Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine has been an outspoken opponent of President Trump - especially when it comes to the president's military tactics. On Friday, Kaine spoke to a small private group inside the Rotunda’s Dome Room about President Trump's decision to call air strikes on Syria and the current state of the government.
Expect to use around 70% of your home equity. For this analysis, we simply looked at the cost expectations for a family earning $100,000 per year who has $150,000 in home equity but no other savings. Colleges expect you to use 69% of your home equity for a full four-year degree if you’re going to use only the equity in the house. No matter how you’re going to come up with the money, colleges expect you to pay 28% more if you have home equity than if you don’t. This is less of an increase than if you have cash savings but it seems like quite an extra burden given that you’d have to take out a m...
The president's recent decision to destroy chemical weapons plants in Syria has revived efforts from lawmakers, such as Senator Tim Kaine, to roll back what he sees as the post-9/11 “blank check” for firing missiles in the war on terror. From Kaine’s talk Friday at the University of Virginia: For this U.S. Senator, any vote for military action is personal since his eldest son is deployed overseas with the Marines. “If I’m voting on that, I’m thinking about my kid, I’m thinking about his friends, I’m thinking about people he will know that will potentially be in harm’s way.”
An organization at UVA that puts on a free summer camp for children whose parents have been affected by cancer is preparing for its largest fundraiser of the year.
Sibylle Kranz, a UVA professor and child nutrition epidemiologist, says: “There is pretty solid evidence that children who are hungry are not able to focus, so they have a low attention span, behavioral issues, discipline issues in the school. So having children who are well-fed and not hungry makes a difference in their individual performance and also how much they are contributing or disrupting the classroom situation.”
“I do not think the analogy to the Cold War is helpful,” Melvyn P. Leffler, Edward R. Stettinius Jr. professor in UVA’s history department, said. “I think this is more of a typical geopolitical conflict.”
And keeping secrets has costs. Research by UVA’s Julie Lane and Daniel suggests that concealing secrets during social interactions leads to the intrusive recurrence of secret thoughts, while research by Columbia’s Michael Slepian, Jinseok Chun, and Malia Mason shows that keeping secrets – even outside of social interactions – depletes us cognitively, interferes with our ability to concentrate and remember things, and even harms long-term health and well-being.
While Pence’s view may have tilted harder to the right than those of most Americans, his presence on the ticket comforted conservatives who were uneasy with Trump’s more liberal history. "On social issues, I don't think you get more conservative than these two," says Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics. He questions how Pence would enforce policies that run counter to his beliefs—like existing abortion laws—if he were to succeed Trump. And he doubted the Second Lady would be a softening influence. "Karen Pence is much more conservative than Laura Bush. She's more conservative...
About two-thirds, or 115, of the 175 scholars, artists, and scientists named as John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2018 Fellows work at higher-education institutions. Included in those 115 are UVA’s Anna Brickhouse, a professor of English and American studies and Thomas Miller Klubock, a professor of history.
“There’s no reason this standard would have anything to do with what counts as a crime. Some courts have imported constitutional standards about use-of-force into criminal law, but the two don’t necessarily belong together,” says Brandon Garrett, a professor at the UVA School of Law who has researched the benefits of reducing police discretion.
Indeed, it’s unclear how exactly Starbucks is going about developing its training, especially in such a short amount of time. “If they are serious, I can’t imagine them coming up with this [training] in five weeks,” says Brian Nosek, a UVA professor of psychology who helped to found the nonprofit organization Project Implicit that promotes the IAT.
(Commentary by Risa L. Goluboff, dean of the UVA School of Law) In January 1959, Sam Thompson entered the Liberty End Café in Louisville. While he waited to catch a bus nearby, he ordered macaroni and a beer and shuffled his feet to the music. Two police officers entered the bar and arrested Thompson for loitering. In short order, the local police court convicted Thompson, and not for the first time. Thompson had been arrested and convicted of loitering, vagrancy and other petty crimes more than 50 times, in part because he was poor and in part because he was black. Some of the particular...
Scientists at the UVA School of Medicine have found out how a cancer-causing virus anchors itself to human DNA. This discovery could help doctors cure incurable diseases by flushing such viruses out of the body, including human papillomavirus and Epstein-Barr.
A new look into the minutest details of virology may have unveiled the secret of how cancer-causing viruses such as humanpapilloma virus (HPV) anchor themselves in human genes, making it almost impossible to cure. The new look comes from a new microscopy technique developed by researchers from the UVA School of Medicine, according to the paper in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Officials are rolling out a program this summer that aims to persuade thousands of the state's 13 million annual tourists to move there and take jobs, an effort they say is crucial to Vermont’s economy. A recent UVA study predicted Vermont will lose 10 percent of its working-age population by 2040.
UVA Student Council President Sarah Kenny wrote a letter to President Trump, and now it's been signed by her peers from more than 80 other schools.
UVA scientists say women who store weight in their bellies may be genetically programmed to do that, and they could also be at increased risk for diabetes.
Most importantly, when we hear that “most” colleges don’t use class rank as a metric, it’s wise to remember that there are far more mediocre colleges than top-notch ones — so what “most” do is not necessarily what the best do. The fact is that the most prestigious colleges emphatically make an issue of what percentage of their incoming freshmen stand in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. Yes, Virginia, they do consider class rank. That is true of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, the Univers...
Student government presidents from 82 colleges and universities signed a letter to leaders in the U.S. Congress and to President Donald Trump calling for "common sense" gun control. The UVA Student Council led the effort, which was backed by student leaders from community colleges, public institutions and private colleges.
Many education researchers have documented the academic achievement gap between students from high- and low-income families. Joseph Williams, an associate professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education, said this research fails to capture the complete story of how low-income students perform in school.