UVA cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham has also written about this issue, and he does so again in this post, looking at why so many teachers believe that students really do have different learning styles – and why they are wrong.
A T-shirt designed by four UVA students is helping victims of Hurricane Harvey recover in Texas. As part of an entrepreneur group Hack C-ville, the students were challenged to make a T-shirt design and sell as many as possible in a 24-hour time period.
Longtime Halifax lawyers Carol and Alan Gravitt, whose volunteer efforts include decades of pro bono legal work and about 20 years on the board of directors for Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc., received the second annual Joel C. Cunningham, Sr. Award. The Gravitts began Legal Aid volunteering while they were in law school at the University of Virginia.
(By David Caprara, Fredericksburg native and UVA graduate) A onetime site of slave sales in Fredericksburg has provoked a fierce debate. This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history – but should it be removed from view?
The remnants of Harvey are on the move now, and will likely contribute to rain from a front expected to cross through the metro region on Friday and Saturday, according to Jerry Stenger, director of the climatology office at UVA.
“Google was riding high on the fact that Eric Schmidt was campaigning for Obama,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA media studies professor and a longtime Google critic. “There was a lot of attention paid in the press to the fact that Googlers were starting to work in the White House.”
(By Kyle Kondik, political analyst, and Geoffery Skelley, associate editor at UVA’s Center for Politics) What is uncertain is the political fallout – or lack thereof.
The funding was made possible through Piedmont Virginia Community College’s partnership in the Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. Led by the University of Virginia, the alliance strives for diversification of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce.
Jon Oliver, second-in-command in Virginia’s athletic department for the past 16 years, resigned Thursday and will form his own consulting business to help the development of future leaders in sports. Having handled the day-to-day operations for longtime UVA director of athletics Craig Littlepage, Oliver has been involved in every phase of the department’s mission, and was chiefly responsible for bringing Tony Bennett, Bronco Mendenhall, Brian O’Connor and Mike London into the fold.
A University of Virginia's College at Wise economic development project will get a share of nearly $234,000 in state Building Entrepreneurial Economies implementation grants announced Monday by Gov. Terry McAuliffe. UVA-Wise has proposed “The Nest” Entrepreneur Hub to nurture and assist startup business enterprises and will receive $40,000 toward the effort. The college’s proposal is also supported by Wise County and the city of Norton.
“No one who knows Ed Gillespie thinks for a moment he believes this nonsense,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, referring specifically to Morgan’s remarks about communists. “But this is about winning, and apparently he’s willing to do whatever it takes to win a difficult race.”
Foundation Radiology Group has signed an agreement with the UVA Health System on medical imaging services. A news release said the pact includes radiology and medical imaging services, along with the use of the IT platform developed by Foundation Radiology.
The team therefore hopes for rapid translation of their D-methionine findings for diagnosis in human patients. “I don’t anticipate any difference between the mice and humans, since the tracer only targets bacteria,” said Dr. Javier Villanueva-Meyer, assistant professor of clinical radiology at the University of Virginia, who did the PET experiments as a postdoc in Wilson’s lab.
UVA professors hosted a conversation that put the events of Aug. 11, the torchlit rally at UVA, and Aug. 12, into historical context. It focused on the ongoing struggle for social justice and racial equality.
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia has been documenting the first year of each of the last six administrations, offering some lessons and guidance on what should be avoided. The radio piece quotes Miller Center director William Antholis, and UVA historians Melvyn Leffler, William Hitchcock and Philip Zelikow, who was a top State Department official in the George W. Bush administration.
(Commentary by Richard Schragger, Perre Bowen Professor of Law) The question before the court, however, is a fairly straightforward one: Does a Virginia statute bar Charlottesville from taking down or moving a statue of a Confederate general erected in 1924? There are certainly some ambiguities in the law, but this central question can easily be answered in the negative.
(Commentary by psychology professor Angeline S. Lillard) Pretend play is a charming activity. Children pretend that their living room is a restaurant where they prepare and serve food, or they imagine the tree outside is a castle. American parents serve this activity by purchasing toys to support it ($20 billion worth last year), and most think pretending is very important to children's development. But the evidence on the latter point is actually quite weak.
“Anecdotally, it seems to be growing. But how much it’s growing and what percentage of people who are basically full-time, gig-economy people, I think, is less clear,” says Chris Lu, a deputy secretary of labor under then-President Obama who now is a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center.
In 2014, election officials across Virginia began implementing a new voter ID law aimed at combating voter fraud, even though studies show that voter fraud is incredibly rare. Statewide, it’s unclear if the law has impacted voter registration, but that’s due to a lack of research on the topic, said Geoffrey Skelley, media relations coordinator at UVA’s Center for Politics.
“As a demographic category, race is the strongest predictor of vote choice,” says Geoff Skelley at the UVA Center for Politics. “Nonwhite voters tend to be strongly Democratic, while white voters are more likely than not to be Republican.”