Matt Eberl must be the unluckiest college basketball fan in the country – at least this year. He’s a UVA season ticket-holder and, as the owner of five area Little Caesars franchises, was on the hook for nearly 1,500 free lunches Monday to make good on the company’s longstanding free-pizza-for-everyone promise if a No. 16 seed ever beat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.
More than 400 psychologists worldwide are teaming up to fight a looming problem in their field: headline-making research that doesn’t hold up. As part of a new network called the Psychological Science Accelerator, the researchers are trying to fix the so-called replication crisis that’s punctured splashy findings. Brian Nosek, a UVA psychologist who led the Reproducibility Project and informally advises the Accelerator, said that both approaches have merits.
Because today’s parents, teachers and students are busier and more distracted, the family-school connection is more tenuous and parental awareness about education is slipping, says Carol Tomlinson, a UVA education professor and author of dozens of books and articles on instruction. “A lot of parents just don’t know what is happening in school – and they feel out of touch,” she says.
The UVA men’s basketball coach was named the Naismith Men’s College Coach of the Year for the second time in his career on Sunday. Bennett earned his first Naismith Coach of the Year honor at Washington State in 2007.
Ashley Deeks, a UVA law professor, noted the “ever-increasing call” for the U.S. government to be more assertive in responding to cyberattacks. “There is a strong strain of thought” inside CyberCom that “the best defense is going to be a stronger offense,” she said.
In a working paper published recently, Xiangjun Ma of the University of International Trade and Economics in Beijing and John McLaren of the University of Virginia show that U.S. import tariffs are designed to favor industries located in swing states. “Our best estimate is that the U.S. political process treats a voter living in a non-swing state as being worth 77 percent as much as a voter in a swing state,” Ma and McLaren wrote.
The founder of the local chapter of Black Lives Matter, UVA professor Jalane Schmidt, said, "This is their way of thumbing their nose at us."
Non-profits in Central Virginia made Easter special for families whose children are at the UVA Medical Center.
Charlottesville nonprofits are working together to meet a growing demand for lodging for families of patients at the UVA Children’s Hospital.
The UVA’s Pulmonary Hypertension Center has been recognized as a Center of Comprehensive Care by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.
Infants under the care of baby sitters, relatives and friends were also more likely be placed in a sleep setting with potentially dangerous objects, such as toys, blankets and sleep bumpers, according to the study published April 2 in the Journal of Pediatrics. "If someone else—a baby sitter, relative or friend—is taking care of your baby, please make sure that they know to place your baby on the back in a crib and without any bedding," said study author Dr. Rachel Moon of the UVA School of Medicine.
Mofre than 400 people gathered at UVA's amphitheater on Easter for a sunrise church service.
The existing health care center at UVA-Wise will see a complete overhaul, which is suspected to be completed as early as June. The clinic will be upgraded with the aid of $273,000 from University of Virginia to support telemedicine as well as telehealth care.
A class on promoting peace and bridging separation between people from different backgrounds brought dozens of people together at UVA. These peace dances were part of a six-week program hosted by UVA’s Contemplative Sciences Center.
“In my research, when I look at various social clubs and labor organizations in African-American life, you see a lot of distinctions,” says Claudrena Harold, a UVA professor of African-American studies and history.
The Cavaliers have mastered losing with dignity and rededicating themselves each season with the same acumen they’ve mastered coach Tony Bennett’s Pack-Line defense. And while the program and its fans wish they had less experience with disappointing March endings, Bennett’s players are grateful for his grounded approach.
Virginia coach Tony Bennett had hoped to be here this weekend with a No. 1 seed preparing to play his team’s first Final Four in 34 years. Instead, he found himself trying to reconcile a terrific four-plus months — good enough to bring him here to collect the trophy as The Associated Press men’s college basketball coach of the year — with the fact the Cavaliers fell to UMBC to become the first No. 1 seed to lose to a 16-seed in NCAA Tournament.
City of Promise invited its helpers, as well as people it helps, to its annual Game Changers Luncheon at the Carver Recreation Center Thursday. David Temple, one of UVA’s first African-American graduates, was the keynote speaker.
In a recent move freighted with symbolism, China recently declined to accept containers full of U.S. recyclables that it was supposed to process, said Aynne Kokas, a UVA assistant professor of media studies. “That's a profound message of literally 'keep your own trash,'” Kokas said.
The growth in Northern Virginia is largely due to large employers located there and in Washington, said Hamilton Lombard, research specialist at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, which worked with the U.S. Census Bureau on the population estimates.