A new study coauthored by researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of Colorado, Boulder shows large literacy gains and other benefits for full-day preschoolers as they enter kindergarten compared with their half-day peers. The new study found that full-day preschoolers had significantly better scores on tests of receptive vocabulary — the set of words they understand and can apply to the world around them.
With a federal Abandoned Mine Land Pilot Program grant, the city of Norton, Virginia, is converting a 200-acre, vacant surface coal mine into an industrial park. City Manager Fred Ramey said they hope the space will attract manufacturing and technology companies. University of Virginia’s College at Wise is nearby, providing an educated workforce. Once completed, the project is expected to create 63 jobs.
“It is highly unlikely that the internet could be universally shutdown,” said Ryan Wright, associate professor of commerce and associate director of the Center for Management of IT at the University of Virginia. “Internet infrastructure consists of several redundant connections that make it near impossible to bring down the entire internet unintentionally or accidentally. Internet traffic is resilient and can dynamically reroute around any problems.
(Commentary) As Steven Rhoads, professor emeritus of politics at the University of Virginia, and I detailed in National Affairs earlier this year, over more than a decade, several well-respected studies have found that Quebec’s child-care policy has led to a host of negative outcomes, including increased family stress, increased aggressiveness and anxiety and worse health outcomes among children, worse parenting, reduced mental health and relationship satisfaction among adults, and even a rise in criminality.
Democrats are by no means in the clear. Their liberal base has been clamoring for impeachment, but it could blow up in their faces, experts say. “There’s the chance that Democrats will muff their opportunity to get articles of impeachment passed, demobilizing the Democratic base,” said Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“On one level, this whole issue helps Biden, because it makes the president look afraid of Biden,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. “But the president has a great ability to drag people into the mud with him, and you wonder if that might happen to Biden.”
(Video) Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center for Politics makes the case for why the Democrats would be "wise to act expeditiously."
An already highly-accomplished basketball career now begins a new chapter for Faith Randolph, who recently was named the head girls varsity coach at Washington-Liberty High School. The head high-school coaching position is the first for Randolph, who was a standout player on the prep level at Good Counsel, then in college at the University of Virginia from 2012-2016, where she scored 1,346 career points, was team captain as a junior and senior and an All-ACC player.
(Video) An active wear company that got its start in Charlottesville is expanding. University of Virginia Darden business grads started Rhoback active wear two years ago. It grew faster than Under Armour in its first year and now the company has a new space to continue that growth.
Robert Turner, law professor and distinguished fellow with the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia, was part of a panel that discussed the impeachment investigation.
This week, Walter Hood was one of 26 people to be named MacArthur Fellows, an award often referred to as the “Genius Grant.” Hood previously designed a structure at the University of Virginia that marked the former home of a free black woman who purchased property there in the 1800s.
(Commentary) History is certainly on Doyle’s side, though, explains Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “More than 98% of all House members who have sought renomination by their parties since the end of World War II have, in fact, been renominated.”
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, Presidential Studies director and Gerald L. Baliles Professor at UVA’s Miller Center) Donald Trump often is labeled the “unprecedented president,” but, in at least in one area, he is following a long line of more recent White House predecessors: ease of renomination.
“This is nothing like a conversation between Richard Nixon or Henry Kissinger and a foreign leader,” said Ken Hughes of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, an expert on Nixon during the Vietnam War and Watergate. “Nixon had very detailed knowledge when he spoke to foreign leaders. He could be subtle in negotiations and still get his point across,” Hughes said. But “when he wanted to dig up dirt on his political adversaries,” Nixon did it at home, he said.
Russell Riley, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said Pence’s cautious approach was reminiscent of vice president Al Gore during Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998. “There is a conundrum with being the vice president of the United States in a controversial administration, because everybody knows that you are the heir apparent in case something happens,” he said. “You have to be exceedingly guarded.”
Charlottesville has lots of coffee shops, but a new one that’s opening soon will offer something much more than coffee and baked goods: It will give jobs to people with disabilities while offering everyone in the community a new way to connect with people they might not ordinarily meet. It's called Kindness Cafe and Play, and it's being launched by a local mom and UVA alumna, Katie Kishore, who's raising two daughters, one of whom has Down Syndrome.
Trump’s efforts to lean on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reminiscent of the way Nixon created a team of secret investigators, known as “the plumbers,” to find incriminating or embarrassing evidence about his enemies, said Ken Hughes, a leading Watergate authority and research specialist at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Democrats should try to go through the process as quickly as possible, as it could spark sympathy for Trump if it drags on, said Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
After a four-year battle with cancer, former Virginia Gov. Gerald Baliles has entered a palliative care program, a statement from his family says. He was hired as the director of the Miller Center, a public policy research institute at the University of Virginia, in 2006. Under his leadership, the center greatly expanded its profile with the addition of “American Forum,” a talk program featuring former and current policymakers, historians and journalists. He stepped down from that position in 2014.
The program left for dead four years ago is 4-0 for the first time since 2004 and has spent time ranked for consecutive weeks (now up to No. 18) for the first time since 2007.