On the heels of Wednesday’s opening night gala, the Virginia Film Festival’s 32nd season will hit full speed Thursday with no last-minute alterations and a schedule full of films, features, panels and speakers.
Although the majority of Americans killed or injured in car crashes are male, the raw data masks the fact that females are actually at greater risk of death or injury when a crash occurs. And a 2019 study from the University of Virginia shows that for a female occupant, the odds of being injured in a frontal crash are 73% greater than the odds for a male occupant. That’s controlling for occupant age, height and body mass index, in addition to collision severity and vehicle model year.
Female CEOs are more likely to be held accountable than their male counterparts for ethical workplace failures, according to a new study. University of Virginia researchers wanted to explore how, if at all, gender influences consumer perception of an organization.
As the cost of college soars, schools across the country have begun scrapping tuition altogether. The University of Virginia waived tuition for residents whose families earn less than $80,000 a year.
University of Virginia announced Thursday that the University’s major contractors, working in partnership with UVA, are raising the wages of their full-time employees.
Contract employees working for the University of Virginia will see their base wages increase to $15 an hour, the same as most UVA employees, President Jim Ryan announced Thursday.
Mary Kate Cary, who teaches political speechwriting at the University of Virginia, said she’s noticed that pundits who bray about quid pro quo on television never actually define it. “They say, ‘We know there was quid. Was there a quo?’” she said. “And they start dissecting the meaning of the phrase without explaining the meaning of the phrase in the first place, and I imagine if you haven’t taken some Latin, that adds to the feelingof elites who are highly educated speaking in ways no one understands.”
A new study finds that even considering other factors, the walkability of a child’s neighborhood has a direct correlation to increased adult earnings. The study, by psychologists at the University of Virginia and elsewhere, looks at the effect of growing up in a walkable community on the economic mobility of children.
(Commentary) This brings me to my interest, and even excitement for, the University of Virginia’s “New College Curriculum,” a recently adopted approach to general education.
A teacher who was fired from a Catholic school in Indiana after he married another man was surprised to learn the federal government has sided against him in his private civil lawsuit in state court, saying it appears the Trump administration is trying to “politicize” his legal battle. UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said teachers with secular subjects, as Payne-Elliott did, have typically fared better in court against the schools and churches. He noted, though, the conflict is an important religious liberty issue.
Britain should block the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States on grounds that the prosecution is politically motivated and the charges against him amount to political offenses — two factors that by treaty would bar his handover, Assange’s legal team said Monday in a London court. … One British case states that to be considered a political offense “the crime must be specifically and immediately directed at ‘overthrowing or changing the government of a State or inducing it to change its policy,’” UVA law professor Ashley Deeks said.
A Biden victory in the state looks increasingly critical for his path to the nomination. Of the four early states, South Carolina is the only one where he maintains a substantial lead on Warren. “If Biden loses South Carolina, it probably means his edge with [African American voters] has dissipated, meaning that the person who caused that support to dissipate likely would be in the driver’s seat,” says UVA’s Kyle Kondik.
Since their first arrival in Virginia in 1619, slaves worked at every level of Southern society. “It was an absolutely pervasive institution,” says Louis P. Nelson, a UVA professor of architectural history and author of the final chapter in the exhibition’s catalog. “You have to work really hard to find a building in the 18th century not built by slaves.”
Trump’s erratic behavior, combined with his penchant for offending minorities, has only made it harder for Republicans to coalesce around an impeachment defense, said Russell Riley, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center. “His use of this word, likening this to a lynching, is not a part of any strategic approach, but is a manifestation of an impulse to fight back with the most incendiary language that he could muster,” Riley said.
(Commentary co-written by Deborah Parker, UVA professor of Italian and a Public Voices Fellow at the Op-ed Project) If presidencies were branding exercises, sycophancy would be the trademark of the Trump era. Sycophancy in politics is often hard to see, something done behind closed doors, away from public scrutiny. But the release of a rough transcript of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's conversation with President Trump offered a window into it. His flattery of Trump began small, as routine ingratiation – a phone call, a private kowtow, with a limited audience of diplomats and of...
More than 150 top international scientists are calling on the world to take urgent action on nitrogen pollution, to tackle the widespread harm it is causing to humans, wildlife and the planet. They include UVA environmental sciences professor James Galloway, founding chair of the International Nitrogen Initiative.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have found something new about cancer cells that could help with breast cancer treatment.
To quickly improve sleep and your relationship with your partner, don’t charge your phone in the bedroom. That way, it won’t be the last thing you see in the evening, the first thing in the morning, or, apparently, a temptation in the middle of the night (a 2016 University of Virginia study revealed that one in 10 smartphone users have checked their phones during sex).
The Bristol Herald Courier reported Tuesday that a trio of Amazon executives visited parts of western Virginia on what Gov. Ralph Northam characterized as a listening tour to become familiar with the area’s assets. Northam praised western Virginia’s educational assets, from its public schools to community colleges and a satellite campus of the University of Virginia. He predicted that Amazon would be interested in “working with all parts of Virginia.”
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam came to Charlottesville Tuesday morning to announce the launch of a new state initiative called “Opportunity Virginia.” The event was held at UVA’s Darden School of Business. More than 300 investors, state and local officials, and project developers attended to hear about the tax incentives and how to help create economic revitalization in Virginia’s low-income areas.