The 2021 Axalta Bright Futures Scholarship recipients at the University of Virginia are: Erika McCormick and Zhiwen Xu
Just weeks after ruling that a law preventing people under the age of 21 from purchasing firearms was unconstitutional, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned its own decision due to a technicality. The decision was the latest development in a lawsuit filed in October 2018 on behalf of then-20-year old Tanner Hirschfeld and then-18-year-old Natalia Marshall. Both plaintiffs were students at the University of Virginia at the time the lawsuit was filed.
A record eight schools enrolled 45% women in their cohorts a year ago, including the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
How does the oldest president in American history connect with voters who are 40, 50 or even 60 years younger than him? That’s the challenge facing President Biden, a 78-year-old politician who owes his election in part to a big spike in turnout among millennial and Gen Z voters. “He was not my first choice,” said Molly Hays, a University of Virginia student from Alexandria. “But he’s been pushed to the left, which is good for me."
Douglas Laycock, Robert E. Scott distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia added, “Courts are in no position to adjudicate the official teaching of the church anyway. There are lots of issues on which members of a church disagree, and lots of cases in which the objector takes the teaching further than the church does.”
Doctors at UVA Health are warning that the flu season this year could be a bad one.
Teaching has been considered a high-stress job for years. And then the pandemic happened, and everything got worse. “The demands on teachers have gotten greater … and [they have] fewer resources and fewer choices —when you combine those two, you’re basically putting teachers in a vise,” said Patricia Jennings, a professor of education at the University of Virginia who studies teacher stress.
The Wizards signed former Virginia center Jay Huff and three others to Exhibit 10 contracts.
“Overall, effort was a step forward," Mendenhall said. "But execution was very inconsistent and poor, at best. Lack of assignments and just basically being where we needed to be, frequently or infrequently, led to just lots and lots and lots of yards.”
Merci Best, the founder of STEAMKITX, encourages kids to get involved with science and the arts.
Some new art is coming to Scottsville and one of the pieces was created by an organization at the University of Virginia.
The study, published by researchers at the University of Virginia, found that when it came to improving your health and reducing risks of early death where possible, increasing physical activity and improving fitness appear to be superior to simply losing weight.
Virginia is split along rural-urban lines, leaving much of its populace unprotected despite the top-line stats, a professor at the University of Virginia who has been modeling the spread of COVID-19 for the state.
You’ve probably heard about studies showing tall men tend to make more money than short guys, but a professor at the University of Virginia says there are many more physical qualities we should consider when talking about bias in the workplace. Using data from about 2,400 people, he’s hoping to identify other physical traits that may give people an advantage.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have identified 14 genes that can cause weight gain and three can prevent it.
A majority of the threats assessed in Virginia schools each year involve self-harm, according to researchers at the University of Virginia.
“It’s not the promised success in terms of magnitude that the case has been made for,” said Bob Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development. “These schools have shown real difficulty in scaling. None of them are the size of a reasonably small city school system.”
"It speaks to a pretty familiar idea in politics that the side that feels more threatened by something is probably the one that gets more motivation out of it," said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. "And so the side that maybe feels more threatened that the abortion status quo is going to change is the Democrats right now."
Infectious disease specialist Stephen Zeichner and other experts point to uncharted factors in COVID-19 vaccine research in kids as mRNA jab developers reveal their authorization plans.
(Subscription may be required) “Before social media arrived on the scene, it was very difficult to do this kind of thing minute-by-minute. Now that social media is a central part of our lives, every campaign believes it must bring out every gun available, even if a tank is used to squash a small bug,” Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia wrote in an email.