Among fathers who never completed high school, 40 percent live apart from their children, versus 7 percent for fathers who graduated from college. Some 44 percent of black fathers live apart from their children, versus 21 percent of white fathers, the poll found. Key reasons are probably both economic and cultural, says Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia who directs a research program called the National Marriage Project.
Divorce statistics, which have followed a steady downward slope since their 1980 peak, reveal another interesting trend: According to a 2010 study by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, only 11 percent of college-educated Americans divorce within the first 10 years today, compared with almost 37 percent for the rest of the population.
They are the increasing number of biomedical companies being created, researched, financed and grown in Central Virginia, many an offshoot of research and development being conducted in laboratories of the University of Virginia.
The leading institutions across the world teaching Sufi Literature include the department of religious studies at University of North Carolina, Persian Sufi Studies at George Washington University, Columbia University, Yale department of religious studies, McGill University, University of California at Santa Barbra, University of Georgia, Carolina-Duke-Emory Institute, University of Texas at Austin and University of Virginia; just to name a few.
In still another venture, Chromalloy is partnered with Rolls-Royce as one of several founding industry members developing the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Crosspointe, Virginia. The research center, a public/private effort involving the University of Virginia, Virginia State University and Virginia Tech, is intended to advance propulsion design and bridge the gap between university research and industry product development.
Every summer, the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business hosts LEAD, a month long leadership camp for some of the highest achieving minority high school seniors from across the country. For the second year, the program joined with Albemarle County Schools to allow some of central Virginia's highest achieving juniors to attend for a day. ... The vision of the Escalante camp is to let local rising juniors network and create relationships with rising seniors.
A program hosted by the University of Virginia is teaching Afghan women about the nuts and bolts of American democracy, in the hopes that they’ll bolster democracy in their home country. ... “I think right now [the creation of functioning democracy] is going to have to start with kind of the middle, those people like we have now. … The top of the government is not always square, and I think the people [at] the very bottom, are just trying to get by,” said Daman Irby, director of operations at UVa’s Center for Politics.
When Gov. Bob McDonnell ceremonially signed the Top Jobs Act last week, he was dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s on a state policy that’s been welcomed by the Charlottesville area’s growing institutions of higher learning. “The university shares the governor’s enthusiasm for increasing the number of Virginians receiving college degrees,” said University of Virginia spokeswoman Carol Wood. The law, which bears the prodigious name Preparing for the Top Jobs of the 21st Century: The Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011, calls for an additi...
The Cavaliers put runners in scoring position all day Sunday. In the seventh inning, they finally brought one home. That, combined with stellar pitching from Danny Hultzen and Tyler Wilson, was enough to take down Cal 4-1 in an opening-round game at the College World Series.
John D'earth teaches trumpet, jazz and improvisation, is co-founder of the Free Bridge Quintet in the McIntire Department of Music. He composed “Ephemera,” a jazz composition based on poems by his late brother for the Youth Orchestra of Central Virginia.
John D’earth has written music and performed with some of the biggest names in the entertainment field. ... Tonight, however, the composer and trumpeter is jazzed about his latest musical partners. D’earth is presenting the world premiere of his new composition, “Ephemera,” at the Paramount Theater. It is a much-anticipated piece that he wrote for the Youth Orchestras of Central Virginia. D’earth was awarded a grant to write the piece for performance. The music is his, the lyrics are his brother’s and the stars are member of the Youth Orchestras.[D'earth tea...
Her website, Changing Commerce, reflects her research, work, and publications towards global sustainability through new technologies. And now, with the release of her new textbook, "Sustainability, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship," Flat World Knowledge, 2011, she can affect a new way of doing business through our future leaders, students of sustainability-focused MBA programs. ... An engaging teaching style has earned Andy accolades from the MBA students at two of the top-ranked business schools in the world: currently at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, ...
John Brenkus
A New York Times bestselling author and co-creator of ESPN's "Sport Science"
The Sport Scientist comes home to James Madison High School
Fairfax Times | June 17
James L. Evans
Alum and columnist for the Anniston Star in Anniston, Ala.
James L. Evans: The two worlds of faith
Anniston Star | June 17
Mustapha Farrakhan Jr.
A May graduate, former Virginia guard and NBA draft hopeful
Louis Farrakhan’s grandson is a draft prospect
Yahoo Sports (blog) | June 16
Brittany Altomare
A rising third-year student and defending champion of the Women's Eastern Amateur golf tournament
James Bauman
A sports psychologist
Healing process
ESPN | June 17
Dewey Cornell
Clinical psychologist and Curry School professor
The Decline of Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies
AdmissionsQuest (blog) | June 17
John Harrison
A law professor
Mueller's extension moves to Senate floor
The Hill | June 16
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Senators Split on How to Extend FBI Director's Term
The BLT: Blog of Legal Times (blog) | June 16
Ervin L. Jordan Jr
Associate professor at the library
City announces Juneteenth activities
Charlottesville Daily Progress | June 16
Rodney Kibler
An instructor in the Institute for Cli...
If Bennett continues to pile up the players he covets -- from a specific pool of skilled players who can adapt to playing his stingy defense -- then the Cavs will fulfill his rebuilding blueprint and return to prominence in the ACC. ... "But there is no shortcut," Bennett said. "We're trying to build it like we did at Wisconsin and Washington State. We want to get two or three good classes in a row and right now we've got a potential top 10 class [in 2012].
In a well-documented paper in The Virginia News Letter from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, Jill Hanken who is staff attorney at the Virginia Poverty Law Center argues very persuasively as the title of her article implies that “The Affordable Care Act Holds Great Promise for Virginia.”
As the rich get richer and the poor fall further behind, levels of happiness and satisfaction drop, but only among people with modest and lower incomes, a new study shows. The finding holds true for about 60 percent of Americans, according to research that will be published in the journal Psychological Science. "Income disparity has grown a lot in the U.S., especially since the 1980s. With that, we've seen a marked drop in life satisfaction and happiness," said Shigehiro Oishi, a psychologist at the University of Virginia.