Albemarle County residents will soon be deciding on a bond referendum for public schools, and one of the largest concentrations of voters is being tapped to weigh in. Thousands of UVA students will be voting on that referendum, as well as the next president and 5th District congressional seat.
UVA’s Miller Center will host Charlottesville resident Khizr Khan on Nov. 1 for a public conversation. Khan, whose son, U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, was killed in 2004 while in the line of duty in Iraq, is best known for remarks he made at the Democratic National Convention.
One of the greatest basketball players ever to come out of Cheltenham High, a star player at the University of Pennsylvania, head basketball coach at Penn and Rutgers, and athletic director of national prominence at UVA – just some of the reasons Craig Littlepage has been honored by the Montgomery County Coaches Hall of Fame.
A little dab of sugar in the morning might be a wake-up call. Research at the University of Virginia found that lemonade laced with sugar enhanced learning and memory in a group of college students.
(Co-written by Catherine Bradshaw, professor and associate dean at the Curry School of Education.) “Dummy." "Dog." "Fat pig." "Loser." If you heard these words aimed at one child by another, you might step in and explain that we shouldn't talk to each other that way. Now, think about the fact that during this toxic election season, American children have listened to exactly these threats and insults hurled from the mouths of adults vying for the most powerful position in our country.
The former UVA star football players and longtime Lynchburg businessman was actually more like a load of buckshot, his diverse talents capable of stinging opponents in multiple ways.
Dittmar has raised twice as much money as Garrett, leading UVA’s Center for Politics – which is located in the 5th District – to move the voting area from “likely Republican” to the more competitive “leans Republican” category. “Garrett is still the favorite, but it’s certainly within the realm of possibility that he could lose,” said Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst at the center.
Teachers’ impressions are backed by a University of Virginia study that found that kindergarten has become more like the first grade of the late 1990s.
The new recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics draws on new research that supports skin-to-skin care for newborn infants; addresses the use of bedside and in-bed sleepers; and adds to recommendations on how to create a safe sleep environment. “Parents should never place the baby on a sofa, couch, or cushioned chair, either alone or sleeping with another person. We know that these surfaces are extremely hazardous,” said lead author Rachel Moon of the University of Virginia.
Students pursuing studies in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) fields statewide will continue to have access to some of the best and brightest minds at NASA, thanks to an agreement between Virginia’s Community Colleges and the Virginia Space Grant Consortium. UVA is among the Space Grant affiliate members.
UVA is honoring the late Julian Bond, with an endowed professorship in his name.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Sunday received a special Swanson Courage Award for Civil Rights, in association with the Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP, at an annual event to celebrate the fight by attorney Gregory Hayes Swanson to desegregate the University of Virginia.
UVA pediatrician Rachel Moon is the lead author of an American Academy of Pediatrics paper that warns parents that couches and chairs are unsafe places to breastfeed their babies when they are sleepy.
The true break came last year, when members of UVA’s Innocence Project discovered the slide containing the vaginal swab at the school’s Department of Pathology.
“Abortion, a topic that will change zero minds,” said Geoffrey Skelley, of UVA’s Center for Politics, among other comments.
Last week, noted UVA political scientist Larry Sabato told Patch he wasn’t surprised about reports the Trump campaign was planning to pull back its presence in the state.
Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor, said: “One thing’s for sure – this is no way to try to win an election. If Clinton wins by a wide margin, that alone dampens any effort by Trump to cry foul. It would be laughed out of the public square.”
Speaking to the commission’s seven other charges, as well as the overarching goal of telling the city’s “complete racial history,” UVA history professor John Mason said it’s important to keep the statue in the city to assure the narrative of white supremacy, systemic inequality and segregation – all of which is reflected in the Lee statue and other Confederate memorials – isn’t forgotten.
It’s rare for someone to stay in the same job for 40 years, but Rob Vaughn is a rare person. He’s been with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities since graduate school, building it into the biggest organization of its kind.
(By Bonnie Gordon, associate professor of music) The parallels between the two Dons are too obvious to even state, but maybe hearing them, even as the melodies sweep us away, can remind us that some of the nastiest parts of our past are still present.