A summer camp in Central Virginia for children whose parents are fighting cancer is searching for nurses and mental health counselors to fill a shortage of professional staff. The group has more than 50 UVA students who are volunteering as counselors.
Former Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo is working to improve community policing, and how officers interact with citizens. He put together a panel at UVA on Tuesday in which law enforcement officials from across the country weighed in on how police should best interact with their communities.
The UVA Press and UVA’s Center for Digital Editing plan to create a cooperative to discuss the challenges of developing and publishing digital scholarly editions and projects, according to a news release.
Archives have gaps, and methods of interpreting them can be flawed. Other evidence is sometimes hiding in plain sight. In 2012, at the University of Virginia, which had rented enslaved laborers both to construct the first buildings and to make their bricks, archeologists found—or, more precisely, refound—what is most likely a slave cemetery on campus, beneath what had been a plant nursery and two feet of topsoil. They left the graves undisturbed, put up protective fencing, and marked the grounds with explanatory panels.
The ACC baseball coaches poll was released on Tuesday, and Virginia was picked to finish second in the Coastal Division.
In 2017, the Virginia Department of Education identified special education as the most critical teacher shortage category in the state. This growing crisis in special education has motivated the recent partnership between the Virginia Institute for Autism and UVA’s Curry School of Education.
Bringing police and communities together requires changes in police culture, law enforcement experts said at a Tuesday panel discussion, held at the UVA School of Law. It was moderated by former Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy J. Longo, now an assistant professor in UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
The University of Virginia men's basketball team remains ranked number two this week in the Associated Press poll, behind first place Villanova. The 'Hoos received 16 first-place votes, one fewer than last week. Virginia has a record of 21-1 including a perfect 11-0 in the ACC.
"I took Comey’s testimony to be saying that there was ‘salacious and unverified material’ in the Steele dossier, but he does not claim that the entire dossier is salacious and unverified," said Molly Bishop Shadel, a UVA law professor and former U.S. Justice Department attorney who practiced before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
The research facilities include the Center for Research on Intelligence Storage and Processing-in-memory, which will be led by Kevin Skadron, professor and chair of UVA’s Department of Computer Science. The goal of the center is to remove the barrier that separates storage and memory, which makes accessing data slower than necessary and inefficient.
In the U.S., some perceived a gender gap in reaction to the detailed account by a woman identified as “Grace” of a sexual encounter with comedian Aziz Ansari that left her feeling disrespected and abused. Among older women, there were suggestions that Grace should have been more vocal and assertive in dealing with what amounted to a bad date. Among younger women, there was blame for Ansari and suggestions he had pressured Grace without heeding her words and body language. Among millennial men such as Ansari – who is 34 – there’s a cultural contradiction at play, according to sociologist W. Bra...
(Graphic) Daniel Willingham is a well-regarded UVA psychology professor who focuses his research on the application of cognitive psychology to K-12 schools and higher education. He was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences, the independent and nonpartisan arm of the U.S. Education Department, which provides statistics, research and evaluation on education topics.
Chris Lu, the executive director of Obama’s 2008 transition, now a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center, said transitions are massive endeavors that can be misleading in regard to costs, in part because “you’ve got paid transition staff. You’ve got people who actually are being paid out of the transition payroll and then there’s hundreds of other people who you could pay, but who are simply volunteering out of their own time.”
Patient experience matters, and leading health systems are delving into their own data to determine how to improve it. The UVA Medical Center, for instance, applied data visualization and agile management techniques to enrich the analytical potential of its survey data. That, in turn, informed how UVA addressed limitations in its reporting and analytics capabilities by first developing a data extraction, transformation and loading process to ingest survey data captured by its vendor into an enterprise data warehouse.
Patient experience matters, and leading health systems are delving into their own data to determine how to improve it. The UVA Medical Center, for instance, applied data visualization and agile management techniques to enrich the analytical potential of its survey data. That, in turn, informed how UVA addressed limitations in its reporting and analytics capabilities by first developing a data extraction, transformation and loading process to ingest survey data captured by its vendor into an enterprise data warehouse.
The mid-Atlantic continues to show strong regional leadership, with Maryland and Virginia returning to the list for the seventh year. The Rotunda at the University of Virginia, a 38,500-square-foot, historic multiuse space in Charlottesville, is one of the most recent buildings in the state to achieve a LEED rating of silver.
The League of Women Voters of the Charlottesville Area and Charlottesville Tomorrow will co-sponsor two panel discussions this month on how the city is governed and how today’s methods might be changed in the future. The panels will include a UVA law professor and the director of UVA’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.
In an ongoing effort to reckon with its past of slavery and segregation, UVA on Monday launched an awards program and a commission in memory of Gregory Swanson, its first black student.
UVA honored the first African-American student to graduate from the University's School of Law. In 1950, Gregory Swanson, sued the University for his right to attend. At a ceremony on Monday, Swanson was honored with a portrait and a scholarship award in his name.
A few years ago, a group of scientists estimated on a global scale that one-fifth of PM2.5-related deaths could be avoided by eliminating agricultural air emissions. “There’s a very tight link between growing food and ammonia-based small particles in the atmosphere,” says James Galloway, a UVA biogeochemist who studies how nitrogen cycles through the environment.