All parents want their children to engage with teachers and develop a caring bond. Now, a new study of the stress levels of preschoolers underscores the health impact of teacher-child relationships. Researchers, including Amanda Williford of the University of Virginia, wanted to see if encouraging a supportive teacher-child relationship could affect that heightened stress level, especially for preschoolers with behavioral problems. Such children are more likely to have higher cortisol levels and sustain those levels during the day, when the hormone should normally decline.
Edgar Gunter, a UVA professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, said that maintaining tire pressure and rotating car tires are crucial safety measures that few drivers do. “It’s so important to train kids early on in high school about vehicle stability,” Gunter said.
(By Connie Whittaker Dunlop, executive director for professional advancement at the Darden School of Business) As the director of coaching programs at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, I remind my coaches that the path toward expertise has been studied extensively across a variety of domains, from the arts of music, acting, and ballet to the sciences of surgery, aviation and computer programming.
Dry eye specialty optometrists may soon be able to add new tools to their treatment arsenal, as international research progresses on new therapies. UVA researchers hope that a natural protein found in tears may one day offer relief to dry eye patients.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics) When Donald Trump takes the oath of office Jan. 20, he will complete a remarkable journey, going from private citizen to the highest elected office in the nation without any elected stop in between. His journey is one that is we are increasingly seeing at the gubernatorial level.
(By Kostadin Kushlev, research associate in UVA’s psychology department) Could our increasing reliance on information from devices, rather than from other people, be costing us opportunities to build social capital? My collaborator Jason Proulx and I looked at the relationship between how frequently people used their phones to obtain information and how much they trusted strangers.
A criticism of the faculty reward system is that it tends to value research over teaching. A working paper co-written by UVA’s Sarah Turner offers new evidence in support of that contention. Yet the paper asserts that universities behave “rationally” in making such decisions, and suggests that prizing research output over teaching doesn’t necessarily affect educational quality.
Now, a new study looking into this form of magical thinking provides even more insight into how the mind tricks itself into believing in its own best intentions. As it turns out, by focusing on a new calendar-defined cycle, like the beginning of a new week, month or year, we can make any date feel more distant than it really is, thus allowing ourselves to become overly optimistic and less focused on future obstacles. The two authors of the study, Marie Hennecke, a psychologist and researcher at the University of Zurich, and Benjamin Converse, a professor of public policy at the University of V...
A UVA political analyst says that the Republican wins in Tuesday’s special elections mean controversial Democratic legislation might not make the light of day. "Which means that there will be no chamber that's allied to Governor McAuliffe in any way. Had Democrats won, it would have been a 20-20 Senate which would have allowed the tie-breaking vote by Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam to give them control," said Geoffrey Skelley of the UVA Center for Politics.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe may have hoped for some surprise good news in Tuesday’s special General Assembly elections, but tonight he’ll deliver his final State of the Commonwealth speech facing the same daunting political landscape. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said McAuliffe’s hands have been tied by an opposing legislature, leaving the governor to focus his “considerable energies” on economic development and unilateral executive orders.
"We've had presidents before who were rich, but we're in some uncharted territory given Trump's wealth and his myriad of business interests," said Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at UVA School of Law who specializes in constitutional separation of powers.
The Commonwealth of Virginia is piloting an electronic data exchange project to automate submission of newborn screening information to the state government. The Virginia Newborn Screening Electronic Data Exchange Project currently includes three hospital nurseries, including the UVA Medical Center.
Anita Hill, attorney and civil rights advocate, will be the keynote speaker during a two-week celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. hosted by UVA.
A groundbreaking new study shows that implicit biases have very little to do with how people actually act. The report, authored by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Harvard, and the University of Virginia, looked at 499 studies on the topic conducted over a 20-year period with 80,859 participants, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The University of Virginia-Virginia Tech Carilion Neuroscience Research Collaboration has announced more than $500,000 in grant funding awarded to nine research teams to tackle pressing problems in brain development and function in health and disease.
According to Nicole Fleming of UVA’s Thriving Cities research initiative, American Underground and Durham, North Carolina have figured out a formula for equitable, far-reaching economic success being sought by urban planners nationwide.
In many ways, Dylann Roof’s case is an anomaly: He chose to defend himself, showed no remorse and alluded to killing again, said Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor who has studied death penalty cases from 1990 to 2015.
Thomas Pierce, a 2013 alumnus of UVA’s Creative Writing Program, had this short story published in the Jan. 16 edition of New Yorker magazine.
Presidents give farewell addresses primarily to reflect on their achievements during their four or eight years, sometimes even including expressions of regret for promises left unfulfilled, said Marc Selverstone, associate professor at UVA’s Miller Center, which studies the presidency. The speeches are also used to raise warning flags about specific policies.
"If the bribery scheme is not just to personally profit a number of brokers, but they're doing it in a way that their employer is gaining from the business, it's logical to think about whether the entity ought to be liable," said Brandon Garrett, a professor at the UVA School of Law and the author of “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.” "A company shouldn't be allowed to profit from an illegal scheme."