“[U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly] could have unlimited amounts of money … but if the political environment is really bad for Democrats, as it might be, there may be no amount of money he could spend that saves himself,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. He calls the Arizona Senate race a toss-up.
David A. Chapman, professor and finance area coordinator, McIntire School of Commerce: “One of the songs that inspires me is ‘Golden Feather’ by Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble, featuring the lyrics, ‘Should I paint my face / Should I pierce my skin / Does this make me a pagan / Sweating out my sin,’ remind me of my younger conflict of being Native and Christian. Could I be both? Could I thank Mother Earth and Father Sky, while saying my prayers to God, the Creator of all? The song is especially uplifting when I’m homesick. The lines, ‘And when you find a golden feather / It means...
In Shelby County, it’s clear that something noteworthy is occurring, and it suggests that Tennessee’s largest school district – which serves nearly 110,000 students, most of whom are Black and economically disadvantaged – is taking steps to better serve a population that has long been underserved, said Valerie Adams-Bass, an assistant professor of education at the University of Virginia whose research focuses on Black children’s social and academic outcomes.
During his tenure on the Supreme Court, Breyer broke ranks with his liberal colleagues on key religious freedom cases. “Breyer was supportive of free exercise and opposed to establishment of religion,” said Douglas Laycock, a leading authority on religious freedom at the University of Virginia School of Law, as he ticked off his votes in favor of permitting or even requiring government aid to religious schools.
(Commentary by Alexa Rodríguez, Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Education and Human Development) I have no doubt about the importance of public schools in our community. Nonetheless, maintaining our schools open without providing the necessary precautions is reckless. It not only endangers our teachers, but also our children, those who are entrusted in our care.
A doctor with the University of Virginia School of Nursing is reminding everyone of a cancer prevention tool. Dr. Emma Mitchell says COVID-19 has kept people from getting an HPV shot. It prevents six different kinds of cancer, and experts say it works best when the doses are given early in life.
The University of Virginia Cancer Center today is now recognized as one of the nation’s 52 Comprehensive Cancer centers … and the only one one in Virginia.
Researchers at UVA Health studied four split groups of 7,000 people, including smokers and non-smokers, looking for a way to detect and monitor progressive lung diseases. Scientists found that immune cells called monocytes could be used to predict the causes of lung disease and how it progresses.
A recent study using a computer model of a 6-year-old child provides new insight into what makes an effective booster seat. One thing that seems to be important: adequate stiffness. The study, conducted jointly by the University of Virginia and IIHS, used PIPER, an open-source computer model of a 6-year-old human body, to investigate how different booster design characteristics and other variables affect the ability of a vehicle seat belt to protect a child during a crash.
Traveling with young kids requires a lot of gear – and patience. Using an inflatable booster seat is one way to lighten the load, but new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety questions if inflatable boosters are safe, specifically the BubbleBum and the Hiccapop UberBoost models. During the study, conducted jointly with the University of Virginia, researchers noticed that the dummy used in the test had a higher likelihood of sliding under the lap belt in a crash. The movement, called submarining, can cause abdominal or spinal injuries; IIHS said the risks of these types of i...
(Blog) Higher-ed folks talk often about the 36 million adults with “some college, no degree” as an opportunity for colleges – with payoffs for those individuals as well. But how does that equation change if returning to college isn’t necessarily in some people’s best financial interest? Or if their getting a degree isn’t so easily accomplished? Those questions have been top of mind for me since [UVA researcher] Ben Castleman told me about his team’s new research on the reasons many former college students don’t re-enroll.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce will be holding its first-ever State of the Community event later this month. According to a release, this will be an opportunity for chamber members, business leaders and the public to hear from the executive leadership of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia. Speakers will be talking about the economic impact of their organizations on the community, aiming to build economic success and regional prosperity.
Despite the overall finding that public institutions generally provide a higher ROI, the report’s top 10 list reads almost like a typical “best colleges” ranking of private nonprofits, including Georgetown, Stanford, Hartford, Tufts, MIT, Princeton, Duke and Yale. The top public institutions on the list include Colorado School of Mines (30), Georgia Institute of Technology (47), University of Virginia (48), William & Mary (60) and University of California, Berkeley (63).
Despite the robust returns, the Endowment Index’s returns were just a little more than half of the median 27% return from endowments, according to Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service data. And several endowments easily surpassed this, including Washington University in St. Louis (65%), Duke University (55.9%), the University of Virginia (49%), Boston College (46%), Boston University (40%), the University of Kansas (37.1%), the University of Nebraska (32.3%), and Clemson University (31.3%).
The University of Virginia has decided to not disenroll students who have not gotten a COVID-19 booster shot. This comes after Attorney General Jason Miyares issued an opinion last week saying that universities do not have the legal authority to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for students as a condition of enrollment or in-person attendance.
The University of Virginia is no longer requiring students to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after the state’s recently elected attorney general said colleges and universities do not have the legal authority to mandate the vaccine.
The University of Virginia Cancer Center is being recognized by the National Cancer Institute. As of Tuesday, UVA’s center is one of only 52 to receive this designation. As a result, there can now be more specialized cancer treatments available at UVA Health.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the University of Virginia recently completed a new study analyzing how different booster seat designs affect a seat belt’s ability to protect children during a crash. The study, which used computer simulations to see how various boosters interact with a 6-year-old child, found that low-stiffness booster seats, like inflatable boosters, present an increased likelihood of children sliding under the lap belt.
(Video) Audrey Soape and her family have been fans of Philadelphia Eagles safety [and UVA alumnus] Anthony Harris since he played for the Minnesota Vikings. After Audrey’s father and grandfather died, Harris traveled all the way to Texas to take her to a daddy-daughter dance.
Thomas Edward Thompson, professor emeritus and former chair of the biochemistry department at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, died Nov. 16, 2021, at the age of 95 in Charlottesville.