“To think that kids’ experiences in the early grades changed so much over such a short period of time is really surprising to us,” said Daphna Bassok, a UVA associate professor of education. Bassok said she believes the shift in kindergarten is rooted in a “trickling down of accountability pressures,” with schools under more demands to ready children for standardized tests that are used to evaluate teachers and schools.
The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences is planning major reforms to the general education curriculum – the mandatory coursework students need to take to graduate.
A University of Virginia committee recently endorsed a master plan for Brandon Avenue that initially calls for a new 300-bed dormitory and a new student health center.
To help compensate for a major decline in state funding, the schools sought freedom from the state bureaucracy’s clawing procedures. That impulse, which found broad favor in the Virginia General Assembly, formed the basis of new management agreements enacted 10 years ago for UVA and three other state universities. Those agreements effectively set the table for the creation of UVA’s Strategic Investment Fund.
UVA doctors along with the Charlottesville Fire Department and City Parks and Recreation gathered to start the discussion at the Senior Center. "One-third of adults over the age of 65 falls," said Diamond Walton, the injury prevention coordinator for the UVA Trauma Program.
Dr. John C. Herr, the enterprising UVA reproductive biologist who invented the home male fertility test and led the search for a male contraceptive, died suddenly on Saturday afternoon. Herr, 68, died of a heart attack just hours after participating in a 10K run for charity at Meriwether Lewis Elementary School in Albemarle County.
With more than half the amount already raised, Virginia Commonwealth University set a goal of $750 million for its largest fundraising campaign yet. And the University of Virginia next summer is expected to begin the silent phase of a multibillion-dollar effort for its third century that will be tied to the bicentennial celebration.
The back-cover copy of UVA professor of English Jane Alison’s “Nine Island” identifies it as “an intimate autobiographical novel,” which seems both exactly right and entirely inadequate.
Coaches and athletes alike have sworn by pickle juice for decades, pointing to its sodium content as a way to help retain moisture and electrolytes. “Most athletes walk around in a dehydrated state,” said Randy Bird, UVA’s director of sports nutrition. “It’s a gradual problem throughout the week. So Monday they practice and don’t properly hydrate, and Tuesday they do it again. And then, bam, it’s Saturday, and they’re very dehydrated.”
UVA is moving forward with plans to give the intersection of Emmet Street and Ivy Road a complete makeover. The Board of Visitors recently approved the “long-term framework” for a plan to make major changes to the intersection.
“Across the nation, Democrats are trying to nationalize their races because they think they can use Trump as a weapon. In this race, it’s pretty clear Democrats are trying to localize, because Trump is not a drag but an asset for Cole,” says Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. “This is one of the few places in the country where Republicans are more concerned with nationalizing a race than Democrats are.”
But in applying the word "genocide" to that dehumanization, Madley has touched a sensitive nerve among historians. The objectors include UVA’s Alan Taylor. Taylor's article in The New York Times – identified as a "book review" but more an essay on epistemology – calls genocide "rhetorically double-edged." Taylor notes the word was coined in 1944 to describe Hitler's systematic process of destroying ethnic groups. "The term distorts if projected back onto the mid-19th century," he writes.
Trump could win Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, Nevada, and Maine's 2nd Congressional District, run close in these other states – and still lose the election but potentially top Clinton in the popular vote. "Trump's edge among white, non-college educated voters could make him more likely to pull a popular vote win off, doing well in parts of Ohio, western Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Nevada," said Geoffrey Skelley, analyst for UVA’s Center for Politics.
During the primaries, Trump did better in online polls than in telephone polls. According to one interpretation, respondents may have been uncomfortable telling a caller that they planned to vote for him. Checking a box in an online poll, when no one is looking, did not present the same discomfort. "He was basically evenly split in terms of overperforming and underperforming where his polls were," says political analyst Geoffrey Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics said the idea that racial problems in the United States started with the election of Obama “is just flat-out wrong.” “Race is in many ways the original sin of American life – the nation was founded as half-slave, and half-free, and while the country has made great strides on race throughout its history, it’s very clear that racial minorities face certain disparities and challenges that whites do not have to deal with,” he said.
American researchers have completed the longest study of popular agricultural genetically modified organisms to date. The 14-year study found that GMO crops increased the use of herbicides on American farms by 28 percent. “In the beginning, there was a reduction in herbicide use,” said UVA economist Federico Ciliberto, who led the research team, in a statement. “But over time the use of chemicals increased because farmers were having to add new chemicals as weeds developed a resistance to glyphosate.”
Thousands of volunteers spruced up their community Wednesday as part of the United Way Day of Caring. Charlotte Badenhop is one of 15 employees from the UVA Health System who volunteered to touch up the walls inside the Charlottesville Police Department.
Two years after 18-year-old Hannah Graham vanished from the University of Virginia, those closest to her will remember her with a memorial fastpitch softball tournament.
The Baskerville family did not intend on all four siblings graduating from the same college. Nonetheless, that’s exactly what happened.
JAUNT and the University of Virginia are joining forces to provide an alternate mode of transportation to residents and employees who live in Crozet.