Teachers’ impressions are backed by a University of Virginia study that found that kindergarten has become more like the first grade of the late 1990s.
The new recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics draws on new research that supports skin-to-skin care for newborn infants; addresses the use of bedside and in-bed sleepers; and adds to recommendations on how to create a safe sleep environment. “Parents should never place the baby on a sofa, couch, or cushioned chair, either alone or sleeping with another person. We know that these surfaces are extremely hazardous,” said lead author Rachel Moon of the University of Virginia.
Students pursuing studies in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) fields statewide will continue to have access to some of the best and brightest minds at NASA, thanks to an agreement between Virginia’s Community Colleges and the Virginia Space Grant Consortium. UVA is among the Space Grant affiliate members.
UVA is honoring the late Julian Bond, with an endowed professorship in his name.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Sunday received a special Swanson Courage Award for Civil Rights, in association with the Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP, at an annual event to celebrate the fight by attorney Gregory Hayes Swanson to desegregate the University of Virginia.
UVA pediatrician Rachel Moon is the lead author of an American Academy of Pediatrics paper that warns parents that couches and chairs are unsafe places to breastfeed their babies when they are sleepy.
The true break came last year, when members of UVA’s Innocence Project discovered the slide containing the vaginal swab at the school’s Department of Pathology.
“Abortion, a topic that will change zero minds,” said Geoffrey Skelley, of UVA’s Center for Politics, among other comments.
Last week, noted UVA political scientist Larry Sabato told Patch he wasn’t surprised about reports the Trump campaign was planning to pull back its presence in the state.
Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor, said: “One thing’s for sure – this is no way to try to win an election. If Clinton wins by a wide margin, that alone dampens any effort by Trump to cry foul. It would be laughed out of the public square.”
Speaking to the commission’s seven other charges, as well as the overarching goal of telling the city’s “complete racial history,” UVA history professor John Mason said it’s important to keep the statue in the city to assure the narrative of white supremacy, systemic inequality and segregation – all of which is reflected in the Lee statue and other Confederate memorials – isn’t forgotten.
It’s rare for someone to stay in the same job for 40 years, but Rob Vaughn is a rare person. He’s been with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities since graduate school, building it into the biggest organization of its kind.
(By Bonnie Gordon, associate professor of music) The parallels between the two Dons are too obvious to even state, but maybe hearing them, even as the melodies sweep us away, can remind us that some of the nastiest parts of our past are still present.
The late Julian Bond was one of the most prominent social justice advocates to emerge from the Civil Rights Movement. To honor his legacy and his service to UVA, where he taught for two decades, a new professorship is being established in his name.
The Trailblazer Award, which recognizes creative solutions to procuring local food, went to Greens to Grounds, a UVA student organization that sells produce and snacks sourced from Local Food Hub farmers and community gardens on Grounds.
The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has released the bar exam passing rates of each law school in the state. The best first-time takers’ pass rates were at UVA (91.76 percent), Liberty University (89.66 percent) and the College of William & Mary (87.76 percent).
The Julian Bond Professorship of Civil Rights and Social Justice will be awarded to a scholar “whose thought and writing and shaping power of the imagination can mirror, exemplify and extend Julian Bond’s lifelong mission,” Arts & Sciences Dean Ian Baucom said.
A tech-savvy workforce is also key to the economic development McAuliffe says could come from cyber. That’s why colleges in Southwest Virginia, which has been hit hard by the decline in coal, are interested in cybersecurity’s potential to help their local economy. Programs at University of Virginia College at Wise and New School Institute can help fill the 33,000 cybersecurity job openings in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia region, he said.
Up until Oct. 13, University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball had predicted the 5th District race was projected to have a “likely Republican” outcome, but it has been updated to “leans Republican.”
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the Arizona Senate race has been “rated ‘Likely Republican’ for a bit” by Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the center’s campaign analysis arm. “It looked like Kirkpatrick gained some headway in the summer. Some polls had it as a close race, but his poll numbers improved after the primary,” Skelley said.