For years, locals believed a 19th-century Newport, R.I., estate was designed by noted architecture firm McKim Mead & White, the same company behind the design of New York’s original Pennsylvania Station. McKim Mead & White historian Richard Guy Wilson, a professor at the University of Virginia, says he believes they were wrong. He traced the mistake to a 1952 book titled “The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island: 1640-1915.”
Josh Bowers, a UVA law professor who is a former defense attorney, told Newsweek that Fields’s political affiliations were unlikely to have played a role in the prosecutors’ case, because Fields is not being charged with terrorism or a hate crime, only murder. He argued that the conspiracies posited by Heimbach, Anglin and others have no basis in fact.
In short, recent economic hardship seems to explain only a small portion of the opioid crisis – and UVA economost Christopher Ruhm, the study’s author, argued that even his findings may overestimate the impact of worsening economic conditions on the epidemic. Ruhm said it’s true Deaton and Case may not have intended their deaths of despair hypothesis to be interpreted as a solely economic phenomenon, but it’s often been interpreted as a one anyway in much of the media and public discussion.
Optimists point out that Virginia’s academic research into hemp could pay dividends. For example, UVA this year researched hemp’s use on contaminated mining land, making it the only institution nationwide thought to be investing in possible hemp applications for waste cleanup, called phytoremediation.
Kids argue at school, push each other after a foul on the court, ghost a former BFF. And parents often roll their eyes when these conflicts happen. But in fact, the way kids handle conflict with peers may have major long-term health repercussions. New UVA research shows that ramifications from schoolyard conflicts may be tied to premature aging and other issues – even tumors, arthritis and cancer – later in life.
Ask your partner to set aside time to talk. Pick a weeknight rather than a Friday or Saturday, says W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia; weekends should be reserved for having fun, reconnecting and maintaining spontaneity, all of which strengthen long-term relationships.
During severe winter storms, the UVA Health System converts about 150 exam rooms – which are in a building primarily configured for clinics – into overnight accommodations, says Tom Berry, the system's director of emergency management.
Nearly a dozen agencies came together Thursday to sign standards of practice and protocol for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Sexual Assault Response Team. The team includes the UVA police department, victim/witness advocates from UVA and UVA’s Title IX Office.
Janet Rafner has actually invested four years trying to find a way to marry art and science. Her research concentrates on turbulence, or the physical phenomenon of disorderly changes in pressure and speed, such as stirring a cup of coffee or air streaming over a plane wing. By creating a game, called Turbulence, that asks players to communicate with shapes and circulation, Rafner wants to master the most crucial unsolved problem in classical physics– chaotic turbulence.
Michael Livermore, a UVA law professor who represented environmentalists in an unsuccessful attempt to block a previous offshore plan, said the Florida decision adds to his view that Zinke is crafting a plan that is arbitrary. “That’s exactly the kind of thing that can get a program struck down, is a bunch of arbitrary decisions like this,” Livermore said.
Much will also depend on which Republicans emerge as leading candidates to replace Royce and Issa. UVA professor Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter, shifted its 2018 campaign prediction for Issa’s seat from “Toss Up” to “Leans Democrat” shortly after the incumbent announced he wouldn’t run again. But Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Crystal Ball, said Issa’s departure “could end up being a positive” for Republicans, depending on who emerges to run for the seat.
UVA professor Nicole Hemmer, author of “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics,” said it was “hard to imagine” the site would abandon Trump, and that she expected Breitbart to more or less continue on its current trajectory without Bannon.
Too often, “our own creativity gets written out” in place of consuming media, says Matthew Burtner, a sound artist and professor of computer and compositional technologies in UVA’s music department. With “The Ceiling Floats Away,” a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. Poet Laureate (and fellow UVA professor) Rita Dove, and the EcoSono Ensemble (a collective of performers bringing ecoacoustic music to the public), Burtner isn’t ready to let us lose our grip entirely.
Attention now turns to New Alabama U.S. Sen. Doug Jones himself, how he will vote and the interplay between his progressive stances and his conservative constituency in Alabama. "If he is to seek and win re-election, he likely will have to figure out ways to differentiate himself from the bulk of the rest of the Democratic Senate caucus," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics.
“Like a number of publications, Essence is going to face that hardship of re-securing its audience,” said Meredith Clark, a UVA assistant professor of media studies. “That’s a real-high maintenance relationship.”
Google’s caution around images of gorillas illustrates a shortcoming of existing machine-learning technology. With enough data and computing power, software can be trained to categorize images or transcribe speech to a high level of accuracy. But it can’t easily go beyond the experience of that training. And even the very best algorithms lack the ability to use common sense, or abstract concepts, to refine their interpretation of the world as humans do. As a result, machine-learning engineers deploying their creations in the real world must worry about “corner cases” not found in their trainin...
Astronomers are observing star-forming regions in our galaxy with NASA's flying telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, to understand the processes and environments required to create the largest known stars, which tip the scales at 10 times the mass of our own sun or more. The research team, led by James M. De Buizer, SOFIA senior scientist and Jonathan Tan at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden and the University of Virginia, has published observations of eight extremely massive and young stars located within our Milky Way Galaxy.
Thousands of babies die in their sleep every year in this country, with some deaths unexplained, but most are from accidental suffocation. “Have the baby on the back, in a crib or bassinet next to the parent’s bed. Nothing else should be in that crib or bassinet except for the baby,” said Dr. Rachel Moon of the UVA School of Medicine.
If you want to know how 2018 is going to turn out for Democrats, it's worth looking at gubernatorial races in the big states (including Pennsylvania), UVA political analyst Kyle Kondik, of Sabato's Crystal Ball, observes this Thursday morning. All told, voters nationwide will make decisions in 36 gubernatorial contests in 2018. Kondik thinks Democrats will end the year in control of more governors' offices than they hold now.
(By Saphira M. Baker and Anita McGinty of the University of Virginia) In the social sector, most people tend to see program evaluations as high-stakes endeavors designed to confirm the value of specific programmatic work. And yet the findings often feel irrelevant or unactionable to the very people who do that work. Results may lack coherence with what the organization intuitively knows about itself, its culture, its beneficiaries, and its history.