Kudzu, an invasive vine that is spreading across the southeastern United States and northward, is a major contributor to large-scale increases of the pollutant surface ozone, according to a study published the week of May 17 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Karen Laughon, an expert in intimate partner violence and risk factors for intimate partner homicide and safety planning, Laughon has focused her practice and research on issues of intimate partner violence and its impact on women and children.
Top honors in the second annual University of Virginia Student Sustainability Project Competition went to a proposal to better educate local homeowners on saving energy.
University of Virginia students who converted a Honda to run on electricity will now try to power it – at least partly – with solar energy.
John R. Scully , an internationally recognized corrosion expert, presented failure analysis reports on plumbing and wiring affected by Chinese drywall and testified about the case in the U.S. District Court in New Orleans.
Early detection through physical examination is one of the key factors in successfully treating prostate cancer. Now, health care providers will be able to gain applied training early in their medical education and careers with new simulation technology developed at the University of Virginia that will allow them to experience numerous scenarios that simulate prostate cancer.
The University of Virginia , which last year hosted a summit that brought together venture capitalists representing nearly $20 billion in active capital funds, will hold its Second Annual Venture Summit on March 25 and 26.
The University of Virginia and Azure Worldwide, an organization co-founded by Philippe Cousteau, are partnering to showcase a new concept in environmental engagement and action: The Bay Game, an interactive game that simulates the conditions of the Chesapeake Bay watershed with players taking the roles of people who live in the watershed and make their livelihoods from the resources of the bay.
The University of Virginia, which last year hosted a summit that brought together venture capitalists representing nearly $20 billion in active capital funds, will hold its Second Annual Venture Summit on March 25 and 26.
African-Americans have long been underrepresented among health care professionals. As of 2005, blacks made up slightly more than 8 percent of first-year medical students in the United States – roughly half of their share of the U.S. population (15.4 percent in 2007), and just 1 percent more than their share of first-year medical students in 1975.
Toyota's recent recalls of almost 8 million vehicles worldwide, most for defective accelerator pedals linked to sudden acceleration, has put a dent in the company's reputation.
Globally-recognized experts at U.Va. available to discuss Iranian turmoil
President Barack Obama is expected to focus on job creation, helping the middle class, fighting the deficit and health care reform in his State of the Union Address tonight, to begin at 9 p.m. E.T. Here are U.Va. experts in those fields.
Though parents often have concerns about letting their teens use social media Web sites like Facebook and MySpace, a new study suggests that well-adapted youth with positive friendships will use these sites to further enhance the positive relationships they already have. However, teens who have behavioral problems and difficulty making friends, may be more inclined to use social media in negative and sometimes aggressive ways.
With many companies investing heavily in algae-based biofuels, researchers from the University of Virginia's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have found there are significant environmental hurdles to overcome before fuel production ramps up. They propose using wastewater as a solution to some of these challenges.
Technology invented at the University of Virginia's School of Medicine was named one of the 10 most exciting tools to hit the life sciences in 2009 by The Scientist magazine, a leading voice for the life science industry with more than a million readers.
A new study provides credence to the understanding that asexual reproduction allows for the ongoing accumulation and replication of harmful mutations, leaving less room for adaptation to rapidly changing environments.
Genetic research has shown that the best family medical history includes specific diagnoses and ages of onset for every disease or condition that appears in first- and second-degree relatives and even in some third-degree relatives. A new Web site in development will help.
It's a bad time to be a working-class man with no college education. Such men have borne the brunt of job losses since 2007, and new research finds that men are 61 percent less likely to be happy in a marriage if they work fewer hours than their wives.
Six health policy experts at the University of Virginia are available for interviews.
Thursday is National Family History Day. A team of researchers at the University of Virginia announces it is enhancing a Web site called Health Heritage®, which will allow families to track and share their medical histories.
A new study co-authored by University of Virginia economics professor Steven Stern suggests that you shouldn't assume a home-care professional can better care for your parent than you can.
Parental nurturing is backfiring, and as a result a generation of teens is growing up less independent, less skilled at common tasks – from doing laundry to choosing college classes – and increasingly unprepared for adulthood. "We call it 'the Nurture Paradox,'" University of Virginia clinical psychologists Joseph Allen and Claudia Worrell Allen write in their new book, "Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How to Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old."
Students from six schools at the University of Virginia will compete on Nov. 20 for the first-ever U.Va. Entrepreneurship Cup – and a $20,000 first prize.
An eight-year study of African-American, white and Hispanic-American children in three regions of the United States has found that African-Americans had the highest level of exposure to risk factors that could lead to behavioral problems, but do not engage in bad behavior at higher rates than the other two groups.
Recommendations from Lisa Russ Spaar, a University of Virginia English professor and award-winning poet.
Scientists at the University of Virginia have identified a gene in cowpea (black-eyed pea) that confers resistance to attack from witchweed, a parasitic plant. This discovery will help researchers better understand how some plants can resist Striga, while others, such as corn and sorghum, are susceptible.
The Miller Center officially launched the Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project through its Presidential Oral History Program in 2004. Kennedy envisioned this oral history project as a firsthand opportunity to explore how legislation is made by illuminating the issues, times, and people involved in the major public policy matters of the past 45 years.
Massive burning of forests for agriculture thousands of years ago may have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide enough to alter global climate and usher in a warming trend that continues today, according to a new study that appears online Aug. 17 in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.
Rationing end of life care may not be as arbitrary and cruel as it sounds. Instead, it may lead to better conversations among patients, their families and health care professionals regarding the value of procedures, currently provided out of habit, that are neither wanted nor useful.
Farzaneh Milani, a professor of Persian literature and women's studies at the University of Virginia, is author of "Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers," and co-translator of the poetry volume, "A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems," by Simin Behbahani, Iran's most celebrated living poet. Milani and collaborator Kaveh Safa's translation of Behbahani's poems won the 2008 Lois Roth Prize for Literary Translation from Persian.
A new material developed at the University of Virginia "“ an oxygen nanosensor that couples a light-emitting dye with a biopolymer "“ simplifies the imaging of oxygen-deficient regions of tumors. Such tumors are associated with increased cancer aggressiveness and are particularly difficult to treat.
The conference, in recognition of the coincidence of the inauguration of the nation's first African-American president and the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the end of Massive Resistance in Virginia, will explore the events of the time and analyze how the commonwealth has evolved since the Massive Resistance era.
Tip sheet of University of Virginia professors available to comment on confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Benjamin Cohen, an environmental historian and historian of science with an interest in modern environmental thought and the land and food at the center of it, looks to the past for insight into how we live, and eat, today.
Implicit stereotypes "“ thoughts that people may be unwilling to express or may not even know that they have "“ may have a powerful effect on gender equity in science and mathematics engagement and performance, according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
University of Virginia psychologists and computer scientists have found that gender is less important than head motion in the nonverbal dynamics of human conversation.
Researchers in the University of Virginia Department of Urology have developed a novel method that could help physicians determine the best course of treatment for patients suffering from bladder cancer.
A new low-bandwidth, high-frame-rate videoconferencing technology that creates the appearance of three-dimensionality and a strong sense of co-presence without the use of expensive motion-tracking devices or multicamera arrays could eventually become available for cell phones, laptop computers and personal digital assistants, according to a researcher at the University of Virginia.
Couples living together face dozens of spending decisions every week. Should we eat out tonight? Whose turn to pay? Should we hire a lawnmower or a house cleaner, or skip both to pay for premium cable? If there are children from previous relationships, questions about paying for toys, tutoring or even child support add another layer of complications.
A new center to develop technologies for converting methane gas and other hydrocarbon and fossil resources into readily transportable and higher-value liquid fuels is being established at the University of Virginia under a new $11 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Two University of Virginia law professors, experts on the Supreme Court and the Constitution, are available to discuss likely successors to David Souter and how the court may change.
"If you ask 100 high school students if they like to learn new things, almost all of them will tell you they like to learn," said Daniel Willingham, a University of Virginia cognitive psychologist. "But if you ask those same students if they like school, many of them will tell you they don't." He addresses these issues in a new book, "Why Don't Students like School?," in which he explains how the mind works "“ and what it means for the classroom.
When an older person is injured in a fall, the cost is significant, both in quality of life and medical expense. Wireless body sensor networks that monitor gait, being developed by University of Virginia researchers, could offer a solution on both fronts.
Wireless body sensor networks that monitor gait, being developed by University of Virginia researchers, could help keep seniors independent longer and reduce long-term health care costs.
Picture the textbook atom. It would resemble a miniature solar system "” an atomic nucleus orbited by electrons, drawn in nice tidy elliptical orbits "” like planets orbiting the Sun. This is a reasonable classical depiction of an atom, but it is completely at odds with the usual quantum description of an atom. Now, a University of Virginia physicist has engineered, in a sense, the classical picture-perfect textbook atom.
Darden School of Business students Baijnath Ramraika, Ravi Yekula and Chip Ransler won two business plan competitions last week, raking in $5,000 at Wake Forest University on March 29 and pocketing $10,000 on March 30 from the Darden-U.Va. Business Plan Competition.
Applications to the University of Virginia School of Law shot up by more than 20 percent this year, a massive increase that far outpaces national averages, according to data from the Admissions Office.
Self-led, self-structured inquiry may be the best method to train scientists at the college level and beyond, but it's not the ideal way for all high school students to prepare for college science. That's according to findings of a study conducted by University of Virginia professor Robert Tai and Harvard University researcher Philip Sadler. Their study appears in this month's International Journal of Science Education.
If Spanish-speaking children are having difficulty reading English, is the problem an unfamiliar language, or might their struggles reflect an underlying difficulty in reading? Two faculty members at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education are working on ways to help teachers answer that question.
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