For the last year and a half, the Lambda Zeta chapter from the University of Virginia has been collecting business attire. They donated the clothes to Young Men with Great Minds, a club at AHS, created to provide academic support for minority students. They also gave tips on how to dress to impress, which students can appreciate.
According to most national sources, the estimate is that about 20 million people now have health coverage who would have been uninsured as a result of the ACA, said Carolyn Long Engelhard, UVA’s associate director for health policy.
The garden updates were a joint endeavor of the National Park Service and the University of Virginia School of Architecture, whose students designed the new layout, arbor, table and benches.
Looking ahead to Sunday's debate, UVA political analyst Geoffrey Skelley, said that for Trump "being better prepared would be a good thing. A major point for him is that voters just don't see him as presidential. Donald Trump has to counter expectations as to how he'd act as president."
A UVA study found that about one in 10 Virginia schoolchildren missed 18 or more days of school in the 2014-2015 school year, offering the first statewide look at a problem that research has shown can derail a child's education.
An $11 million, six-year experiment in social and emotional learning – developed by Dr. Patrick Tolan, who directs UVA’s Youth Nex Center to Promote Effective Youth Development – aims to teach students compassion, empathy and resilience.
UVA psychology professor Daniel Willingham summed up the findings neatly for regular folks. “What should you tell your elderly father who worries that he’s thinking a little slower?” he asks. “Staying mentally active is always a good idea, and if they enjoy the games, playing them can’t hurt. But simple tasks that make you smarter remain a hope, not a reality.”
Three decades ago, then-Attorney General Edwin Meese III initiated a spirited national debate about the proper application of our most important governing document – the U.S. Constitution. His goal was to persuade judges, even Supreme Court judges, to agree they should respect the text of the Constitution and the intent of the founders who wrote it. “There is a sense that a sea change is upon us,” commented A.E. Dick Howard, a UVA law professor, and “Mr. Meese is willing to lead the charge.”
Hillary Clinton’s selection of Kaine “absolutely” has been a key factor in her solid lead in his native Virginia, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. And while Trump was already well-positioned to carry Indiana, Pence’s presence on the GOP ticket should widen Mr. Trump’s margin of victory by several percentage points, Sabato said.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said that Pence's steadiness and Kaine's rocky performance would not change the direction of the campaign. "Tim Kaine started out too aggressively, and interrupted too often, but he got his points across about Donald Trump. Pence came across as the calm, considered one, but he really didn't try much to change Trump's image," Sabato said. "How could he? It wouldn't have won many converts. People know Trump too well for that."
The Trans-Siberian Railway is one of the most impressive engineering feats in modern history. It was also the cause of a major war, which turned into one of Russia’s most humiliating defeats: the Russo-Japanese War starting in 1904. “In the face of Russia’s strong need for Manchuria, the years from 1901 to 1903 were filled on both sides with a growing sense of impending doom,” UVA political scientist Dale Copeland writes. “It was becoming increasingly clear that finding any negotiated solution to the impasse would be difficult.”
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, UVA Center for Politics: "Stylistically, Kaine immediately came off as a little too aggressive. He was basically mimicking Joe Biden from four years ago against Paul Ryan. Biden is a little more natural on the attack and I think his performance was better. However, Pence's performance may look worse in hindsight than it did in the moment. He frequently denied that Trump had said things that Trump has very obviously said, and in many ways Pence split with Trump on important issues: for instance, Pence was significantly more haw...
Fall can be a time when your child makes new friends. But every so often, one of the new friends appears to come from a family wealthier than yours, and your child’s reports from school or the new job start to fill with reports of this person’s masses of possessions or the places they have traveled. And in response, your child may start feeling envious, inadequate, or both. Your child may look for ways to seem just as well off as the new pal. In large part, they are seeking a sense of belonging, says Allison Pugh, an associate professor of sociology at UVA.
Bone-deep exhaustion from lifting, minding, tending and worrying, coupled with the ache of not wanting to miss a moment, can separate caregivers from the healing sleep they need to walk a profound path. But on a recent morning, as gentle notes rippled from the strings of Kate Tamarkin’s harp, a patient’s weary mother closed her eyes and slept. “Music can have a profound effect on the caregivers, as well as patients,” Tamarkin said. Tamarkin, a certified music practitioner and music director of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia, coordinates the M...
UVA physicists have developed a new technique that combines magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear medicine.
In 1996, Australian farmers reported weeds that were highly resistant to the herbicide Round-Up. Now, 20 years later, a UVA economist says American farmers may also be finding that weeds can fight back. Federico Ciliberto and two of his colleagues studied the chemicals used by 5,000 farmers and discovered they were using more herbicides – specifically, products other than Round-Up.
(Co-written by Vikram Jaswal, a UVA associate professor of psychology) How to educate children with disabilities is one of the most difficult conversations in education. One couple makes the case for their autistic daughter's inclusion: opportunity and access.
As exposure to community violence increases for adolescent men of color, symptoms of depression subside and violent behaviors increase, according to new research published in the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology by UVA researchers and colleagues at two Chicago-area universities.
A polarizing issue has struck a little closer to home with the University of Virginia men’s basketball team posting a photo of members kneeling on a UVA court. It would be inconsistent of us – all of us – to revere Thomas Jefferson on the one hand and on the other to condemn students at his university for exercising the principles he laid down.
The results of the first statewide survey since last week's presidential debate are in. Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump 42 to 35 percent in Virginia, according to a new survey by the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University. “The debate win for her probably energized her base a bit more. Democrats had something to be excited about when perhaps they had been struggling,” said Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics.