The Virginia Kindergarten Readiness Program at the University of Virginia estimated that as many as 34% of Virginia children enter kindergarten unprepared in at least one critical learning domain, which include literacy, mathematics, social skills and self-regulation.
In the summer of 1998, a group of psychologists left their labs at Yale University and headed to the beach. They pitched a tent and began running experiments. Among them was Brian Nosek, a graduate student interested in the subconscious biases that affect our social interactions. For Nosek, now a UVA professor of psychology and executive director of the Center for Open Science, it was his first taste of team science and a lesson in the power of collaboration.
Bob Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education, and fellow researchers followed 1,300 kids from birth through high school and examined trends in school attendance. They found missing school, starting in kindergarten, could become a habit.
Podcast featuring Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies.
UVA soccer stars Joe Bell, Daryl Dike and Daniel Steedman all are leaving school early for the pros according to a press release. Dike and Steedman are both sophomores. Bell is a junior.
Meredith Sutton, an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, told researchers at the AGU meeting that microplastics are expected to be found downstream of urban centers. However, they are increasingly found downstream of agricultural areas as well. Sutton and her colleagues suspected that fertilizers made from sludge at wastewater treatment facilities might be a source, so they conducted a controlled experiment in Nebraska. After rainfall, they found that much higher concentrations of microplastics (mainly fragments) ran into streams from fields treated with sludge-based fertilizer...
Her House bill 1488 would amend the Public Procurement Act to clarify that public agencies can set minimum wage and labor standards for contracted workers. She notes the University of Virginia has struggled with this ambiguity in the state code for years.
Margaret Riley, a professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia, said Sentara might not have been able to avoid penalty altogether by self-reporting its breach, but it could have reduced it.
(Commentary by Syaru Shirley Lin, Compton Visiting Professor at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) As Taiwanese voters prepare to go to the polls Saturday to elect their next president, they are choosing between two candidates who take fundamentally different positions on an issue whose implications go far beyond Taiwan: how to preserve a country’s democracy and freedom while maintaining economic relations with a neighboring giant that wants to subsume it.
Results from safety crash tests have a direct impact on how cars are designed to make them safer. But if safety tests prioritize adult men, what does that mean for women? A recent study from the University of Virginia revealed that a seat-belt-wearing woman is 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a frontal car crash than a man.
The West Baltimore-based accelerator offers a four-month program to help build startups driving purpose and profits. The sixth cohort, which returns with the theme of “Urban Resilience and Smart Cities,” is scheduled to run from March to June. Up to 10 companies will be selected. “We’re also really excited about the new curriculum updates we’ve made with our partners at the Darden School of the University of Virginia and our plan to use different forms of financing, like revenue-based redeemable equity, that will help us extend and improve our program for more ent...
The University of Virginia’s School of Nursing announced a $20 million gift from Joanne and Bill Conway to support the enrollment of over 1,000 students in its programs over the next decade, according to a press release from UVA's Office of University Communications.
The University of Virginia’s School of Nursing announced Thursday that it has received its largest-ever gift. The $20 million donation from Washington, D.C.-area billionaire philanthropist William E. “Bill” Conway Jr. and his wife Joanne will support the enrollment of more than 1,000 nursing students during the next 10 years.
A new semester launched Wednesday for UVA’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, which offers educational opportunities and outings for adults in the community. Meadows Presbyterian Church hosted “A Taste of OLLI,” giving people a chance to become familiar with course offerings and meet members and instructors.
UVA Health is using technology to help people in rural areas cope with all the stress that comes with cancer.
“The book is fictional," said Kenneth J. Hughes, historian with UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. "There’s no real reason to believe it. That said, Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is fictional too. And it’s great. And ‘The Irishman’ is a great movie too.”
There are several other types of mental shortcuts people take, according to Ben Castleman, a UVA associate professor of education and public policy. People put off making choices, which may mean missing deadlines for school applications. One strategy, Castleman said, is to “rely on some kind of social norm or social reference. So, especially when we face uncertain decisions, it’s pretty common to say, ‘Well, what do other people I know do? What do people like me do?’”
Among those making the biggest jumps from last year in the annual rankings of education researchers are UVA’s Sarah Turner. Other UVA scholars listed in the top 200 include Carol Tomlinson, Daniel Willingham, Robert Pianta, Josipa Roksa, Benjamin Castleman, James Wycoff and Daphna Bassok.
(Commentary by Ken Hughes, research specialist at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) Once, not so long ago, congressional Republicans were impeachment’s constitutional stalwarts. They stood up for the House of Representatives’ “sole power of impeachment,” a power granted in the Constitution, including the right to subpoena witnesses and evidence. Even when the president under investigation was a Republican. Even when the Republican political base threatened to turn against them. But that was when the president was Richard Nixon, not Donald Trump.
"We forecast moderate to high levels of active transmission of influenza to continue for most U.S. states for the next couple of weeks," according to a report from researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia who work in a research partnership with AccuWeather.