A well-known retired professor at the University of Virginia has passed away. R. K. Ramazani was born in Iran in 1928, and spent most of his adult life educating UVA students about the history and politics of the Middle East. Ramazani eventually became the Edward R. Stettinius Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs at UVA.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, along with JCPS leaders and other education officials, announced Wednesday the Compassionate Schools Program is expanding to more schools. The curriculum, developed by UVA professor Patrick Tolan, focuses on mindfulness-based instruction, social-emotional skills training and attentive movements.
Some opponents of RFRAs have claimed such laws give religious parents cover for abusing and neglecting their children. In reality, legal experts say, it’s unlikely that the Indiana statute will actually shield the mother from charges. “Literally nobody believes that general religious-liberty provisions like RFRA create a defense for injuring a child, or injuring an adult, for that matter,” said Douglas Laycock, a UVA law professor.
“I don’t think the Clinton campaign has succeeded in making young people afraid of [a] Trump presidency,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor at Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.
Simon Fraser University researcher Lisa Craig is part of an international team that has uncovered new details about a microbe that invades the brain, sometimes with fatal results. The information is a critical piece of the meningitis puzzle, and could lead to new ways of treating meningococcal infection. Craig, a professor in SFU's Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and SFU research associate Subramania Kolappan, have worked with researchers at the Institut Necker Enfants Malades in Paris and the University of Virginia School of Medicine to reveal the most detailed structure...
A team co-led by Avik Ghosh, a UVA professor of electrical and computer engineering, has directly observed – for the first time – negative refraction for electrons passing across a boundary between two regions in a conducting material. First predicted in 2007, this effect has been difficult to confirm experimentally.
Paul Reyes, deputy editor of Virginia Quarterly Review since 2013, has been named the magazine's 10th editor. Reyes has been the interim editor of VQR since W. Ralph Eubanks left in the summer of 2015.
For the last year and a half, the Lambda Zeta chapter from the University of Virginia has been collecting business attire. They donated the clothes to Young Men with Great Minds, a club at AHS, created to provide academic support for minority students. They also gave tips on how to dress to impress, which students can appreciate.
According to most national sources, the estimate is that about 20 million people now have health coverage who would have been uninsured as a result of the ACA, said Carolyn Long Engelhard, UVA’s associate director for health policy.
The garden updates were a joint endeavor of the National Park Service and the University of Virginia School of Architecture, whose students designed the new layout, arbor, table and benches.
Looking ahead to Sunday's debate, UVA political analyst Geoffrey Skelley, said that for Trump "being better prepared would be a good thing. A major point for him is that voters just don't see him as presidential. Donald Trump has to counter expectations as to how he'd act as president."
A UVA study found that about one in 10 Virginia schoolchildren missed 18 or more days of school in the 2014-2015 school year, offering the first statewide look at a problem that research has shown can derail a child's education.
An $11 million, six-year experiment in social and emotional learning – developed by Dr. Patrick Tolan, who directs UVA’s Youth Nex Center to Promote Effective Youth Development – aims to teach students compassion, empathy and resilience.
UVA psychology professor Daniel Willingham summed up the findings neatly for regular folks. “What should you tell your elderly father who worries that he’s thinking a little slower?” he asks. “Staying mentally active is always a good idea, and if they enjoy the games, playing them can’t hurt. But simple tasks that make you smarter remain a hope, not a reality.”
Three decades ago, then-Attorney General Edwin Meese III initiated a spirited national debate about the proper application of our most important governing document – the U.S. Constitution. His goal was to persuade judges, even Supreme Court judges, to agree they should respect the text of the Constitution and the intent of the founders who wrote it. “There is a sense that a sea change is upon us,” commented A.E. Dick Howard, a UVA law professor, and “Mr. Meese is willing to lead the charge.”
Hillary Clinton’s selection of Kaine “absolutely” has been a key factor in her solid lead in his native Virginia, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. And while Trump was already well-positioned to carry Indiana, Pence’s presence on the GOP ticket should widen Mr. Trump’s margin of victory by several percentage points, Sabato said.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said that Pence's steadiness and Kaine's rocky performance would not change the direction of the campaign. "Tim Kaine started out too aggressively, and interrupted too often, but he got his points across about Donald Trump. Pence came across as the calm, considered one, but he really didn't try much to change Trump's image," Sabato said. "How could he? It wouldn't have won many converts. People know Trump too well for that."
The Trans-Siberian Railway is one of the most impressive engineering feats in modern history. It was also the cause of a major war, which turned into one of Russia’s most humiliating defeats: the Russo-Japanese War starting in 1904. “In the face of Russia’s strong need for Manchuria, the years from 1901 to 1903 were filled on both sides with a growing sense of impending doom,” UVA political scientist Dale Copeland writes. “It was becoming increasingly clear that finding any negotiated solution to the impasse would be difficult.”
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, UVA Center for Politics: "Stylistically, Kaine immediately came off as a little too aggressive. He was basically mimicking Joe Biden from four years ago against Paul Ryan. Biden is a little more natural on the attack and I think his performance was better. However, Pence's performance may look worse in hindsight than it did in the moment. He frequently denied that Trump had said things that Trump has very obviously said, and in many ways Pence split with Trump on important issues: for instance, Pence was significantly more haw...
Fall can be a time when your child makes new friends. But every so often, one of the new friends appears to come from a family wealthier than yours, and your child’s reports from school or the new job start to fill with reports of this person’s masses of possessions or the places they have traveled. And in response, your child may start feeling envious, inadequate, or both. Your child may look for ways to seem just as well off as the new pal. In large part, they are seeking a sense of belonging, says Allison Pugh, an associate professor of sociology at UVA.