Thanks to two UVA graduate students, inmates at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail are trading in bars for keys that’ll prepare them for life after lock-up.
(By Charlie Tyson, a doctoral student at Harvard University.) Tyson graduated in 2014 from the University of Virginia, where he majored in political and social thought and in English. Gary Alan Fine’s “Talking Art” (University of Chicago Press, 2018), a report on three M.F.A. programs in the Chicago area, offers us an ethnography of visual-arts education: a dispatch from M.F.A. island. Art school, Fine finds, is a subculture, with an austere patois and peculiar rites of praise and humiliation.
Increased drought and longer spans of hotter weather are causing outbreaks of infectious bacteria and parasites, said Howard Epstein, an ecologist at the University of Virginia. The caribou and reindeer populations are also declining due to a boon in predators and because extreme weather events are occasionally triggering droughts.
Why is a warmer Arctic worse for reindeer? There are multiple reasons. Howard Epstein, an environmental scientist from the University of Virginia, who was one of the many scientists involved in the research behind the Arctic Report Card, said warming in the region showed no signs of abating. "We see increased drought in some areas due to climate warming, and the warming itself leads to a change of vegetation."
With overall melting, especially in the summer, herds of caribou and wild reindeer have dropped about 55 percent — from 4.7 million to 2.1 million animals — because of the warming and the flies and parasites it brings, said report card co-author Howard Epstein of the University of Virginia.
Somebody Told Us So Book of the Year“Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy” by Siva Vaidhyanathan. Speaking of greed, you know how each week seems to bring another story of some Facebook perfidy against its users? Vaidhyanathan, a professor at University of Virginia, explains how this cycle of abuse is embedded in Facebook’s very DNA.
UVA professor and psychologist Daniel Murrie told the jury that while Fields was not legally insane at the time of the attack, he had inexplicable outbursts as a child and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 6. He was later found to have schizoid personality disorder. Murrie said Fields went off his psychiatric medication at 18 and built an isolated “lifestyle centered around being alone.”
Even though melting ice has freed up more land for grazing, herds of caribou and wild reindeer across the Arctic tundra have declined by 56 percent over the last two decades, cutting populations from 4.7 million to 2.1 million. "The long-term warming trend may be taking a toll on some of the Arctic's most majestic animals," said Howard Epstein, a UVA professor of environmental sciences.
(Video) It's looking more like Christmas at UVA Medical Center on Tuesday, with the snow and Christmas tree.
For the 35th consecutive year, the UVA Health System held its annual Lights of Love ceremony. The ceremony featured a tree-lighting ceremony that raises funds for projects that will benefit families and patients.
One possible explanation for the higher frequency of deaths after rat bites could be diseases associated with them, according to Dr. Christopher Holstege, a UVA professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics.
Animal life is cratering in response to these year-round changes. Caribou and reindeer herds have lost more than half their animals since the 1980s, said Howard Epstein, a professor at the University of Virginia.
“Kinky Boots” producers announced that former UVA football star Tiki Barber will take over the role of “Don” in the Tony Award-winning musical at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre beginning Jan. 21. He will play a limited run through March 3.
Even in his own domain, [UVA Law alumnus] Robert Mueller is often silent. When witnesses arrive at the special counsel's office in southwest Washington, they are ushered through an underground parking garage and up to an austere, windowless conference room. Mueller's prosecutors do the talking. The man in charge, if he appears at all, greets visitors with a polite handshake and then retreats to a seat against a wall.
This month, economists from UVA and two other schools published a new study that found no relationship between college selectivity and long-term earnings among men. But for women, attending a school with a 100-point higher average SAT score increased earnings by 14 percent and reduced marriage by 4 percent. Has one of the most famous papers in education economics been debunked?
J.H. Verkerke, director of the program for employment and labor law studies at the UVA School of Law, said the First Amendment in a situation like this, while protective of a person’s hateful speech, doesn’t necessarily protect that person’s job. Racist comments about patients, Verkerke said, would give both public and private medical employers a “pretty strong argument that those statements signal problems with care” and “reveal attitudes that are inconsistent with his duty of caring for patients properly.”
The effects of childhood trauma can spill over into the classroom, says Patricia Jennings, associate professor at the University of Virginia. She offers several ways to develop trauma-sensitive classrooms, including by eliminating zero-tolerance discipline policies, reconsidering the root causes of students' behavior and learning to model compassion and resilience in the classroom.
In recent years, marginalia left by ordinary readers has become a subject of large-scale data collection efforts. At the University of Virginia, English professor Andrew Stauffer leads a team that has made a book’s annotations, inscriptions and insertions discoverable as part of UVA’s online library catalog. Any user will be able to find such markings through a simple online search.
During their childhood, about a third of children will develop an intense interest for one topic between the ages of 2 and 6. A study done by the University of Virginia and Yale University found that only 20 percent of these kids will carry on their passion into adulthood. Kids will spend months and years learning the ins and outs of construction vehicles or tractors, but the fascination will fade when they begin elementary school.
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors approved tuition and fee increases on Friday. The board’s Finance Committee said it had exhausted other options before considering slight increases to undergraduate tuition, but believed 2.9- to 3.5-percent increases in most schools are necessary.