UVA Provost Thomas Katsouleas, termed the project as a single largest, multidisciplinary study by the university.
One hypothesis was whether a good elementary school helped the preschool boost last longer. "That's a very compelling premise, and it makes some intuitive sense," said Daphna Bassok, a UVA associate professor of education and public policy and the lead author of the study.
Currently owned by UVA (thanks to the generosity of its previous owner, John Kluge), Morven is a Georgian-Federal house that dates from 1820.
A Connecticut native, Brennan graduated with highest distinction from UVA, where she earned a bachelor's degree in foreign affairs and Middle East studies with a minor in Arabic.
"The bill prohibits the provision of certain services and advertisements of those services, and the Bible is neither of those things." But what if the Bible were part of some sort of sexual orientation conversion program? Douglas Laycock at the University of Virginia said "no judge is that stupid" to view the Bible so narrowly. "The Bible is a vast collection of books," Laycock said. "Only a few brief passages say anything about same-sex sexual conduct, and those don't say anything about sexual orientation, or about changing it."
One study found that caregiving mates can exhibit signs of burnout identical to those found in nursing staff at psychiatric hospitals. The fallout is a high divorce rate, says UVA psychiatrist Dr. Anita H. Clayton. Research suggests mental disorders are linked to an increase in divorce ranging from 20 percent (in the case of minor phobias) to 80 percent (when addiction or major depression are factors).
In 2012, Klobuchar carried all but two of Minnesota’s 87 counties, and every single congressional district, even the 6th District, then the territory of arch-conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann, with 58 percent. Kyle Kondik, an analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics – which also rates Klobuchar’s race as a safe Democratic hold – said Klobuchar’s current strength is something like a self-fulfilling prophecy. “Sometimes strength breeds strength, in that, if you show yourself to be electorally strong, that dissuades strong Republicans from running against you,” he said.
Maybe they were joking, or maybe they didn’t even realize what they said could be offensive. But it was, and you want them to know it. Take a minute to consider your history together, says Mary Gentile, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. The goal is to put the offending moment in context. Is this an isolated incident that you can let go? Or is it part of a pattern?
The UVA Health System developed and implemented a special recovery program for thoracic surgery patients is getting them home sooner while decreasing both health care costs and opioid use.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist has donated an archive of material to the University of Virginia. Patrick Bruce Oliphant, who was born in Australia in 1935, moved to the United States in 1964 to become the political cartoonist for The Denver Post. His work became nationally syndicated that year, and international syndication followed in 1965. He won a Pulitzer Prize for a Feb. 1, 1966, cartoon titled “They Won’t Get Us to the Conference Table … Will They?” that depicted Ho Chi Minh, the president of North Vietnam, carrying a dead Viet Cong soldier.
Blue Ridge PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) is the winner of the 2018 Community Service Award from the UVA School of Nursing’s Beta Kappa chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International.
"Not many nonprofits manage to outcomes, and among those that do, few do it well." So said McKinsey & Co. consultants Lynn Taliento, Jonathan Law, and Laura Callanan in their introduction to “Leap of Reason.” It’s not that the leaders of charities don’t care enough or aren’t smart. What seems to be missing, they say, is a lack of resolve to take on the hard work that change requires, insufficient resources to invest in management capacity, and the absence of tools to do so effectively. To better understand its impact, the organization has also commissioned an external evaluation led by sch...
UVA computer scientist Madhur Behl discusses the future of autonomous vehicles. How much testing is needed? Will machine learning be integral? What about human trust?
The study measured the number of crimes reported to the FBI and Department of Education and compared them to the total number of students on campus and severity of crime. According to the study, UVA is No. 4 on the list of the top 10 safest schools.
New Kent teen Juan Mikel-Jones recently shared his heart transplant success story with the world. Juan, along with his father Woody Jones and transplant surgeon James Gangemi from the UVA Medical Center, discussed his story and recovery on Facebook live in honor of Donate Life Month.
At the annual Conservative Political Action Convention in February, a bright pink booth stood out in a sea of red, white and blue. Fashionably dressed women lined up to take their pictures in front of a sign: “This is what a conservative looks like.” The booth belonged to the Network of Enlightened Women, which was started in 2004 by Karin Agness Lips as a conservative book club at UVA. The expanded organization now has chapters at 40 campuses across the United States.
Researchers have found that in past trade negotiations, presidents typically made an extra effort to protect swing states from foreign competition. Trade economists Xiangjun Ma of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing and John McLaren of UVA even put a number on it, estimating that past presidents valued the welfare of swing-state voters about 1.3 times as much as those in solidly partisan regions.
Throughout the fall, Anne Coughlin, a professor of criminal law and procedure, and Rebecca Kimmel, a third-year law student, have worked with students and faculty to advocate for sanctions against Jason Kessler on a different avenue: prosecution for burning objects on Aug. 11, the eve of Unite the Right.
Barbara A. Spellman, a UVA professor of psychology and law and former editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science, signed the letter, but also called for Sternberg’s termination as editor on her own. “So, APS, before we get back together, I want you to fire Sternberg as editor of Perspectives,” she wrote on her blog, saying that when editors publish in their own journals, it should be to explain something, not compete with principal articles and self-cite.
After the Columbine massacre in 1999, Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, explained why such incidents don’t necessarily result in new laws. “The Columbine shootings have energized the gun-control debate, and moreover, they have given the emotional edge to the gun-control advocates,” Sabato told the Denver Post. “However, an edge in a debate is not an edge in Congress or the state legislatures.”