(With audio featured Kyle Kondik of U.Va.’s Center for Politics) The University of Virginia’s Crystal Ball is the latest political prognosticator to declare Ohio’s governor’s race is virtually over. It’s putting incumbent Gov. John Kasich in the “safe” category.
The Library of Congress announced on June 12 that Christ School alumnus Charles Wright (Class of 1953) will be the next United States Poet Laureate.
The University of Virginia Health System announced this week that it has developed the nation's first clinical trial testing a technology's ability to treat benign tumors of the breast. Referred to as fibroadenomas, the most common type of lump found within the breast could soon be removed through an alternative surgery that wouldn't even leave a scar.
(Commentary) Missing out on a job isn’t just hard on teens’ wallets – it’s hard on their career prospects, too. In a new study, economists from the University of Virginia and Middle Tennessee State University found that young adults who worked part time in high school were earning 20 percent more six to nine years after graduation compared to their counterparts who didn’t find part time work while in school.
This volume’s counterpoint is “Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game” by Mark Edmundson, who played high school football in working-class Medford, Mass. His book has more sepia tones than Mr. Almond’s does. It’s about some of the lessons (confidence, discipline) football instills in young men. But it’s a questing, questioning book as well.
At the same time football has endured the endless attack, it has grown bigger than ever and is at the very apotheosis of its power. Like many American institutions, it's too big to fail yet too big to be morally sustainable, and its decline seems both impossible and inevitable. And yet we keep watching. Why? There are two books out this season that seek to answer that question: Mark Edmundson's “Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game” and Steve Almond's “Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto.”
Hmm; research to the rescue! A new study at the University of Virginia in the USA by the National Marriage Project has thrown a spanner in the casual sex works. According to the study, “53 per cent of women who had slept only with their husband, felt satisfied in marriage.” That number dropped slightly to 42 per cent if the wife had at least two sexual partners prior to marriage, and further down to 22 per cent if the sexual partners exceeded 10.
The University of Virginia will require most faculty and staff to report possible sexual misconduct they learn about from students, even if the students request confidentiality, under a policy announced this week. Exceptions will be made for health-care and counseling personnel who are considered “confidential employees,” U-Va. president Teresa A. Sullivan wrote in an e-mail to the campus community.
The University of Virginia estimates the 5 percent cut this year will cost $6.5 million and next year’s 7 percent reduction will total $9.14 million. UVa is evaluating its options but has “no specifics to share” at this point, spokesman McGregor McCance said.
The architect that oversaw planning for the $50 million restoration of the University of Virginia's iconic Rotunda is stepping down. The Charlottesville school said Friday that David Neuman plans to resign from his post in October after an 11-year tenure.
(Commentary) So is a college degree worth it, the news magazine asked? A chart of 44 U.S. universities and colleges compared the return on the cost of a degree after financial aid to the return on a 20-year Treasury bill, 3.4 percent. The better return on 28 institutions ranged from 17.6 to 9.9 percent, while the remaining 16 institutions showed 1.0 percent or negative return on the cost of a degree. The top two universities in the survey were the University of Virginia and Georgia Tech; most of the Ivy League colleges, UC Berkeley and UCLA had favorable returns on the investment. That verifie...
Three Virginia law schools made a new ranking of how well law schools prepare their students to do the heavy lifting in the biggest law firms. University of Virginia School of Law ranked ninth, making the strongest showing with a whopping 133 respondents, the highest number of respondents for any of the top 10 schools.
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that teen jobs were once associated with much larger wage bumps later in life than in recent years. ... The benefits to working appeared way smaller for the younger group (today's young Millennials) than they were in the 1970s and early '80s, when that first cohort went through their teen jobs. Teens working 20 or more hours per week back then went on to have wages that were 8.3 percent higher than their peers. For people in the younger cohort, teen jobs only had a 4.4 percent effect. In addition, researchers ...
... now a new study confirms it: The benefits of high school employment for kids today are pretty much a wash--especially for men.
Mark Edmundson, a teacher at the University of Virginia and a cultural critic, takes a more personal approach in "Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game." Like Almond, who went to some length to declare himself a football fan (the Raiders), Edmundson came to the game in an attempt to bond with his father. Unlike Almond, Edmundson went out for his high-school team and transformed himself from "a buttery, oversensitive boy, credulous and shy" to someone "with a strong will and clear desires," "alert and ready to move.""When a boy is...
... Edmundson is at his best when he contrasts Homer's battling heroes, Achilles and Hector, in his chapter on courage. He made me think anew about both football and "The Iliad."
I sometimes wonder why couples bother with these huge wedding receptions at all, given that they have often been living together for years and have their teenage daughters as bridesmaids. But from America has come an exciting justification for it all. Research by the University of Virginia has found that the bigger the wedding, the more enduring the marriage.
The Drinkable Book is an incredibly creative solution to both of these problems. It is a result of the collaboration between scientists from Carnegie Mellon and University of Virginia, the nonprofit WATERisLIFE, and the advertising agency DDB North America.The book is a beautiful manual that provides information on water contaminants and teaches safe water habits.
Multitasking is so pervasive that a recent study from the University of Virginia found that most people would rather experience mild electric shock than be left alone, without tasks, for fifteen minutes.