Undergraduates In The News
Relationships are emotional connections between individuals who are unpredictable and vary dramatically from each other; yet some forms of service work require people to use their relationships to aid others.We define that work as "connective labor," and we investigate how workers get trained to systematically develop and deploy relationships in their jobs.
The purpose of this project was to evaluate strategies for addressing the opioid epidemic and predict the future of the epidemic for individual American states. Opioid overdoses lead to roughly 116 deaths per day across the United States. Policy responses vary drastically by state, and many programs are not supported by data on their impact of addressing the crisis.
This research explores the ways that whiteness impacts multiracial congregations.
The winners of the International Society for Computational Biology’s Overton Award, an annual award, are considered to be major contributors to the field of bioinformatics and are recognized for an outstanding accomplishment to the field. The field of bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates knowledge from biology , computer science , mathematics, and statistics.
The aging of the global population is associated with an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and functional impairments, resulting in a greater proportion of homebound patients. Homebound status prevents people from accessing hospitals, office-based medical care, and social interactions.
Despite a rich history of aesthetic and narrative production, very few pre-Hispanic indigenous texts are known today, primarily because of the force of the Catholic Church and Inquisition during the conquest and settlement period of the Americas. One of the few remaining texts is the Popol Wuj, a text from the K’iche’ people of the Guatemalan highlands.
The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union initiated a revival of nationalism in Russia. In the 1990s, Russians began grappling with their national identity in new and profound ways, and some came to believe that Russia was strictly for Russians.
The false science of eugenics swept across America in the early 20th century. “Eugenics,” broadly defined, is the creating of a “better race” through intentional breeding of desired traits alongside the sterilization or containment of undesired traits, often defined by race, class, and ability.
Paleontology, the study of past life, is a fairly recent discipline that originated in Western Europe in the late-18th century. Paleontology in Russia parallels the West historically, with contemporaneous proliferation throughout the 19th century. The understanding of the heritage of an region is valuable in conceptualizing space and place.
Italian ambitions for overseas colonization surged after the Fascist ascent to power, culminating in the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-36 and the occupation of Ethiopia until 1941. Italian Fascists argued that they would rapidly create a benevolent, technologically-advanced form colonialism apt for the future.
Purpose: Utilizing firsthand accounts of student’s biographies as well as second-hand material to construct a better understanding of the student experience and their beliefs. UVA was a center of intellectual activity but also the students here illustrated the pinnacle of mainstream attitudes and behaviors.
Since 1978, the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) has collected demographic data on the country’s newsrooms as part of its efforts to “drive the quest for diversity and inclusion in the workplace and in news content across all platforms.” The central assumption behind these efforts is that by increasing diversity in the newsroom, journalists will produce news that better reflects the need
A watershed in the history of his sculptural practice, Alexander Calder’s first monumental stabile, Teodelapio, emerged from a series of favorable circumstances in 1962. For Spoleto, Italy’s open-air exhibition of fifty-three international sculptors, Sculpture in the City, Giovanni Carandente commissioned Calder to design a “triumphal arch” for the ancient hillside town.
In the nineteenth century, leading public intellectuals like Alexis de Tocqueville of France, John Stuart Mill of Great Britain, and Senator Charles Sumner of the United States found the continued existence of slavery in the US unsettling. Tocqueville predicted a race war and lamented about the escalating violence in US politics over slavery.
Working mothers face a number of time constraints as they seek to manage both work and family responsibilities. Previous research on work-family strategies has shown that the ‘trade-offs’ working parents make at home and at work are stratified by structural factors such as gender, life stage and access to resources.