A new smartphone app is helping UVA students make friends while walking around UVA Grounds. WABU (Walking Buddies) was created by Victor Rodriguez during his first year at UVA. The free smartphone app syncs users' Facebook accounts, and helps them connect to others who are walking in the same area on UVA Grounds.
The immediate reaction from conservative media, however, was mixed—or least not as uniformly critical of Trump as you might expect, given he was just bested on the national stage by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, both of whom refused to negotiate over border funding while parts of the government were shuttered. While the Ann Coulters and Mike Cernovichs of the world were quick to blast the president for being a political coward, others like Bill O’Reilly instead focused on the short-term nature of the bill, which will give Trump the chance to hold the government hostage again in three weeks i...
A Charlottesville art exhibit showcasing under-represented stories in African-American history is coming to a close. Artists and organizers at The Bridge said despite the exhibits closure, the spirit of the art will live on. Lisa Jevack, assistant to director at Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia stated, “It's a huge responsibility to make sure it’s getting out there and it’s getting to the right people and that its accurate.”
Trump remains overwhelmingly popular among Republicans, according to polling data, and Schultz has proposed an agenda largely in line with moderate Democrats. He is at odds with many of the candidates currently in the race or expected to enter on issues like Medicare for all. Schultz has criticized Democratic proposals as unrealistic. "Has @ HowardSchultz ever heard the old saying, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions?'" tweeted Larry Sabato, a top political analyst and the director of UVA’s Center for Politics. "Someone should explain it to him. His slogan might as well be, 'Re-ele...
A few weeks ago I cited Atlas Van Line data suggesting that more people continued in 2017 to move out of Virginia than moved in. Now Hamilton Lombard at the University of Virginia’s Demographic Research Group has confirmed the trend using Internal Revenue Service data. Total population continued to grow last year thanks to natural population increase, but the overall rate slowed due to continued out-migration, Lombard reported in the StatChat blog.
Other reactions to the Schultz 2020 buzz are also negative, and they come after the entrepreneur said Sunday that he’s seriously considering running for president as a “centrist independent.” Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, was among those blasting the former Starbucks boss: “If Howard Schultz were ‘seriously thinking’ about an independent run for president, he would have abandoned the idea already. I've had undergrad students with a more compelling platform than Schultz offered tonight.”
The University of Virginia has joined 37 other hospitals in suing over a new federal rule that cuts some Medicare rates for outpatient hospital sites to match rates at doctor’s offices.
Teenagers who have strong relationships with people of the same gender are more likely to have satisfying romantic relationships in later life, a new study finds. Researchers have known that the quality of an adult’s romantic life is closely tied to both physical and mental health in adolescence. Now, researchers have found that the friendship skills teenagers learn with their peers of the same gender were the strongest predictor of romantic satisfaction in their late 20s and beyond. “In spite of the emphasis teens put on adolescent romantic relationships, they turn out not to be the most impo...
Researchers from the University of Virginia and James Madison University discovered that "same-gender teenage friendships are something of a testing ground for future romantic partnerships." Lead author Joseph P. Allen, a UVA psychology professor, said the interpersonal skills friendships teach us have a pretty huge impact. "It's the skills learned in friendships with peers of the same gender — skills such as stability, assertiveness, intimacy, and social competence — that correspond most closely to the skills needed for success in adult romantic relationships."
The University of Virginia says it had more than 25,000 early action applicants, the most in its history. The Office of Undergraduate Admission had an early acceptance rate of 26 percent. Dean of Admissions Greg Roberts has told the Cavalier Daily the size of the early action pool is incredible this year, and reviewing the applications was a challenge.
In a speech Thursday at the University of Virginia, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe called gerrymandered congressional districts one of the “worst things to happen to democracy.” “I support all 50 states having independent, nonpartisan commissions draw these lines,” McAuliffe said.
If the government hopes to modernize its information technology, it will need good systems engineers. Now the Mitre Corporation is teaming up with UVA to offer federal employees an accelerated path to a master’s degree in systems engineering.
The University of Virginia spent an estimated $2 million to pay for projects typically funded by government grants during the partial federal shutdown, according to a spokesman.
For the last five years, efforts to assess and "shame" selective colleges based on their enrollment of low-income students have worked – perhaps too well, two top economists of higher education assert in a new paper. The study was conducted by Caroline Hoxby and Sarah Turner, economists at Stanford University and the University of Virginia, respectively.
Top for CSR: University of Virginia: Darden. This is the first time that corporate social responsibility has been a criterion in the ranking. Darden is top for including a substantial amount of teaching on the subject in its core curriculum. [Darden ranks No. 23 in the world overall.]
"There is an important difference between the right and the left in the Church," John Portmann, a professor of religion at the University of Virginia, said. "So you do have young people flocking to the Church, but these kids want the Church to go on in very traditional ways. And then, on the other hand, you have Catholics [who are much more progressive] like Lady Gaga."
Three-fourths, or 38 states, must ratify an amendment for it to become part of the U.S. Constitution. However, the Constitution does not give a specific time period for when an amendment must be ratified, according to James Monroe Professor of Law Saikrishna Prakash at the University of Virginia School of Law. "There was some requirement that proposal and ratification occur relatively close in time to each other," Prakash said.
Three-fourths, or 38 states, must ratify an amendment for it to become part of the U.S. Constitution. However, the Constitution does not give a specific time period for when an amendment must be ratified, according to James Monroe Professor of Law Saikrishna Prakash at the University of Virginia School of Law. "There was some requirement that proposal and ratification occur relatively close in time to each other," Prakash said.
Stanford University professor Caroline Hoxby and UVA professor Sarah Turner have found that the schools that have made the most progress in increasing their numbers of Pell-eligible students appear to be doing so partly at the expense of other low-income students — specifically, those whose families make just a few too many dollars to qualify for Pell grants.
Christopher Ruhm, an economist at the University of Virginia, has a few theories as to why mortality rates drop during a recession. There are fewer job-related accidents, and people drive less to work, which improves overall air quality. People also have less money to spend on alcohol and cigarettes, as well as more time for sleep and recreation.