(By Victoria Moran, a second-year student at the University of Virginia) We want safe campuses. We want to see action taken against sexual assault at the highest level of government. We want to see this issue taken seriously, and as an advocacy group working to prevent sexual violence at the University of Virginia, we appreciate the time, effort, and resources you have devoted to combatting sexual assault. While One Less at UVA recognizes that the Safe Campus Act contains measures that could improve the security of colleges across the nation, such as requiring reporting and bystander...
The University of Virginia will request about $140 million in additional state funding over the next two fiscal years. UVa’s Board of Visitors approved the request, which includes $90 million in operational funds and $50 million in capital funds, during a meeting Thursday.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors is talking about giving professors a pay increase. The board found UVA is ranked 28th in the country in professor pay.
The U.S. Department of Education recently debuted its revamped College Scorecard, which provides prospective college students ways to compare college options and the University of Virginia got high marks.
As college admissions become more and more competitive, Albemarle County Schools are working to make sure their students have attractive applications. On Wednesday night hundreds of people crowded Monticello High School for a college planning night. Representatives from about 40 colleges and universities met with students and a University of Virginia representative hosted "College Applications 101."
Each summer, 20 to 30 percent of students in urban areas who have accepted a spot at a college fail to attend simply because they do not fill out forms or complete other administrative tasks, researchers have found. But simply sending students text messages with reminders, researchers discovered, boosted college enrollment by 3.1 percentage points overall and 8.6 percent among low-income students. Ben Castleman, a professor at the University of Virginia who co-authored the study, said while he was working as a high school administrator in 2008, a colleague discovered that ...
According to University of Virginia education professor Benjamin Castleman, not only do text messages have a place in education, but they also might be a solution to boosting student achievement. Chris Berdik from The Hechinger Report took a look at Castleman's new book,The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies can Improve Education, and his theory behind the bold and typically opposed theory.
Here is a rather unusual post, an admission of by cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. Until about 2000, his research focused on the brain basis of learning and memory, and today, it concerns the application of cognitive psychology to K-16 education. (By Daniel Willingham) Try as I might, I couldn’t think of a way to tell this story without making myself look like a dope. But maybe telling it will prevent others from making my mistake.
It's entirely possible that the first Democratic debate, set for Oct. 13, will come and go with the vice president still on the fence. But how long can he realistically wait before the decision is made for him? Larry Sabato, a political scientist and the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, offers two very different answers to the same question. From a practical standpoint, Sabato contends, the vice president is already too late. “But technically,” Sabato added, “he doesn’t have to be in until next year.”
Following President Barack Obama’s action last week authorizing the resettlement of at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. over the next year (on top of the 1,500 Syrian refugees already resettled here), several Jewish leaders are urging caution. On the home front, HIAS is trying to activate the grassroots by getting people to sign its petition to increase the number of refugees here and to create a bipartisan coalition to make that possible. “This has to be something we do as a country,” said Melanie Nezer, a HIAS vice president. Creating such a movement will be ve...
(By Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics) It was a debate with winners (certainly Carly Fiorina) and losers (sorry, Scott Walker). Mainly, though, the Reagan Rumble reinforced the strengths and weaknesses that voters already associate with each of the candidates. Already, millions tuned in mainly to cheer for their current choice.
A legend in the world of skateboarding is helping doctors at the University of Virginia Medical Center understand a physically demanding profession. Pro skater Rodney Mullen spoke to the crowd at the Jordan Conference Center Auditorium Wednesday about his respect for the medical field. He called it "the most noble" profession.
For being part of the largest kidney transplant chain in the U.S., the University of Virginia Health System’s Transplant Center has received the 2015 National Kidney Registry Excellence in Teamwork Award. UVA was one of 25 U.S. transplant centers honored for participating in a transplant chain, also known as a paired donor exchange that enabled 35 patients to receive a kidney transplant. In a paired donor exchange, living kidney donors who wish to donate to a loved one – but aren’t matches for their loved one – are paired with a different patient in need of a transplant...
Researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the University of Colorado found changing the human body's landscape is a viable new strategy to remove the mechanism that enables pathogens to cause disease.
We made two significant changes to this year’s version of the College Access Index — a measure of economic diversity at top colleges that The Upshot created last year. First, we expanded the group of colleges in the index, by lowering the graduation rate needed to be included. Last year, we examined only colleges with a four-year graduation rate of at least 75 percent. That may not seem like an overly stringent bar, but it ended up including only two public colleges in the entire country (the University of Virginia and William & Mary), as well as almost...
Money can't buy you happiness, right? That's the assumption we've always had, and it feels good to feel that way. It's also been held by something called the Easterlin paradox that happiness is about lots of other stuff. Well, it turns out the story might be a little more complicated. There's new work by Shige Oishi - he's a psychologist at the University of Virginia - that adds a wrinkle to the Easterlin paradox.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has electrified crowds of supporters with his attacks on the elite “billionaire class” and his litany of promises ranging from free college tuition to replacing Obamacare with a price single-payer “Medicare for all” program. Larry J. Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist, says he doubts spotlighting the mushrooming costs of Sanders’ domestic spending proposals will have any appreciable effect on his liberal supporters.
Ryan Maguire, a Ph.D. student in composition and computer technologies in the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music, has found that ghosts really do exist. These audible ghosts are the lost sounds left behind during the creation of MP3 files. As an expert in the field of “soundscape architecture,” Karen Van Lengen, Kenan Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia and a former dean of U.Va.’s School of Architecture, has spent time collecting and documenting such sounds of the city.
The two students who filed the brief (see below) on behalf of the HISD Student Congress, an organization that represents about 215,000 students in the district, are Zaakir Tameez, a member of the 2015 class of Carnegie Vanguard High School, and Amy Fan, a member of the 2016 class of Bellaire High School. Tameez is now a first-year student at the University of Virginia.
Based on population and caseload growth projections to 2035, the Richmond firm proposed a Verona courts complex of 120,000 square feet that would cost an estimated $44 million. The current county courts use shy of 68,000 square feet. Staunton used the same data to propose even more space — and cost — to merge city and county courts downtown. “The Moseley study projected the county’s caseload growth will exceed its population growth over 20 years,” Pattie said. “Does that really make sense?” A University of Virginia expert says no. The expert is Hamilto...