A new UVA study shows significant progress in the fight against bullying.
Across the country, colleges and surrounding housing complexes are pouring millions into amenities such as spas, on-site tanning and recreation centers, all in an effort to attract students. These luxury features are often effective, based on psychological research, making college tours a potentially precarious exercise in decision-making. According to a University of Virginia study, for instance, people believe they’re better at making future life-changing decisions than they really are.
What do start-ups want? That was one of the critical questions explored at a recent meeting of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and UVA leaders. The incentive for the question: If the governing bodies and university can identify what start-up companies seek in order to locate or expand here, the three entities can better tailor their economic growth plans so as to attract or hold those companies. That would be good for the local economy. It also would be good for UVA researchers and graduates, who may be the founders and the employees of such businesses, said President Teresa A. Sullivan.
Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor Susan Platt stopped by UVA Wednesday night as part of her Pipeline Resistance Tour across Virginia.
Harvard researchers who came across a heretofore unknown parchment manuscript of the Declaration of Independence, located in England, then combed the letters of the Founders through the brilliant tool, Founders Online; and pored over the resources in UVA’s magnificent database, Rotunda. The National Endowment for the Humanities helped fund every single one of the digital resources named above.
The Iranian Americans’ Contributions Project has launched a series of interviews that explore the personal and professional backgrounds of prominent Iranian-Americans who have made seminal contributions to their fields. Jahan Ramazani, University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at UVA, is a poetry scholar and literary historian of broad international scope credited with being one of the most knowledgeable, imaginative and influential minds in his field.
UVA students are lending a helping hand to nonprofits in the area. On Wednesday, students from the Frank Batten School of Public Policy awarded just under $50,000 in grants to four organizations in the community as part of their capstone projects.
What would a perfect plan to reduce the cost of college even look like? Good models are out there that can help – with a little work. Let’s start with the University of Virginia.
“A full 50 percent of our clinical encounters have been in the realm of mental health services. This in part relates to the challenges of a serious shortage of mental health providers in the rural areas of our state,” said Dr. Karen Rheuban, a co-founder of UVA’s Center for Telehealth, which last year was renamed in honor of her work to expand health care opportunities through telemedicine.
Fair housing advocates, people who want to see a reversal of the racial segregation prevalent in U.S. cities, and fans of open data have kept a wary eye on the Obama-era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, issued by HUD in 2015, since President Trump was elected in November. “The House has already tried to do bigger-picture things and has failed to do so, and the clock is ticking,” says Kyle Kondik, managing editor of “Sabato’s Crystal Ball,” the UVA Center for Politics’ nonpartisan newsletter on American campaigns and elections, “because the closer you get to the midterm election, and...
Can you even call it a debunking if the original claim was transparently wrong? Anybody who’s ever made it through elementary school should know that historians have spent a very long time asking and trying to answer this question. “First of all, historians have actually talked about the reasons for the Civil War quite a bit,” said Princeton history professor Kevin Kruse, in a Yahoo News story nobody ever should’ve had to write. Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at University of Virginia, was blunt: “He’s saying that he’s never asked about the origins of the Civil War.”
A group in Crozet is almost ready to send out a survey for community members to take to assist Albemarle County with updating the area’s master plan. Tom Guterbock, director of UVA’s Center for Survey Research, and Shawn Bird, a resident who worked for a political polling firm, also assisted the committee as “survey pros.”
"Kindergarten is the new first grade" isn't just an anecdote, it's a fact. Research from UVA compares kindergarten and first-grade classrooms between 1998 and 2010, finding that kindergarten classes have become increasingly like first grade, with more time spent on academic instruction and, ultimately, higher educational expectations.
A primary cause of somatic mutations has to do with errors during the DNA replication that occurs when cells divide – neural progenitor cells undergo tens of billions of cell divisions during brain development, proliferating rapidly to produce the 80 billion neurons in a mature brain. The image of each cell carrying a carbon copy of the genetic material of all other cells is starting to fade – and for good reason. Genetic sequencing does not normally capture the somatic mutations in each cell. “You get a sort of average of the person's genome, but that doesn’t take into account any brain-speci...
Charlottesville’s PLACE Design Task Force has been working with the University of Virginia to create a 3-D model of the Strategic Investment Area, a redevelopment plan for a 330-acre section of the city south of the Downtown Mall. The goal is to eventually create a virtual model of all of Charlottesville.
A champion for education in Southwest Virginia and a bluegrass legend, Joseph "Papa Joe" Smiddy leaves behind a lasting memory for his work in Wise County. The success of UVA-Wise is still largely attributed to his unwavering devotion as first an educator, and the school's first chancellor.
A new plaque at the University of Virginia is honoring an alum who died while in active military service. The plaque honors U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, who graduated from UVA in 2000.
On Tuesday afternoon, UVA officials unveiled a new plaque along the northern side of the Rotunda that honors UVA students who fought in the Iraq War. "It's to honor the institutions that prepared them. That prepared our leaders, regardless of politics of the country," said Khizr Khan, a father whose son died while serving.
A Health and Safety Fair held Tuesday at UVA gave construction workers the skills they need to stay safe on the job.
Richard Guy Wilson, one of America’s best-known experts on historic architecture, has shaped a generation of scholars in his four-decade tenure at UVA, where he chairs the school’s distinguished program in architectural history.