According to UVA’s Jennifer Doleac and the University of Oregon's Benjamin Hansen, BTB has backfired on black and Hispanic men, aged 25 to 34, who lack a college degree. This cohort was, according to Doleac and Hansen, actually "less likely to be employed under BTB policies." Doleac and Hansen speculate this is because employers who know they cannot check criminal histories will "guess who the offenders are" (probably by making assumptions about their names) and choose not to interview them.
(Co-written by Chris Hulleman, a research associate professor in UVA’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Foundations) Jaime attended the same undergraduate institution as both of the authors. When Larry Happel wrote about Jaime's story for Central College, Chris Hulleman immediately recognized the psychological factors at play in Jaime's journey. In this article, Hulleman and Happel come together to share Jaime's story and explain what it can teach us about the psychology of navigating life's transitions and challenges.
Wunlee Williams spent Mother's Day in the UVA Medical Center with her 12-year-old daughter, who has a kidney disorder. She said she is used to putting her daughter, as well as her four other children, before herself. But on Monday, she got the chance to be spoiled. Moxie Hair Lounge and Fuzzy's Taco Shop came together to give moms in the Children's Unit a little time of their own after spending long days and nights in the hospital.
Eat some yogurt. Over 80 percent of the body's serotonin, a brain chemical associated with happiness and satisfaction, is actually produced in your gut. This means that taking care of the good bacteria in your gut has a direct impact on how happy you feel. There's actual science to back up this mind-gut microbiome connection, according to a study done by the UVA Health System.
For all his colorful style, Judge Ellis’s rulings have a history of holding up. In more than three decades on the bench, he has been reversed by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals 8.3 percent of the time, compared with an average reversal rate for judges in the district of 14.3 percent, according to an analysis of Bloomberg Law data by UVA researchers.
Jim Ryan formally will be inaugurated as the University of Virginia’s ninth president on Oct. 19 with a ceremony on the Lawn. Ryan was named as Teresa A. Sullivan’s successor in September. Sullivan, the university’s first female president, will step down July 31, and Ryan will begin immediately. Originally, he was slated to start in October.
UVA and Piedmont Virginia Community College both recently added new media and digital humanities programs, expanding the reach of communications studies in the Charlottesville area.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Board has approved a projected budget of nearly $43.77 million for fiscal 2018-19. Because the General Assembly has not yet passed a state budget, the college based its projected state funding on the Senate version of the state budget.
No president has graduated from the UVA, according to Bestcolleges.com. Although Thomas Jefferson helped found the university. And James Madison and James Monroe were among the first people to serve on the university’s board. In 1900, vice president Alben Barkley graduated from the University of Virginia’s law school. Woodrow Wilson enrolled in the university’s law school, but dropped out.
Dozens of mothers spent their Monday morning in a one-of-a-kind salon at the UVA Children's Hospital. Employees say the mothers of pediatric patients need a reminder hospital staff cares for their well-being too.
(Commentary by Gerard Alexander, UVA professor of politics) I know many liberals, and two of them really are my best friends. Many liberals are very smart. But they are not as smart, or as persuasive, as they think. And a backlash against liberals – a backlash that most liberals don’t seem to realize they’re causing – is going to get President Trump re-elected.
UVA just received two exceptional donations to help more students take advantage of its stellar offerings. Both are targeted toward areas that will benefit not just students and the University but, more importantly, the citizens that students go on to serve.
For the team's leader, Jon Belke of Norfolk, the end of the program is a bizarre thought to him. When he originally volunteered, Belke said 10 months seemed like forever, but being with a team that gets along has made time fly by. A recent UVA graduate who studied American studies, Belke said experiencing the places he learned about in school has been wonderful.
Andrew Sheaff, a UVA assistant swimming and diving coach, agrees that acoustics might help coaches identify previously overlooked nuances in swimming technique. “I’m always looking for ways to identify the characteristics for fast swimming,” he says.
Finally, some people might argue that neither life satisfaction, positive emotions nor absence of depression are enough for happiness. Instead, something more is required: One has to experience one’s life as meaningful. But when Shigehiro Oishi of UVA and Ed Diener of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign compared 132 different countries based on whether people felt that their life has an important purpose or meaning, African countries including Togo and Senegal were at the top of the ranking, while the U.S. and Finland were far behind.
Brandon Garrett, a professor at the UVA School of Law, was skeptical that the obligation to hand over information to the defense during the pretrial process known as discovery was causing that much more work.
In addition to weakening the Affordable Care Act, Trump has withdrawn from the Paris Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He's tried to impose a ban on transgender military service. He's cancelled Obama's executive orders and slashed Obama-crafted regulations, especially pertaining to the environment. Presidential history expert Barbara Perry says Trump's actions are both normal and extraordinary. "I do think that it's part and parcel of presidents wanting to roll back those of the opposing party, those precedents that they think are wrong," she said.
National analysts see the race as Brown’s to lose. “Brown starts this race as a favorite,” said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. “If you look at statewide races, Brown is clearly the Democrat who’s likeliest to win. If Brown doesn’t win, that probably means the statewide ticket is going down in flames.”
“One of the things we’re going to be looking for in this primary season is whether Democrats opt to go for more ideological candidates and also if they opt to vote against the candidates who are generally supported by what you consider to be the party establishment,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “I think you’ve got a pretty clean case of the dynamic here in Nebraska-2.”
The House plans would rely both on accepting billions of dollars in federal money to expand Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands of uninsured Virginians and a hospital tax to pay the state’s share of the costs, freeing the savings to be spent on other core services. “This is something the hospitals asked for,” said House Appropriations Chairman Chris Jones, R-Suffolk. “The assessment will cover the state’s cost of the Medicaid expansion population.” That wasn’t the intention of the three private hospital systems. They were looking for a way to pay for costs that Virginia already helps d...