Dewey Cornell, the director of UVA’s Virginia Youth Violence Project, says anti-bullying seminars often only play a minimal role in combating the problem. “Some schools make only token efforts to deal with bullying,” the bullying expert said. “One-day programs and motivational speakers will arouse students briefly, but there is no evidence that they have a sustained effect.”
“Maine is the nation’s statewide test case,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics and editor-in-chief of the center’s closely watched Crystal Ball political analysis newsletter. “After all, states are the laboratories of democracy.”
Dr. Neal Kassell, founder and chair of the foundation, gave a presentation about the evolution of focused ultrasound. The foundation formed a research partnership in 2009 with UVA, where Kassell previously served as co-chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery. Together, the foundation and Dr. Jeff Elias, a UVA neurosurgeon, pioneered the treatment of essential tremor, a neurological disorder. Kassel said this treatment validated the technology, making it the tipping point in the evolution of focused ultrasound.
In a planetary-science first, astronomers used their knowledge of Jupiter's magnetic field to model what kinds of radio signals might be emitted naturally by the fields of smaller, rocky worlds. "If we can get a handle on how to find direct radio emissions from large exoplanets, we can then eventually use these same techniques to study Earth-sized planets and determine which ones have magnetic fields," Jake Turner, a doctoral student in UVA’s Department of Astronomy, said in a statement.
Republicans now dominate state leadership, controlling 33 governors’ seats, the highest number in nearly a century. In November, the GOP must defend 26 of 36 seats to Democrats’ nine. “Republicans are very exposed,” said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. “You would expect that the number of Republican governorships will decrease because they control so many seats” and the president’s party typically loses ground in midterm elections “up and down the ballot.”
Both sides say they want to do what’s best for children waiting for homes. But children adopted by LGBTQ couples fare as well as those adopted by straight couples, researchers have found, and that can get lost in the debate. “There are not significant differences among the children in terms of their overall development,” said Charlotte J. Patterson, a UVA psychology professor who has studied adopted children in both kinds of families.
Democrats will have to win at least some "Trump districts" to win the House, and Michigan's 8th is the kind they could "hypothetically" win, said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. "I don’t think it’s necessarily a 'must-win' for Democrats. With several dozen competitive Republican seats scattered across the country, there aren’t that many that are truly must-wins," he said.
(By Brandon Garrett, Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law) “In studies of DNA exonerations, I have found that juveniles accounted for a third of all false confessions and another third were intellectually disabled or mentally ill.”
The company said it was poised to initiate a Phase III clinical trial with staff at the University within a few weeks. The university's Department of Radiology & Medical Imaging was a worldwide pioneer in the clinical research of hyper-polarized gases for lung imaging and a key clinical collaborator with Polarean.
Recent research shows the commonwealth is becoming a retirement hot spot. A study by the University of Virginia shows retirement growth in more rural parts of the state is up 113 percent since 2010.
After facing the possibility of closure in 2013, big changes are nearing completion at the historic Barrett Early Learning Center. Building Goodness in April, a student-run organization that partners with UVA’s Darden School of Business, contributed to the center’s landscaping efforts. Through the organization, community members volunteer in local neighborhoods twice a year.
Members of UVA’s class of 1993 are in town this weekend for their 25th reunion. UVA’s Lifetime Learning Program and the Office of Engagement held flash seminars to mark the occasion.
(By Daniel Willingham, UVA professor of psychology) Personalized learning – the notion that children’s educational experiences should be tailored to their interests and abilities – has a long history, but the digital age has brought new promise to the idea.
The study, carried out jointly at UVA, Columbia Business School and Harvard Business School, looked at how people felt about those who pay an exact amount when settling up with friends and family members.
Miss Greater Richmond, Davina Seoparsan, a recent University of Virginia graduate who’s gearing up for law school, is also heading to Lynchburg to compete for Miss Virginia. Like Swanson, she said she’s not bothered by the swimsuit competition — although “it is a little bit of a relief” to know she won’t face that experience if she reaches the Miss America stage. More importantly, she said, taking the pressure off a woman’s looks and body and focusing instead on her goals and personal drive will encourage more women to participate — which means more positive role models for younger girls. “I t...
(Commentary) Bob Tata's story has been told in this newspaper before, but never by someone who has known him for more than five decades.
he University of Virginia Buildings and Grounds Committee met Thursday, to discuss several new ideas.The committee was presented with a new plan for the softball stadium. UVA says its goal is to make this stadium one of the best in the country.
With new low-frequency radio telescopes coming online, astronomers think that they may be on the verge of making the first positive detection of radio emission from an exoplanet. The catch: To be picked up by today's telescopes, the radio emission would have to be way stronger than Jupiter's — about 100,000 times stronger for planets within a 65-light-year radius of Earth, estimates Jake Turner, an astronomy Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia. But, says Turner, that's not a deal-breaker.
The ceremony was the crowning achievement for a governor who already has begun filling a trophy case of accomplishments five months after taking office.“Northam has achieved a term-defining accomplishment in the first year,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “He’s a MD anyway, so he may become known in history as ‘the Medicaid Governor.’”
Political analysts were not surprised by the tone of the speech, as Flake has emerged as a leading Republican critic of the president. But that criticism would not likely carry Flake in a race against Trump, they said. “I don’t think that at this moment there is a big appetite amongst potential Republican primary voters to not support the president in 2020,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter based at the University of Virginia. “If Flake had a great standing amongst Republicans, he probably would be running for U.S. Senate.”