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.
(Subscription required) Researchers at the University of Virginia discovered that 31% of kindergarten teachers in 1998 agreed that children should learn to read in kindergarten. By 2010, that number had risen to 80%. Children who can’t meet this evolving benchmark may find themselves labeled or medicated.
“Legacies are protean things,” said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center, “and the prism through which we view these presidencies changes depending on the circumstances.” As “political conditions of the time” change, Riley said, Clinton, Obama, and even Reagan will see their standing rise and fall.
Researchers are hunting for nuclear debris, mercury pollution and other fingerprints of humanity that could designate a new geological epoch. UVA palaeoclimatologist William Ruddiman and others have pushed for starting the Anthropocene when humans first began terrascaping Earth with agriculture thousands of years ago, or when they wiped out the megafauna of Australia and North America many millennia before 1950.
Since 2014, UVA has admitted in-state students who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children. Those students previously have been required to pay the full cost of tuition out-of-pocket. Beginning this fall, in-state undergraduate students with DACA status will be eligible for financial aid. The money will come from private funding.
Too much of one thing is never good. University of Virginia sports medicine orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Winston Gwathmey, suggests parents should encourage their children to play more than one sport to prevent injury and burn out.
Richard Schragger, Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the UVA School of Law, talks with Les Sinclair about the similarities and differences in these two Virginia statues cases.
More women in Southwestern Virginia get cervical cancer, and more die from it, than in other parts of the country. But, for one of its most common forms, caused by the human papilloma virus or HPV, there’s a vaccine that’s been available for the last 10 years that prevents it entirely. Jess Malpas is a nurse scientist at the University of Virginia. She’s a point person in an upcoming five-year study of human papilloma virus prevention. “Upwards of 50% of people are exposed at any given time. And this vaccine is one of the only forms of prevention we have, in terms of a vaccine for cancer, whic...
Saikrishna Prakash, professor at the University of Virginia, said "nothing in the American legal system precludes a prosecutor from commenting upon a case she investigated."
UVA football coach Bronco Mendenhall says he has received an outpouring of support from his players, assistant coaches and friends following the death of his father. Mendenhall's dad, Paul, died last week at the age of 88 from dementia.
Staunton native Francis Collins' name will replace that of a disgraced eugenicist on a wing of the University of Virginia Medical Center West Complex, the school's board of visitors decided on Saturday. The former Barringer Wing will become the Collins Wing in honor of the UVA alumnus, who the school described as one of America’s most eminent scientists.
Among the major takeaways of the study is that, where seagrass beds have been restored, scientists see more than 12 times the nitrogen filtration as elsewhere. The rate is comparable to what has been measured in areas with natural seagrass beds. “This sort of research shows that this is very much so part of this ecosystem,” said Cora Johnston, site director of UVA’s Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center in Oyster.
Elliyon Horace spent the first month of his life in UVA’s neonatal intensive care unit recovering from open-heart surgery. Elliyon will need several operations as he grows so surgeons can fashion a way for his blood to flow. His first was at one week, the second at five months. In between, his grandmother, Flossie Horace, was able to take him home to Roanoke because of technology that allowed for continuous monitoring.
David Cattell-Gordon is explaining the marvels of UVA’s telemedicine programs when he decides to show what he means. He turns on a computer screen at the Center for Telemedicine in Charlottesville, and with a couple of clicks, a stroke cart with a video monitor jumps to life in the emergency department at Norton Community Hospital, broadcasting Cattell-Gordon’s image. He has tele-transported himself into a hallway 300 miles away.
David Cattell-Gordon is explaining the marvels of UVA’s telemedicine programs when he decides to show what he means. He turns on a computer screen at the Center for Telemedicine in Charlottesville, and with a couple of clicks, a stroke cart with a video monitor jumps to life in the emergency department at Norton Community Hospital, broadcasting Cattell-Gordon’s image. He has tele-transported himself into a hallway 300 miles away.
UVA political analyst Kyle Kondik said Biden was effective in defending against attacks by Harris and others on Obama’s signature health care achievement, the Affordable Care Act, and other parts of the Obama administration’s record. “That seems to be a comfortable place to be,” Kondik said.
(Commentary) “It’s not a case where we should feel that this makes up for [Trump’s] remarks. It’s actually in kind with those remarks,” says A.D. Carson, an assistant professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia Department of Math gets a big grant from the National Science Foundation. A $2.5. million Research Training Group grant is going to the UVa department’s geometry and topology group. The six faculty members in that group will use it to train undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral associates and faculty members in geometry and topology research.