Another lesson to be learned is the power of financial aid. Affordability is “probably the biggest factor” raising graduation rates, said Ben Castleman, education professor at the University of Virginia.
“This movement is interesting because they tend to be neutral in terms of politics,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti analyst and politics professor at the University of Virginia. “In one way, that gives them strength. But it also gives them a rather weak hand, because the people who are accused have more power than the people who are accusing them. We’ll see what will happen, whether political parties in the opposition are going to hijack the movement for their political purposes.”
A major public health initiative aimed at preventing cervical cancer in at-risk Appalachian families from West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia is underway with support from an $11 million National Cancer Institute grant. The WVU Cancer Institute is collaborating with 10 health systems throughout Appalachia to conduct this research in close partnership with The Ohio State University (the lead institution), the University of Kentucky and the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Sea Grant is already working with the University of Virginia Institute for Environmental Negotiation, the Virginia Coastal Policy Center at William & Mary Law School and Old Dominion University to help smaller towns and counties further north in the Chesapeake Bay become more resilient to flooding and other coastal storm hazards.
Now Evans’ achievements extend beyond Telluride: he has received a prestigious Thomas Jefferson Scholarship, conferred by the University of Virginia, and plans to attend UVA next year. The scholarship has been in existence since 1980; applications for the honor flow in to UVA from all over the world. Evans will receive a total of $280,000, which will satisfy the full cost of attending UVA for four years including tuition, fees, books, supplies, room and board and personal and travel expenses.
Walter Hauser, professor emeritus in history at the University of Virginia, died in the care of his family and Hospice of the Piedmont on June 1, 2019, at the age of 91.
UVA student Sarah Daley has deep connections with China. She has a sister who was adopted from China in 2009, and Sarah spent the summer of 2018 teaching local students English in Hebei province. Both experiences left her with positive impressions of Chinese people and long-lasting friendships. Those connections led to Daley being honored by the Chinese embassy in the U.S., after she shared her stories to the world through an event hosted by the embassy and China Daily.
Considering the life Poag has lived, it’s impressive, bordering on amazing, that he has managed to graduate from high school with a 4.06 GPA and is headed to UVA.
Dean’s selection shows that House Democrats are “taking a long-term view” as they broach the question of whether to impeach Trump, said Ken Hughes, an expert on Watergate at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “They’re not trying to rush to any conclusion, they want to put this into historical perspective for the vast majority of the American people.”
The rest of the Democratic field is breaking down into Biden rivals and Biden replacements, as Kyle Kondik at UVA’s Center for Politics explained to me recently. “The Biden rivals are the candidates who hope to emerge as the main alternative to Biden and who can mobilize the support of younger, more liberal voters,” Kondik said.
Donna Chen, a professor at the University of Virginia, found that at the peak of rush hour, tolls on the Virginia Beltway HOT lanes run between $1.50 and $1.80 per mile. If drivers were to pay the same rates on Hogan’s proposed I-270 lanes, they would pay upward of $45 for the 25-mile trip from Frederick to Shady Grove.
Despite nearly 10 years of national economic growth—in what would be the longest U.S. expansion on record by the end of June 2019—states haven’t fully erased the effects of the recession. Instead of reaching the light at the end of the tunnel as the lost decade ends, some see the tunnel simply getting longer. This project benefited from the insights and expertise of external reviewers including Raymond C. Scheppach, professor of public policy, University of Virginia’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and former executive director of the National Governors Association.
Over the years, a number of studies have suggested that some dog breeds are more prone to harm people than others, although there is still much controversy about these conclusions. However, given the fact that we are often dealing with the safety of young children in a household, it is important that as much data as possible should be gathered. So with that in mind, I was pleased to see a new piece of research published by a research team headed by Dr. Garth Essig, an otolaryngologist (also known as an ear, nose, and throat doctor, or ENT) at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center. The ...
With summer underway in DC, you’re probably spending most of the workweek daydreaming about getting out of the Beltway once Friday hits. Thankfully, Charlottesville is just a short three-hour drive away, and offers way more than historic estates and the University of Virginia grounds. In C’ville, you’ll find everything you need to have a memorable weekend, from five-star dining to kayaking to wine-tasting. Lucky for you, we’ve outlined a complete weekend guide -- so get packing.
Clarke said that Tech was one of only two institutions that is managing an over-enrollment in Virginia. The University of Virginia is the other. The other public four-year universities in the state all accepted students off their wait lists, he said.
The link between cigarette smoking and cancer seems obvious now, but it took decades of research and advocacy to change attitudes and minds. While researchers helped lead the way, many also played a part in supporting the tobacco industry, which funded research at major institutes and laboratories across the nation. Sarah Milov, an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of “The Cigarette: A Political History,” set for release in October by Harvard University Press, describes them as “mercenary scientists,” whose work was done for the tobacco paycheck.
High-quality social relationships have long been known to reduce stress and to be associated with longer, happier and healthier lives. But the neurophysiology underlying these links has remained elusive. Over the past quarter-century, James Coan, psychology professor at UVA and director of the VAN Lab, has been synthesizing and expanding upon what he’s learned in the labs of world-class experts in the fields of brain plasticity, social relationships and functional brain imaging to better understand this mechanism.
Greg Orr, who co-founded the University of Virginia’s M.F.A. program in creative writing, talks with “On Being” host Krista Tippett about the healing qualities of poetry, both reading and writing it.
(Commentary by UVA lecturer Waitman Wade Beorn) In early 2003, as a cavalry officer, I stood in front of my scout platoon at dusk after a long day preparing to deploy to Iraq. I spoke with them about the law of war and how they should treat civilians when we got into theater. It wasn’t a long conversation, but I felt that giving clear guidance about what was acceptable – and not acceptable – was important.
UVA says it is conducting a full audit of its athletics program to make sure it has not fallen victim to the kind of scholarship scams that have brought federal charges against parents and coaches at other high-profile schools. Spokesperson Anthony P. de Bruyn says there is no evidence to suggest that the University is implicated in any similar wrongdoing, and that this audit is a precautionary measure.