"Students and teachers report feeling safer and more positive about their schools using a threat assessment approach," said professor Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia clinical psychologist who studies school safety issues.
So, what can parents do to make their teenager put down the phone and crack open a book? The solution can require a complicated dance between coercion and suggestion, said Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of psychology and the author of “Raising Kids Who Read.” The first step is prying your kids away from their screens, Willingham said.
Researchers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center are shedding some light on the commonwealth's population by using pyramids. The pyramids show Virginia's local and regional populations in percentages rather than raw numbers in age and sex.
Charlottesville High School staff spent an afternoon learning about the ways ethnic and racial discrimination have shaped the city in which their students live. Friday's racial and ethnic history tour was a joint effort by Charlottesville City Schools, the city of Charlottesville’s Office of Human Rights, the University of Virginia and the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.
After a year of work, students will open a food pantry at the University of Virginia this fall. The pantry will offer a variety of nonperishable food. Students say they don’t yet know how many students struggle with eating enough healthy food on Grounds, but the pantry will help gauge the level of need at UVA.
Many of the public doctoral institutions that paid their full professors the most in 2016-17 were in cities well known for their high costs of living, but others, like the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Virginia, were not.
The effort got a lift when Senegal welcomed a team of more than three dozen scientists from the U.S. and France, part of NASA’s New Horizons program. The scientists fanned out across the countryside in hopes of observing the silhouette cast by an ancient chunk of rock orbiting beyond Pluto as it passed in front of a bright star. UVA astronomer Anne Verbiscer, part of the team, said she valued working with Senegalese students and could relate to overcoming hurdles in pursuing a career in astronomy.
(Commentary by Ashon Crawley, an assistant professor of religious studies and African-American and African studies) Aretha Franklin's contributions to American music are well documented. I want to talk a bit about how, listening to her gospel albums one learns about black life as a sacred practice, and the anticipatory drive of Spirit.
Several Mitchell scholars also fretted that they’d lost out on some of what college had to offer by sticking to predetermined scripts, sweating perfection and avoiding risks. One of those scholars, Aaron Kurman, who graduated from UVA in 2005 and now works as a human rights lawyer in Israel, copped to all of that and more.
So, when should you buy generic and when should you splurge on a name brand? Berryville native Marjorie “Meg” Pryde want to help shoppers answer that question with a new app she has created. When she was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, Pryde, 28, said she would try to save money by purchasing generic brand items that were often “the same product with a different label” as more expensive name brands. She would read and compare ingredient labels and read product reviews on her smartphone, but sometimes the product she bought was a disappointment.
Airbus has appointed Anand E. Stanley, a veteran leader in the global aerospace and defense industry, to succeed Pierre de Bausset as President and Managing Director of Airbus India. Anand holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, an MBA from the University of Virginia-Darden.
Virginia coach Bronco Mendenhall hopes this is the season the Cavaliers turn the corner.
(Commentary) Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said that March budget vote was "exactly what AFP has stood against for many, many years." So the group took action, he said. "They've decided to move away from too close an association with the Republican Party," Sabato said. "When the AFP takes a stand, I've learned, they stick with it. Come what may. They face the consequences. They're tough."
Larry Sabato, of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said heavy Republican registration in Kansas was an advantage for Kobach, especially outside a two-party race. He said it was difficult to imagine Kobach losing, “as far right as he is,” unless Kelly and Orman hatched a political alliance.
Georgia’s race for governor has gotten more competitive in the eyes of University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. His Crystal Ball analysis shifted the race from “likely Republican” to “leans Republican.” He writes that he’s still skeptical that Democrat Stacey Abrams can defeat Republican Brian Kemp, but: “Georgia is a racially-polarized and right-leaning state, which to us probably gives an edge to Kemp, who is white and conservative, over Abrams, who is black and liberal. But the potential for strong black turnout and a poor environment for Republicans hurting Kemp suggests th...
(Audio) Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, author of Sabato's Crystal Ball and several best sellers including "The Kennedy Half Century" Dr. Larry Sabato joins the show to give insight into the midterm elections.
TPG remains a holdout among peers, such as Apollo Global Management LLC, Blackstone Group LP, Carlyle Group LP and KKR & Co., all of which went public over the last decade or so. Inside and outside the firm, some consider TPG’s approach to be a competitive advantage because it can focus on a long-term strategy that has tended to yield uneven returns. “Their successes come in terms of taking the path that others haven’t taken,” said Susan Chaplinsky, a University of Virginia business school professor.
Nixon and the GOP, meanwhile, told conservative voters that voting for Wallace would mean a Humphrey victory. “Nixon’s message was ‘Don’t send Washington a message, send them a president,’” said Ken Hughes, a historian at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia who has studied Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. Nixon also began to appropriate some of Wallace’s language, attacking busing to achieve integration and calling for “freedom of choice” plans that would leave schools segregated.
Tribune Media Co.’s claims that “willful” breaches of its written merger agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. caused the $3.9 billion deal to collapse are virtually untested in court. The alleged breaches happened because Sinclair didn’t exert “reasonable best efforts” to “avoid or eliminate” government roadblocks to completing the merger, Tribune claimed. “As far as the case law is concerned, there’s very little precedent, and this is a very murky area,” Albert Choi, a University of Virginia Law School professor who specializes in contracts and mergers, told Bloomberg Law in an email....
“(S)o if the lawyer knew the plaintiff (his client) had died at the time the lawyer filed the complaint, stating in the complaint that the plaintiff is a resident of Virginia and living in the district would be an ethics violation,” George Cohen, the Sullivan & Cromwell Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, told Legal Newsline.