Spring training is scheduled to begin Sunday in Dunedin, Florida, for Derek Fisher and the rest of the Toronto Blue Jays position players. Fisher, an outfielder, will by competing for a bench role with the Jays. Before being traded to the Jays last season on July 31, Fisher played his entire pro career in the Astros organization after being selected by Houston out of the University of Virginia in the first round (37th overall) of the 2014 draft.
These days, Virginia’s politics are dominated by a suburban crescent arching from Northern Virginia through Hampton Roads. There’s been a large migration to the state through these suburbs – particularly Northern Virginia – by a professional class of government workers and contractors. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that 50.5% of the state’s population in 2018 was born outside Virginia. That nearly matches the 52% of legislators this year who were not born in Virginia. “People like to vote for people who reflect them,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “These l...
Federal expenditures for after-school programs have been criticized by some fiscal conservatives. However, more than 60 after-school programs met the standards of impact under the Every Student Succeeds Act, wrote Nancy Deutsch, director of Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development, in Fortune magazine last year.
Experts will continue to tell you that the biggest mistake you can make is failing to negotiate in the first place. Some people fear losing the offer if they ask for too much, while others find the process awkward or think the offer is cut and dry and there’s no room for improvement. Jeff McNish, assistant dean of the UVA Darden School of Business’ Career Development Center said: “Not negotiating [is] the single, biggest mistake made. Negotiation is a skill that most MBAs need for their post-MBA careers, and I encourage every MBA to demonstrate their negotiating skills before they start.” ...
A 6-year-old pointed a finger gun at her teacher and said ‘I shoot you.’ Her school called the cops.
Tredyffrin/Easttown says it follows school threat assessment guidelines developed at the University of Virginia. At a school board committee meeting last week, Mark Cataldi, the district’s director of assessment and accountability, said the T/E officials had consulted with Dewey Cornell, an education professor and forensic clinical psychologist at UVA who developed the model and “stood by involving law enforcement as part of the threat assessment teams.” Cornell “also emphasized flexibility,” and said law enforcement didn’t necessarily have to be involved every time, Cataldi said.
Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney said, “It looks like he was trying to bring attention to himself, not the issue, because that is what’s being covered – not the slave auction plaque or the plight of the slaves being sold there,” Brackney said. Justene Hill Edwards, a UVA assistant professor of the history of slavery, disagreed. “At end of the day, if this brings about meaningful conversation, not only about the city’s history and connection to slavery but also about how slavery and its legacy continues to influence the African American community here, then I think that’s an import...
Visits to health care providers for influenza-like illnesses (ILI) increased for a third straight week to 6.7% compared to 6% the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s not surprising for researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia who work in a research partnership with AccuWeather. They predicted what is now a second peak of ILI activity for the 2019-20 season a month ago when ILI activity was at its first peak of 7%. However, it doesn’t mean the season isn’t surprising in some ways. “It’s hard to believe we are this de...
A UVA researcher — as part of a study published in the scientific journal Pediatrics — finds more than half of new moms don’t follow safe sleep practices with their babies. The study in which UVA pediatrician Dr. Ann Kellams participated found “only 45.4% of new mothers surveyed both intended to comply and then did comply with the recommendation to sleep in the same room but not the same bed with their baby.”
Dr. Ann Kellams, a researcher at the UVA School of Medicine and pediatrician at UVA Children’s, says more new mothers need to act to protect their babies while they sleep. She found that among 3,260 new mothers surveyed, 59% intended to follow safe sleep recommendations to prevent sudden unexpected infant death syndrome, but only 45.4% followed it in practice.
(Video) Researchers at the University of Virginia are working on a way to test for autism when a baby is born.
Whether it’s hormones, or friends, or fear of the future, is teen angst here today and forgotten tomorrow? UVA social scientist Joseph Allen said, “We’d like to think we’re beyond it and we’re not as far beyond it as we’d like to be and it matters more, and sticks with us longer.”
Decision Desk HQ in partnership with the University of Virginia Center for Politics estimates that Sanders and Buttigieg will win nine national pledged delegates each from New Hampshire compared to six for Klobuchar, with Biden and Warren picking up zero delegates from the state.
The Virginia House of Delegates has passed a bill that would grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants. People who attended a meeting last week on the University of Virginia Grounds on that topic are likely pleased to see this proposal advance. Just like other students who are hoping to get in-state tuition, immigrants would be required to have lived in and attended a school in Virginia for at least one year.
The law journals of the 16 top-ranked U.S. law schools (including UVA) are all currently helmed by female editors-in-chief. This is wildly unlikely: By pure statistical chance, that has an approximately 1 in 100,000 likelihood of happening.
For the first time, the law reviews at the top 16 law schools in the U.S. – including UVA – all have a female editor-in-chief. (These schools are the top-ranked schools according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Law Schools list.)
(Commentary co-written by Christine Kennedy, associate dean for academic programs and professor of nursing) The Virginia General Assembly approved expansion of Medicaid last year, providing access to health care for 400,000 Virginians. The question is: Who will provide care to all of these citizens? One viable option for providing high-quality primary care is nurse practitioners.
(Commentary by Aynne Kokas, assistant professor of media studies) Images of Bong Joon-ho reveling in his awards for best picture and best director for “Parasite” circulated widely after this year’s Oscars ceremony. But those charming, meme-able moments don’t just capture Bong’s personal triumph – they also symbolize a breakthrough for Korea’s film industry, which for decades has been trapped between the demands of two powerful markets.
UVA fourth-year student Kate Bollinger writes smart, melodic indie pop music. It makes for easy listening, but there’s real insight in her lyrics. Dig deeper and you’ll discover a thoughtful songwriter coming into her own.
Thousands take Metro-North to get in and out of New York City, and from the Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines, one woman has her eye on it all. In the sea of commuters, tourists and locals is someone who blends right in – Catherine Rinaldi, the first female president of Metro-North. Rinaldi was an English major at Yale, and then went to law school at the University of Virginia.
Broadcast journalist Emerald Robinson has joined Newsmax TV as its new White House correspondent. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Robinson began her journalism career as host of "The Daily Orbit," a syndicated science and technology news show. Her experience also includes entertainment, political, and economic beats.