The UVA men’s basketball team is starting to get some national recognition. The Cavaliers were ranked No. 18 in the latest Associated Press poll, released Monday afternoon.
(Commentary) Are we moving forward or backward? That appeared to be one implicit question during the Women’s Global Leadership Forum, an event organized by the University of Virginia for its bicentennial commemoration. The two-day conference, held earlier this month in Charlottesville, obviously centered on the achievements of women and did so with good cause. It was an impressive event.
Thomas Jefferson’s “sanctum sanctorum” was where he read books in six different languages, corresponded with hundreds of people around the globe, puzzled over scientific mysteries and relaxed in solitude. With his greenhouse right outside and huge windows to let in sunlight, the space offered him a quiet retreat in an often bustling home to think, write and reflect. Now, when visitors come to Monticello and walk through the third president’s private quarters, they will see what Jefferson saw — a neatly arranged mix of carefully collected curiosities, books, papers and scientific instruments.
Though UVA and Virginia Tech are rivals, students from both schools are uniting in the name of fighting cancer. Members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity from both schools took part in the FIJI Run last week.
“Any Office of Legal Counsel, in any administration, would have given the same answer with respect to this issue,” said Aditya Bamzai, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “But if we see a legal challenge, the executive branch’s positions don’t always prevail in court.”
Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics said while some of the seats Republicans are leaving could be vulnerable – Dave Reichert of Washington, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Florida – many of the seats are considered safe for Republicans.
“In the larger ledger of history, I think it will fade and his reputation will continue to grow,” says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. “People may not be paying attention to all the stories that come out about him and just remember the first two, with him sitting in a wheelchair, and everyone has an elderly grandpa or uncle who says things inappropriate at the dinner table.”
An American study in academic journal Frontiers in Psychology has found that Montessori early years settings can improve outcomes for disadvantaged children. A co-author of the report, Professor Angeline S. Lillard at the University of Virginia, said, ‘I hope the findings will give more people the confidence to implement authentic Montessori pre-schools, ones that closely follow the program she laid out in her books. The two schools used in the study were recognized by the Association Montessori Internationale. We don’t have lottery studies from Montessori schools that implement the program di...
Even a small decline could hurt many schools. UVA receives roughly $20 million in annual athletic donations tied to seat priority. The department doesn’t anticipate getting any more help. “We have zero room for error,” said Dirk Katstra, executive director of the Virginia Athletics Foundation.
What’s the point of the death penalty? Is it about deterring crime or bringing a measure of peace to victims? Is it about vengeance or justice? Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor and the author of a new book on the subject, explores these questions, but also makes a broader claim: that defense lawyers are helping to gradually abolish the death penalty, and that we can improve the entire criminal justice system if we understand why.
There's a niggling question that keeps coming back to torment fans of audiobooks: Is listening to one in some way cheating? Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of cognitive psychology who studies the brain processes behind reading, hates the question, but he'll gamely answer. "The answer is a very clear no," he said emphatically. "Listening to an audiobook is not cheating.”
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA's Center for Politics, said the results suggest that voters' rejection of "Trump's brand of Republicanism" is potent in suburban areas that are "increasingly diverse and/or highly educated." "These results should scare them," Skelley said of Republicans inside Chesterfield and beyond.
UVA's Sidney M. Milkis and Nicholas Jacobs argue that Trump’s deployment of what they call “executive-centered partisanship” is both in keeping with the modern presidency and a potentially damaging shift in our politics.
The GOP's history of failing to make good on its campaign promise of fiscal discipline is a long and troubled one, well beyond the two most recent Republican administrations, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA's Miller Center. Former presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, she said, were likely the last Republicans to make good on conservative spending promises.
For years, U.S. schools have been moving in the opposite direction. A 2016 UVA study titled “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?” answered in the affirmative. Based on teacher surveys from 1998 and 2010, it found kindergartners were spending less time in self-directed activities and more time reading and writing to keep up with teachers’ higher expectations.
A new study published in the Columbia Journalism Review offers a comprehensive look at small-market newspapers in the digital age, along with a side project survey of more than 400 small-market journalists. Small-market newspapers, which have a circulation below 50,000, represent a large part of the nation’s news mix, but are often overlooked in both research and in the popular narrative about newspapers. The authors, Christopher Ali of UVA and Damian Radcliffe, sought to correct this oversight by researching how small-market newspapers are responding to the encroaching Digital Age, and how th...
Every few days, Jim Ambuske checks to see if any more pages from the University of Virginia Law Library have been transcribed. The library subscribes to From the Page, a service that allows amateurs to have a hand in cutting-edge research without leaving their desks. Any volunteer can create an account, pick a scanned photo of a manuscript page, and transcribe the words.
A team of researchers from UVA and colleagues elsewhere collected 63 samples of blowfly species Chrysomya megacephala and 53 samples of the housefly species Musca domestica from three different continents in urban, rural and natural settings. They then used a procedure called whole-genome shotgun sequencing to determine the types of pathogens that the flies were carrying. The results were a bit icky.
(Essay by Mark Edmundson, an English professor) Is there anything to be said for the University of Virginia? Is there any defense to be made? I think there is and will try to offer a brief one.
Bronco Mendenhall has no interest in pursuing the open Oregon State football coaching job – not while there’s still work to be done at Virginia. “I’m not interested,” Mendenhall said. “That job came open a number of years ago. I’ve moved on since then. And this is exactly where I want to be, and, man, it’s just getting fun. We’re just starting to do some cool stuff.”