Part of the problem may be branding. “Millennials are not 12,” Jennifer Lawless, the Commonwealth professor of politics at the University of Virginia and a former congressional candidate, told Moneyish. “I think to some extent the label is doing them somewhat of a disservice, because they’re beyond old enough to run for these positions in a very respectable way.”
A local political analyst is reacting to President Donald Trump’s choice to nominate Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the Supreme Court's next justice. Geoffrey Skelley from UVA’s Center for Politics said it is likely Kavanaugh will be confirmed into the high court.
The work of outside interest groups “torpedoed” the nomination of Herbert Hoover nominee John Parker, says Barbara Perry, the Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, who spoke to TIME as part of a presidential-history partnership between TIME History and the Miller Center.
With Kavanaugh’s previous experience in the Republican Bush administration, it could be argued he was selected based on a more “pro-executive” stance, according to Saikrishna Prakash, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “Kavanaugh has worked in the executive branch for many years so you might think he’s going to be more pro-executive, but I don’t know if that would have been a decisive factor,” Prakash said.
(Audio) School of Law Dean Risa Goluboff was part of a panel that discussed the nomination of Brett Cavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
(Co-written by Ben Castleman, assistant professor of education and public policy and founder and director of the Nudge4 Solutions Lab) Behavioural interventions have been successful in improving graduation rates among first-generation and underrepresented students in the US and should be embraced by more educators.
Students’ social-emotional learning needs, such as behavior, absenteeism and mental health, have emerged as a major concern for principals over the past 10 years, according to the recently released 10-year study of the principalship, conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals in partnership with the University Council for Educational Administration. Edward Fuller, an associate professor at the Pennsylvania State University, and Scott Richardson, a doctoral student at the University of Virginia, discussed the results of the new survey during a Tuesday afternoon sessio...
We can even hear the very beginnings of the universe, thanks to the leftover radiation that, 13.8 billion years later, fills the cosmos in every direction to this day. This radiation, known as the cosmic microwave background, is essentially the foggy residual heat of the Big Bang itself. It appears “slightly patchy,” according to a listening guide from Mark Whittle, an astronomer at the University of Virginia, in part because of the presence of sound waves. “The extraordinary truth is that we can see the sound waves, exactly as they were, just 400,000 years after the Big Bang,” Whittle writes....
(Commentary) My next couple of slides reference the excellent book, “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City” by Peter Norton, a University of Virginia professor. In it he describes how streets, once considered public spaces, came to be dominated by cars in the years between 1915 and 1930.
In a study at the University of Virginia, we tracked the social behavior and well-being of 174 millennials over the course of a week. At five random times each day, we sent each person a one-minute survey to complete on their mobile phone. We asked what they had been doing in the previous 15 minutes, including whether they were socializing in person or digitally (such as by texting or using social media). We also asked how close or distant they were feeling to other people, and how good or bad they were feeling overall. We weren’t particularly surprised to find that people felt better and more...
(Commentary) The longest-running study of the effects of divorce on children, conducted over three decades by celebrated divorce researcher E. Mavis Hetherington of the University of Virginia, found that “it’s negative long-term effects have been exaggerated.”
Emotional support from family is essential to outcomes for low-income students, a new study shows. “Low-income families have a particular resource that they have plenty of and that they invest in their children, and that’s emotional support,” said Josipa Roksa, a professor of sociology and education at the University of Virginia and the lead author on the study. “We shouldn’t underestimate that value and the importance of that resource.”
Peace and Justice in Montgomery since its grand opening in April; but one group from Charlottesville, Virginia is bringing more than just cameras and curiosity on their visit to the memorial. Scoop by scoop, several University of Virginia staff and faculty members collected soil near the site that Henry James was lynched nearly 100 years ago. Thursday, that soil will be added to a wall, at the equal justice initiatives headquarters in Montgomery and displayed next to hundreds of jars with soil from lynching sites across the country.
A recent donation to the University of Virginia School of Nursing will help more professionals gain degrees and move forward in nursing careers, hopefully lessening the state’s nursing shortage.
Powerhouse defense contractor Raytheon and students from the University of Virginia received praise from Gov. Ralph Northam Tuesday during his visit to Raytheon's offices in Dulles.
A diverse group of students looking to pursue careers in the medical field heard words of encouragement Tuesday from an outstanding UVA alumna. As part of UVA's Summer Medical Leadership Program, the students welcomed Dr. Vivian Pinn, who earned her medical degree from the University in 1967 and went on to become the first full-time director of the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health.
Huang Yimeng was disoriented when she learned that her U.S. visa was denied last November. It meant the recent UVA graduate wouldn't be returning to the U.S. to start the job she was offered at McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm.
Former University of Virginia baseball star Mark Reynolds is making a case that he still can help a big-league team at 34 years old.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Monday that UVA Law graduate Brian Johnson, a senior adviser to acting Director Mick Mulvaney, will fill the agency's second leadership post. Johnson will become the acting deputy director, succeeding Leandra English, who recently said she plans to resign from the CFPB.
In another bold move to strengthen their leadership team, BridgeStreet has named Keith Haas as their new Chief Financial Officer. BridgeStreet is transforming the 7+ Night industry through their innovative technology platform, BridgeStreet.com. It has made an indelible impact on the growth trajectory of the industry, bringing together sharing economy products, extended stay hotels, serviced apartments and multi-family & residential products in one place that are curated, guaranteed and easy to book. Haas received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Virg...