"When a student makes a threat, that's really a red flag that they're frustrated, upset, something has gone wrong," said UVA professor Dewey Cornell. He's been studying school violence for more than two decades. He believes the standard campus approach to threatening behavior – zero tolerance and expulsion or suspension – is counterproductive.
One UVA professor who’s been studying gun violence for the past 30 years stands by funding more mental health resources, but also adds that schools are actually one of the safest places to send your child. "Anyone who is afraid to send their child to school should be 10 times as afraid to let their child go to a restaurant," says Dewey Cornell, a professor in UVA's Curry School of Education.
A UVA professor said the key to preventing another school shooting is recognizing the warning signs beforehand. Parents and teachers gathered at the Carver Recreation Center on Monday to discuss measures that should be taken to ensure safety in schools. Curry School of Education professor Dewey Cornell said the answer is not arming teachers, but rather recognizing the warning signs of violence.
Applicants for the interim position on the Charlottesville School Board got the chance to speak about their qualifications and goals on Monday. “I'd like to see the achievement gap continue to close,” said Selena Cozart, a UVA professor. “I know the school system has done several things to address that and I'd like to continue to promote those efforts within the system and the community.”
"On the Media" takes a look at what exactly went on with Cambridge Analytica and whether we shouldn't be focusing more on Facebook. Guests included Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, on past regulatory efforts to reign in Facebook.
Doctors at UVA are using 3-D technology to prepare for difficult surgeries and train resident doctors.
The UVA Medical Center will soon be testing a drug on humans for the first time to help reduce or prevent lung injuries after transplant surgery.
Doctors at UVA have started testing a drug that could save the lives of lung transplant recipients.
In making their determinations, evaluators study that which they are judging in a sequence, one student, athlete or paper after another, and apply standardized criteria. This approach is supposed to afford equal treatment to all. But research just published in Psychological Science by Kieran O’Connor and Amar Cheema of the University of Virginia suggests that it is actually biased in favor of those who are judged late in the process. O’Connor and Cheema wondered whether making repeated evaluations led judges to feel that their decisions became easier and, if so, whether this increased fluency ...
The UVA Health System has begun human testing of a drug they hope will one day save the lives of many lung transplant recipients, whose current five-year survival rate is just 50 percent.
The University of Michigan landed the No .1 spot. University of North Carolina and the University of California-Berkeley are the runners-up in this year's academic standings, with the University of Virginia and the University of California-Los Angeles rounding out the top five.
The University of Texas System on Monday released a database of its graduates’ earnings, a first-of-its-kind tool using Census Bureau data that its officials say is designed both to help students and to show the benefits of investing in higher education. Colleges and universities with the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science -- a consortium of high-profile institutions, such as Emory University, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Virginia -- have also expressed interest, McEntarfer said.
(Commentary) Responsible behavior isn't just associated with upward mobility and life satisfaction among individuals. In a new peer-reviewed study, scholars from the Urban Institute, Cornell University, Brigham Young University, and the University of Virginia found that, all other things being held equal, states with higher-than-average marriage rates among working-aged adults had higher-than-average economic performance.
Gov. Ralph Northam came to listen during a Monday afternoon visit to UVA’s College at Wise. The governor heard about the college’s accomplishments, along with aspirations and concerns from students and college officials.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam returned to the campus of UVA’s College at Wise on Monday to learn more about the college’s efforts to expand – which he strongly supported during the campaign.
Student teams from George Mason University, George Washington University, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech participated in the competition, which tasked competitors with developing potential solutions to address veteran suicides. The five-person team from UVA, which consisted entirely of undergraduate students, ultimately emerged as the 2018 University Data Challenge winner.
Ten days after his season ended in the most unpredictable manner, UVA men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett was still trying to make sense of it.
As the scandal unfurled over the last seven days, Facebook’s lackluster response has highlighted a fundamental challenge for the company: how can it condemn the practice on which its business model depends? “This is the story we have been waiting for so people will pay attention not just to Facebook, but the entire surveillance economy,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies.
"We should be shocked about this, but we shouldn't be surprised," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship. "Scholars who have been watching Facebook have been raising alarms about this since 2010, but nobody was listening. Facebook encouraged it; this was Facebook policy."’
During the winter of 2017, after multiple meetings, including one with the renowned mind-set researcher Chris Hulleman, a UVA professor and director of the Motivate Lab there, Gallin began to test a run of tweaks. He started by gently encouraging students not to leave blank any classroom worksheet problems, especially the hardest ones. That didn’t really work.