The committee was created a few months prior to the Fair Pay to Play Act, but the bill is forcing the NCAA and other states to take an expedited look at the rights of players. “I’d be lying if I [said I] had a great handle on it,” Virginia coach Tony Bennett said. “I think it needs to be investigated further. I’m all for the student-athletes having more opportunities to receive funding, whether it’s through the name and likeness, if it can be fairly equitable and doesn’t affect the game and other sports and all that in a bad way.”
The UVA Cavaliers will have a whole new look this season. Virginia kicks off the season at Syracuse on Nov. 6, the Hoos first-ever ACC game to start a season.
“Through evapotranspiration, forests recycle water into the atmosphere, so that agricultural areas downwind of large tracts of continuous forest get more rainfall than areas downwind of deforested patches,” says Deborah Lawrence, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. “Deforestation in the Amazon is likely to affect agriculture elsewhere in the Americas. Massive amounts of carbon would be lost to the atmosphere as trees succumb to drought and fire – all CO2 stored over centuries or millennia would go up in smoke.”
The model uses a “train the trainer” approach, so every year schools select teams to attend sessions on RULER. Those teams then go back and teach other educators at their school. While many social-emotional learning programs exist, the majority focus on the “social” side rather than the “emotional” one, said Sara Rimm-Kaufman, a professor at the University of Virginia who studies SEL programs. But RULER, she said, is one of the exceptions, with a strong focus on emotions.
(Video) Young patients at the UVA Children's Hospital have something new to take their minds off their treatments. Carter Myers Automotive Valley Dealership representatives dropped off a truckload of toys and activities on Tuesday. The donation is the result of September’s Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
The University of Virginia studied the state’s threat assessment program in the 2014-15 school year, and found the vast majority of cases were not determined to be serious.
The Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust, known as CHEST, is now a National Science Foundation research center. Around 15 undergraduate and Ph.D. students are leading the center’s work. The students work with industry and government partners to understand which devices are at risk of cyberattacks.
Dennis Yang, professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, said he has spoken with Chinese business executives who are bracing for a lengthy battle. "The business community has been prepared for more of a long-term fight," Yang said.
(Commentary by Peter Norton, associate professor in UVA’s Department of Engineering and Society) Among advocates of safe, sustainable, and bike-friendly mobility, the Netherlands has long been the success story to point to. But in English-speaking countries – especially the car-dominated United States – how useful is the Netherlands as an example to emulate?
Flu researchers jokingly say, "If you've seen one flu season, you've seen one flu season." The point being, of course, no two flu seasons are alike. "It's a difficult disease to provide very long-term predictions on, which is why it is an active area of research," UVA professor Dr. Bryan Lewis wrote.
(Commentary by Saikrishna Prakash, a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law) We have seen this movie before, and I am fairly certain how it will end. Barring some potential massive revelation, President Trump will not be leaving the White House prior to January 2020.
Neuroscientists at the University of Virginia are now a step closer to finding a cure for multiple sclerosis. A new study reveals that cells that had typically been ignored could actually be one of the things causing MS.
Previously ignored cells are key contributors to multiple sclerosis, according to new research from the University of Virginia.
Universities can, for the most part, afford to share the pain, although endowments vary greatly. The University of Virginia, which announced a plan last year to waive tuition for in-state students whose families earn less than $80,000 annually and have “typical assets,” has an endowment of about $10 billion. That’s about $400,000 per student (graduate and undergraduate).
A new national research center is looking into how to ensure that electronic devices and systems of connected devices are designed to protect the interests of consumers and the communities that rely on them. The UVA School of Engineering is a founding partner of the Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust, or CHEST.
Psychologist Marisa Malone, a UVA graduate student, found that sixth- and seventh-graders who started at separate middle schools were less likely to pass tests than those who were still grouped with their elementary-school peers. The transition to a new school, she concludes, may be exacerbated by the disproportionately high rates of bullying and pervasively low self-esteem that occur in those intermediary years.
UVA’s Board of Visitors unanimously approved President Jim Ryan’s strategic plan to make UVA the best public school in the country by 2030. Now the administration has to figure out which initiatives to prioritize – such as increasing diversity – and how to fund them.
(Commentary co-written by Barie Carmichael, senior counselor at APCO Worldwide and a Batten Fellow at UVA’s Darden School of Business) The ramp speed of business-disrupting social issues has accelerated in 2019. Mother’s Day triggered a backlash for Nike’s policy of reducing pay for some sponsored female athletes while pregnant, extending the criticisms and litigation on its gender equity issues. And, in Silicon Valley the modus operandi for many has been to build scale and worry later about social impact. This has resulted in a public reckoning for companies like Palantir, which is facing mou...
The services provided through Medicaid waivers to children with the most severe disabilities vary wildly from state to state, researchers say, leaving many families to pick up the pieces. “It’s not just how much we’re spending to support these children and families,” said UVA nursing professor Jessica Keim-Malpass, who led the study. “It’s how well we’re supporting these children and families. By most accounts, we’re not doing it well.”
A population study by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service forecasts 53 of Virginia’s 133 cities and counties will lose population by 2040. Most of the declines will be in rural areas, and among the hardest hit will be Accomack County.