A new study indicates that some aspects of peoples' cognitive skills "“ such as the ability to make rapid comparisons, remember unrelated information and detect relationships "“ peak at about the age of 22, and then begin a slow decline starting around age 27.
Flawed testimony by forensic experts contributed to the conviction of innocent defendants, according to a new study co-written by University of Virginia Law School professor Brandon Garrett.
A new center to develop the analytical tools needed to design the engines for a future hypersonic aircraft "“ one that could fly up to 12 times the speed of sound "“ is being established at the University of Virginia under a new $10 million grant from NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
Ruhi Ramazani, the "dean of Iranian foreign policy studies in the United States," is available for interviews regarding current Iranian affairs and the 30th anniversary of the revolution. He will deliver the keynote March 23 at a conference on Iran to be held at U.Va.
A recent study reports that high school students who study fewer science topics, but study them in greater depth, have an advantage in college science classes over their peers who study more topics and spend less time on each.
Most American first-grade classrooms are pretty happy places to be. Children smile and enjoy working with one another and have positive interactions with their teachers, who recognize their students' cues for help and offer timely responses.
Molecular motors, the little engines that power cell mobility and the ability of cells to transport internal cargo, work together and in close coordination, according to a new finding by researchers at the University of Virginia. The work could have implications for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.
A University of Virginia Health System study, led by Fraydoon Rastinejad, professor of pharmacology and director of U.Va.'s Center for Molecular Design, and published in the Oct. 29 issue of Nature, reveals the first-ever complete structure of a nuclear hormone receptor on human DNA "” a discovery that now clears a new path for scientists to design more effective drugs with fewer associated health risks.
Bruce Ambler Boucher, who has divided his career between education, scholarship and museum administration, will become the director of the University of Virginia Art Museum on March 1. He currently is the curator of European sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, a position he has held since 2002.
The University of Virginia Patent Foundation has licensed technology that could lead to a revolutionary new screening tool for abdominal aortic aneurysm to Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Inc. Discovered by University inventors, the screening technology could lead to many fewer aneurysm-related deaths.
Dr. Srijoy Mahapatra seeks to treat the heart from the outside, without breaking through the heart's tissue.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a team of University of Virginia engineers $1 million to improve the privacy and security of RFID chips, computer chips the size of a grain of sand that wirelessly send and receive information over short distances (generally 10 feet or less) via very low-power radio waves.
The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs offers online resources related to the American presidency that are an inauguration reporter's dream come true.
Tipsheet on current conflict between Israel and Hamas, which has escalated to the bombing of Gaza.
University of Virginia start-up company Tau Therapeutics LLC has been granted Food and Drug Administration orphan drug status for a pioneering treatment for pancreatic cancer. Developed by U.Va. inventors Timothy L. Macdonald, Dr. Lloyd S. Gray and collaborators, the treatment takes a revolutionary approach to the fight against cancer.
The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has a repository of presidential tapes and transcripts featuring Nixon and Haldeman discussing Mark Felts.
Robert Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and an adviser to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, is available to comment on Obama's nomination today of Chicago schools executive Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education.
A new project, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, or APOGEE, will survey more than 100,000 Milky Way red giant stars "” bright, bloated stars in a late stage of their evolution. APOGEE will provide enormous new insight to the processes that make stars and that drive the formation and evolution of galaxies.
Two teams of engineers with the University of Virginia's Center for Biomechanics will play major roles in the creation of a new "virtual" crash test dummy, one that will live entirely within computers, but will be more realistic than any physical dummy ever subjected to a crash test.
Tip Sheet: University of Virginia experts available to discuss aftermath of the recent Mumbai terror Iincidents in and relations between India and Pakistan.
BusinessWeek judges the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce to be in a "virtual dead heat" with University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School as the best undergraduate business school in the country. U.Va.'s separate graduate business school, the Darden School of Business, is also highly ranked. Together they have more than a dozen faculty who are regularly featured in national and international media discussing the financial crisis, from problems with the bailout strategy to global capital flows and America's low savings rate, to lessons from past financial crises.
With a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, computer science professors at the University of Virginia have formulated a program to attract and keep students from diverse backgrounds. This is important because colleges aren't graduating enough computer science majors.
"Rome Reborn," the digital re-creation of ancient Rome unveiled last year by the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, is now available to all, thanks to Google and a host of other collaborators.
A new study indicates that Seasonal Affective Disorder may be linked to a genetic mutation in the eye that makes a SAD patient less sensitive to light.
University of Virginia sources for presidential election coverage, including politics professors and experts in election-related fields (implicit bias, voting machines, history, etc.).
A new report, "Aligning American Higher Education with a Twenty-First Century Public Agenda," offers recommendations for those with a stake in higher education governance on how to improve the American higher education system.
Google and a group of publishers announce a $125 million settlement of the publishers' suit, which sought compensation for Google's digitization of copyrighted material without permission of the authors.
Do "undecided" voters actually make their choices before they realize? That is a question University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek is trying to answer.
A new research center combining the tools of chemistry and astronomy will use the unique laboratory of interstellar space to free the study of basic chemistry from the restrictive bonds of Earth.
University of Virginia researchers Kevin R. Lynch and Timothy L. Macdonald have developed novel therapeutic compounds that could aid in the fight against cancer.
As a result of the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen, billions of people have been fed, millions have died in armed conflict and a cascade of environmental changes has been set in motion. So suggests an article by scientists from four of the world's leading environmental research centers.
"Laptops are very hot now, so hot that they are not 'lap' tops anymore," said Avik Ghosh, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia. "The prediction is that if we continue at our current pace of miniaturization, these devices will be as hot as the sun in 10 to 20 years." Ghosh is investigating ways to reduce the heat of smaller and faster computers.
Using new "lab on a chip" technology, James Landers, a University of Virginia chemistry professor, hopes to create a hand-held device that may eventually allow physicians, crime scene investigators, pharmacists, even the general public to quickly and inexpensively conduct DNA tests from almost anywhere, without need for a complex and expensive central laboratory.
Lynn Sanders, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia offers the following take on the Republican Party's nomination of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to become vice president.
The University of Virginia has experts in a variety of disciplines available to talk on various aspects of the effects of hurricanes on people and the environment.
The University of Virginia is a political science powerhouse, home to Larry Sabato's Center for Politics, whose Crystal Ball predictions of the 2006 election results were the most accurate of any prognosticators; the Miller Center of Public Affairs, a national center for the study of the American presidency; and the Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership, hailed as a national model for bipartisan leadership training as explained in the PBS documentary, "Across the Aisle."
Biologists at the University of Virginia have discovered a switching mechanism in the eye that plays a key role in regulating the sleep/wake cycles in mammals.
Algae are tiny biological factories that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy so efficiently that they can double their weight several times a day, producing oil in the process "” 30 times more oil per acre than soybeans, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Like soybean oil, the algae oil can be burned directly in diesel engines or further refined into biodiesel.
A new six-year study conducted at the University of Virginia has found that exposing college students to information that corrected misperceptions about campus drinking patterns resulted in dramatic reductions in alcohol-related negative consequences.
Since 2001, researchers at the U.Va.'s Cognitive Aging Laboratory have been testing and tracking hundreds of volunteer participants, ranging in age from the mid-20s to 98 to gain insight to changes in cognition over time, and to possibly discover ways to alleviate or slow the rates of decline. "We will also better understand the processes of cognitive impairment, the declines that may predict eventual Alzheimer's disease or other dementias," says U.Va. Professor of psychology Tim Salthouse.
One of the most common surgeries performed on pediatric patients could become faster and safer thanks to a new surgical tool developed by a team of University of Virginia engineers.
There are strong advantages to a system in which businesses facing personal injury lawsuits could promptly pay injured parties for out-of-pocket medical expenses and lost wages while avoiding long court battles, high legal fees and "pain and suffering" damages, according to a new study.
Psychologists at the University of Virginia and the University of Plymouth (United Kingdom) have conducted experimental research that contrasts with the belief that happy children are the best learners. The findings, which currently appear online in the journal Developmental Science, and will be printed in the June issue, show that where attention to detail is required, happy children may be at a disadvantage.
Take a headline from today's news, add three prominent American historians, give them each a microphone, and listen to their lively conversation as they provide the context that helps you understand just how we got from there to here. That's the premise of a new public radio show from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, based at the University of Virginia. It's called "BackStory with the American History Guys," and it begins airing June 1.
The problem of excessive reactive nitrogen in the environment is little-known beyond a growing circle of environmental scientists who study how the element cycles through the environment and negatively alters local and global ecosystems and potentially harms human health. Two new papers by leading environmental scientists bring the problem to the forefront in the May 16 issue of the journal Science.
Two students from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business recently started a business that supplies electricity to rural villages in India by burning the rice husks that are a waste product of rice milling. So far, two rice husk generators are providing power to about 10,000 rural Indians, but the business plan calls for a rapid expansion that will put the miniature power plants in hundreds more villages within a few years.
Approximately 250,000 items of sexual assault evidence are mired in three- to 12-month backlogs awaiting analysis in U.S. forensic laboratories. A University of Virginia forensic chemist has developed a method for handling rape evidence that reduces part of the DNA analysis time from 24 hours to as little as 30 to 45 minutes and improves the sperm cell recovery rate by 100 percent.
Air pollution from power plants and automobiles is destroying the fragrance of flowers and thereby inhibiting the ability of pollinating insects to follow scent trails to their source, a new University of Virginia study indicates. This could partially explain why wild populations of some pollinators, particularly bees "“ which need nectar for food "“ are declining in several areas of the world, including California and the Netherlands.
Each April, concerns about school safety rise as the anniversaries of the shootings at Colorado's Columbine High School and Virginia Tech approach. Despite these and other publicized cases of school violence, new research from the University of Virginia finds that conditions in Virginia high schools are generally safe and that serious acts of violence are rare.
Girls with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder stand a substantially greater risk of developing eating disorders in adolescence than girls without ADHD, a new study has found. "Adolescent girls with ADHD frequently develop body-image dissatisfaction and may go through repeating cycles of binge eating and purging behaviors that are common in bulimia nervosa," said University of Virginia psychologist Amori Yee Mikami, who led the study.
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