This year two economists – Caroline M. Hoxby of Stanford University and Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia– published a working paper that looks at how colleges define their success in serving low-income students, and suggests a new way to measure an individual institution’s goals. Current methods often focus on students who qualify for Pell Grants, which could mean less support for students who are just above that threshold. The researchers stressed that no one is saying colleges shouldn’t do more for low-income students. Rather, they said, how colleges are going about it ma...
It doesn’t really matter which Republican candidate takes on Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in November 2020, as long as is isn’t Roy Moore. If the GOP can avoid a candidate with the kind of baggage Moore had, Jones seems destined to lose his bid to win a full term representing Alabama in the Senate. Jones is the most vulnerable Senate Democrat facing re-election in 2020, and most think he's as good as gone. The University of Virginia's Larry Sabato rates the race as a toss-up, but admitted "that probably is being kind to Jones."
Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, said that poor showings in New Hampshire in 2020 could be a significant hurdle for Warren and Sanders, especially as the primary contest moves into South Carolina and Nevada. “I think it’d be reasonable to look at it like a home game for them,” Kondik said.
This year’s county elections come as the locality’s population sits just a few hundred shy of the 100,000 mark, according to estimates recently released by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Policy. Montgomery County is estimated to have grown by about 5 percent since the last census in 2010, and projections put the county on pace to surpass Roanoke by 2030 to become Southwest Virginia’s largest locality by population.
In a diverse group of American children between the ages of 2 and 19, nearly one in five will be obese, and if all the kids are Hispanic, that number rises to more than one in four. That’s bad news, according to Anna Maria Siega-Riz, associate dean at UVA’s School of Nursing, because she says, "Once you’re obese, it’s really hard to reverse it."
Epidemiologist Joellen Schildkraut, a UVA professor of public health, has said that studies to date on talc powder and cancer – including some of her own – don’t meet scientific criteria for causality. Part of the problem, she said, is that media coverage and publicity that question the safety of baby powder have skewed people's perceptions and memories.
As the Watergate scandal unfolded, Nixon’s Republican allies raised questions about the partisan leanings of investigators and sought to undermine some of their conclusions. One thing they didn’t do: Investigate the investigators. Nixon’s allies in Congress levied some of the same criticism against Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox that Republicans use today about Mueller, said Ken Hughes, a Watergate expert at UVA’s Miller Center.
(Commentary by Anne J. Verbiscer, professor of astronomy) The discovery of Hippocamp is intriguing because of the moon’s relationship to Proteus and the role that both objects might have had in the history of Neptune’s inner system. Hippocamp, the smallest known inner moon of Neptune, orbits just 12,000 km inside the orbit of Proteus, the planet’s largest inner moon.
The UVA School of Engineering is at the forefront of developing a solution to make the world’s jet engines more efficient. A multidisciplinary team is seeking to identify and develop thermoelectric materials that can harness excess energy -- and save millions of dollars in the process.
(Video) UVA students are hoping to change the conversation surrounding the craft beer industry.
"This is the most intensely religious and most intensely sectarian symbol that there is," says Douglas Laycock, a leading scholar on religious liberty and law professor at the University of Virginia and University of Texas-Austin. As for the difficult church-state divide, he says, "All the justices, left to right, have a problem trying to draw lines."
UVA cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham sparked a lively Twitter conversation about the purpose of school with his tweet about whether schools should teach kids how to do their laundry.
The discovery is a stark reminder that there is much more to be found in our own backyard, with implications for our understanding of worlds around other stars in our galaxy. “I think people have the impression that we know everything there is to know about the moons of Jupiter, the moons of Saturn, the moons of Uranus and the moons of Neptune – but we don’t really,” UVA astronomer Anne Verbiscer said. “We haven’t found everything.”
Sanders surprised a lot of political observers with his strong challenge of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 2016. But he is expected to have a more difficult time separating himself from the large group of Democratic candidates this time around. “This Democratic nomination contest does not have a clear favorite at this point,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, at the UVA Center for Politics.
A.D. Carson, professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia, will be at Snider Recital Hall on Monday with his program “This is the Next Time: Reflections on Resistance Through Rhymes and Revolutions.” A flier for the free event calls it “a unique and high energy mix of rap and scholarship.” An article in a University of Virginia publication said his tracks attracted tens of thousands of YouTube viewers and SoundCloud listeners and ultimately caught the attention of UVA music faculty. Carson was hired as an assistant professor of hip-hop and the global South in spring 2017.
More black Virginians in a new poll say their governor and lieutenant governor should stay in office rather than leave, despite politicians’ widespread calls for their resignation over a racist photo and sexual-assault allegations. Residents are “just not sure what to think because this is unprecedented,” said Larry Sabato, who directs the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “They are clearly waiting and seeing.”
A new UVA Center for Politics poll indicates that only 21 percent of Virginians surveyed think Gov. Ralph Northam should be impeached. Respondents were less clear cut on whether Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax should be impeached: 28 percent were in favor and 33 percent against, with another 33 percent unsure. 35 percent—a plurality—said he should resign.
One research group is exploring the use of cognitive behavioral therapy, a widely used form of psychotherapy, to ease aggression, irritability and anxiety in people with autism. A pilot study of CBT for anxiety in 10 autistic adolescents yielded promising results, said lead investigator Kevin Pelphrey, a UVA professor of neurology.
Ambitious and naive. That’s how UVA alumnus Rick Middleton describes himself 33 years ago, when he founded the Southern Environmental Law Center, a small nonprofit that would protect the air, the water, and the special places of the southeastern United States.
A free speech fallout from the failed Unite the Right rally took center stage on Tuesday at the University of Virginia. The panel discussion called “The Cost of Free Speech: A View from Charlottesville” brought together public safety experts and free speech scholars.