Officials from the International Rescue Committee said Charlottesville has shown itself to be a welcoming city when it comes to aiding refugees. However, some have voiced concerns about safety. UVA students like Sabreena Abedin are working to ease those concerns, $2 at a time.
UVA wants to hear from the public about the design of a memorial to enslaved laborers.
In the study, led by UVA researchers, doctors recruited 303 people ages 21 to 65 over the Internet. Half were randomly assigned to receive education and advice on insomnia – a digital “placebo,” of sorts, though an active one, in that such advice often helps people sleep better. The other half got a six-week focused online therapy product, called SHUTi.
Community members are invited to take part in a Friday evening discussion on the University of Virginia’s planned memorial for enslaved laborers.
The Times reviews UVA professor Jack Hamilton’s “Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination,” saying it “offers a long-overdue look at the racial dynamics of rock in the 1960s.”
His proposal would allow parents earning less than $250,000 individually or $500,000 jointly to deduct the average cost of child and elder care from their income taxes. In a nod to social conservatives, he said parents who stayed home with children would also get the child-care tax deduction. “The idea here is letting the family choose how the money is spent,” said Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
Charlottesville Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy is not the first public figure to find himself embroiled in a social media firestorm. UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidyanathan said the person at the center of the storm hopes the public will consider the sum of their actions and their present-day selves. "The real challenge for anybody caught in this situation is asking to be judged based on how we treat other people and asking to be judged based on what we believe now," he said.
“If Republicans tinker with the [Affordable Care Act] and/or Medicare, they may have to pay a political price,” said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Any changes to the ACA and/or Medicare that reduce coverage will generate tons of criticism and attack ads from Democrats – criticisms that very well could be effective in the 2018 midterm (elections) and beyond.”
Robert Fatton, a Haitian-born UVA politics professor, said he wasn't surprised that losing political factions are claiming vote-rigging again. “This is the traditional way of dealing with defeat in Haiti,'' he said.
Projections for enrollment at a public school system are conducted by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
(Commentary by Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) “How much are you reminded of Germany in the 1930s?” It’s a question I get a lot these days. But in order to fully understand the danger of this political moment, we need to look not overseas, but to our own history.
From being a dominant player on the parquet court at the University of Virginia to now overseeing one of the nation’s preeminent intercollegiate athletic conferences, Val Ackerman truly has risen to the pinnacle at every level of sports.
A multi-university study underway examines how “smart homes” might be used to help seniors age in place. A software system developed by the University of Virginia, called Piloteur, will collect data from the homes.
In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last week, Pieter Dorrestein, a biochemist at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues asked: Can scientists — or maybe one day police investigators — profile a person chemically, based on the objects he or she possesses? They started with your phone, which you touch on average, about 2,617 times a day. “This is not different in kind from what happens all the time in criminal investigation, except that it purports to do it more systematically, more scientifically, and potentially more r...
Larry Sabato, director of the Institute for Politics at the University of Virginia, said "the chances of this election being overturned are near zero, if not zero." "The Greens have obvious motives," Sabato said. "They are raising big money and getting a golden mail list of donors, too. Maybe this enables the Greens from getting a share of the blame for Clinton's defeat; Stein cost Clinton Michigan, and maybe Wisconsin."
“Liners with components of natural clay are costly and time-consuming to process and install,” says Craig Benson, dean of engineering at the University of Virginia. “But with a prefabricated geosynthetic liner, you roll it out and it’s in place. Its performance is predictable, as the manufacturing process provides more control, where with natural clay there is moistening, compacting and other processes that contribute to variability.”
"Trump is utterly incorrect regarding claims that there are ... millions of illegal votes and that there's massive voter fraud," says Geoffrey Skelley, who edits the political newsletter Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
As of January 2009, no mentions were made of any deaths due to the use of Vicks VapoRub (though opinions were mixed on its safety). According to Dr. Diane Pappas, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, this study confirms that Vicks VapoRub, too, "should not be used in children under the age of two."
The Danish National Research Foundation had awarded roughly $4.2 million to a literary-studies project led by an English professor at University of Virginia, Rita Felski. This money would help Felski assemble a team of scholars to investigate the social uses of literature. For Felski, the windfall validates a nearly decade-long push to change the way literature and other art forms are studied.
Lauren C. Jackson, a 2013 graduate of Pulaski Academy in Little Rock and a senior at the University of Virginia, is one of 32 American students to be named last weekend as a 2017 Rhodes Scholar to the University of Oxford in England.