UVA students presented to local and regional police officers Saturday at the Central Virginia Learning Exchange forum held at the University's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. The students spoke about how they believe relationships can improve between law enforcement and the public.
A collection of the state’s universities were involved in the development process as early as two weeks after Amazon announced its intentions. Deborah Crawford, George Mason University’s vice president for research, said the higher education expansion proposed to attract the Amazon HQ to Northern Virginia involved multiple Virginia universities, including the University of Virginia, Old Dominion University and the College of William & Mary.
(Video) UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy hosted the first Central Virginia Learning Exchange to speak about police-community relations on Saturday.
A bill by Rep. Tom Garrett, R-5th, that would rename a Charlottesville post office in honor of Army Capt. Humayun Khan, the only University of Virginia alumnus to be killed in action during the Iraq War, is headed to the U.S. Senate.
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia, a nonpartisan organization focused on American presidential history, offers on its website an extensive list of the key moments of George H.W. Bush’s presidency.
While former Republican President George H.W. Bush has been characterized for his ability to create bridges across party lines, some of those compromises cost him support from his own party. Barbara Perry, a UVA historian and professor who wrote a book about Bush's tenure, spoke about some of the lasting effects he had on U.S. politics.
(Podcast) Getting from one place to another is hard. What if we could just teleport? From the physics of how this would work (it wouldn’t) to the ripple effects on politics, urban development, and tourism, this episode is all about what would happen if we could zip instantly from one place to another. Guests include UVA historian Peter Norton, author of “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.”
“The Midwest is the most consistently competitive region of the United States, and it oscillates between the two parties,” said Kyle Kondik, who follows elections at UVA’s Center for Politics and wrote a book on Ohio politics. “Trump’s election may suggest a longer-term realignment toward Republicans given how white the Midwest is, but for the time being it remains hard to classify as being solidly in either camp.”
Timing of pregnancies have enormous impact on a working mother’s earning potential. Dr. Amalia Miller at the University of Virginia also found that “women who bore their first child after age 30 enjoyed higher wage rates and accumulated more wealth by age 60 than earlier child-bearers and childless women,” according to her research from 2005.
Dr. Ted Burns, a UVA professor of neurology, says Catalyst is “profiteering” off of vulnerable patients, and calls its business model for Firdapse “exploitative.” In 2015, he penned an editorial – signed by more than 100 neurology experts – expressing grave concern that an FDA approval would spike treatment costs for LEMS patients.
As psychological researchers have known for a long time, all sorts of subtle cues can affect how individuals respond in experimental settings. A failure to replicate, then, doesn’t always mean that the effect being studied isn’t there – it can simply mean the new study was conducted a bit differently. Many Labs 2, a project of the Center for Open Science at the University of Virginia, embarked on one of the most ambitious replication projects in psychology yet – and did so in a way designed to address these sorts of critiques, which have in some cases hampered past efforts.
Classes of fourth-graders and kindergarteners from Clark Elementary School play-tested several math-focused games at the UVA School of Engineering on Thursday. The first-year UVA students clustered around each game had worked with the elementary school students all year to perfect the devices. Their final exam scores would be determined by how well the final projects performed.
Dozens of people gathered at UVA Thursday to focus on how eating plant-based foods can help fight against climate change.
(Video) UVA engineering students are learning a thing or two from some kids in Charlottesville, all while building several new STEM-related games.
At election post-mortem conferences in the capital, the Texan's feat — putting a scare into Cruz and Texas Republicans, who haven't lost a statewide race since 1994 — made his prospects a top-of-mind topic. "There's a Beto factor out there," Donna Brazile, the former Democratic Party national chairwoman, said at a conference hosted Thursday by UVA’s Center for Politics.
Many colleges and universities have endowed scholarships that may require a nomination from a high school official or a special application/deadline for students to apply. An example is the Jefferson Scholarship at the University of Virginia. As one might imagine, these scholarships are extremely competitive and often cover the full cost of attendance.
(Video) An entrepreneurship program at UVA is giving students the chance to move their ideas from the lab to the marketplace.
(Audio) Peter Norton, a professor in UVA’s Department of Engineering and Society, and Emily Badger, urban policy reporter for the New York Times, discuss the past, present and dazzling future of self-driving car salesmanship.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, credited Bloomberg’s operation for picking smart races. “I don’t think you could say they were the difference between the Democrats winning and losing the majority,” Kondik said, “however I think you could say that Mr. Bloomberg and his late money may have made a difference in a few of the surprising results that helped pad the size of the Democratic majority.”
The 10-member group calling for the amendment includes A.E. Dick Howard, the UVA law professor who led the commission that wrote the current version of the state constitution in 1971. “We thought we had addressed [gerrymandering] in the new constitution,” which specified that legislative and congressional districts be “contiguous and compact,” Howard said.