Schools are also being judged in how they reduced chronic absenteeism, which affects one in 10 students across the state, according to a University of Virginia study, with absence rates being worse in Virginia’s urban school districts, including Richmond.
This year’s class includes 1,310 minority students, or 34.1 percent of the class. 352 students, or 9 percent of the class, are African-American, including those who identify as multiracial.
The Virginia College Advising Corps got its start in 2005 when Nicole Hurd, then the director of UVA’s Center for Undergraduate Excellence, launched a program that placed 14 recent UVA graduates in rural communities where the number of students who went to college was below the state average. Now known as the College Advising Corps, it is part of AmeriCorps and serves rural and urban high schools in 14 states.
American audiences have had almost no exposure to a strain of aboriginal art that many consider impressive and inventive: bark painting. This will change in 2020, when a large-scale exhibition of bark paintings from UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection will tour the United States.
Fiza Youivis, 5, hasn’t been able to start her kindergarten year in Fairfax because she is waiting for a heart transplant at the UVA Children’s Hospital. But she can participate in a special type of school: the Hospital Education Program, a partnership between the hospital, Charlottesville city schools and the Virginia Department of Education.
Called the Social Sciences Replication Project, it is the latest bid by the nonprofit Center for Open Science (COS) in Charlottesville, Virginia, and far-flung collaborators to quality check the scientific literature. Like its predecessors, the new effort found that a large fraction of published studies don't yield the same results when done a second time. But this time, the five independent research teams that did the replications strove to give the studies the benefit of the doubt: They increased the statistical power of the studies by enlisting, on average, five times as many participants a...
Let’s get this out of the way first: There is no basis for the charge that President Trump leveled against Google this week — that the search engine, for political reasons, favored anti-Trump news outlets in its results. None. There’s a worry now that Mr. Trump’s incorrect charges could undermine such work. “I think Trump’s complaint undid a lot of good and sophisticated thought that was starting to work its way into public consciousness about these issues,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia who has studied Google and Facebook’s influence on so...
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will help launch the University of Virginia School of Law’s new Karsh Center for Law and Democracy with an interview by financier and philanthropist David M. Rubenstein on Sept. 14.
“It appears that while so-called cool teens’ behavior might have been linked to early popularity, over time, these teens needed more and more extreme behaviors to try to appear cool,” Joseph P. Allen, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, said.
Professor Deborah E. McDowell is being recognized for her commitment to diversify university faculty at UVA and across the country and other efforts.
Jogender Tushir-Singh, an assistant professor at the School of Medicine, has been developing a new type of cancer immune therapy. Tushir-Singh believes the new approach will help kill ovarian cancer tumors.
The new surroundings of business school – along with the break from the past it represents – is something that the MBA Class of 2020 has long sought. That doesn’t mean their lives won’t circle back to an original purpose. Take the University of Virginia’s Carissa Sanchez. Since high school, her long-term goal has been to serve her tribe on the Tohono O’Odham reservation. However, she soon learned that the social impact she’d envisioned was best left in other hands. Instead, Sanchez now plans to focus on climbing the Fortune 500, believing it is the best way to achieve her long-term goals.
When students return to Alexandria’s only city high school in three weeks, enrollment is expected to swell to more than 4,000 students. Classes at T.C. Williams High, which has more students than any other high school in Virginia, spill into six mobile trailers. In the next decade, enrollment is projected to exceed 5,360 students. The overcrowding spawns crammed classrooms and congested hallways. The reason: More young families are opting to remain in Alexandria rather than decamping for suburbs in Prince William or Fairfax counties, driving up the city’s school-age population, said Hamilton L...
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, a professor in Political Science at the University of Virginia, discusses partitioning and redrawing borders between Serbia and Kosovo.
A rapid imaging system could improve heart healthcare in developing nations because of reduced costs and easier availability, according to a study in Peru. "To make this proof-of-principle study a reality in much of the developing world, much work is ahead to train imagers at sites with appropriate scanner technology," Dr. Christopher M. Kramer, of the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, wrote in an accompanying editorial.
(Video) Late Senator John McCain would have turned 82 years old on Wednesday, but the American war hero died Saturday after a year-long battle with glioblastoma.
NCI’s specialty telehealth training modules and foundational courses will be included in the University of Virginia’s Ruebhan Center for Telehealth e-Learning Village. The new online Telehealth e-Learning Village will be a resource for professionals throughout the United States to access specialized courses in telehealth, increasing NCI’s reach to a broader audience.
The Blue Ridge Poison Center at the University of Virginia Health System is issuing a warning about a brand of electronic cigarette that looks a lot like a flash drive. According to a release, the device is called JUUL, and the BRPC says they are popular items that could leave teens addicted to nicotine.
A researcher at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is working on a new approach to battling ovarian cancer. Jogender Tushir-Singh, PhD, is developing a dual-pronged approach that aims to overcome obstacles that have undermined other promising immune therapies for treating such cancers.
A University of Virginia alumna is helping refugees from Afghanistan find work in Charlottesville. Gwen Cassady, who got her undergrad and graduate degrees at UVA and is a veteran of nonprofit work, founded the Super Sewing Shop in April.