The University of Virginia Board of Visitors approved of three topics relating to UVA athletics in their Wednesday meeting. The topics are related to UVA’s new golf facility at Birdwood Golf Course, the new softball stadium, as well as a long-term Athletics Master Plan.
(Video) Carolyn Engelhard, director of health policy at the UVA School of Medicine, discusses the history of attempts to repeal or replace all or part of the Affordable Care Act, and the significance of the latest effort.
The event attracts approximately 2,100 students each year, including 75 percent of engineering students.
Mendenhall wanted a neutral site game — one that wasn’t in Athens, Ohio, and in a venue that was not in the ACC. The result will be that Virginia travels to Vanderbilt for the first time since Nov. 1, 1975. The game will be free and open to the public.
Jay Shimshack, associate professor of public policy and economics, conducted a study gathering grocery store scanner data from 2002 to 2012 to record what people bought and when during all U.S. hurricanes. His team found that although many people buy hurricane preparedness supplies roughly one day before landfall, many buy them afterward, often after the government has warned residents to be off the roads.
The University of Virginia football team will travel out of state Saturday to play its “home” football game. The Cavaliers will take on Ohio at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee.
The study offers insight into limb development and so-called catch-up growth. But the research also raises new questions: for example, once the limb has reached the same level of growth, how does the other limb know to start growing again? “We kind of expect symmetry in our limbs,” says Adrian Halme, a cell biologist at the University of Virginia who was also not involved with the study. “But how they achieve that symmetry is really striking.”
The University of Virginia is still one of the top 25 colleges in the U.S., according to the 2019 U.S. News and World Report National University ranking, released Monday.
UVA President Jim Ryan has announced a new paid parental leave policy. This is for all staff members eligible for benefits under the Family and Medical Leave Act, and brings UVA into line with an executive order issued by Gov. Northam in June.
UVA on Tuesday announced expanded paid leave benefits for new parents — a move that goes beyond a state executive order and one that could help the school remain competitive with its peers.
Hip-hop's presence in academia creates an opportunity for the institution and the professor to practice culturally relevant pedagogy. Coined by Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, this approach to teaching requires educators to use their cultural competence and critical thinking skills to increase student engagement and retain their attention. The practice also serves as a springboard to integrate social justice themes into the course objectives. From a practical standpoint, hip-hop in academia fosters an environment where students can become practitioners. For example, the University of Virginia's mu...
(Commentary by UVA history lecturer Waitman Wade Beorn) As a historian of the Nazi era, I am drawn to a stark contrast between how post-World War II Germany and the post-Civil War United States acknowledge their roles in institutions built upon human suffering. Put simply, in coming to terms with its past, Germany eventually elected to memorialize its victims, while the United States, particularly the South, chose to commemorate not the victims but the institution itself and the society that created it.
Bruce Phillips Hayden, 76, died Monday of complications from a fall and Lewy body dementia. He was professor emeritus of environmental sciences at UVA, where he was a gifted professor, a former chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences and a leader of efforts to build networks for sharing scientific research throughout the country.
“Lotteries have become an alternative mechanism of social mobility – a way of achieving financial success in an economy that’s increasingly bereft of those opportunities,” said Jonathan Cohen, a UVA Ph.D. candidate who’s completing his dissertation on American lotteries. “There’s an understandable belief that the economy is rigged and your best chance of making it out and getting rich is through the lottery.”
Even if Congress did want a new federal holiday, 9/11 would seem an unlikely candidate. American holidays, by and large, don't commemorate tragedies, said Brian Balogh, a UVA historian who co-hosts the American history podcast "BackStory."
An experimental single-dose flu drug shows promise as a new way to alleviate the misery of influenza, researchers say. "There are few approved influenza antivirals, and current treatments have limitations," said study lead author Dr. Frederick Hayden, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
A VCU poll found more than 80 percent of residents believe mental health services are crucial to keeping schools safe. But mental health centers and services at colleges, universities and K-12 schools are chronically underfunded, said Dewey Cornell, a UVA education professor. “We are not doing enough to identify and assist individuals who have serious mental health and educational support needs, including those who are at risk for violence,” Cornell said in an email, stressing that school shootings are rare. “School security has become a billion-dollar business that is profiting from fear...
The Air Force strictly regulates tobacco use during basic and technical training, but some airmen still use it. Air Force researchers are working with the University of Virginia to uncover why.
Analysts said the Democrats’ class of candidates is broad enough and strong enough to defend their own seats and win the 23 seats they need to flip control of the House. Congressional primaries close out with elections Tuesday in New Hampshire and Wednesday in Rhode Island. “A House flip is not guaranteed, but the Democratic position has probably been getting a little stronger as opposed to a little weaker over the past several months,” said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics.
In a test of generic state House candidates, 46 percent of voters said they would support a Democrat if the election were held today, compared to 34 percent for a Republican — a lead of 12 percent for the minority party that is seeking to flip control of the state legislature. "It pretty much fits into the national pattern. It’s another reminder of the fact that a good economy doesn't guarantee a president high ratings," said Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics.