Piles of tossed-aside litter and rubbish from water run-off are out of the Rivanna River in Charlottesville Saturday thanks to dozens of volunteers. Their clean-up Saturday was part of the celebration of World Water Day. "There's a day for everything, but not the most precious resource we have," says Robbi Savage, Rivanna Conservation Society. That's why Savage says world water day began. In 2015, her group partnered with business students and teachers at the University of Virginia's Darden School. “We thought that it would actually be good not to talk a...
If the race is to the swiftest, then campaign plans to be announced by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas makes him a winner over Gov. Chris Christie and about a dozen other potential Republican presidential candidates. "Getting in first is an initial boost, but not a long-lasting one,'' said Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "There are no hard and fast rules about this and I don't think the announcement date makes much of a difference in the long run.''
Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, recently wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post blasting critics of a multimillion-dollar initiative by the Obama administration to rate colleges of education. Serving as a cheerleader for the Education Department’s effort, he accuses colleges of education of seeking to escape evaluation of their programs, and he questions whether critics have read the proposed standards. He wrote in part: As a scholar who works in areas related to the assessment and improvement of teaching, as an educator ...
Daniel Willingham is a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia with a background in neuroscience who now focuses on education. He wrote a widely acclaimed 2010 book titled, “Why Don't Students Like School?” His new book, “Raising Kids Who Read,” off the presses this month, is an accessible hands-on guide for parents who want to help kids become avid readers at home and school. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
In a nation of 319 million people, America’s 2016 presidential election could well come down to a rematch between two of its greatest modern political families: the Bushes and the Clintons. “There’s this paradox in the American body politic,” says Barbara Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “We always say that we want someone who’s up from the log cabin, but we are drawn to the wealthy, noblesse oblige candidates as well.”
(By R.K. Ramazani, the Edward R. Stettinius Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia) In the title of a March 12 editorial, The New York Times was right to deplore what it called "Republican Idiocy on Iran." By writing an astonishing letter directly to Iran without President Obama's knowledge, 47 senators attempted to sabotage the deal being negotiated between Iran and the 5+1 powers (U.S., Russia, Britain, France, China and Germany) to restrain Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
(By Larry J. Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, Kyle Kondik, the center’s director of communications and Geoffrey Skelley, the media relations coordinator) Hillary Clinton went before cameras and reporters at the United Nations recently to address the ongoing controversy over her use of a private email system during her time as secretary of state. She was terse, combative, and essentially told the American people to “trust her” when she says that she didn’t do anything wrong and isn’t hiding anything. But Clinton’s p...
(By Larry J. Sabato, university professor of politics and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics) Admit it: You love a juicy scandal. We claim to be high-minded and policy-oriented, but our noses are buried in the accounts of the latest political calamity—and we read those stories before anything elseThe Hillary Clinton e-mail controversy is just the latest entrée in a decades-long, s) calorie-rich menu provided by the former first lady and her husband. But will it make a difference in 2016?
The police in Charlottesville, Va., will release on Monday the results of their investigation into reports of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house, four months after a now-discredited report in Rolling Stone magazine rocked the historic campus — and the world of journalism.
Police Chief Timothy J. Longo on Monday afternoon plans to announce the results of an investigation into an alleged sexual assault at a University of Virginia fraternity, a claim detailed in a Rolling Stone magazine article that has since come into doubt.
More than 125 University of Virginia grad students from all different fields of study came together Monday to show off their extensive research projects. During the 15th annual Robert J. Huskey Research Exhibition, students from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and the School of Architecture, presented their work with poster exhibits, and oral presentations.
As state police, elected officials and many other Virginians try to understand how a University of Virginia student wound up on a Charlottesville sidewalk, bloody and prone, one piece of the puzzle is conspicuously absent: Body-camera footage. The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control officerswho arrested Martese Johnson outside a bar early Wednesday were not outfitted with such cameras, even though ABC pledged more than a year earlier to put them on every agent.
The co-owner of the Charlottesville bar that Martese Johnson tried to enter before his bloody arrest said that the University of Virginia student was "cordial and respectful" and did not appear to be drunk.
Colleges and universities nationwide are using education, enforcement and the campus environment to fight the intertwined problems of alcohol and sexual assault. At the University of Virginia, a social network will connect female freshmen with older mentors. Brown University hopes to make it easier for women to report sexual assault.
The second allegation of excessive force against a University of Virginia student in two years has bloodied the reputation of the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and renewed concerns about how it uses its police power to enforce drinking laws that date to the end of Prohibition.
Students from seven universities worked Saturday and Sunday to find ways to help people who help older people. The students participated in the “Caring for the Caregiver Hack,” in which they developed high-tech tools aimed at improving the health of caregivers. Competing in the weekend hack were six students each from GMU, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, James Madison University, the College of William and Mary, and Lynchburg College.
Two weeks ago, the Albuquerque Public Schools board voted not to participate in a University of Virginia school turnaround program. Last week, however, three APS school board members and four administrators flew to Virginia to attend training seminars for the UVA School Turnaround Program – a signal there still might be interest in it.
Two years ago, Virginia ABC agents in street clothes channeled their inner Eliot Ness and treated a water-carrying University of Virginia student and two sorority sisters like Prohibition-era bootleggers.Last week, uniformed agents of the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control held a UVa student face down and bloody on brick pavement, with a knee in his back, as he asked, “How did this happen?”
The University of Virginia Licensing and Ventures Group has agreed to lease 9,640 square feet of office space in the historic Preston Avenue building, joining a beer hall/restaurant and a bicycle shop in moving into the 76-year-old, 38,000-square-foot building.
Last week on the Corner, a University of Virginia student was injured in a takedown by uniformed agents from Virginia’s Alcohol Beverage Control agency.