Significant bias has contributed to lower classroom observation scores for thousands of teachers in Tennessee over the last decade, a study published in late December found. Even when controlling for differences in professional qualification and student testing performance, male and African American teachers were rated lower than their female and white colleagues. The paper from Brendan Bartenan of UVA and Jason Grissom of Vanderbilt University is one of the first thorough examinations of classroom observation across an entire state.
Howard Blumenthal, a television and media producer who created the PBS series “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?,” has turned his attention to rethinking education for the 21st century and visited the Community Lab School last week. Blumenthal is partnering with the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development on the 21st Century Learning Project.
Everyone is talking about the HBO hit “Succession,” but how many people can say they took a law school course on it? A handful of lucky students at the University of Virginia School of Law, that’s who. The class was a short one-credit class offered before the spring semester started, focusing on scenarios portrayed on the show dealing with corporate law. … The Princeton Review’s Top Law School rankings for 2022 are out. University of Virginia School of Law took the top spot for Best Classroom Experience and Best Quality of Life. In fact, UVA’s School of Law takes the top spot on three lists an...
“You need a little bit of a sneer in there,” says Adrienne Wood, a UVA assistant professor of psychology who studies social signals like smiles and laughter. Researchers have identified three main smile subtypes, each with its own morphology and social functions: reward smiles, affiliation smiles and dominance smiles. Unlike the other two, a dominant smile is asymmetrical. “In other words,” Wood says, “it’s crooked.”
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project) It’s now marriage proposal season – the time between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day when nearly 40% of couples decide to get engaged. The holidays tend to put people in mind of marriage. So what’s the best age to put a ring on it?
Undergraduate admissions at the University of Virginia are seeing another record-breaking year. More than 50,000 UVA hopefuls submitted applications, up 6% from last year. Admissions say this increase is due to multiple reasons like the return of in-person tours and making SAT test scores optional.
Depending on your age, you may have heard the old question, “How are you going to keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen Paire (Paris)?” When it comes to Wichita native [and UVA alumna] Micah Watson, we offer a more interesting, but less perplexing question: Are we going to get Micah back to Wichita after the rest of the world sees just how talented she is? Well at least for a weekend, the talented playwright, filmmaker and screenwriter will return home for the Wichita debut of her awarding play “Canaan.” However, after that, the sky isn't even the limit for this talented young fi...
(Posdcast) Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears had to overcome multiple systemic barriers including racism and misogyny, but a personal setback – divorce – is something that profoundly shaped her. In this episode of Bouncing Back, Justice Sears shares with Rebecca Glatzer how she came to terms with her divorce and to accept that she could not control—or fix—everything in her life. Ms. Sears earned an advanced degree in appellate judicial studies from the UVA School of Law.
Dr. Danny Avula, the director of Richmond and Henrico County’s health districts and the state’s former COVID vaccine coordinator, has accepted Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s appointment to become commissioner of the state’s Department of Social Services, the health districts announced Friday. Avula received degrees in medicine and public health from Virginia Commonwealth University and Johns Hopkins University, and he completed his undergraduate education at the University of Virginia.
Ever since he was an assistant editor at the Mobile Press-Register, Steve Joynt has been a Mardi Gras connoisseur. “The idea of starting an annual Mardi Gras magazine rolled around in my head for a few years,” said Joynt, who runs the website with his wife, Nancy, a fellow UVA graduate. “By Jan. 6, 2012, I had the first Mobile Mask website up and running. I ‘covered’ Mardi Gras 2012, shooting as many photos as I could.”
A University of Virginia police officer has a big competition this weekend. Officer Percy Tassin is in Williamsburg for a body sculpting competition. He says it is a natural competition, which means no supplements. This is his fifth one.
J. Miles Coleman from the UVA Center for Politics said the special masters did a good job of drawing the lines. "Joe Biden won the state by 10 points, he won seven of the 11 districts on the new map," said Coleman. Governor Glenn Youngkin, who narrowly won the Virginia governor's race, would have carried six of the 11 new congressional districts.
Friday is National Wear Red Day to raise awareness for the No. 1 killer in women: heart disease. Heart disease and stroke cause one in every three deaths in women each year. But when people think of women and common diseases, most think of breast cancer. That's why Dr. Mike Valentine from UVA Health says this day is so important. "Making women and the entire population aware of the risk factors and the treatment that they'll need to prevent death and morbidity from heart attack and stroke is really critical,” he said.
Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on Saras D. Sarasvathy from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
On the court documents, six attorneys from two separate law firms are listed that include J. Abraham Sutherland, who has been making a name for himself in cryptocurrency circles recently and also serves as an adviser to the Proof of Stake Alliance and as an adjunct professor to the University of Virginia School of Law.
Sensing a bit of weakness, some Trump critics have become even more vocal in their attempts to carve out an alternative path for the GOP — including Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, and Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor who helped coach Trump during the 2020 presidential debates. They believe that voters will be turning to moderate Republican candidates in the 2022 midterms — including the Republican primaries — and that will turn the political winds against Trump. Larry Sabato, the director of the non-partisan University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Trum...
Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, says growth in the region was slower than in the previous decade. “Most of the population in the city of Richmond grew more slowly than the metro area did during the 2000s,” he says. “The slower growth in Richmond’s urban core is in line with what we saw from census numbers all over Virginia, and to a certain extent nationally. Virginia had a really big slowdown in the population growth during the 2010s.”
“A small incident or miscalculation could unleash a sudden and unpredictable political confrontation,” said Fatton, who teaches political science at the University of Virginia. “As the saying goes, the center does not hold and things are falling apart. In short, the crisis continues with no clear outcome.”
Patrick Jackson, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at the University of Virginia, said medical researchers use mRNA technology to inject patients with instructions to create their own viral protein cell and develop an immunity to the viral cell. He said the mRNA technology in the HIV vaccine can produce the viral protein similar to how the body could create the actual HIV viral protein, allowing researchers to easily and quickly manipulate the mRNA itself to create antibodies. Jackson said he expects to see more vaccines with mRN...
Amy J. Mathers, an associate professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, offered an analogy: When cooking an egg, you cannot undo it. Tests that researchers heated to extreme temperatures were less sensitive to positive samples. But, Mathers added, in the case of freezing, evidence suggests the tests are still usable at room temperature.