(Podcast) To help kids who don’t get this kind of practice at home, early grade curriculum should structure activities purposefully aimed at developing motor skills, along with executive function, socio-emotional skills and general knowledge, which is what kids use to make sense of the world. That’s according to one of the paper’s authors, David Grissmer, a research professor at the University of Virginia.
(Book review) These days, bookstores, actual and virtual, are fully stocked with American history textbooks. “American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850” may well give the best of them a run for their money. In a beautifully crafted narrative, Alan Taylor, a professor of history at the University of Virginia and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes (for “William Cooper’s Town” and “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832”) examines our young nation as it shifted from an eastward gaze across the Atlantic to westward expansion across the continent.
The University of Virginia’s “Climate Art and Community” course is asking business owners to take a pledge and cut down on their plastic use. “We’ve been talking a lot about the shorter timeline and every year going by where we are not lowering our carbon emissions collectively and addressing the greenhouse gas emissions in total it just becomes less and less likely that we will be able to mitigate the temperature rise,” UVA professor Amanda Nelsen said.
(Photos) The University of Virginia Chapel comes alive Friday night thanks to a light installation by local artist Jeff Dobrow. The idea behind the project is to celebrate UVA’s Class of 2020 and Class of 2021 and to offer hope and joy as the COVID-19 pandemic starts to wane. The installation will occur again at the Chapel this coming Friday and Saturday, starting at dark.
University of Virginia senior Gabby Forward searched for several months, but she was finally able to get a job in her preferred career path this spring despite all the economic disruptions and other challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. The job market for the college Class of 2021 is looking better than it did for last year’s graduates, who searched for work during the height of the pandemic.
University of Virginia senior Gabby Forward searched for several months, but she was finally able to get a job in her preferred career path this spring despite all the economic disruptions and other challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. The job market for the college Class of 2021 is looking better than it did for last year’s graduates, who searched for work during the height of the pandemic.
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(Video) From the Rotunda, to the UVA Lawn, and through Grounds to Scott Stadium, the University of Virginia Class of 2020 is finally celebrating graduation after a year of much anticipation.
Rain, cool temperatures, a gas shortage and even an international pandemic couldn’t stop graduates of the University of Virginia’s Class of 2020 from walking the Lawn, as hundreds returned to Charlottesville for a delayed ceremony Sunday.
If you’re ready to toss your mask, you still need to get vaccinated. On Friday afternoon in downtown Charlottesville, a new place and space to get your shots emerged. At the Sprint Pavilion on the Downtown Mall, a chance for kids – and kids at heart – to roll up their sleeves and, soon, pull down their masks, thanks to UVA Health.
Predicting population growth is a tricky game. But one Virginia institution has become the go-to source for state population predictions. When the Census Bureau stopped making state-level population projections in 2005, a lot of people were wondering where they were going to get those numbers. UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center stepped into the breach and started making their own state-level population projections. Since that time, their crystal ball has been crystal clear.
Employees will likely struggle with a loss of autonomy as they head back to a space where their arrival times and computer screens are suddenly in full view of the boss. Being watched at work might increase performance at first, but it’s not a sustainable form of motivation for employees, says Roshni Raveendhran, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
For many African Americans brought up by single mothers, paying for expensive tuition can be hard to crack. For Diana Wilson, however, being the recipient of many scholarships changed the narrative for her and equipped her financially to study and travel. Her stellar academic performance from high school all through the University of Virginia paved way for her to get the financial aid that she needed. When a team from Google took some UVA students on a short visit to the company, Diana was one of them. This laid the foundation for her to apply to join the tech giant.
[UVA alumna] Simone Jordan's role at SheaMoisture exists at the intersection of passion and purpose. As the global head of community commerce, Jordan leads the multicultural beauty brand's social responsibility efforts.
[UVA alumna] Simone Jordan's role at SheaMoisture exists at the intersection of passion and purpose. As the global head of community commerce, Jordan leads the multicultural beauty brand's social responsibility efforts.
John Dunlap, a former executive at the San Diego Zoo, has been appointed park president for SeaWorld & Aquatica San Diego. Dunlap holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of Virginia as well as an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
“Joel has been an amazing community partner and supporter of our program,” Ryan Lightner, associate director of development at UVA Children’s, said in the release. “Year after year he and his crew members continue to go above and beyond to help the families of central Virginia.”
Crunching the data, UVA political analyst Larry Sabato concludes that, “Biden won the presidency by doing a bit better with white voters, especially those with a four-year degree, than Hillary Clinton, while doing worse than she did among voters of color. This was particularly true among Latinos, a group that shifted from a roughly 70%-30% Democratic margin in both the 2012 and 2016 two-party vote to a 63%-37% Democratic edge in 2020,” Sabato continued. “This Democratic drop jumps out in the results, not only in heavily Latino South Florida and South Texas, but other places across the country ...
Planning, testing, the safe movement of bodies from place to place: These were the sorts of problems Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr. could sink his teeth into, said Bethany A. Bell, who served on the Future Planning Group, which was assembled to navigate the pandemic. “South Carolina was really ahead of the curve,” said Bell, who recently took a position at the University of Virginia, where she is an associate professor of education and chair of the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy. “It got saliva-testing up quickly. His military logistics and those types of leadership skills, I...
The controversy has grown decidedly more civil since December. Both Young and Jaenisch say they received more intense criticism for their preprint than any studies in their careers, in part because some researchers worried it played into the hands of vaccine skeptics spreading false claims about the newly authorized mRNA vaccines. “If there ever was a preprint that should be deleted, it is this one! It was irresponsible to even put it up as a preprint, considering the complete lack of relevant evidence. This is now being used by some to spread doubts about the new vaccines,” Marie-Louise Hamma...