UVA-Wise Professor Ryan Huish’s local flora class made an interesting discovery as they worked to identify the weeds that sprouted in planters outside the Sandridge Science Center. “On our first lab session for the local flora class, they were introduced to the basic concepts of how to identify a plant to family, genus and species,” Huish explained. “This was the first plant they practiced on, and after about 20 minutes, the identification key took them right to it: Giant Bindweed or Calystegia silvatica ssp. Fraterniflora.”
People in Charlottesville are learning the history and significance of Indian classical music. A UVA student organization, the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth, hosted world-renowned signer Kaushiki Chakraborty.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine’s talk was one of the first events held as part of the Miller Center’s new Democracy Initiative, which aims to engage a wide audience in examining and discussing the issues and challenges confronting today’s democracies.
Regardless of what city they live in, what kind of house they call home or how integrated their neighborhood, black renters can be fairly certain they'll pay more than white renters for identical housing, according to a new study from UVA economist Edgar Olsen and colleagues.
UVA demographer Hamilton Lombard says median household incomes are now above $70,000 for the first time. “It’s also just in the last year we’ve finally gotten past the all-time high for Virginia, which was actually back in 1999 during the dot-com boom.”
Mira Debs, the executive director of the Education Studies Program at Yale University, agreed about the magnitude of the contribution. “It’s exciting to see a significant amount of funding being put toward these efforts,” she said. Debs cited a 2017 study by the University of Virginia professor of psychology Angeline Lillard that found Montessori to be effective in closing the income achievement gap.
After 31 primaries had been completed by July, a Pew study found that Democratic participation came close to doubling that of 2014, rising from 7.4 million to 13.6 million. Republican turnout grew but more modestly, from 8.6 million to 10.7 million. Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, cautioned that while primary turnout is not necessarily predictive of general election turnout, the trend is clear when taken with other data, like fundraising, polling and even hiring on K Street, the Washington home to many lobby firms, which are rapidly recruiting Democrats in anticipation of...
After 31 primaries had been completed by July, a Pew study found that Democratic participation came close to doubling that of 2014, rising from 7.4 million to 13.6 million. Republican turnout grew but more modestly, from 8.6 million to 10.7 million. Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, cautioned that while primary turnout is not necessarily predictive of general election turnout, the trend is clear when taken with other data, like fundraising, polling and even hiring on K Street, the Washington home to many lobby firms, which are rapidly recruiting Democrats in anticipation of...
New research presented at the 12th Biennial Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium held September 13–15 in Seattle advances toward a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying why most patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) develop resistance to poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors, with the aim to eventually find ways to identify patients most likely to overcome resistance and respond to PARP inhibitors. “There are many challenges to studying chemoresistance, and this work addresses a couple of them,” said Charles “Chip” Landen, MD, associate professor of gynecolog...
Pennsylvania and New Jersey are flush with just those kind of affluent, highly educated suburban areas, and are therefore two of the most critical states to control of the House, along with California, said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes House races at the University of Virginia. "If Democrats get a majority in the House, it's mainly going to come from those places," said Larry Sabato, another UVA analyst.
UVA has hired a second Hokie away from Blacksburg as it forms a competing Biocomplexity Initiative. Lauren Coble, chief operating officer of Virginia Tech’s Biocomplexity Institute, will join the institute’s former executive director Chris Barrett in Charlottesville, a UVA spokesman confirmed Wednesday. UVA’s initiative aims to use analytical tools to solve complex medical and societal issues and will work with the planned Bioinformatics Research Institute at the Inova campus in Fairfax.
(Video) UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development is helping children play at the Discovery Museum in downtown Charlottesville while also collecting data.
Andrew W. Kahrl, a UVA professor of history and African-American studies and the author of “The Land Was Ours: African-American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South,” discusses race and the displacement of black coastal communities on the Atlantic.
Republicans aren’t turned off, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. But while Sabato expects Republicans to turn out at a normal rate for a midterm election, Democrats’ “anti-enthusiasm” for Trump is “sky high.”
UVA’s Board of Visitors on Wednesday approved an academic affiliation with Inova Health System and George Mason University, a move that could reshape higher education in Northern Virginia.
We know it's not the tastiest of drinks, but hear us out here; beetroot juice could hold a solution to a whole host of your health problems. “Our early work in patients with [peripheral artery disease] showed that a single dose of beetroot juice increased pain-free walking by 18 percent when compared to a placebo juice with no inorganic nitrate,” said study author Jason David Allen of the University of Virginia.
One new set of data comes from Donna Chen, a UVA civil engineering professor. She has carefully analyzed toll rates and compared them with the traffic delays on the roads’ untolled lanes.
Democrats “have to win a considerable number of states that Trump carried in the presidential election and they also have to more generally win 28 of 35 races that are contested this year,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball election forecast at the University of Virginia. “That’s a very high number. It’s a challenging path, but it’s not impossible either.”
Co-principal investigators for the study are Andrew Southerland, University of Virginia, and Nerses Sanossian, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
(Video) Four political pundits took the stage at the University of Virginia to debate whether or not President Donald Trump has changed the American presidency.