The average time in office for current Democratic members of the House of Representatives is 9.7 years, well above the average Republican tenure of 7.8 years. In the Senate, Democrats on average have 10.5 years of experience in their current roles, ahead of the GOP average of 9.5 years, according to data for that chamber. So why the difference? Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, suggests it has to do with core motivations.
After a "lazy" start of star formation for the first few billion years of their lives, both the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are now forming new stars at a rapid rate. "Both the Magellanic Clouds started off by making stars very slowly," says UVA’s Christian Hayes, a key member of the research team. "But within the past two billion years or so, they suddenly became much more active.”
Racist school bullying has risen in areas that voted for Trump in presidential election, study finds
Dewey Cornell, a UVA professor of education and co-author of the study, warned: “Parents should be mindful of how their reactions to the presidential election, or the reactions of others, could influence their children. And politicians should be mindful of the potential impact of their campaign rhetoric and behavior on their supporters and indirectly on youth."
Today we unveil the 2019 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, ranking the university-based scholars in the U.S. who did the most last year to shape educational practice and policy. Included in the top 10 were the University of Virginia's Carol Tomlinson and UVA President Jim Ryan.
John Ballard Syer died on January 1, 2019, at his home in Charlottesville, after a four-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1961 and served two years in the U.S. Army. He also served on the Boards of Sovran Bank in Norfolk, the UVA Alumni Association and Virginia Beach General Hospital. In 1993, Jack and Virginia moved to Charlottesville, where Jack took on a new role as President of the Alumni Association of the University of Virginia, a position he held until his retirement in early 2006.
Rick Scott will be sworn in as a U.S. senator Tuesday, five days late, so he could finish out his term as Florida governor. But the decision impacts his place in the Senate pecking order. “It’s a strange situation," said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. Kondik said the move could be an ongoing challenge for Scott, depending on how long he decides to serve in the U.S. Senate.
David Sciarra, executive director of the New Jersey-based Education Law Center and an adjunct law professor at the University of Virginia, has been arguing that the plaintiffs in the Scott case made the wrong argument. They argued that the money spent on rural schools and suburban ones was unequal and therefore unconstitutional, an argument the Virginia Supreme Court soundly rejected. However, they never argued that their funding prevented them from delivering the state’s constitutionally-mandated “quality education.” That, Sciarra has said, is the argument that a new round of plaintiffs ought...
The Alzheimer's Association is again granting a UVA assistant professor nearly $150,000 to do research on the disease. John Lukens will use the grant to fund his research on how the immune system plays a role in Alzheimer's disease.
The commonwealth of Virginia received a one-year, $9.9 million federal grant for early childhood education. The grant will include funds to help develop a statewide needs assessment and strategic plan, funds to align early learning standards and funds for kindergarten-readiness tools. Virginia will also work with the 10 local communities and two other partners: the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and the University of Virginia.
It's a simple idea. Put a dot on a map for each person and give each dot a color based on race. But what does it show about Cincinnati? UVA demographer Dustin Cable used 2010 census data, Google maps and a number of programming techniques to create the Racial Dot Map.
(Video) A doctor at the UVA Medical Center wants to bring more awareness to a deadly, but preventable disease.
The Alzheimer's Association has awarded a team of UVA researchers nearly $150,000 to study the impact brain injuries may have on causing the disease.
George Welsh led the Virginia football team to unprecedented success during his nearly 20 years leading the program. During Welsh’s tenure, which ran from 1982-2000, the Cavaliers went 134-86-3, won two ACC championships and appeared in 12 bowl games. Virginia also reached No. 1 in the AP college football poll in 1990. When Welsh retired, he was the winningest coach in ACC history. His tenure at Virginia included numerous moments that still resonate with Wahoo fans to this day.
To his successor, former head football coach George Welsh is the man who put Virginia on the map. “He’s the person who elevated Virginia football to the level where the expectations were that we should win,” said Al Groh, who replaced Welsh after he retired following the 2000 season. “He saw the potential in Virginia when really there was not a high level of success to indicate that before he got there.” Welsh, 85, died in Charlottesville on Wednesday in the presence of family members, according to a press release from UVA.
It is almost impossible for anyone who didn’t live through George Welsh’s coaching tenures at Navy and Virginia to understand how extraordinary his work was from 1973 to 2000. Welsh, who died Wednesday at 85, went 189-132-4 in 28 seasons at those schools, numbers that only scratch the surface of his remarkable legacy.
Tropical forests store about a third of Earth's carbon and about two-thirds of its above-ground biomass. Most climate change models predict that as the world warms, all of that biomass will decompose more quickly, which would send a lot more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But new research presented at the American Geophysical Union's 2018 Fall Meeting contradicts that theory. Stephanie Roe, an ecology Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, measured the rate of decomposition in artificially warmed plots of forest in Puerto Rico. She found biomass in the warmed plots broke d...
According to He, the babies — twin girls named Lulu and Nana — were genetically modified as embryos with a gene-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9. In fact, the gene that He deleted in the embryos — CCR5 — is known to assist in white blood cell function, Mazhar Adli, a geneticist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said. He may also have failed to adequately inform the babies' parents about potential risks prior to obtaining their consent to the gene editing.
The immune system is a marvel, working to keep the organs in the body healthy. Until recently, though, scientists thought the immune system was less proactive with one particular organ — the brain, or central nervous system. “The understanding was that the two systems don’t interact with each other — or should not interact with other — and they would only interact with each other in pathologies,” said Jonathan Kipnis, head of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia.
Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. will visit the University of Virginia as the UVA President's 2019 Speaker for the Arts. Odom originated the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway hit "Hamilton." He is expected to discuss his life and career and the impact of the arts on education when he visits UVA's John Paul Jones Arena on Jan. 19.
Western Albemarle High School hosted the third annual 'Play for Preemies' showcase Saturday to raise money for neo-natal intensive care units. Twelve basketball teams played throughout the day in six different games, where organizers raised money through ticket sales and concessions. The money raised during this year's showcase will benefit the NICU units at UVA Children's Hospital and Carilion Clinic Children's Hospital.