The best demographic rendering I have been able to find is the “dot racial map” from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Its limitation is that it is based on 2010 census data, now almost a decade out of date. But even 10 years ago, the dot racial map depicts an influx of Hispanics almost surrounding South Dallas.
In a study conducted at the University of Virginia and Washington State University, scientists have revealed that the colonization of new environments after the last ice age has fundamentally altered the American bellflower’s DNA.
(Commentary) For three consecutive years, our commonwealth supported 10% increases in teacher pay for districts across the state. This is the kind of bold, systemic policy we need to recruit and retain highly qualified classroom teachers. With the support of Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni, school superintendents across the state and institutions like the University of Virginia Curry School of Education and Human Development, we are starting to make progress.
UVA is working to close the living wage gap for employees. In March, the Board of Visitors voted to raise the minimum wage for full-time and benefit-eligible employees to $15 per hour starting January 1, 2020.
Last year, the top 100 Virginia employers filing applications to sponsor H-1B workers were seeking to hire nearly 7,850 people at an average salary of $82,643, according to employment website Myvisajobs.com. Top employers sponsoring foreign workers in the commonwealth last year included Capital One, which was hiring developers and software engineers, and the University of Virginia, which was seeking assistant professors.
Other academic medicine institutions are also providing various forms of telepsychiatry services. The UVA School of Medicine, for example, partners with outpatient clinics to offer remote support for appointments that can help prevent patients coming to the ED.
UVA researchers found that while private school students may be outperforming public school students, the difference is eliminated completely when you control for family income and parents’ level of educational achievement.
“It is highly likely that there are many more burials associated with this chief’s village,” says archeologist and retired UVA professor Jeffrey Hantman, an expert in Native American history who has written a book about Monacan history.
UVA first began testing a new safety app in 2017, and formally rolled it out to all students this summer. LiveSafe, a mobile emergency alert system, allows students, faculty and staff to report suspicious behavior and safety hazards on and off Grounds and to communicate with a police officer via text message.
The University of Virginia announced Thursday that it will join a growing number of colleges around the country this fall in selling alcohol at home football games. According to a press release, beer, wine and hard cider will be sold at beverage gardens located inside the east and west gates of Scott Stadium. The gardens will open to the public 90 minutes before kickoff and also will include water and light snacks.
The University of Virginia announced multiple game day enhancements for Virginia Cavaliers fans on Thursday, including alcoholic beverage sales in Scott Stadium.
Even voters who’d be miffed to see a white male win the nomination harbor serious doubts about whether a woman could really win. Electability is in the eye of the beholder, and voters don’t base their assessments solely on their own views of Warren, Biden and the rest. “People look around and they think, well, I'm willing to vote for a female candidate, but there's no way that Neanderthal who lives next door to me is,” said Jennifer Lawless, a University of Virginia professor and former director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University's School of Public Affairs.
The aim is to identify a novel biomarker that can help guide the use of immunotherapy for cancer patients. The research team involves investigators at Rutgers Cancer Institute including Drs. Gyan Bhanot, Eric Singer, Tina Mayer, Greg Reidlinger and Janice Mehnert, as well as collaborators at Vanderbilt University and University of Virginia.
A new support group at the UVA Medical Center will give stroke survivors the chance to share their personal experiences and struggles with those who know what they're going through.
Running again after a loss can give women – as well as men – a better shot at victory. “You have a list of donors you can re-solicit. You have relationships with local media,” said Jennifer Lawless, an expert on gender and politics at UVA. “You have a campaign infrastructure that you might tweak or replace some of the key operatives, but you know how to do this.”
While reigning football champion Clemson did not make our list, basketball fans should be heartened to know that the University of Virginia is home to the best men’s basketball team in the U.S. and also ranks highly on our list for keeping costs low for middle-income students and producing high-earning graduates.
UVA political science professor Larry Sabato told the Washington Examiner Markey isn’t the strongest incumbent, in part because he has operated as a mostly low-profile lawmaker. Sabato said he could face trouble in a face-off with a Kennedy, and in particular Joe Kennedy, who is charismatic and popular. “It’s almost a royal family, and this Kennedy is very talented,” Sabato noted.
Gillian Frank, a historian of sexuality at the University of Virginia, says that the 1992 Planned Parenthood v Casey decision found that "in most contexts, where there was a stable and loving relationship, men and women made the decision together. And when men are absent from the decisions, it is often because there is a risk of violence or coercion in the relationship. These decisions [by the courts] rested on the fact it is not a child, so the situation is not analogous to child custody."
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said Democrats have been looking for ways to expand the Senate map and Sen. Johnny Isakson’s decision “puts another potentially vulnerable Republican seat on the board” in Georgia. Still, he said it won’t be easy. “I think I would still rather be the Republican in that state,” Kondik said.
This hour we start off talking about the Amazon fires – how they happened, what they signal, and the role tropical forests play in our environment and climate change. We talk with Deborah Lawrence, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.