Finding a doctoral adviser who isn’t just a great scientist but also a skilled mentor is kind of a crapshoot. Yet while having a trainee-focused principal investigator, or PI, in the natural sciences is certainly beneficial, a new study says it’s not essential to the development of scientific skills. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, effectively compares the primary mentor-mentee model of scientific training, or the “cognitive apprenticeship,” with what’s referred to as a “cascading mentorship” model. And the authors -- including lead author Dav...
A local school division is one of six across Virginia that is getting funding to improve mental health services for students. Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane announced on Thursday that the Virginia Department of Education has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant. According to a release, the funds were awarded under the U.S. Department of Education's Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program and will support VDOE and the University of Virginia in developing a statewide training and professional development network to increase the quantity and quality of ...
St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish, staffed by Dominican Friars and bordered on three sides by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, was established to serve the spiritual needs of UVA students who self-identify as Catholic, as well as UVA faculty, administration and friends. The Friars are in the process of fundraising for and building a new church, a traditional structure that “will serve as a catalyst for a deeper commitment to our Faith, among both regular and occasional participants in the Eucharist and other liturgies, as well as a compelling invitation to all, especially the ...
Dayna Bowen Matthew wants to get universities back to their original purpose, as she sees it, and the University of Virginia officially is on board. On Friday, UVA announced a new center called the Democracy Initiative Center for the Redress of Inequity Through Community-Engaged Scholarship – or, the Equity Center. The new center aims to repair economic and racial inequity by changing the way university researchers operate through putting their resources at the service of community questions and needs.
Tony Bennett – the 19-time Grammy winner, not the Virginia basketball coach – will perform at an outdoor concert Saturday for members of the UVA community to mark the beginning of the public phase of the school's $5 billion capital campaign.
Two UVA students plan to appeal after the dismissal of their lawsuit against the U.S. government that claimed a federal law restricting sales of handguns to people younger than 21 is unconstitutional.
As science increasingly becomes disputed, Dr. James Zimring, professor of pathology at the University of Virginia, explores in his new book how much people should trust what they read, learn and observe in our natural world.
The University of Virginia has 1,650 ultra high net worth alumni, with 84% deemed “self-made.” This percentage ties UVA with the University of Chicago as the institution with the highest percentage of self-made alumni.
“The idea is to hold schools accountable, but give them more control… so they can influence the policies you’re holding them accountable for,” said Beth Schueler, a UVA professor who has studied similar efforts in Massachusetts.
A study from the University of Virginia sheds light on women who obsess about a man. The study suggests that the obsession itself may actually fuel their fire. The study was published in Psychology Science and is based on an experiment conducted with female undergraduates. The researchers of this study, Erin R. Whitchurch, Timothy D. Wilson, and Daniel T. Gilbert, state that women find men more appealing if the men might like them, rather than men who definitely do. However, the women had to feel like there was some interest in the guy keeping them on pins and needles.
General Assembly, a company that teaches tech skills, is teaming up with an online-program-management company called Noodle Partners to develop boot camps with college partners. Their first deal is with UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Boulder’s Columbine Elementary and Lafayette’s Alicia Sanchez Elementary are putting in place strategies to improve achievement that were developed with an outside consultant. The principals at the two schools, along with district leaders, are working with UVA’s Partnership for Leaders in Education program.
Boulder’s Columbine Elementary and Lafayette’s Alicia Sanchez Elementary are putting in place strategies to improve achievement that were developed with an outside consultant. The principals at the two schools, along with district leaders, are working with UVA’s Partnership for Leaders in Education program.
Diverse workplaces are valuable in all manner of ways, so it’s perhaps no surprise that MIT research finds that the more diverse a workplace is, the more profitable it is. A second study, from UVA’s Darden School of Business, reminds us that this diversity should go beyond the traditional measures of gender, race and religion, and also take account of class diversity.
Americans increasingly see people with schizophrenia or major depression as a threat not only to themselves, but to others, new research reveals. The results, compiled by sociologists from Indiana University and Vanderbilt University and a psychologist from the University of Virginia, were published this week in the journal Health Affairs.
The committee was created a few months prior to the Fair Pay to Play Act, but the bill is forcing the NCAA and other states to take an expedited look at the rights of players. “I’d be lying if I [said I] had a great handle on it,” Virginia coach Tony Bennett said. “I think it needs to be investigated further. I’m all for the student-athletes having more opportunities to receive funding, whether it’s through the name and likeness, if it can be fairly equitable and doesn’t affect the game and other sports and all that in a bad way.”
The UVA Cavaliers will have a whole new look this season. Virginia kicks off the season at Syracuse on Nov. 6, the Hoos first-ever ACC game to start a season.
“Through evapotranspiration, forests recycle water into the atmosphere, so that agricultural areas downwind of large tracts of continuous forest get more rainfall than areas downwind of deforested patches,” says Deborah Lawrence, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. “Deforestation in the Amazon is likely to affect agriculture elsewhere in the Americas. Massive amounts of carbon would be lost to the atmosphere as trees succumb to drought and fire – all CO2 stored over centuries or millennia would go up in smoke.”
The model uses a “train the trainer” approach, so every year schools select teams to attend sessions on RULER. Those teams then go back and teach other educators at their school. While many social-emotional learning programs exist, the majority focus on the “social” side rather than the “emotional” one, said Sara Rimm-Kaufman, a professor at the University of Virginia who studies SEL programs. But RULER, she said, is one of the exceptions, with a strong focus on emotions.
(Video) Young patients at the UVA Children's Hospital have something new to take their minds off their treatments. Carter Myers Automotive Valley Dealership representatives dropped off a truckload of toys and activities on Tuesday. The donation is the result of September’s Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.