It is called Indigenous Peoples' Day, and it is an alternative to celebrating Columbus Day. The reason is to honor the indigenous people who were here before Columbus arrived. When you look around at some of the statues in Charlottesville, it is clear that the role of Native Americans is downplayed in American history, at least according to Karenne Wood from the Virginia Foundation of the Humanities. Wood says there are moves to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day in Virginia. She says the University of Virginia Native American Student Union is lobbying state lawmakers to of...
Are you willing to sign your name to a dishonest statement? It may depend on how you’re asked to sign. People feel less committed when they sign electronically and are more likely to fib than when they sign by hand, new research finds. “It’s actually a cautionary tale of the price that we may be paying for convenience,” says Eileen Chou, the study’s author and an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Virginia. “People feel more removed when they’re submitting things electronically.”
Mrs. Clinton’s strong performance could undercut an incentive for Vice President Joe Biden to jump in the race, as he has been privately debating for months. His supporters have said that one possible rationale for him to run would be to campaign as Mr. Obama’s logical successor, the most unalloyed advocate for a continuation of the Obama legacy. “If Joe Biden were looking to the (debate) for a reason to jump it, he’ll have to search elsewhere,” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, in a Twitter message.
Overall, Asian Americans are more educated: More than half of Asian Americans (51.5%) have a bachelor’s degree or higher compared to 30% of the general U.S. population. And they earn a lot more: $74,105 in median income versus $53,657, according to Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey. But behind the numbers is another story. “There are still garment workers, and the people who give you your foot massage in Chinatown, there are still low wage workers,” said Sylvia Chong, the director of the Asian Pacific American Studies Minor at the University of Virginia. &l...
Patients who have a heart attack, stroke, respiratory failure or other emergency trauma have a better chance of survival if they were transported by basic life support ambulance rather than one equipped for advanced care, according to new research released this week. "I don't think the two groups were all that comparable," Dr. Robert E. O'Connor, professor and chair of the department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians, told CBS News. "It's an interesting study t...
The Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia hired its first professor of practice—a non-tenure track faculty position for distinguished professionals—this month, welcoming longtime CBS correspondent Wyatt Andrews, who graduated from UVA with honors in 1974.
It took an architect lying on the floor, sticking his head into a hole and looking up to realize: There was something there. The something initially was nothing — an empty space. But an empty space in the Rotunda that Thomas Jefferson designed at the University of Virginia is something. It’s one of the most studied buildings in the country, said Brian Hogg, senior historic preservation planner in the Office of the Architect for the University, so renowned that it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
While the economy in the state continues to improve, Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade Maurice Jones said there is a lot of risk that comes from an imbalance between the public and private sectors in job growth. Jones spoke on Tuesday at the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy about “The New Virginia Economy.”
The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library will commemorate the historic lawsuit that admitted the first African-American student to the University of Virginia. Gregory Swanson, a Danville-born attorney, filed the lawsuit in 1950, along with six other lawyers from the NAACP. The case was heard in the old U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, which is now the Central Library, at 201 E. Market St. Swanson was later admitted, becoming the first black student at an all-white university in the South.
The World Bank will offer up to $1.2 million in research grants to combat sexual violence around the world as part of an initiative in memory of slain University of Virginia student Hannah Graham.
We have a desire to go into space to find out what’s on other worlds and to learn more about dangers such as Cosmic radiation. Nine University of Virginia students have teamed up with NASA to send a cosmic ray experiment 23 miles into space on a giant high-altitude balloon to determine how much radiation is too much. The students have been working on the project for 2 years and the NASA balloon with payload will launch any day now.
These have not been easy days for Republican presidential candidate John Kasich. A spate of fresh polls shows he is fading not only in New Hampshire but also in his own state of Ohio. In addition, Kasich’s support in New Hampshire has tumbled at the same time that Bush has unveiled a massive TV blitz in the state, relying on his overwhelming financial advantage to launch a war of attrition. “He’s trying to kill Kasich off,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “They’re trying to kill off the credible candidate...
President Richard Nixon believed that years of aerial bombing in Southeast Asia to pressure North Vietnam achieved "zilch" even as he publicly declared it was effective and ordered more bombing while running for reelection in 1972, according to a handwritten note from Nixon disclosed in a new book by Bob Woodward. Woodward cites the work of Ken Hughes of the University of Virginia's Miller Center to show that "the massive bombing did not do the job militarily but it was politically popular. Hughes argues with a great deal of evidence that the bombing was chiefly designed so ...
Larry J. Sabato is not an easy man to stump. The longtime University of Virginia professor has been analyzing American politics for decades, but he says he doesn’t know what to expect out of the bizarre, highly publicized Republican presidential campaign.
Due to the proliferation of devices cropping up in schools, the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia is now partnering with the Jefferson Education Accelerator — an incubator that helps education technology businesses develop — to help product designers evaluate their wares before introducing them into the market. “At the larger level, it’s an effort to bring evidence to bear in the education technology marketing world,” said Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School.
With a reporter's eye and an artist's heart, Svetlana Alexievich writes of the catastrophes, upheaval and personal woes that have afflicted the Soviet Union and the troubled countries that succeeded it. Her writings, characterized by plain language and detail so visceral it's sometimes painful to read, won her this year's Nobel literature prize. "Her goal is to communicate the history of human feeling. The very fact that it transcends any easy category is part of what makes it great," said Andrew Kaufman, a Russian literature scholar at the University of Virginia.
Stephen Colbert has promised to follow Hollywood's example in sucking up to China -- a practice that has become a huge moneymaker for American film studios. In an episode of the "Late Show" this week, the host fawned over China's achievements and vowed to get himself some of that "sweet and sour renminbi." Still, the phenomenon that Colbert is talking about -- Hollywood casting the Chinese in a flattering light in order to do better in that box office market -- is definitely real. Aynne Kokas, an assistant professor of media studies at Unive...
A former University of Virginia triathlete is defending her new nickname Saturday morning at the Ironman All-World Championships in Hawaii. Seeded first in her age group, 24-year-old Cammie Fausey, nicknamed the Ironwoman, says her faith, family, and friends are all among the things that motivate her.
Obesity is linked to a number of cancers, among them cancer of the endometrium, the lining of the uterus. Weight-loss surgery may reduce that risk, according to a new study by University of Virginia researchers.