The Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and University of Virginia police departments hosted a community forum Saturday to give people a chance to air out their frustrations and offer feedback. Race relations and trust in officers were the main topics of discussion. The city mentioned forming a community action plan.
The annual Virginia Film Festival is just over a month away, running from November 5-8. Tuesday, the lineup and more exciting news were announced. Vice Provost for the Arts at UVa and Director of the festival, Jody Kielbasa, says there's one fact that makes this film festival so unique. "Well, I think one of the great things about the Virginia Film Festival, it's a real community builder. We engage the community. I think what distinguishes the Virginia Film Festival from the hundreds of other film festivals around the United States is we're a part of the University of Vir...
A state trooper responding to a call starts his vehicle, but is unable to shift the gear from park to drive. The engine RPMs suddenly spike and the engine accelerates, no foot on the pedal. Then the engine cuts off on its own. The unmarked 2012 Chevrolet Impala from the Virginia State Police's (VSP) fleet has been hacked -- but luckily, by good hackers. "A policeman would get out of the car to see what's wrong, he looks under the hood and the car starts itself and the dashboard is going crazy. Horns blow, lights blink, and he decides this car is no good," says Barry Horowitz,...
“Our kids are going to be facing challenges that we really can’t even imagine today,” Tish Jennings noted a few years ago at an annual mindfulness research conferenced called the Bridging the Hearts & Minds of Youth conference. She continues to track those challenges today. Jennings is associate professor at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education, and her acclaimed research explores how teacher stress affects the classroom environment and student learning.
Among researchers, there is a growing sentiment that colleges should consider texting -- at least until students’ communication habits inevitably change. “The channels through which we communicate with students greatly matter both for whether they respond and how they engage and act based on that information,” said Benjamin L. Castleman, assistant professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia. “My read is that there’s a pretty strong consensus now about the kind of value and viability of using texting in constructive, effective, profession...
Developing close friendships early in life may help children stay physically fit later in their adulthood, suggests new research. "These results indicate that remaining close to -- as opposed to separating oneself -- from the peer pack in adolescence has long-term implications for adult physical health," said one of the researchers Joseph Allen from University of Virginia in the U.S.
Children with type 1 diabetes have a difficult time knowing when their blood sugar has fallen to dangerously low levels, says a seven-month University of Virginia study. Unfortunately, their parents do an even worse job monitoring levels. The study’s researchers urged parents and their diabetic children to learn more about the signs, symptoms and repercussions of low blood sugar.
Weak leadership, resentment among lawmakers, partisan wrangling and timidity about casting risky votes could prevent an immigration overhaul for “another 45 years,” Senator Edward M. Kennedy predicted two years before he died in 2009. A caustic account of the failure of an immigration bill in 2007 is one of the highlights of 19 Kennedy interviews released Wednesday. Those interviews, along with 170 more with colleagues, aides and others about his 46-year career, were conducted by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, and they were posted online by the Mill...
Some 15 years had passed since Bill and Hillary Clinton’s health care legislation failed when Senator Edward M. Kennedy sat for a 2008 oral history interview, but his frustration over the couple’s handling of the measure seemed to anger him as much as ever. “I think everybody understands now that that was a catastrophic mistake,” Kennedy told a historian from the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, according to transcripts released this week.
Senator Edward Kennedy voiced frustration with President Bill Clinton's failed effort to reform the U.S. healthcare system in the 1990s and said in interviews released on Wednesday his views on immigration were shaped by stories his grandfather told. The interviews are part of the Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project. They were released by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate and the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
When Sarah Rumbaugh discovered just how drawn out and complex the MBA recruitment process was, she didn’t grouse about it — she started a company designed to fix it: RelishMBA. Now she and her COO Zach Mayo are building that company with the aid of the i.Lab Incubator at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Next week, the West Virginia Supreme Court will hear a case in which 30 former prosecutors from around the country have taken the unusual step of siding with the defense. It’s a battle over a DNA test, and whether prosecutors must turn the results over to a defendant when they point to his innocence — even if he has made the decision to plead guilty. While low I.Q. is one contributing factor in false confessions, there are many more, according to the University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett, author of “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong....
Ethan Strickler and Elizabeth Van Der Els are Hereford Fellows at the University of Virginia. They also co-teach a garden course at Hereford Residential College, and guess what? They both love to plant food! Just down the hill from Hereford is the UVa Community Garden. "We do different things, but we're in the same spirit of trying to get students to learn in and outside the classroom," Caroline Herre said. Herre is the head gardener here. The community garden is open to the entire university community.
Students at the University of Virginia have the option to pick two new languages: Swahili and K'iche'. "The fact that the government recognizes that people need to speak this language is an indication of its importance in the geopolitical arena," said Deborah McDowell, the Alice Griffin Professor of English and director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.
Researchers at University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education reported in January 2014 that sending high school seniors reminders to finish the FAFSA increased their likelihood of attending two- and four-year universities relative to similar students who didn’t get the texts.
More than 80 of the most selective colleges and universities are teaming up to design a new application system that aims to deepen engagement with high school students, especially those from low-income families. By next summer, the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success plans to unveil an online application that will be an alternative to the widely used Common Application. The coalition announced Monday includes 52 private and 31 public schools. Its membership includes the Ivy League, other highly selective liberal arts colleges and research universities, and public flagship campuses ...
Four Virginia schools are part of a coalition of 80 public and private colleges and universities that announced plans Monday to revamp and reform the admissions process. The College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and James Madison University have joined with the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success to develop a free platform of online tools as a way to get students thinking about college their freshman year of high school.
The wave of baby boomer retirements has universities around the country — including the University of Virginia — locked in an arms race for new faculty members. Recruiting faculty members is at the center of UVa’s long-range plan, which calls for more than 457 hires over the next seven years to replace retiring faculty. On top of this, the university expects to hire more than 150 faculty for new positions to accommodate enrollment growth.
The Senate is going through struggles as members are beginning to reject collegiality, compromise and not taking advantage of its rules, said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. Reid spoke of the shift in Congress during the inaugural Joseph Smith Lecture on Religious Liberty at the University of Virginia.
Williams College and the University of Virginia have recently adopted a simplified financial aid calculator, which began in Wellesley College two years ago. The growing number of U.S. colleges using the simpler formula raises the possibility that more schools would follow and provide more information on actual college costs.