(Commentary) A recent study from the University of Virginia updated those findings, adding that as the female representation of officers within an area increases, so do the reporting rates of violent crimes against women in the area. Female officers make women in the community feel safer to come forward.
According to a new study, the eating pattern in the United States has worsened in the past 50 years. “With highly processed foods readily and cheaply available at any time of the day or night,” Ali Guler, a professor of biology at the University of Virginia, said. “Many of these foods are high in sugars, carbohydrates, and calories, which makes for an unhealthy diet when consumed regularly over many years.”
Two grad students convinced the University of Virginia to save and store its library's card catalog, arguing that researchers and historians can use the cards.
Even if legal scholars believe that past precedent could potentially clear the way for Trump’s strike, some express discomfort with both the underlying law and the real-world results. “Many of the legal issues here are contested,” UVA law professor Ashley Deeks said. “Which legal framework even applies to the killing? What does it mean for a threat to be imminent? Is that even the proper test for today?”
Enrollment management is going to become increasingly unpredictable. Gregory Roberts, UVA’s dean of undergraduate admission, projects that “schools will be using their waitlist more than in years past and it will be increasingly difficult to predict yield in a highly competitive and intense admission environment.”
(Video) UVA’s Campbell Hall is slated to become a historic Virginia landmark. However, this building contains much less history than the others on the register.
UVA sociologist Bradford Wilcox has demonstrated that people in the upper class often still enter into, and benefit from, monogamous marriages, but that marriage norms have seriously deteriorated among the poor, with serious consequences for single parents and children: “Children born to working-class mothers are almost three times as likely to be born outside of wedlock, compared with children born to middle- and upper-class mothers. Children born to poor mothers are about five times as likely to be born out of wedlock.”
“One way to assess the situation regarding executive pay is to construct a ratio of CEO pay to that of the average corporate employee,” said George S. Geis, William S. Potter Professor of Law at the UVA School of Law. “For example, if the CEO earns $1 million at Firm X, while the average worker earns just $50,000, then the compensation ratio is 20x – or it’s 20 times as great.”
Junk foods can lead to weight gain not simply because they are high in calories, but because they interrupt with people’s sleep patterns.
The University of Virginia is in the midst of a major library renovation – a project that posed a unique problem – what to do with the old card catalog. Four million cards had been in storage since UVA switched to an electronic system, but some scholars were not ready to toss the paper record.
It’s time to start thinking about tax season, and a local partnership wants to help low-income families get their taxes done correctly. Among the partners of Cville Tax Aid are the Madison House CASH Program, UVA Human Resources and the UVA Medical Center.
In 1819, Thomas Jefferson sketched plans for a planetarium on the dome of UVA’s Rotunda, but as costs for the new university grew, the idea for a star-covered dome was dropped. Now, 200 years later, Jefferson’s dream has been realized and the public is invited to see the stars inside.
UVA’s 2019 football season was one to remember for many reasons. The Cavaliers won the ACC Coastal Division crown by ending a 15-year losing streak to Virginia Tech. History was made there alone, being that it was the first time that UVA had won the division since the ACC went to a two-division format.
Some of Virginia’s best and brightest students converged on the UVA grounds to put their brains, and robots, to the test. UVA hosted the Charlottesville regional qualifier for the First Tech Challenge. Middle and high schoolers build robots to complete tasks and go head-to-head with other teams.
Inside UVA’s Slaughter Recreation Center, 33 middle- and high-school teams put their robots to the test, each hoping to qualify for the FIRST Tech Challenge state championship in February.
Mildred Robinson, UVA’s Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law, whose scholarship and community service have emphasized equity, will retire this spring after almost 35 years on the faculty.
On Jan. 1, Twitter flooded with resolutions to drink more water. But will more conscious hydration really make for a more productive 2020? “There’s no evidence that a little bit of dehydration really impacts anybody’s performance,” said Dr. Mitchell Rosner, a UVA kidney specialist who studies overhydration in athletes.
Conservatives have pushed one complaint above all other: The media is biased against them because it is overwhelmingly staffed by liberal journalists. A new study from a team that includes UVA’s John Holbein provides the strongest evidence ever that they’re half-right – but only the least important half.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, a lecturer at UVA’s Darden School of Business) With the phase-one trade deal between the U.S. and China about to be signed, a key threat hanging over the global economy has diminished. After 18 months of wrangling about Chinese purchases of U.S. goods and opening of its markets, investors are hopeful that the current pause in the trade war will be maintained. But many trade experts are wary.