Richmond said the program is modeled after the successful use of goat browsing by the University of Virginia, the College of William & Mary and the James River Park System.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam will speak next month at the third annual Southwest Virginia Economic Forum at UVA’s College at Wise. Northam, who has made economic development and growth a priority since taking office in January, will attend the morning session of the forum.
“The text of the Constitution just says he can pardon offenses against the United States. When the president violates the law, he has committed an offense against the United States, so why wouldn’t he be able to pardon himself?” asks UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash.
The Ronald McDonald House of Charlottesville is taking new steps to comfort families and children. The house now has a hospitality cart that rolls the hallways of UVA’s Children's Hospital, giving people’s mood a boost during a stressful time.
Writing about the link between genes and educational attainment can be dangerous, as the psychologist Arthur Jensen discovered. After publishing a paper in the Harvard Education Review in 1969 entitled ‘How much can we boost IQ and scholastic achievement?’ he was compared to Hitler and, for a time, had to be accompanied to work by bodyguards. Not surprisingly, one of the most hostile responses to the paper was by Eric Turkheimer, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and a leading critic of the view that differences in children’s cognitive ability are strongly influ...
In a Twitter thread last year, University of Virginia professor Siva Vaidhyanathan shared his thoughts on sexual harassment in the workplace and explained how men benefit professionally from the issue. As an academic leader, he said he's seen first-hand how experiences around sexual misconduct have knocked women out of the running for certain jobs. "If a woman has a bad experience in graduate school and decides not to become a professor, that is one less woman who applied to the same jobs I did, and that meant more room for me," he tells CNBC Make It. "All men have benefited from the reduced c...
Maybe you’re a writer by profession, or your career path requires frequent written communications. Even so, you might not be writing in a way that helps your mind get rid of negative thoughts. Remember, one of the elements of flow involves not getting distracted by self-conscious thoughts. Tim Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, recommends writing about the things that make you feel stressed. Get into a routine of doing that two to three nights per week, and see if you find it easier to concentrate on work and get into a flow state.
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine spoke to a private audience at the University of Virginia over the weekend, making some surprising claims about Russia and former President Obama.
In 1917, one-time University of Virginia law student Woodrow Wilson introduced the cloture rule to end a filibuster and allow the United States to enter World War I.A century later, according to former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., filibustering has evolved from a rare process to a routine one, while the ability to filibuster executive and judicial nominees has been extended. “It rings true for me that what’s going on in this country at local, state and federal levels bears no resemblance to the democracy I grew up in,” Feingold said in a speech in UVA’s Rotunda on Monday.
Nine of the eMerge Americas Startup Showcase companies are university-level, and one from the University of Virginia dubs itself as being the next generation of home appliances. Babylon Micro-Farms hopes to disrupt the way food is produced, which founder Alexander Olesen calls "incredibly unsustainable." The system uses proprietary environmental control technology to ensure plants grow in optimal conditions, allowing anyone to grow fresh, sustainable and organic food inside their home.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine is using a new homemade microscope to try and rid the human body of incurable viruses.
For some Americans, salt can be deadly. Their bodies store too much of it, putting them at increased risk for serious medical problems. At the University of Virginia scientists are working on ways to test for salt sensitivity.
(By Sarah Kenny, UVA student council president from 2017 to 2018) We have called for common-sense gun reforms starting with a decrease in the number of guns allowed on college campuses throughout the country.
Alumnus Harold Wright, credited with bringing broadcast television decades ago to the Charlottesville area, is the recipient of The Associated Press' Robert Gallimore Distinguished Service Award. Wright, vice president and general manager of WVIR-TV, was honored Saturday by the Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters.
This year's honorees are Caroline Kelsey from UVA and Yeonwoo Lebovitz from Virginia Tech. Kelsey and Lebovitz will each receive $25,000 to help fund their unique and independent studies of yogurt, probiotics and the human gut microbiome.
The battles underscore an intensity usually lacking in this part of Arizona and are another sign that Republicans have anxiety about the coming congressional midterm elections, when the president's party historically loses seats on Capitol Hill. The volatility and chaos of President Donald Trump's first term has contributed to a sense of dread among many in the GOP. "There are obvious reasons for Republicans to be concerned. The president's approval rating isn't great, (and) special election numbers on the whole are not great for the GOP," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political anal...
(By Michael A. Livermore, UVA School of Law) We have now entered a period of partisan volatility and the resulting policy oscillation has created little or no public benefit. If regulatory impact assessment is to continue to play a useful role during an age of ever greater partisan volatility, OIRA will need to focus not only on the static costs and benefits of regulation, but also on the very real costs imposed on businesses and society by policy oscillation.
(By Shakira Hobbs, research associate in UVA’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) Early January 2017, I and two other Black women engineers were interviewed and discussed the movie ‘Hidden Figures’ and lingering challenges for women of color in engineering. Mixed in our excitement of finding more “like us” was melancholy. We were thrilled to connect with other Black women engineers; however, it was sad to hear that some of the same racial and gender inequities the Black women working at NASA confronted in the 1960s, we were facing as well close to half a century later.
A high-tech microscope developed by scientists at UVA’s School of Medicine has captured images of cancer-causing viruses clinging to human DNA. The new tool could help doctors eventually treat incurable diseases by exterminating viruses such as HPV or Epstein-Bar that embed themselves into cells.
Tricia Cady used to lie in bed awake thinking about babies in her neonatal intensive care ward. NICU babies frequently pull out their breathing tubes and lines, and Cady said she would run over ideas for keeping unplanned extubations at bay. While working on a class assignment several months ago, though, Cady had an idea: a small vest that keeps a baby’s hands free but away from their face and from IV lines and ventilation tubes.