More people are dying of cancer in Southwest Virginia than in the rest of the state and the UVA Cancer Center wants to do something about it.
Jennifer Doleac, a UVA assistant professor of public policy and economics, is one of the handful of U.S. social scientists closely studying the practical and ethical questions of extending automation into public decision-making. “You could imagine feeding information into a computer that says, ‘Yes, this person’s eligible for benefits or not,’ instead of just looking at a file and say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ based on their hunch about whether the person needs the money,” she said.
Janet Rafner has spent four years looking for a way to marry art and science. Her research focuses on turbulence, or the physical phenomenon of chaotic changes in pressure and velocity, such as stirring a cup of coffee or air flowing over a plane wing. By creating a game, called Turbulence, that asks players to interact with shapes and flow, Rafner hopes to master the most important unsolved problem in classical physics — chaotic turbulence. Rafner majored in physics and minored in studio art at the University of Virginia.
Shouting and insults have become the norm have become the norm for city council, and members are struggling to find a solution. At UVA’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation, Frank Dukes says council is in “unchartered territory,” but Charlottesville is not alone.
Several political observers, including the Washington Post’s Paul Kane and Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics, noted that the last Democrat to occupy the seat had been Sessions’ predecessor, Howell Heflin.
Marijuana churches typically require people to purchase a membership, then give or sell them marijuana and related products. They may ask for ID such as a driver’s license but don’t require a doctor’s recommendation or medical marijuana identification card. They’re relying on court rulings that made it possible for some groups, including Native Americans, to use federally banned drugs like peyote in their religious ceremonies. Despite these rulings, courts have thus far rejected religious groups’ right to use marijuana, which is still illegal at the federal level, according to Douglas Laycock,...
For the fourth consecutive year, more people have been moving out of Virginia than in, according to the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Since 2010, Virginia’s population has been growing at its lowest level since the 1920s.
Anxiety has a way of disguising itself as an "intuition" that something's very off, when really, all that's off is your brain chemistry. "It can be challenging to determine whether a ‘bad feeling’ is a meaningful sign or if it’s anxiety," UVA psychology professor Bethany Teachman said.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia, often called OLLI at UVA, has been offering educational opportunities and intellectual enrichment to older adults in the area since 2001, five years after UVA alum Jim McGrath returned to Charlottesville for a retirement that quickly became all too lively.
The link between the Lone Star tick and the resulting alpha-gal allergy to meat was first described in 2009 by Thomas Platts-Mills, a UVA professor who himself developed the disorder.
In October, Todd DeSorbo joined Off Deck to discuss his decision to leave N.C. State and become the new head coach of the UVA swim team. The show was one of the top Off Deck episodes of the year.
Barbara Adams Mowat, former director of research at the Folger Shakespeare Library and co-editor of more than 40 editions of the Bard’s plays and poems, died Nov. 24 at her home on Capitol Hill, only blocks away from the Folger Library, where she served 25 years on its literary staff. She came to the United States to study English literature, receiving a master’s degree at UVA in 1961 and a doctorate in 1968 from Auburn, where she later taught.
It wasn’t until her junior year at UVA, when she collected specimens from streams and rivers near Jefferson National Forest, that Anna George of the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute fell in love with the freshwater world. “It really was at Mountain Lake [Biological Station] that I started realizing that here in the Appalachians, we were overlooking the treasures in our backyard,” she says. “We should be very proud of that.”
Bill Bray wants to encourage other families in the Charlottesville area to host international students from UVA during their holiday celebrations. On Christmas, Bray, president of Overseas Students Mission, and his wife Ivy Bray hosted several students and Charlottesville-area residents at their Albemarle County home to celebrate Christmas with dinner, dessert and a small gift exchange.
UVA’s College Republicans endorsed Trump, only to retract their support after the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape emerged in October, writing “we do not feel Donald Trump accurately represents the way we view and conduct ourselves.”
Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says a number of questionable ballots were counted in this election that probably would have been cast aside in 1971.
Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, suspects that Del. Nick Freitas, R-30th District, might be able to capture the nomination simply by being “an elected official not known for saying bombastic things,” like Corey Stewart and E.W. Jackson, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor 2013 and a socially conservative minister.
Guian McKee, a UVA associate professor of presidential studies, told The Wall Street Journal, “Ivanka Trump is testing the boundaries on federal rules that bar government employees from using their position to promote brands that personally enrich them.”
Democrats are in a good position to win a wave election in 2018, but it’s too early to tell, according to Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center of Politics.
A team of UVA students led by Indian-American electrical engineering Prof. Mool Gupta was named a finalist by NASA for its 2018 BIG Idea Challenge. The Gupta-led team wants to put balloons on Mars.