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.
Voters could look to Wisconsin – where Taiwan-based FoxConn could receive up to $3 billion in tax credits and breaks to locate in Racine County – for the inverse situation, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of “Sabato’s Crystal Ball” at UVA’s Center for Politics.
“To this point, as expected, we haven’t had a document that lists the conspirators in the murder of President Kennedy,” said Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics and author of “The Kennedy Half Century.” “What we have gotten is a lot of rich material, not just about the Kennedy assassination, but the times.”
Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, thinks it is a mistake to make too big a deal of the Hatch and Shuster announcements. Polling evidence showed Utah voters preferred that Hatch not run again. Shuster, who was first elected in 2001, nearly lost the GOP primary in 2016.
He’s an assistant professor of hip-hop and the global south at UVA, and just wrapped up his first semester in the position. Several months ago, A.D. Carson earned his Ph.D. at Clemson University – he’s the one who went viral after he rapped his dissertation – and landed the teaching position at UVA.
(By Bart Epstein, CEO of the Jefferson Education Accelerator and research associate professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education) This is the sixth in a series of essays surrounding the EdTech Efficacy Research Symposium, a gathering of 275 researchers, teachers, entrepreneurs, professors, administrators and philanthropists to discuss the role efficacy research should play in guiding the development and implementation of education technologies. This series was produced in partnership with Pearson, a co-sponsor of the symposium co-hosted UVA’s Curry School of Education, Digital Promise and the ...
Two architects and UVA graduates have won a national award for their work studying Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park. Liz Sargent and Jen Trompetter collected the first prize in the 2017 Historic American Landscape Survey Challenge.
Kathryn Crespin at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service says it’s a long-term trend dating back to the 1970s, driven in part by increasing school enrollment.