Nearly 6 million children under the age of 18 have food allergies – one in 13, or roughly two in every classroom. That’s why UVA has developed a special training program for teachers. It’s being tested in and around Charlottesville and could soon be offered nationwide.
The issue makes strange bedfellows. Both Gary Gallagher, a prominent UVA history professor, and Richard Spencer, a prominent white supremacist, advocated leaving Charlottesville’s Lee statue in place. To Gallagher, it tells an important story about the time in which it was erected – although he told a city commission last year that he’d like to see other statuary in the park that tells other stories.
The CFPB will have an extra opponent May 24 when it faces off against PHH Mortgage Corp. in a major test of its constitutionality: the U.S. Justice Department. More such challenges are likely in enforcement actions until the issue is resolved “in an authoritative ruling” by the D.C. Circuit or Supreme Court, said Aditya Bamzai, an associate professor at the UVA School of Law.
Not all Christians believe that Jesus was buried and rose again at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In the 19th century, doubts crept in about Constantine's site, said Robert Wilken, a professor of Christian history at the University of Virginia. "What it really boils down to is that Protestants came to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the 19th century and were appalled that it was an Orthodox church," Wilken said. The icons and incense were apparently too much for Protestants more austere sensibilities.
Melody Barnes, a Richmond native and former director of President Barack Obama’s domestic policy council, will be a guest speaker for this year’s TEDxRVA event, “Change,” on June 23. Barnes is also co-founder of the public policy and domestic strategy firm MB2 (MB Squared) Solutions and a senior fellow in presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
Political scientist Larry Sabato, a baby boomer who was deeply affected by JFK's assassination as a 10-year-old, told me, "He is frozen in time at age 46. ...There are only a few moments in anybody's life that everybody remembers, and that was one of them." Kennedy was more than a martyr who was killed in his prime.
(By Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology) The brain beats the internet when it comes to context and speed, but the internet clobbers the brain when it comes to volume. You can find any fact on the internet, even alternative ones. Your brain, in contrast, is limited, so how should we choose what to learn?
UVA researchers have discovered that our guts have something in common with pendulum clocks and metronomes, and it could lead to new treatments for disease.
The price of being a successful woman can be all too real. In 2013, psychologists from the University of Florida and the University of Virginia teamed to carry out five experiments on how men in heterosexual relationships are impacted by their female partner’s successes. In one experiment, 284 male participants took an online test that asked them to think about an instance where their partner was successful in a specific area, either intellectually or socially. Immediately after, they were asked to take an implicit self-esteem test. The results showed that whatever kind of success the woman ha...
Joseph McGill, founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, started his project in 2010 with a simple idea: grab a sleeping bag and travel the country, sleeping where slaves slept. In October, McGill plans to spend the night at the University of Virginia while partaking in a three-day symposium on the effects of slavery.
Given his eclectic interests as a UVA undergrad, Tim Estes thought it would be useful to have an online system that would recommend events on the busy campus based on a user's networks and activities. Student Council declined to fund his proposal, but Estes discovered his intellectual passion: using math to discover meaning and connections in language.
A UVA study has shown that if a young teen can argue effectively with his or her parents they are more likely to resist peer pressure to use drugs or alcohol later in adolescence.
From Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who captured only eight hours of conversation on tape, to Nixon, who vacuumed up roughly 3,400 hours of recorded material, the history of presidential taping, analyzed and published by scholars at the UVA’s Miller Center, provides an extraordinary window into the workings of the White House during some of the most consequential periods in American history.
UVA students walked the lawn one last time Saturday before going off into the working world. More than 6,000 graduates received diplomas from the University over the weekend.
“It’s a wrap” for the 2016-’17 academic year at the University of Virginia. By Sunday afternoon, UVA was able to add more than 6000 new names to its ranks of alumni.
John P. “Jack” Ackerly III, one of Virginia’s foremost Civil War preservationists, died Thursday at his Richmond home. He was 82. An attorney who served as rector of the University of Virginia from 1998 to 2003, Ackerly loved Virginia history – especially its role in the Civil War – and devoted years to trying to save the state’s battlefields from development.
The "summer melt" is a phenomenon based on the statistic that 10 to 40 percent of incoming first-year college students don't actually report for classes in the fall. At the top end of those numbers are lower-income students. Texting has been a part of a years-long strategy on the part of many school systems to combat the melt. Two UVA professors wrote about this "low-touch intervention" in a frequently cited 2014 study that built on years of previous work on the subject.
LaVahn Hoh, a retired UVA drama professor who long taught the nation’s only course on circus history, said he vividly remembers waking at dawn as a boy and seeing the arriving circus train’s headlights break through the fog in his hometown of Appleton, Wis. These days, he wonders, “Maybe the word ‘circus’ has to change to something else. Maybe the whole definition has to change.”
UVA students and graduates who are leaving the Charlottesville area are helping the community by giving away some of their belongings.
UVA awarded degrees to almost 6,700 graduates this weekend during Final Exercises. None of UVA’s graduates could be called “typical,” but three outstanding students break the stereotypes associated with UVA students.