For the team's leader, Jon Belke of Norfolk, the end of the program is a bizarre thought to him. When he originally volunteered, Belke said 10 months seemed like forever, but being with a team that gets along has made time fly by. A recent UVA graduate who studied American studies, Belke said experiencing the places he learned about in school has been wonderful.
Andrew Sheaff, a UVA assistant swimming and diving coach, agrees that acoustics might help coaches identify previously overlooked nuances in swimming technique. “I’m always looking for ways to identify the characteristics for fast swimming,” he says.
Finally, some people might argue that neither life satisfaction, positive emotions nor absence of depression are enough for happiness. Instead, something more is required: One has to experience one’s life as meaningful. But when Shigehiro Oishi of UVA and Ed Diener of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign compared 132 different countries based on whether people felt that their life has an important purpose or meaning, African countries including Togo and Senegal were at the top of the ranking, while the U.S. and Finland were far behind.
Brandon Garrett, a professor at the UVA School of Law, was skeptical that the obligation to hand over information to the defense during the pretrial process known as discovery was causing that much more work.
In addition to weakening the Affordable Care Act, Trump has withdrawn from the Paris Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He's tried to impose a ban on transgender military service. He's cancelled Obama's executive orders and slashed Obama-crafted regulations, especially pertaining to the environment. Presidential history expert Barbara Perry says Trump's actions are both normal and extraordinary. "I do think that it's part and parcel of presidents wanting to roll back those of the opposing party, those precedents that they think are wrong," she said.
National analysts see the race as Brown’s to lose. “Brown starts this race as a favorite,” said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. “If you look at statewide races, Brown is clearly the Democrat who’s likeliest to win. If Brown doesn’t win, that probably means the statewide ticket is going down in flames.”
“One of the things we’re going to be looking for in this primary season is whether Democrats opt to go for more ideological candidates and also if they opt to vote against the candidates who are generally supported by what you consider to be the party establishment,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “I think you’ve got a pretty clean case of the dynamic here in Nebraska-2.”
The House plans would rely both on accepting billions of dollars in federal money to expand Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands of uninsured Virginians and a hospital tax to pay the state’s share of the costs, freeing the savings to be spent on other core services. “This is something the hospitals asked for,” said House Appropriations Chairman Chris Jones, R-Suffolk. “The assessment will cover the state’s cost of the Medicaid expansion population.” That wasn’t the intention of the three private hospital systems. They were looking for a way to pay for costs that Virginia already helps d...
The recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that the median age of grooms is around 30 while the majority of brides are in their late 20s. And before you cancel your order of royal teaspoons, other research has found that delaying marriage can have benefits, especially for women. A study conducted by researchers for the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, found that women who finish university and get married after turning 30 earn $24,000 (AU) more per year, on average, than women who marry in their 20s or teens. S...
A recent donation to the UVA School of Nursing will help more professionals gain degrees and move forward in nursing careers. The $5 million gift from Bill and Joanne Conway will enable scholarships for more than 160 nursing students at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Charlottesville’s Housing Advisory Committee soon will ask the City Council for funding to hire consultants to help create a long-term housing development strategy. A few UVA students will be hired as interns to help develop the housing strategy, but Pethia said the housing committee is interested in having several residents from the city’s public and supported housing sites also serve as interns.
Take any cursory glance at the top business schools in the U.S. and there you will find the UVA’s Darden School of Business. BusinessBecause caught up with Jeff McNish, director of Darden’s Career Development Center, to learn more about how students should navigate the job market and what constitutes effective institutional support.
The latest major step in the growth of the program came this off-season, with the $18.76 million expansion of the Cavaliers' home ballpark.
On Carla Williams’ first day of work as Virginia’s new director of athletics, the first thing on her agenda was a two-hour meeting with Cavaliers football coach Bronco Mendenhall, a meeting that covered everything in the program, top to bottom.
UVA Hospital geriatrician Justin Mutter said the number of older people is growing because of one specific generation. "It's increasing so fast because the baby boomer population is aging," said Mutter. However, he also said there is a common misconception about this group of people. "It's not just 65 and older. The fastest-growing segment of that population is 75 and older," said Mutter.
(Commentary By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) Republican primary voters avoided a self-inflicted wound in West Virginia when disgraced coal baron Don Blankenship finished third in the GOP Senate primary.
The UVA Medical Center is working with health care providers across the state on inclusion and diversity training. The 2018 LGBTQ health care symposium was held Thursday at the Boar's Head Inn.
For years, neonatal intensive care unit nurses have struggled with preventing premature babies from yanking on their breathing tubes: a serious problem impacting these small babies. A UVA Health System nurse has devised a solution to this problem with a special "hug."
UVA researchers are using neutrons to explore fundamental work in residual stress mapping that promises more precise science down the road for Oak Ridge National Laboratory and similar facilities around the world.
Volunteers looking to enhance their emergency response skills got a chance to do so during a mock disaster scenario on Thursday. The Charlottesville, University of Virginia, Albemarle Community Emergency Response Team, better known as CERT, held its team training for beginners to bump their skills up to the next level.