Several colleges and universities in D.C., Maryland and Virginia were ranked among the nation’s best in online education on an annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report. Two universities in Virginia are in the Top 10 best online graduate programs in education – UVA (No. 3) and Virginia Commonwealth University (No. 8).
The University of Virginia (Curry) ranks No. 3 on the list.
Ernest Grant, president of the American Nurses Association, and Pamela Cipriano, dean of UVA’s School of Nursing, debunk some of the myths surrounding nurses and midwives and discuss the challenges the industry is facing in 2020.
Some selling points of the original “Star Wars” trilogy – like the special effects that awed audiences in the ’70s and ’80s – are more charming than revolutionary in the 21st century, said Aynne Kokas, a UVA professor and author of “Hollywood Made in China.”
Teenboys are less likely to be abusive or sexually violent in a relationship after taking part in Coaching Boys Into Men, a prevention program delivered by athletic coaches as part of sports training, according to research results. “Kids are already ready to do what their coach says,” UVA associate professor of nursing Kathryn Laughon said. “A coach is often an authority figure and has true respect and is really creating a little community in a way that has historically been toxic. This helps take that energy and turn it into something positive.”
Kim Forde-Mazrui, a law lecturer at the University of Virginia Law School, said Virginia law allows state bodies to collect personal information, although it prohibits recording the political or religious beliefs of residents unless it’s specifically required by an ordinance. That suggests the state is implicitly authorized to collect information on race. The question, he said, was the purpose of collecting the information. “If racial data is sincerely collected for the purpose of verifying identity and security background, I expect a court would uphold it,” he said.
In 2016, many Americans became aware of how easily distortions and outright lies could be spread online to influence a national election. Since then, many countries have had experiences with this. And critics worry that not enough is being done by online platforms like Facebook and Twitter to make sure this doesn't happen again in 2020, a year when more than 60 countries will hold elections, the first of which took place in Taiwan today. Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies, has been writing about these concerns. We spoke earlier about why he thinks digital democracy will face ...
An associate professor from UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development held an implicit bias workshop at Charlottesville High School on Saturday afternoon. The session taught parents how to talk to their kids about race. Dr. Joseph Williams, who led the session, held an open conversation with participants about race and how it plays it role in their life.
J. Miles Coleman of the UVA Center for Politics said Northam was "lucky" with this turn of events. "As perception is important in politics, Northam’s transgression seemed relatively less odious," he told Fox News. "Second, as all three top state officials were ‘tainted’ to some degree, the issue of succession, if one (or all) of them stepped down, seemed like a potentially chaotic prospect."
A Norton City Council resolution spelling out support for organizing, training and city mustering of the “unorganized militia” leaves out some points of Virginia law, according to one legal expert. Richard Schragger, a professor at the UVA School of Law and an expert in state constitutional and local government law, said two parts of the resolution appear at odds with Virginia Title 44.
Syaru Shirley Lin, a political economist at the University of Virginia and Chinese University of Hong Kong, said young people in the two places feel increasingly connected, and this has gathered momentum in the past year. "The older generations in Hong Kong and Taiwan have not formed a platform [because] the natural connection was never there," said the Taiwanese scholar who has lived in Hong Kong for 30 years.
In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by UVA professor Daniel Willingham. His conclusion was that generic critical thinking skills don’t translate from one subject to another, but that subject-specific critical thinking skills can be explicitly taught as you go deep into a lesson, be it history or math, as students need to learn a lot of information to process it.
In dealing with Taiwan, Beijing has employed a system of doling out preferential treatments and economic benefits to certain groups or political parties it supports, and punishments to those who oppose their actions. Syaru Shirly Lin, a world politics professor at the University of Virginia who focuses on China and Taiwan, calls this a “carrot and stick strategy” used to promote behaviors and policies more friendly to Beijing.
UVA’s newest employee is helping both students and police officers, one lick at a time. UVA police’s new therapy dog, Cooper, is now on the job with his owner and handler, Officer Ben Rexrode.
The University of Virginia School of Nursing received $20 million to fund scholarships and increase the program diversity, according to university officials.
The Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the UVA Medical Center named in Becker's Hospital Review's list of 100 hospitals and health systems with great orthopedics programs, according to a news release from UVA Health.
UVA, Charlottesville and Albemarle County are working on adopting an app that will allow bystanders in public settings to take action if someone is suffering from cardiac arrest. 
UVA, Charlottesville and Albemarle County are working on adopting an app that will allow bystanders in public settings to take action if someone is suffering from cardiac arrest. 
UVA, Charlottesville and Albemarle County are working on adopting an app that will allow bystanders in public settings to take action if someone is suffering from cardiac arrest. 
UVA Orthopedics is again among the best in the country. Becker's Hospital Review put UVA’s programs in its list of top 100 for the sixth consecutive year. The University is applauded for its better-than-average surgical infection rates and length of stay for hip fracture patients.