This May, 150 or so stakeholders will come together for the first EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium, organized by UVA’s Curry School of Education, Digital Promise and the Jefferson Education Accelerator. At the symposium, we will continue to develop a shared understanding of the concrete steps we can all take to ensure that real research drives the development, selection and deployment of education technology.
Scholars at Harvard, Princeton, William & Mary, Georgetown, the University of Virginia, Rutgers and numerous other schools have done research, sometimes seeing it embraced by administrators only in response to campus activism.
Scholars from several universities gathered at the Cambridge campus to present research detailing how Harvard and other early American schools benefited from slavery. Other colleges, including the University of Virginia, used slaves to build and operate their campuses, and some were founded by wealthy merchants involved in the slave trade.
“There are all kinds of things in the system that weren’t built to maximize compliance,” said David A. Martin, a UVA law professor and a former immigration official in the Obama and Clinton administrations. It led to a climate, he said, that has prompted many people to not consider a deportation order a serious matter.
UVA Cancer Center researchers are in hot pursuit of a new way to combat melanoma. The center has created an experimental drug that breaks down the proteins that skin cancer cells need to grow. If it passes FDA muster, the treatment could save the lives of thousands of Virginians battling skin cancer.
UVA head football coach Bronco Mendenhall was the guest speaker at a Boy Scouts of America event on Thursday. His message is that Boy Scouts are capable of doing really hard things.
Along with materials scientist Haydn N.G. Wadley from University of Virginia, and materials and mechanical materials and mechanical engineering professor Robert McMeeking, Berger has proven that this unique geometry is the first of its kind to achieve the extreme possible performance limited only by theoretical bounds. Their research is published in the journal Nature.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said it's unlikely Sessions will be forced out. He said it's more likely there will be a special independent prosecutor assigned to investigate Russia's interference in the election.
Mascots for a Cure originated in Oregon back in 2014. Founder Derek Zinser wants to help make a difference for kids as they go through this very difficult time. The plan is to visit 36 cities in under 50 days and have as many people as possible lace up their shoes and twist away.
The artificial pancreas received Food and Drug Administration approval and this spring the device will be available to Type 1 diabetics with a doctor's prescription.
Mitre has partnered with UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science to offer a fellowship opportunity to military and federal civilian employees in the field of systems engineering.
Building on earlier research, Dr. Kattwinkel and UVA colleagues are leading a randomized clinical trial at eight medical centers around the country to test whether it is safe and beneficial to resuscitate very preterm babies with the cord still intact.
The rise of prescription painkillers enabled the opioid epidemic, but the economy may have also played a role, according to a new study from economists at the University of Indiana and the University of Virginia.
Federal research grant funding at UVA’s School of Medicine rose almost 25 percent last year, bringing UVA to 35th nationwide.
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. is bringing a constituent receiving health care through the Affordable Care Act. Rep. Donald Norcross is bringing an Iranian immigrant. And Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. invited an expert who believes Congress should demand the president's income tax returns. Pascrell (D-9th Dist.), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee who is leading the fight in Congress to force Trump to release his income tax returns, invited UVA law professor George K. Yin, former chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation.
UVA political analyst Geoffrey Skelley says the retirement of a majority leader in a legislature can sometimes lead to a power struggle, but that seems unlikely in this case. Considering that Republicans have long controlled the House of Delegates and currently enjoy a 66 to 34 majority, and that Howell’s reign as speaker was the second-longest in state history, Skelley says the transition of power seems pretty straightforward.
Larry Sabato, a politics professor at the University of Virginia, said that Trump had exceeded expectations, but that nothing had changed in Washington as a result of the speech to Congress.
They say the suit makes the man. In President Donald Trump’s case, it may be the suit that makes the president. “For the outsize personality, reality-show persona of Donald Trump, he toned all that down,” said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center. The importance of his look, gestures and delivery is “not to be minimized,” she said, because throughout the campaign and the transition, the public wondered when – and if – he would ever become more presidential.
In Southwest Virginia, community leaders have been working since 2004 on a plan to rebrand the region as a cultural destination, complete with a booming tourism industry, and a cyber-security hub, offering the kinds of jobs more often associated with Silicon Valley than rural Appalachia. “We do not want to get into the same situation where we have an economy that’s dependent on one dominant industry,” says Shannon Blevins, associate vice chancellor at UVA’s College at Wise, who leads the school’s economic outreach efforts. “We want to make sure we have a diversified economy.”
Real estate developers and oil pipeline companies abhorred the new rule; it meant that filling wetlands and building pipelines across streams meant getting federal permits. Some Republicans in Congress called it a major overreach, infringing on state jurisdiction. They’ve found a friend in Trump. But Trump’s executive order on the rule only used Scalia’s definition of “waters,” while ignoring Kennedy’s. And only Kennedy is still alive and still sitting on the court. That might be a serious legal mistake, says Jonathan Z. Cannon, director of the University of Virginia Law School’s Environmental...