At the second Future of Learning Forum, UVA faculty and local schoolteachers spoke about the present shortcomings of public education, and shared ideas for changing the status quo.
(By Tom Bateman, commerce professor) Sustainability is hard. Making even modest progress is daunting. Working effectively in this domain requires us to think not only about the scientific, technical and organizational challenges, but also about human psychology and behavior – others’ and our own. The good news is, you don’t have to run an energy company or a government to make a difference.
The Virginia Baseball Coaches Association, which is designed to educate and support baseball coaches in the state, launched on Feb. 1 and is currently accepting members at VABCA.org. UVA head coach Brian O’Connor and former Major League closer Billy Wagner – the head coach at the Miller School – are among its inaugural members.
A group of college students is calling on the Republican leader of the House of Delegates to consider a bill that would provide in-state tuition rates to children of illegal immigrants. “All people, regardless of immigration status, should be given an equal opportunity to attend the public schools in the state in which they reside,” Rawda Fawaz, a junior at the University of Virginia, said Tuesday.
Another group that focused on treatments for dry eye disease related to specific condition is TearSolutions. Founded by UVA cellular biology professor Gordon Laurie and led by Tom Gadek, the company is developing a treatment called Lacripep. The drug, currently in clinical trials, is a topical eye drop that seeks to eliminate inflammatory triggers by restoring the natural basal tearing mechanism and health of cells in contact with tears, according to a description on the group’s website.
Behaving proactively defies our natural tendencies, despite its long-term survival value. Certain short-term costs psychologically (and organizationally) outweigh uncertain long-term gains. Even if we take on the responsibility and decide to act, we get overwhelmed and often feel powerless and alone. I discussed the frustrations and gratifications of working in the sustainability arena with Deborah Lawrence, a UVA researcher whose courses include "Climate, You and CO2."
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that employers must reasonably accommodate the religious practices of employees if that can be done without undue hardship. The problem with Davis’s case was that she didn’t seek just to exempt herself, UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said. Instead, she sought to exempt the whole county.
A summer camp in Central Virginia for children whose parents are fighting cancer is searching for nurses and mental health counselors to fill a shortage of professional staff. The group has more than 50 UVA students who are volunteering as counselors.
Former Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo is working to improve community policing, and how officers interact with citizens. He put together a panel at UVA on Tuesday in which law enforcement officials from across the country weighed in on how police should best interact with their communities.
The UVA Press and UVA’s Center for Digital Editing plan to create a cooperative to discuss the challenges of developing and publishing digital scholarly editions and projects, according to a news release.
Archives have gaps, and methods of interpreting them can be flawed. Other evidence is sometimes hiding in plain sight. In 2012, at the University of Virginia, which had rented enslaved laborers both to construct the first buildings and to make their bricks, archeologists found—or, more precisely, refound—what is most likely a slave cemetery on campus, beneath what had been a plant nursery and two feet of topsoil. They left the graves undisturbed, put up protective fencing, and marked the grounds with explanatory panels.
The ACC baseball coaches poll was released on Tuesday, and Virginia was picked to finish second in the Coastal Division.
In 2017, the Virginia Department of Education identified special education as the most critical teacher shortage category in the state. This growing crisis in special education has motivated the recent partnership between the Virginia Institute for Autism and UVA’s Curry School of Education.
Bringing police and communities together requires changes in police culture, law enforcement experts said at a Tuesday panel discussion, held at the UVA School of Law. It was moderated by former Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy J. Longo, now an assistant professor in UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
The University of Virginia men's basketball team remains ranked number two this week in the Associated Press poll, behind first place Villanova. The 'Hoos received 16 first-place votes, one fewer than last week. Virginia has a record of 21-1 including a perfect 11-0 in the ACC.
"I took Comey’s testimony to be saying that there was ‘salacious and unverified material’ in the Steele dossier, but he does not claim that the entire dossier is salacious and unverified," said Molly Bishop Shadel, a UVA law professor and former U.S. Justice Department attorney who practiced before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
The research facilities include the Center for Research on Intelligence Storage and Processing-in-memory, which will be led by Kevin Skadron, professor and chair of UVA’s Department of Computer Science. The goal of the center is to remove the barrier that separates storage and memory, which makes accessing data slower than necessary and inefficient.
In the U.S., some perceived a gender gap in reaction to the detailed account by a woman identified as “Grace” of a sexual encounter with comedian Aziz Ansari that left her feeling disrespected and abused. Among older women, there were suggestions that Grace should have been more vocal and assertive in dealing with what amounted to a bad date. Among younger women, there was blame for Ansari and suggestions he had pressured Grace without heeding her words and body language. Among millennial men such as Ansari – who is 34 – there’s a cultural contradiction at play, according to sociologist W. Bra...
(Graphic) Daniel Willingham is a well-regarded UVA psychology professor who focuses his research on the application of cognitive psychology to K-12 schools and higher education. He was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences, the independent and nonpartisan arm of the U.S. Education Department, which provides statistics, research and evaluation on education topics.
Chris Lu, the executive director of Obama’s 2008 transition, now a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center, said transitions are massive endeavors that can be misleading in regard to costs, in part because “you’ve got paid transition staff. You’ve got people who actually are being paid out of the transition payroll and then there’s hundreds of other people who you could pay, but who are simply volunteering out of their own time.”