A new UVA-led study finds that simplifying and streamlining health information for parents helps families in childhood obesity programs, regardless of the parents' ability to understand health information.
The ability to retain and recall information is central to improving memory, knowledge and learning. But do students know what works, and are they using the best strategies? In 2013, researchers from from four universities, including UVA, published a review of hundreds of studies to explore which strategies are most likely to lead to long-term learning.
As Kim Forde-Mazrui, a UVA law professor who specializes on race, told the Los Angeles Times in August, the Trump administration’s feigned interest in protecting Asian Americans is politically opportunistic. “This is primarily about conservative leaders protecting the privilege of access to society’s resources and opportunities for certain white constituents,” Forde-Mazrui said, noting that white conservatives don’t care about anti-Asian discrimination in other spaces.
The horrors of slavery can’t be scrubbed from America’s past, said Douglas Blackmon, a historian and senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center, but it can be fully factored into the remembrances of figures like Columbus. And if doing so brings enough dishonor, Blackmon said, it’s OK to stop celebrating them.
Republican candidates for the House of Delegates are heading into the final stretch of the campaign season with a clear financial advantage – twice as much cash on hand as Democrats. Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says that’s because they have a bunch of candidates running for reelection. "Republicans have this big cash on hand edge because they have a bunch of incumbents.”
A report issued this week by the American Enterprise Institute noted the wide gap in marriage rates by income. About a quarter of "poor" adults aged 18 to 55 are currently married, while 39 percent of working-class adults and 56 percent of middle- and upper-class adults are married. Economic worries may be bleeding into family life in toxic ways. People with insecure jobs often say they're resigned to that insecurity, according to research by UVA sociologist Allison Pugh.
A new report shows that U.S. Rep. McSally gets more done than many of her colleagues. Craig Volden, a professor of public policy and politics at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking, said that McSally "really outperformed expectations" in her first term.
MBA admissions officers say the best measure of candidates' leadership potential is whether they have consistently made a significant, positive impact on organizations where they worked. Whitney Kestner, director of admissions at UVA’s Darden School of Business, says one way she assesses applicants' leadership potential is by looking at their resumes. She likes to see evidence that they have progressively increased their level of responsibility at work.
In recognition of Robert Vaughan’s contributions to the ASC and the Commonwealth of Virginia, the American Shakespeare Center presented him the prestigious Goodfellow Award at the Annual Gala on Sept. 23. The Goodfellow Award, named after the character Robin Goodfellow (Puck) in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” is given annually to a person whose contributions to the American Shakespeare Center have been fundamental to the mission of making the joys of Shakespeare accessible to all.
The Virginia Film Festival will be presenting its popular Family Day again this year. It will take place Nov. 11 on UVA’s Arts Grounds.
The Virginia Film Festival has announced details for its Family Day festivities, which will take place Nov. 11 at UVA’s Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds.
For the fifth year in a row, the UVA Cancer Center has been named one of the top 100 hospitals and health systems with great oncology programs. Becker's Hospitals Review released its annual list Wednesday.
New data from the Center for Effective Lawmaking show that Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana was the least effective member of his party at advancing agenda items toward becoming law during the last Congress. The study, done jointly by professors at UVA and Vanderbilt University, calculated Legislative Effectiveness Scores for each member of the Senate during the 114th Congress, which spanned from 2015 to 2016, and found Donnelly to be the least effective member of his party.
Kilgore discussed his background and his vision for improving the district during a Sept. 29 interview. Kilgore said he is most proud of the transformation taking place at UVA’s College at Wise, including construction of the convocation center, other buildings and state investment. He sees UVA-Wise as one of the region’s most important economic development drivers.
Some of the most important advice sounds a bit heartless, says Edward F. Diener, well-being expert and professor of psychology at the University of Utah and the University of Virginia. “Don’t catastrophize. There will always be bad events occurring – always have been.”
A UVA graduate has created a new app to help the UVA community. The app is called ‘MeeteR’ and it can be used on a phone or computer. It helps students, faculty and the UVA community see what events are happening nearby.
The Scout Guide Charlottesville announced Ian Dillard will take over as editor. Dillard, a UVA alumnus, hopes to bring a different view of Charlottesville to the table. The Scout Guide uses high-quality photographs to tell the stories of businesses, artists and entrepreneurs.
With brutal honesty, sharp humor and an accessible tone, UVA Law School alumnus Zack McDermott has laid his journey bare in his book “Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother’s Love,” which was released Sept. 26 and has been optioned for a TV series.
So how can national, state and local stakeholders know which programs are working and which are underperforming? I posed that question to Mark Crowell, former executive director of UVA Innovation, which helped make Charlottesville “the fastest-growing venture capital ecosystem in the United States for 2010- 2015” according to the National Venture Capital Association.