Nicholas Jan Willem Noltes, University of Virginia, global commerce: “… The importance of working hard to achieve my dreams, and I plan on applying this to my future career so that I’ll know I’m doing everything I can to reach my full potential.”
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, said he suspects that political pressures and ambitions deter California attorneys general from exercising their authority more frequently. UVA law professor Rachel Harmon suggested state funding might also present a barrier. “I don’t think mirroring the federal statute, section 14141, is likely to be the most successful state reform effort,” Harmon said, referring to the order granted by Clinton’s 1994 crime bill.
Though Sessions was then just a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Alabama, he wrote to his boss, Attorney General William French Smith, in September 1982 to urge a radical approach to cracking down on crime. Sessions' memo to Smith, which David Dagan, a criminal-justice researcher who is a national fellow at UVA's Miller Center, said he discovered in the National Archives, began with an acknowledgment of the "presumptuous" nature of his letter, diminutively referring to himself as "a resident of the distant boondocks" as he predicted that a pending package of crime legislation wo...
Daniel Willingham has long been interested in how learning and memory work. But about 15 years ago, the UVA professor of psychology decided to move beyond the study of cognition and do something few others in his field had done: focus on what the research means for classrooms.
But, as The Consumer Product Safety Commission notes, baby boxes aren’t subject to “any mandatory safety standards.” The AAP has come out to say that “there is insufficient data on the role cardboard boxes play in reducing infant mortality,” and that Finland itself has never collected data on whether these boxes influenced its reduction in infant mortality. Rachel Y. Moon, a pediatrics professor at the UVA School of Medicine, notes that while this latest study helps to evaluate the potential benefit of baby boxes, it’s too limited in its scope – especially since SIDS risk peaks ...
(By Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer, a lecturer at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) My community recently witnessed an appalling nighttime demonstration by white nationalist Richard Spencer and his followers, complete with torches held aloft, in a frightening image that went around the world. They came to protest the recent decision by our City Council to remove and sell our statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. I find their ideology and their methods repellent. And I believe that as a nation, in 2017, we still haven’t fully confronted our history ...
Seated in a conference room at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Robert C. Vaughn, the organization’s outgoing president, is surrounded by books. It’s a suitable backdrop for the former UVA professor and founder of the organization he’s set to leave at the end of June.
Nearly 6 million children under the age of 18 have food allergies – one in 13, or roughly two in every classroom. That’s why UVA has developed a special training program for teachers. It’s being tested in and around Charlottesville and could soon be offered nationwide.
The issue makes strange bedfellows. Both Gary Gallagher, a prominent UVA history professor, and Richard Spencer, a prominent white supremacist, advocated leaving Charlottesville’s Lee statue in place. To Gallagher, it tells an important story about the time in which it was erected – although he told a city commission last year that he’d like to see other statuary in the park that tells other stories.
The CFPB will have an extra opponent May 24 when it faces off against PHH Mortgage Corp. in a major test of its constitutionality: the U.S. Justice Department. More such challenges are likely in enforcement actions until the issue is resolved “in an authoritative ruling” by the D.C. Circuit or Supreme Court, said Aditya Bamzai, an associate professor at the UVA School of Law.
Not all Christians believe that Jesus was buried and rose again at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In the 19th century, doubts crept in about Constantine's site, said Robert Wilken, a professor of Christian history at the University of Virginia. "What it really boils down to is that Protestants came to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the 19th century and were appalled that it was an Orthodox church," Wilken said. The icons and incense were apparently too much for Protestants more austere sensibilities.
Melody Barnes, a Richmond native and former director of President Barack Obama’s domestic policy council, will be a guest speaker for this year’s TEDxRVA event, “Change,” on June 23. Barnes is also co-founder of the public policy and domestic strategy firm MB2 (MB Squared) Solutions and a senior fellow in presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
Political scientist Larry Sabato, a baby boomer who was deeply affected by JFK's assassination as a 10-year-old, told me, "He is frozen in time at age 46. ...There are only a few moments in anybody's life that everybody remembers, and that was one of them." Kennedy was more than a martyr who was killed in his prime.
(By Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology) The brain beats the internet when it comes to context and speed, but the internet clobbers the brain when it comes to volume. You can find any fact on the internet, even alternative ones. Your brain, in contrast, is limited, so how should we choose what to learn?
UVA researchers have discovered that our guts have something in common with pendulum clocks and metronomes, and it could lead to new treatments for disease.
The price of being a successful woman can be all too real. In 2013, psychologists from the University of Florida and the University of Virginia teamed to carry out five experiments on how men in heterosexual relationships are impacted by their female partner’s successes. In one experiment, 284 male participants took an online test that asked them to think about an instance where their partner was successful in a specific area, either intellectually or socially. Immediately after, they were asked to take an implicit self-esteem test. The results showed that whatever kind of success the woman ha...
Joseph McGill, founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, started his project in 2010 with a simple idea: grab a sleeping bag and travel the country, sleeping where slaves slept. In October, McGill plans to spend the night at the University of Virginia while partaking in a three-day symposium on the effects of slavery.
Given his eclectic interests as a UVA undergrad, Tim Estes thought it would be useful to have an online system that would recommend events on the busy campus based on a user's networks and activities. Student Council declined to fund his proposal, but Estes discovered his intellectual passion: using math to discover meaning and connections in language.
A UVA study has shown that if a young teen can argue effectively with his or her parents they are more likely to resist peer pressure to use drugs or alcohol later in adolescence.
From Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who captured only eight hours of conversation on tape, to Nixon, who vacuumed up roughly 3,400 hours of recorded material, the history of presidential taping, analyzed and published by scholars at the UVA’s Miller Center, provides an extraordinary window into the workings of the White House during some of the most consequential periods in American history.