“The exact cause for the loss of the rusty patched is unclear,” says UVA biology professor T’ai Roulston. “But it’s almost certainly related to disease,” especially a fungal gut parasite that “can shorten the lives of worker bees and disrupt mating success and survival of queens and males.”
One reason for India’s declining rural poverty rates could be MGNREGS itself. In a 2016 review of MGNREGS studies, Sandip Sukhtankar of University of Virginia, suggested that the program has boosted wages in agriculture and unskilled labor and, when implemented well, it is associated with increases in income.
(Audio) Joe Topinka and Dr. Jennifer Lawless, a professor at the University of Virginia discuss the anticipation of the city of Chicago’s first African-American female mayor. How will a woman conduct herself and govern differently in this prestigious position?
The Charlottesville community is coming together to commemorate the end of slavery in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered at the Rotunda Dome Room at the University of Virginia for a service to honor those who were enslaved.
Confronting the history of slavery is a tall task, particularly in creating a monument to slaves who labored at the University of Virginia. “It has really taken a village to get here,” said Mabel Wilson, a professor of architecture at Columbia University. About 120 people filed into the Rotunda on Sunday to commemorate Liberation and Freedom Day and wrap up a weekend of events.
For the third straight year, Charlottesville and Albemarle County celebrated Liberation and Freedom Day at the University of Virginia. The celebration recognized the end of slavery in Charlottesville and Albemarle 154 years ago on Sunday.
A UVA research group has been looking at the stability of sodium carbonate at Ceres-like temperatures, pressures and radiation levels. Catherine Dukes and colleagues have a barbeque grill-sized vacuum chamber that allows for observing different materials in various “space environment” conditions.
Vermont ranks so well on measures of childhood health and well-being that a colleague once referred to it as “the best state in America.” But the 2020 Census will probably confirm that Vermont peaked during this decade and is now losing population, according to projections from demographer Shonel Sen and her colleagues at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center.
Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center and the author of “Messengers of the Right,” a history of the conservative media’s impact on American politics, says of Fox, “It’s the closest we’ve come to having state TV.”
Nearly 1,700 people worked at the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in fiscal year 2017. The number is expected to rise to nearly 3,150, by 2026, according to a study by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Center for Economic and Policy Studies. In January, the University of Virginia announced plans to establish a $200 million School of Data Science with the help of a $120 million donation.
Researchers from Northeastern University and the University of Virginia have found that school shootings are not more common than they were in the past and have actually been declining since the 1990s. Second, schools are still the safest place for children.
The guard has helped his team to the best record in the NBA. He talks to Donald McRae about race, Giannis Antetokounmpo and his drive to fight poverty.
"To date, few school-based programs focused on preventing behavioral and mental health problems have been developed specifically for, or tested in, rural settings," said Catherine Bradshaw, a co-director of the center and a professor at the University of Virginia. "Through the center, we will adapt and scale-up a number of effective programs in a way that directly benefits rural schools and communities."
And if decisions are made not so much on their moral worth but on their potential return on investment, it’s fair to conclude it’s a business where profits are the name of the game. A dilemma that emerges with such a narrow approach is that “policies designed to maximize profits both through cutting costs and increasing revenue impact the experiences of employees whose behavior is dictated by them.” That’s the finding of a series of studies published in the Journal of Business Ethics, led by Professor Bidhan Parmar of the University of Virginia. He and his team make the case there’s inher...
At a UVA town hall Friday, Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., said he would not currently support a national health care system, sometimes referred to as “Medicare-for-all.” Warner, speaking largely to School of Medicine faculty and Medical Center employees, said his current health care efforts focus on decreasing cost of care, increasing access to care via telemedicine and increasing security and oversight of online medical systems.
The University of Virginia already has approved tuition increases for the 2019-20 school year, but it will consider the General Assembly’s recently passed incentive package to keep rates at current levels. On Sunday, the legislature approved a state budget that would go into effect July 1. The budget includes $52.5 million in incentives for Virginia public universities to maintain current in-state tuition rates. UVA’s incentive is $5.52 million. The budget now goes to Gov. Ralph Northam for his consideration.
Most legal experts we contacted agreed with this much: Killing a baby after birth is already against the law. "Actively killing an infant born alive is a crime," said Lois Shepherd, a UVA professor of law and biomedical ethics. "Under the law, living infants are just like other living people. They are children. Children are people."
Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a forecasting outfit at UVA’s Center for Politics, says its initial Electoral College ratings for the 2020 presidential election indicate it’s a toss-up.
UVA’s Center for Politics says that Texas, along with Georgia and North Carolina, "may be becoming less reliably Republican." The analysis says Texas "leans Republican" – as do notorious swing states like Iowa and North Carolina – and lists it among states that might be the best targets for Democrats looking to win over historically red regions of the country.
Matt Simpson, a law student at the University of Virginia, became legally blind at a young age. “As a person with a disability, it can be debilitating – not to have a disability, but to have people around you set incredibly low expectations for you as a human being. And so I hope that people who come learn about Paralympic sports get to hear us talk, get to interact with us, I hope that they will continue to raise the expectations for themselves, but also for people with disabilities around them,” he said.