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(08/27/13 3:18am)
The University is now able to more accurately estimate its nitrogen footprint thanks to a new model developed by Environmental Sciences faculty member James Galloway. The model, published in the Journal of Sustainability, identifies the main sources of U.Va.’s nitrogen as utilities and food production, and proposes ways to decrease our nitrogen footprint.
(08/23/13 2:00pm)
During the summer, Charlottesville was filled with more than just the normal sounds of perpetual construction and late-season Lawn streakers as the Brood II cicadas made a rare appearance along the east coast. The Brood II cicadas that emerged this summer are among 12 different broods of 17-year cicadas, each of which make a six-week appearance before dying an ignoble death.
(04/26/13 3:49am)
To outsiders, the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Laboratory’s hand-holding study may seem like little more than a convenient means of landing a date, but Psychology Research Associate Lane Beckes said the research provides unprecedented insight into how relationships can regulate emotion and stress.
(04/10/13 2:25am)
With warm winds of change and longer hours of sunlight gracing Grounds, many students can expect a reprieve from wintry gloom and irritability. For individuals with Seasonal Affective Disorder, however, the arrival of spring is more welcome than to others.
(03/19/13 9:50pm)
Following a successful pilot program last season, the National Football League will begin using an iPad application to test athletes for concussions when play resumes in September. The application is a sideline concussion assessment tool, intended to speed concussion diagnosis and recovery in patients. The app allows doctors and athletic trainers to compare a player’s baseline test results with their post-injury results in real time.
(01/30/13 6:32am)
Known for striking down hundreds on cruise ships and quarantining its victims in bathrooms, the latest strain of the infamous stomach bug, norovirus, has arrived. The new strain that originated in Australia has now been reported in millions of people worldwide, including a number of cases in Charlottesville.
(01/16/13 5:10am)
I recently finished the book “AIDS Sutra,” a compilation of stories about AIDS-susceptible demographics in India. From roadside sex workers to cross-country bus drivers, the essays painted a rich, complex mosaic of the AIDS epidemic in India, examining the root causes. Using the case studies, the writers demonstrate that high migrancy rates, wealth disparity and historically low social mobility combine with a religiously-based sense of sexuality to create the misrepresented epidemic of AIDS in India. The book was personal without adopting bias, empirical but also emotional.
(11/28/12 5:10am)
With finals fast approaching, students are willing to resort to some pretty strange study techniques to cram for their upcoming exams. Here are four easy but not-so-common tips to help increase retention and decrease stress.
(10/10/12 5:01am)
For years now, controversy has surrounded the emotionally-charged subject of endotracheal intubation in cats, which takes place as a routine training procedure in the Medical School. The University’s medical school currently uses both cats and virtual infants to train medical residents to intubate infants.
(09/12/12 5:29am)
In his speech before the Republican National Convention in Tampa, presidential candidate Mitt Romney made several jibes at President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign rhetoric about healing the planet and curbing rising sea levels. To the dismay of Obama’s supporters, many of whom are concerned about climate change, Romney’s remarks were greeted with thunderous applause.
(09/05/12 6:00am)
With football, soccer, and several other collegiate sporting seasons at full swing, thousands of Virginians are hedging on the well-being of our student-athletes. Wishing for injury-free seasons, however, is perhaps not the best solution to the debilitating injuries that impair athletes and laymen alike.