(Commentary) In a working paper released this month, five researchers used administrative data from the state of Virginia to study the impact of work requirements imposed on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is more commonly referred to as food stamps. “Our research suggest that SNAP benefits are not an important source of work disincentives for able-bodied adults without dependents,” Adam Leive, a UVA economics and public policy professor who co-authored the paper, explained over email. “Rather, this low- to no-income population likely faces alternative barriers to employme...
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The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed wide receiver Terrell Jana, their second-round selection at the 2021 CFL draft. The Vancouver native was selected 17th overall by Saskatchewan after four years with the University of Virginia.
Brian O’Connor earned his 750th coaching victory Sunday, an affirmation of his tactical skills, the athletes he’s recruited to the University of Virginia and the program’s player development. But in the aftermath of UVa’s 6-0 win over Tennessee in the opening round of the College World Series in Omaha, O’Connor considered anew the essence of coaching.
For the first time in NCAA Tournament play, Brian O’Connor enjoyed a relaxing evening after his team’s opening game. “It feels good,” O’Connor said on the ACC Network’s “Packer and Durham” on Monday. “You can just breathe a little bit and say, ‘Hey, we have a little bit of wiggle room.’” Virginia, led by O’Connor, started its College World Series slate with a 6-0 win over No. 3 Tennessee on Sunday afternoon. It’s an enjoyable change of pace for the Cavaliers, who rallied to win their regional and super regional after losing their first game.
9. University of Virginia, Charlottesville: UVA’s B.S. in commerce-finance concentration places emphasis on leadership, which enables learners to take on leadership positions as they move into a corporate environment. In UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, students learn the full range of international commerce from professors who are active business/commerce professionals.
9. University of Virginia, Charlottesville: UVA’s B.S. in commerce-finance concentration places emphasis on leadership, which enables learners to take on leadership positions as they move into a corporate environment. In UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, students learn the full range of international commerce from professors who are active business/commerce professionals.
In January, UVA launched an adult education program, UVA Edge, offering a year’s instruction for $300, when combined with employer benefits. The yearlong, six-course program nets students about a semester-and-a-half’s worth of transferable undergraduate credits. The expansion came at a moment when an unprecedented number of Americans were thinking about their futures, says Alex Hernandez, dean of UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
“I don’t live in New York,” reads New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie’s Twitter bio. Though the UVA alumnus spent several years in Washington, D.C., as a political reporter, it’s Charlottesville that he returned to with his wife and where they had their children. It’s Charlottesville where he composes his columns for the Times, reflecting on national politics with a historical lens.
Not only did the Virginia Cavaliers win their first NCAA women’s swimming and diving team championship in 2021, they’ve also produced four new Olympians and an assistant coach for the Tokyo Games.
Not only did the Virginia Cavaliers win their first NCAA women’s swimming and diving team championship in 2021, they’ve also produced four new Olympians and an assistant coach for the Tokyo Games.
Fletcher M. Arritt Jr., 79, the legendary coach of the Fork Union Military Academy post-graduate men’s basketball team, died on Wednesday following a long battle with Alzheimer’s. A Fayetteville native and a successful athlete at Fayetteville High School, Arritt enrolled at Fork Union as a post-graduate cadet in 1959, and he was co-captain of the basketball team and ran track at the school. He then matriculated to the University of Virginia, where he played basketball for four years, as well as running track and cross-country.
After founding member and lead singer Dave Brockie died of a heroin overdose in 2014, Blothar (a.k.a. Michael Bishop) became the lead singer. Bishop was the original Beefcake the Mighty bassist before leaving GWAR to earn his PhD in music and go on to lecture at the University of Virginia. Now firmly entrenched in his new post, he is fronting the group into its fourth decade.
Civil rights lawyer Cecile M. Scoon has made history as the first Black woman elected to lead the League of Women Voters of Florida. “League members repudiated times in the 1920s and later in the 1960s when white League members were not as welcoming to Black women.” said Scoon in a news release. “My election was a rejection of that troubling past and an embracement of diversity, equity and inclusivity.” Scoon is a graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law school.
Henry Wynne’s arrival in Eugene, Oregon, for the 2021 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, where he’ll be racing the 1500 meters, can be compared to the part of a movie where we see our hero reach the pinnacle after long-fought ordeals along the way. His journey since graduating the University of Virginia in 2017 fits that mold.
Nia Augustine’s family never thought she would go to college. In fact, before she applied, her family didn’t really understand the point. “My mom’s first question was ‘why?’” This put Augustine’s decision into perspective. “For some people it is assumed they will go to college from birth. This wasn’t how it was for me.” In May, Augustine graduated from UVA with a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology.
Rising fourth-grader Marco Montero-Butler joined his older sisters Nalani and Leila Butler to publish “Sprinkles,” a children’s book focuses on adapting to the changes in life. … Nalani graduated from Hayfield in 2020 and completed her first year at UVA.
Tyler Busch from Newark, a Mount Pleasant High School graduate attending the University of Virginia, was one of several older students who participated in helping craft the legislation. He wants Black history education to go beyond enslavement. “Some of the inventions and the contributions that black people have made to America outside of their free labor,” said Busch.
Machine learning has allowed video producers to create images that look real but are actually fakes, and viewers can’t often tell when they’re being tricked. Now, two students from the University of Virginia have come up with a way to spot bogus video.
Edward Diener, a playful social psychologist who was nicknamed Dr. Happiness for his pioneering research into what defined contentment, died on April 27 at his home in Salt Lake City. He was 74. Dr. Diener, who retired from the University of Illinois in 2009, subsequently resumed teaching psychology at the University of Utah and the University of Virginia.