Money Magazine has released its 2018 Best Colleges for Your Money ranking, and the University of Virginia has broken into the top ten.
In his 2015 book “Raising Kids Who Read,” UVA psychology professor Daniel Willingham explains the concept of “virtuous cycle” of reading. Children who read well tend to enjoy reading; because they enjoy reading, they read more; because they read more, they become better readers. But how do you generate literary enthusiasm among kids who are not in the virtuous cycle?
Civil rights activist, author and politician Julian Bond spent the last 20 years of his career teaching at the University of Virginia. The school possesses copies of many of his papers, speeches and other works in its special collections archives. Up until now, those materials have been difficult to access, requiring a visit to the archives. UVA is looking to change that.
James Ryan spent his 14th day as president of the University of Virginia helping new students at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise feel welcome. “You belong here,” Ryan said. “It won’t take long for you to feel at home.” Ryan spoke to the class of 2022 during the fall convocation on Tuesday.
Benjamin Franklin Hurt, who spent three decades as principal of Albemarle High School, died Saturday. He was 99. A Farmville native, he graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and earned a master’s in education from the University of Virginia. Hurt began teaching in Albemarle County Public Schools before being drafted by the Army to fight Nazi Germany in North Africa and Italy in World War II. Hurt returned as a teacher, coach and principal at Greenwood High School before moving to Albemarle High, where he served as principal from 1954 to 1984. Hurt was famous for his dedication to knowing every...
Two young interns are making some serious waves this summer at the Naval Postgraduate School. High school senior Kathryn Yeager and UVA second-year student Colin Cool are spending their summer breaks conducting hydrodynamic experimentation in NPS’ recently restored wave-generating tow tank as part of the school’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics internship program.
The University of Virginia's Larry Sabato has cautioned about the media's use and abuse of political polling data. He has warned that the results of two polls cannot be compared unless their methodologies and demographics are the same. He also warns against making claims as to whether the results of a new poll represent a genuine shift in attitudes if the difference the polls being compared is within the polls' margins of error. In other words, a telephone poll of "likely voters" cannot be compared with an online poll of "adults". And it is not permissible to conclude that there has been a cha...
(Commentary) Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan political analysis and handicapping newsletter at the University of Virginia Center for Politics produced by Larry J. Sabato, indicates Blackburn has an uphill battle to being Tennessee’s first female U.S. senator. Sabato is the center’s director. “The Senate elections in the 2018 cycle feature two contrasting forces: highly polarized, partisan voting in elections running up against a tendency for non-presidential party incumbents to do well in midterms, even in states that backed the other party in the most recent presidential election,” the n...
Kyle Kondik with the University of Virginia says Pelosi -- the only female speaker in the nation’s history -- can be a divisive figure. “Democratic leadership has been around for a while and frankly is getting up there in age, too,” Kondik said. “That there might be a feeling that there should be some new blood in the leadership.”
This tribalism has infected both the right and the left—but in particular, Beinart cited the work of W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia who has concluded that “rates of religious attendance have fallen more than twice as much among whites without a college degree as among those who graduated college.”
Skeptics dismissed Operation Desert Storm, fought from mid-January to the end of February 1991, as a “video-game war,” over almost before it began. Stump disagreed. The war “was a really big deal… It validated that America was back in business.” Such sentiment worried the University of Virginia’s Elizabeth K. Meyer, a professor of landscape architecture, and the lone dissenter on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the body entrusted with the task of deciding what does or does not get built in the nation’s capital. When the commission heard testimony from Stump and others, Meyer pushed back. “Th...
Beginning with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a string of presidents used taping equipment with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Their motives ranged from defending themselves against inaccurate news leaks (F.D.R), to help in preparing memoirs and developing political leverage. Along the way, these tapes become an invaluable historical resource, says Dr. Marc Selverstone, an associate professor in presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, and chair of the Center's Presidential Recordings Program. "They're an incredible and powerful window into the way power works," says Dr....
Carolyn Engelhard, a public-health specialist and an associate professor at the University of Virginia, said Charlottesville-area consumers shouldn’t just look at the price of Anthem’s plans, but should compare provider networks and pharmaceutical coverage. “It’s really interesting that they decided to enter now,” Engelhard said. “But it’s a matter of looking at whether the plans are really better for consumers.”
(Commentary by Brad Carson, a professor at UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) The Department of Defense is overhauling the military personnel system for the first time in a generation. And the changes, some large, others small, all indicate that the department has finally embraced the “talent management” revolution that swept the private sector more than two decades ago.
"Colors" takes as its point of departure a poem written by then twelve-year-old Zoe Kusyk, a student in Charlottesville, Virginia, a 2016 winner of “Writer’s Eye,” an annual competition held by the Fralin Museum of the University of Virginia that “challenges writers of all ages to create original works of poetry and prose inspired by works of art on display in the Museum.” “Colors,” was a response to a 1977 painting by Larry Poons, a cascade of liquid hues pulled by gravity into parallel but active rivulets, now remaining distinct, now mingling.
The PRA report included a case study on South Africa titled Pursuing Property Titles for Low Income Households in South Africa compiled by Jessica Canada, a Ph.D. student in economics at the University of Virginia and Jason Urbach, a director of the Free Market Foundation.
“A number of birds (e.g., eagles, hawks) were significant in different cultures for many reasons, but I’ve never read anything about them being bred in a prehistoric village,” said co-author of the study, archaeologist Stephen Plog, at the University of Virginia. “Even today, for example, eagles are very important in Hopi ritual, but they are gathered from nesting sites just before the birds are ready to fledge and then are raised in the pueblos.”
To conduct the study, George's colleagues visited museums to sample the remains of 20 scarlet macaws, many of which trace back to Pueblo Bonito, the Chaco Canyon great houses that the National Geographic Society excavated from 1920 to 1927. “The main reason we have these macaws is National Geographic,” says study coauthor Stephen Plog, an anthropologist at the University of Virginia.
But the macaw bones revealed an unexpected result. George and co-author Stephen Plog, a professor of archaeology at the University of Virginia, were shocked to find all 14 macaws were extremely genetically similar—so much so that it appeared 71 percent of them likely shared a maternal lineage.
(Commentary) On top of all of this, in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted with the University of Virginia, 39 percent agreed that "white people are currently under attack in this country," while 31 percent said they strongly or somewhat agree that America has to "protect and preserve its White European heritage."