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To keep UVA warm for a week during a typical mid-winter cold spell, UVA facility workers first pile up more than 1.5 million pounds of coal, then pipe in some 25 million cubic feet of natural gas.
A new study indicates that some cognitive skills peak at the age of 22, then begin a slow decline a few years later. Timothy Salthouse, a UVA professor of psychology, conducted a seven-year study that ...
These nonfiction works chronicle some of the diverse experiences of the UVA alumni community.
You click on the picture of your grandbaby and feel a zing of joy, so you click on the cat video and chuckle, and then on What Former Child Stars Look Like Now and whoosh, another hour of your life is ...
When Katie Couric (Col ’79) hosted Tina Fey (Col ’92) on her syndicated talk show in 2013, the conversation inevitably turned to UVA nostalgia. It helped that Fey was promoting Admission, a movie set ...
Lauren Davis was well aware of the University of Virginia’s complicated racial legacy when she accepted a full scholarship in 1997. “I did not revere Jefferson,” says Davis (Col ’02). Still, she ...
Concern about liberal bias in the media is widespread in the United States. But soon-to-be published research reveals that while most journalists lean liberal, their ideology does not affect how they ...
Rolling Stone magazine’s $1.65 million settlement with the UVA chapter of Phi Kappa Psi in June all but ends litigation surrounding the sensational and since-retracted December 2014 story, “A Rape on ...
Here’s the good news: On the whole, automobiles are getting safer for their occupants. If you’re a seat-belted occupant of a newer-model (2009 or later) car, you’re less at risk of serious injury in a ...
Some 20 years ago, longtime friends Louella Walker (Nurs ’58) and Mary Jones (Nurs ’61) were browsing a former teacher’s estate sale when they unearthed a brown bag filled with black-and-white photos.
These nonfiction works chronicle some of the diverse experiences of the UVA alumni community.
The long-awaited reports, which were sought by UVA and authorized by the Virginia attorney general, were released March 21.