and mixed government.
(Commentary by W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project) Up until now, there hasn’t been a study of the impact of internet fidelity – or the lack thereof – on real-world relationships. So, with a new nationally representative survey from YouGov, The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University set out to explore the association between people’s attitudes and behaviors regarding what social scientists call “attractive alternatives” online and the quality of their relationshi...
One in five mothers suffer from postpartum depression. Now a UVA Health biomedical research project is giving an $80,000 grant to research teams to help women across Virginia.