Carolyn Long Engelhard, a public-health expert and professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine — who has her concerns about direct primary care and its lack of connectivity to the larger healthcare system — said that this is one area where she could see direct primary care thrive because it'd be attached to employer-funded plans.
The 1970s models of thinking that “children are resilient” in the face of divorce has given way: “The myth of the good divorce has not stood up well in the face of sustained social scientific inquiry – especially when one considers the welfare of children exposed to their parents’ divorces,” observes University of Virginia sociologist Bradford Wilcox.
Coaching teachers on classroom management and culturally responsive strategies can result in fewer racial disparities in discipline, according to a study appearing in a special issue of School Psychology Review. Led by Catherine Bradshaw of the University of Virginia, the random controlled trial, involving 158 elementary and middle school teachers in a Maryland school district, compared those who received the coaching to those who did not. The coached teachers were less likely to refer black students to the office for discipline reasons and were observed to have classrooms with more student co...
A University of Virginia Media Studies professor says that, contrary to its promise of bringing us together, Facebook is tearing us apart. (from a Friday night [06/22] talk). Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan says that 2.2 billion people use Facebook because of posts that generate strong emotions. “Like pictures of my dog Butter, which tend to rocket around the internet. The same applies to conspiracy theories.”
A University of Virginia study indicates that a decline in cognitive function may be happening as early as our late 20s into our 30s, with the average age range being late 30s to early 40s. Our natural potential, genetically-speaking, when we look at traditional cultures with more land-based diets and active lifestyles, is to reach old age with very little cognitive decline. We are designed to be healthy, vital, and engaged with life well into our later years.
Leslie Kendrick, a vice dean of law at the University of Virginia, said the public schools have to provide a lot of leeway in what they allow students to express. “Schoolkids have First Amendment rights, they’re not checked at the door,” she said. “The exceptions to this is if its disruptive or interferes with the educational message.”
The University of Virginia is hosting some future leaders from Sub-Sahara Africa. Twenty-five Mandela Washington Fellows were selected by the U.S. State Department out of 60,000 applicants from Africa to attend the fellowship. The fellows represent 16 countries and they have interests in the areas of law, media, human rights, and other specialties.
The Seven Society logo is the numeral 7 surrounded by the alpha (A), omega (Ω), and infinity (∞) signs. No one knows exactly when the Seven Society was founded, how its members are chosen, or who they are: Their names are only revealed after they die. At a member’s funeral, the University Chapel bells (a gift from the society) toll at seven past the hour, in increments of seven, every seven seconds, for seven minutes, in the tone of a seventh dissonant chord.
The bootcamp is UVA’s first time participating in GenCyber, which is a national program designed to help educators teach students correct and safe online behavior, increase diversity and interest in cybersecurity and grow the cybersecurity workforce.
“The biggest thing, really, is many counties aren’t seeing a growth of jobs, so you have outmigration of young people and an inflow of retirees,” said Hamilton Lombard, a researcher with the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. “I would bet a lot of those retirees are people who grew up there and are moving back home.”
A University of Virginia law professor earned rare kudos from the U.S. Supreme Court bench Friday for offering the justices a “new” argument that questioned their authority to review decisions of the military’s top appellate court.
(Video) Outgoing UVA President Teresa Sullivan spoke to a group of seniors about the difference between free speech and hate speech on Thursday.
Two initiatives led by local business leaders are coming together, both being created with an eye on Amazon but with the understanding that they are needed regardless. In one, 13 universities, including UVA, agreed to join a group of local corporations in preparing graduates to compete in high-demand areas of data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and cybersecurity.
Recently, the president of the undergraduate Asian Advocacy Group at the University of Virginia invited me to speak at their spring gala. My subject was how it feels to be a minority (Asian) in a field (Italian) in which there are very few minorities. After the event, I decided to pursue the subject further and contacted 40 minority graduate students and faculty members in Italian, French and Spanish. Their accounts reveal considerable differences in the management of diversity within those fields.
“Insulin is a biologic product. It's different, it plays by different rules,” UVA pharmacy supervisor Justin Vesser said. “It was only here in the last 20 years or so that we started to create human versions in labs.” And that's the problem for diabetics: There is no generic version of the drug.
(Podcast) Host Rick Sincere talks with political scientist Todd Sechser of UVA’s Miller Center about the Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore, and with Geoffrey Skelley of the UVA Center for Politics about Virginia’s recent primary elections.
For many companies, high financial costs typically stand in the way of simply demolishing their current buildings and redeveloping them with smart technology built in. Arsalan Heydarian, a UVA assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, says that companies can sometimes get frustrated with technology because it can cause more problems than it solves.
“If you don’t field a candidate, there’s a zero percent chance of winning,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a newsletter published by UVA’s Center for Politics. “If you do field a candidate, maybe your chance of winning is .001 percent, but there is at least a chance that you could win if the incumbent blows up for some reason.”
Boys with autism spend almost twice as much time playing video games as typical boys do. And many common game features — including predefined ‘roles’ and goals, and a repetitiveness between levels — seem to mesh well with autism traits, such as social difficulties and a preference for routine, says Micah Mazurek, a UVA associate professor of education. “If we are finding that kids with autism are especially drawn to technology,” he says, “why not try to leverage that interest to design interventions?”
So what’s stopping employers from offering workers paid family leave? The lack of a federal mandate is one reason, said Christopher Ruhm, professor of public policy and economics at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Only California, New York, New Jersey, Washington, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia have some form of paid family leave.