The current funding debate is taking place amid a precipitous plunge in cases, which in Virginia have dropped to levels not seen since August of 2021, according to a recent report by the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. Hospitalizations have also dropped dramatically, and while a handful of districts are currently experiencing a slow growth in cases, there’s hope that the state may avoid another spike thanks to warming weather and an increase in both vaccine and so-called natural immunity from prior infections with the omicron variant, which is also protective against the grow...
Every year the College Board, the organization that oversees Advanced Placement and SAT exams, publishes an alarming graph. It depicts college tuition soaring like a rocket into the sky, although the trajectory has leveled off in recent years. The implicit message is clear: college has become increasingly unaffordable, forcing too many young adults to take on stratospheric debts. But a pair of academic economists – including Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia – are flipping this message on its head. They argue that higher tuition prices have actually made college cheaper for many lower...
The University of Virginia has sent out its regular decision admissions decisions, and this year's admissions pool broke records. UVA received more than 50,000 applications this year, compared to 48,000 last year.
UVA officials are lifting the requirement for students, staff and anyone visiting Grounds to cover the faces in the face of COVID-19. “Effective March 28, we will move forward with the plan we discussed last week to make masks optional while in class,” school administrators wrote Friday in an email to the UVA community. “As conditions have grown safer, we believe this will offer students and faculty the best possible classroom experience for the remainder of this academic year.”
University of Virginia students’ vote to ditch a long tradition of immediate expulsion for violators of its Honor Code is a change supporters say proves the once-staid institution continues to change for the better but others say trashes a deeply held core value.
(By Thomas Bateman, Bank of America Eminent Scholar at the McIntire School of Commerce) Consider the challenges of your job, your career, and climate change. What do they have in common, psychologically? In each case, success requires high-functioning human agency. In the psychological sense, agency entails a category of beliefs, a mindset. More profoundly, genuine agency includes the strategies and actions that accomplish what we want and bring us what we need.
(Commentary by UVA President Jim Ryan and Executive Vice President and Provost Ian Baucom) Much has been said recently about “cancel culture” in higher education. Close to our home at the University of Virginia, the Virginia governor delivered a speech earlier this month decrying this trend. And one of our undergraduate students recently published an editorial on the same topic and the related pressure to self-censor. One could question some of their assertions, but both have a point. The tendency not simply to disagree with others but to disparage their character or motives is all too common ...
In a community as diverse and thoughtful as ours, sometimes the most important work of education happens not in the classroom.
(Commentary by Katherine Churchill, Ph.D. candidate in English) What made me a medievalist? I don’t know–I was fifteen when I stepped into the thirteenth-century Parisian chapel Sainte-Chapelle, feeling my breath catch inside the kaleidoscope of stained glass. Later, something flickered when my teacher read a section of the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” out loud during my senior year of high school, and the Middle English made me go still with all its strange yet slightly familiar sounds. Surely, I was already hooked by the time I saw the vaulted ceiling of the Wells Cathedral in Engl...
Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman, a professor of education at the University of Virginia, said many teachers reached the end of their ropes this year when students returned to campus from two years of virtual learning. “Students have come to school with more needs than ever having experienced stress, trauma, and inconsistent conditions due to the pandemic,” Ms. Rimm-Kaufman said. “Plus, students have learning gaps. It’s hard to teach addition and subtraction of fractions if students didn’t learn about fractions last year.” She said trust between teachers and families has further broken down in recent batt...
(Video) 7 News has been following the controversy over admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School. A judge says the policy is discriminatory and has ruled that the school can no longer use it . University of Virginia law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson broke it all down for us as part of our “Crisis In The Classroom” series.
Dr. Costi Sifri is the University of Virginia Medical Center’s epidemiologist. “In the United States, we’re seeing an increased amount of BA2, the sort of sister variant of the omicron strain,” Sifri said Thursday. Sifri says the latest COVID-19 variant, BA2, is not hitting Charlottesville hard right now. “It seems that it has a complex system. It’s very similar to omicron, which is largely, you know, what we saw in January, an upper respiratory tract infection for many people,” the doctor said.
(Blog) I was grateful to get some soulful answers to my question last week from a timely conversation on my leadership Podcast, “When It Mattered,” with Nobel Peace laureate Jerry White, who suffered a tragedy that would have felled most people to the ground and kept them there. … These days, White is teaching a popular class on religion, violence and strategy at the University of Virginia titled, “How to Stop Killing in the Name of God.”
In fact, “the current government in Poland, which came to power in 2015, did so by their exploitation of popular fears that Poland might become a massive waypoint for refugees coming from the Middle East,” former U.S. ambassador to Poland Stephen D. Mull told The Daily 202. Mull is now vice provost for global affairs at the University of Virginia.
“It’s not a coincidence that Blackburn took the lead on some of the toughest questioning … and on the questioning about gender dynamics,” Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia, told The 19th. “They were questions that were obviously going to garner a lot of media attention … and a way for [Republicans] to communicate that they are not just a party of men and have learned from their mistakes.”
“These hearings kind of turned into something of a staging ground on the issues the parties are hoping to run on,” says J. Miles Coleman, associate editor at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “On the Democratic side, they’re talking about the historic nature of the nomination, basically saying, ‘Stick with us. We’re going to build a government that looks like America,’” Coleman says. “On the Republican side, there’s been this kind of accusation of Brown Jackson being soft on crime,” Coleman says, noting that the issue worked well for George H.W. Bush when he was running for pre...
Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.) asked Risa Goluboff, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, whether she believes Jackson “has overstepped the role of the court and has engaged in a jurisprudence that gets outside her lane as a judge,” as some GOP critics have claimed. “It is absolutely my view that she does not get outside her lane,” Goluboff responded. “She, I think, comes down in cases on both sides, depending on what she sees in the facts and how she applies precedents. I think she has been assiduous and conscientious.”
Risa Goluboff, a Democratic witness and dean of the University of Virginia law school who, like Jackson, clerked for the retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, told the panel Jackson based her legal conclusions on existing authorities. “It is absolutely my view that she does not get outside her lane,” Goluboff said. “She is, I think, quite consistent and very committed to the text and to precedent.”
(By Anastasia Brodovskaya, postdoctoral fellow in neurology, and Jaideep Kapur, professor of neuroscience and neurology) So why do seizures often cause memory loss? We are neurology researchers who study the mechanisms behind how seizures affect the brain. Our brain-mapping study found that seizures affect the same circuits of the brain responsible for memory formation.