A study from researchers at the University of Virginia found that increasing pay even marginally helps retain early childhood teachers. When researchers gave randomly selected teachers a $1,500 bonus to stay in their positions for eight months, turnover was cut in half. … “What we are hearing on the ground is the tension of not being able to be responsive in the ways other businesses are being responsive. If your teachers are leaving for jobs at Lowe’s and Target and Walmart and you don’t have the capacity to charge your family more at your site, then you are sort of stuck in this position,” s...
Promising news in the effort to develop drugs to treat obesity: University of Virginia scientists have identified 14 genes that can cause and three that can prevent weight gain. The findings pave the way for treatments to combat a health problem that affects more than 40% of American adults.
Researchers think they have found a potential way to treat a poorly understood form of age-related macular degeneration. According to a release, the University of Virginia School of Medicine found that damaging DNA builds up in the eyes of patients who have geographic atrophy.
A new initiative at the UVA Center for Politics is looking for common ground in American politics. According to a release, it has partnered with Project Home Fire on an innovative data analytics and polling project exploring social, political and psychological divides between people who voted for Donald Trump and people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020.
(Free registration required) Most Donald Trump voters believe it’s time to divide the US in two, a new study has found. University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, with a new initiative named Project Home Fire, explored the social, political, and psychological divides between those who voted for Donald Trump and those who voted for Joe Biden in 2020.
Republicans and Democrats alike could be shocked by how far apart they actually are in terms of basic beliefs and opinions. An eye-opening new initiative from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics is now exploring the social, political and psychological divides between those who voted for Donald Trump and those who favored Joseph R. Biden in the 2020 presidential election. “The divide between Trump and Biden voters is deep, wide and dangerous. The scope is unprecedented, and it will not be easily fixed,” said veteran analyst Larry J. Sabato, who is director of the center.
(Editorial) Charlottesville police surely welcome all the help they can get. And the University of Virginia Police Department is offering its assistance. UVA police will expand patrols into some areas surrounding Grounds, including the Corner, following recent violence there. The off-campus outreach is not unprecedented. But it responds to a new upsurge in dangers, and amid a local and national climate of increased public sensitivity to risk.
The University of Virginia is going to roll out free mental health services for students on Monday. According to a release, UVA has partnered with TimelyMD, a leading telehealth company that specializes in higher education. Any student who paid the comprehensive health fee will be able to access the service, called TimelyCare.
The University of Virginia will invest another $50 million in matching funds through the Bicentennial Scholarship Fund, UVA President Jim Ryan said last week.
(Podcast) UVA historian Caroline E. Janney discusses her new book, “Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox,” including the surrender terms and the legal and societal complications that ensued from them, as well as the practical problems facing Confederate soldiers as they tried to make their way to their homes. She also chats about how understanding the birth of Reconstruction policy and the Lost Cause narrative are only possible if one knows the story of the end of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Piedmont Virginia Community College is expanding its associate degree in nursing program by partnering with the UVA Medical Center, with support from an anonymous donor. This will allow PVCC to provide a direct impact upon the shortage of nurses in Central Virginia, according to a news release. UVA Health will contribute $400,000 over a three-year period, in addition to a $300,000 private contribution.
A majority of Trump voters want to split the country into red and blue halves, according to a new poll conducted by the University of Virginia’s nonpartisan Center for Politics.
On the sixth floor of the Homewood Suites by Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., [UVA Law alumnus] Harry Marino hunches over his MacBook, furiously typing Instagram direct messages. Marino, who serves as the executive director for Advocates for Minor Leaguers, spends much of his time reaching out to recent MLB draftees with a link to the organization’s draft handbook. The handbook explains the rights granted by the uniform player contract, pay scales, the challenges of finding in-season housing, the expectation for food and nutrition from teams and more. “I want players to be informed as soon ...
The project to restore the old baseball field at the former Burley High School is moving ahead. Wednesday night, a game took place on the historic diamond. Ahead of the game, Donald Byers threw out the first pitch. He was one of many Black students and ballplayers in the 1950s who left a legacy at the former Burley High School -- a segregated school. “We still need more progress, but a lot [has been] made and it’s enjoyable to see what’s going on here today,” Byers said. What’s “going on” was a ballgame, just like old times. But this one included everyone -- a game that matched up high school ...
The First Amendment Museum has appointed Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson professor emeritus at University of Virginia and a specialist in the history of the early American republic, to the museum’s board of directors. Onuf, who retired to Maine several years ago, brings extensive scholarship in American history to the board, and the new concept museum that inspires people to understand and exercise their First Amendment rights.
A local nonprofit that supports the immigrant community, mostly Latinx, in the Charlottesville area has hired its first-ever executive director. Edgar Lara will be the executive director of Sin Barreras beginning Oct. 1. Lara has been a member of the board of Sin Barreras for some time and he also co-directs the “Conecta2” Latinx leadership technology program at the University of Virginia.
“Youngkin obviously has immense personal resources to bring to bear here,” says Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the UVA Center for Politics’ political newsletter and website, Sabato’s Crystal Ball. “One thing that’s interesting is that McAuliffe is the one who is trying to nationalize this race, because he wants people to think of Youngkin as Trump so that Democratic voters will be motivated to come out. Youngkin wants this to be more of a localized race. He’s muddying his ideology and political background, representing himself as a nonpartisan business type – almost like Mark Warner in revers...
Justin Kirkland, a political science professor at the University of Virginia, previously told The Washington Times that McAuliffe’s political history puts him at a disadvantage because his opponents could put greater scrutiny on him, while also labeling them as a career politician. “It’s easier to find things to use against him because he served in office for a really long time,” Kirkland said. “It’s a lot easier for Republicans or the Youngkin campaign to paint him as a kind of a career politician.”
Justin O’Jack, chief representative of the University of Virginia in China, said more and more Chinese students are coming back to China to work after they graduate from universities in the US. “The opportunity to grow is so much more in Shanghai,” he said, adding that many US universities have leveraged their alumni networks to help international students land jobs in Shanghai.
American Justin O’Jack, University of Virginia’s chief representative in China, said most Chinese students studying in the university now intend to return home due to more employment opportunities here, especially in Shanghai, for jobs in financial services and business consulting. The situation has been changing compared with over a decade ago when many Chinese graduates opted for careers in the U.S.