Starting college can make you stressed, exhausted, and overwhelmed -- and that's not just in the classroom. The Contemplative Science Center at the University of Virginia is combating those freshman year symptoms.
Shira Lurie, a UVA doctoral student, writes about the elusive pursuit of happiness and its role in reducing stress in grad school.
Many of Virginia’s public TV stations will air a new documentary from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Ball of Confusion” chronicles the 1968 presidential election. Professor Larry Sabato says UVA President Teresa Sullivan wants to have a series of programs highlighting things Americans should know before they vote in 2016. The Friday night premiere of “Ball of Confusion” included a special guest with a famous name. He’s Edward Nixon, the only surviving brother of the late Richard Nixon.
Tesla, Bosch, Tanom, Toyota, Nissan and more brought the latest car tech to the conference, and McAuliffe said he wants the state to lead in driverless technology. He test-drove a Tesla Model X that had semi-autonomous capabilities like steering on its own. Research bodies at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia are working on smart roads and connected vehicles, which means communication between your vehicle, other vehicles, the roadway and other infrastructure.
In fact, research by Associate Professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia Robert Tai clearly shows that almost half of college students who go on to study science and become scientists are first attracted to STEM before fifth grade, and 70 percent are attracted to STEM before high school.
It took more than a century to have the type of art museum Thomas Jefferson had envisioned for the University of Virginia. That dream became a reality on Nov. 1, 1935, when the newly completed Bayly Art Museum presented its first exhibit. The inaugural show consisted of 400 works that included etchings, drawings, paintings and lithographs by noted artists. In 2012, Heywood and Cynthia Fralin announced they would be donating their remarkable collection of American art to the museum. This stunningly generous gift prompted the university to rename the museum the Cynthia and W. Heywood Fralin Muse...
(By Johann N. Neem, professor of history at Western Washington University and a visiting faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia) In the week between the revelation that the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors was looking at former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings to lead the 17-campus system and her ultimate selection, most of the reporting and commentary focused on whether the board and the presidential search committee were following procedures. Yet, as the former University of Virginia President John T. Casteen...
Lawmakers and political observers said the logistics involved in being a member of the General Assembly — two to three months a year full time in Richmond, with part-time pay of $18,000, limited staff and the demands of fundraising — make it difficult to attract a more diverse group capable of serving. “Our system strongly favors the wealthy and the retired, as well as those who have flexible white-collar occupations where they can come and go for months at a time,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Some legisla...
People in Charlottesville took a short stroll Sunday afternoon to raise awareness of a condition that causes seizures. The epilepsy awareness walk is held every year in November. The crowd started its mile long stroll at the Ntelos Wireless Pavilion on the Downtown Mall. University of Virginia neurology professor Doctor Nathan Fountain says epilepsy is a disorder that's often misunderstood.
The education scholar and University of Virginia professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr. showed me just how upside-down this approach is. Hirsch argued that all truly great “critical thinkers” start out by mastering a substantial body of knowledge. Beginning with his 1987 bestseller Cultural Literacy and in other books over the next two decades, Hirsch made it clear that my sons’ teachers—most of them, at least—had abandoned common sense in favor of education fads that were backed by no evidence and that actually did damage, particularly to minority children coming from disad...
Former President Harry S. Truman described it as a “monstrosity in timekeeping”. In 2007, crime rates dropped by as much as seven percent in the days following the implementation of DST, according to an analysis done by Jennifer L. Doleac of the University of Virginia and Nicholas J. Sanders of the College of William & Mary. With Daylight Saving Time ending, “you gain precious moments”, but don’t use them watching an extra late night show and chowing down on junk, suggest the experts.
It’s a more than $1.5 million race and counting — but for Virginia politicos much more than that is riding on the fight to win the 21st District Senate seat. “It’s a very narrow battlefield,” Geoffrey Skelley, of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said of the larger campaign both parties are waging to claim control of the state Senate.
Voter turnout for state legislative elections is generally around 30 percent or less. In addition, many candidates are running unopposed. That can make it hard for voters to get excited about the election. "You're picking the people who are deciding your laws," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "But in terms of issues and things to generate enthusiasm or anger, I mean, it's tough to say that there's going to be meaningful, obvious change due to this election."
In May, the University of Virginia announced the creation of a scholarship award honoring the life of the slain second-year student Hannah Graham. The award arrived as a partnership between Hannah's parents, Sue and John Graham, and UVa. It requires the recipient to engage in two semesters at UVa along with eight weeks of field work in a French-speaking developing country. The award is turning tragedy into triumph, by supporting interests of other students who share Graham's interests, students like UVa second-year Claire Romaine.
At the 50-yard line of the high school football field, a battle is brewing over the meaning of the First Amendment. The extreme views on both sides of the culture wars don’t help, says Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville. “There are plenty of people who would like to suppress all religious speech … and confine it to churches. And there are plenty of people who think we should have prayer at every government meeting,” he says. “We would do a lot better if both sides would agree to protect their own liberties ...
Alon Confino, professor of history at the University of Virginia and Ben-Gurion University in Israel, and author of “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination From Persecution To Genocide.”
Edward Hess, a professor at the Darden School and author of Learn or Die, believes that in a smart machine age, our intelligence can help us advance but our ego can sink us.
Brian Hogg, senior historic preservation planner at UVA, thought they had discovered almost everything there was to know about the Rotunda, but learned the structure still has much to yield.
The Small Special Collections library is taking on one of the school’s biggest tasks when it comes to preserving historical documents.
Sports Illustrated recently profiled UVA's Malcom Brogdon. “In my family, graduating and getting your bachelor’s is just the beginning,” Brogdon says.