The University of Virginia is the highest-ranked public university on the Princeton Review’s “best value” colleges list. The Princeton Review released its book “Colleges that Pay You Back: The 200 Best Value Colleges and What it Takes to Get In” on Tuesday. The editors of the book looked at a number of factors, including financial aid for students and salary data and job satisfaction for graduates.
Public-high-school health-education classes would be required to include lessons about preventing sexual assaults and relationship violence under a bill introduced by Sens. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) Tuesday morning. Kaine met with student leaders at the University of Virginia in December, following national attention being drawn to the issue of rape and relationship violence on campus.
The University of Virginia is launching a bikeshare program in which participants can grab a bicycle for a quick trip across Grounds and leave it at one of several designated locations for the next potential rider. The UVa program asks members to sign up in advance and receive a special code that will unlock a bike at one of several stations. Ride time is limited to 90 minutes per day per user. There are a variety of rates, ranging from $5 per day to $80 per year.
A University of Virginia study is asking why so many Virginia girls are not getting vaccinated for human papillomavirus. About 28 percent of adolescent girls in Virginia received all three doses of the HPV vaccine last year, compared with 38 percent of girls nationally. This is a major concern because HPV is often a precursor for cervical, anal and oral cancer, said Jessica Keim-Malpass, an assistant professor in the university’s School of Nursing.
A student group at the University of Virginia has helped create legislation that could stop sexual assaults before they happen. One Less was often at the center of the Rolling Stone article controversy, giving a voice to survivors of sexual assault. Now they have taken the next step to help craft legislation that they believe could get to the root of the issue.
Students from across the world visited with members of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. Dozens of Chinese students are learning about the inner-workings of the American business community. This is part of a series of activities arranged by the University of Virginia to help broaden the students' understanding of the United States and improve their English-language skills.
Pittsburgh-based RTI International Metals Inc. has become a member of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, or CCAM, a public-private research consortium based in Prince George County. CCAM now includes 28 private industry, government and university members. Some of the industry members are Alcoa Inc., Canon Virginia Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding, Rolls-Royce Plc, and Siemens. Academic partners are Old Dominion University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Tech.
Average annual salaries are expected to inch up to more than $54,500 for classroom teachers in Virginia’s public schools and nearly $100,000 for principals, according to a recent state report by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education.
First came the 36 questions that could make you fall for anyone.Now a new study has revealed that there are just two questions that married couples can ask on another to make sure they are definitely in love. Using data from a survey originally conducted in the 1980s, University of Virginia economists Leora Friedberg and Steven Stern analysed the answers of 4,242 couples who were asked two simple questions.
A doctor at the University of Virginia cancer center is being nationally recognized for improving patient's lives during various stages of treatment. Dr. Leslie Blackhall founded the Palliative Care Clinic in 2001. Her work helps patients through pain relief, and to manage symptoms during and after treatment. She is one of seven winners of the American Cancer Society's Quality of Life award.
Epigenetic changes in cells also occur at the histone level via posttranslational covalent modifications such as methylation, acetylation, and phosphorylation. One group has figured out how to image histone modifications in single cells. Delphine Gomez, a research associate working with Gary Owens at the University of Virginia, looked at histone modifications in smooth muscle cells using fluorescent probes and in situ hybridization. In their method, secondary antibodies light up modified histone residues though a modified proximity ligation assay. Although the technique works only in...
Kate Tamarkin, UVa music professor and director of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia, discusses this year's UVa Valentine's Day weekend extravaganza.
Late last month, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a unanimous victory for religious freedom in Holt v. Hobbs. It held that a federal civil rights statute requires prison officials to accommodate peaceful expressions of religious devotion, an issue arising from a dispute between a bearded Muslim inmate (named Holt) and the Arkansas Department of Correction. In ruling for Holt, the court adopted the reasoning of his pro bono advocates, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and professor Douglas Laycock at the University of Virginia’s Law School.
A new history website launched Monday by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center features interviews with scholars, policymakers and journalists on wide range of contemporary national and world issues, center officials say. The Great Issues website, at www.millercenter.org/academic/great-issues, contains short videotaped interviews in which experts provide historical insight into some of the nation’s most pressing challenges.
University of Virginia's secret societies are all about doing good on school Grounds, much of which is made possible through lofty donations to support efforts that encourage student leadership, faculty mentorship and worthy causes that positively impact the university community as a whole. UVa's Seven Society offered $57,777.77 for sexual assault prevention in December and the Z Society announced a $30,000 donation to the College and Graduate School of Arts and Science's Faculty Forward initiative in a letter to faculty Friday.
Hot on campus. Binge drinking. Sexual assault. Greek life trouble. And a lot of youthful courage. We’re checking in with college newspaper editors. We wanted to hear straight from campus about what’s going on. We’ve got three top student editors in to share. From Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, Dartmouth. This hour On Point: College now, right from the source.
Reproducibility is a core scientific principle. A result that can’t be reproduced is not necessarily erroneous: Perhaps there were simply variables in the experiment that no one detected or accounted for. Still, science sets high standards for itself, and if experimental results can’t be reproduced it’s hard to know what to make of them. “The whole point of science, the way we know something, is not that I trust Isaac Newton because I think he was a great guy. The whole point is that I can do it myself,” said Brian Nosek, the founder of a start-up in Charlottesvil...
Some legal experts predict judges will be offended by state actions that impede their efforts to impose same-sex marriage in states where either voters or their elected representative have rejected it. “I think they’ll be angry,” Risa Goluboff, a law professor at the University of Virginia, told the New York Times. “I think they’ll see this as outright defiance and treat it that way.”
Getting a conviction reversed is hard because the court system was built upon faith in the jury trial, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia who serves on the advisory board of the National Registry of Exonerations. “Beyond a reasonable doubt,” the legal standard at trial, is no longer good enough. The legal standards for reversing a conviction are intended to be high, but whether an argument meets those standards is up to the interpretation of a judge, who has discretion to overturn a conviction and call for a new trial.
Thousands of people packed the John Paul Jones Arena Saturday morning. Some folks camped out overnight and lined up before sunrise, all to secure a spot on ESPN's nationally televised pre-show. SPN's College GameDay show came to Charlottesville to spotlight the University of Virginia Cavaliers for the first time ever.