A study just released by a professor at the University of Virginia is quantifying the impact immigrants have on the economy. Professor John McLaren says after reviewing U.S. Census data from 1980 to 2000, he found immigrants create, on average, 1.2 jobs for every position they fill.
The 800-year-old sheet of parchment that is the Magna Carta is often hailed as one of the world’s most famous historical documents because it laid the foundation for the rights and freedoms on which modern democracy rests. On Monday, Queen Elizabeth will preside at a celebration at Runnymede Meadow alongside the Thames River, where John, King of England, affixed his seal to the medieval document in 1215. A.E. Dick Howard, a constitutional law professor at the University of Virginia and author of The Road from Runnymede: Magna Carta and Constitutionalism in America,&nb...
I recently sat through a Data Science class that Casey Lichtendahl (Darden School of Business, University of Virginia) was teaching to second year MBA students when I found myself reflecting on the skill gap that exists today. The gap I’m talking about is between the newly educated and those educated back in the last century. In this one class session, Lichtendahl’s students were programming in R to conduct sophisticated analyses regarding the 2012 presidential election results and then using Tableau to effectively present the insight. The impact of this gap can have tremendous con...
Indian Americans are essaying more Americanised roles and "their Indian- ness is becoming less distinct", observes filmmaker Paromita Vohra. "American TV characterisation mirrors society as they see it. Where earlier they would see Indians as working class folks in a barbershop, now the Indian cultural identity is not so prevalent when it comes to casting, largely because American TV is seeing its golden age right now. These perceptions are the subject of Shilpa Davé's book Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film. In it, Davé, ...
Thousands of graduates from area colleges and high schools are streaming out into the world, as they do every June. But few will go as far afield as Lynchburg resident Anna Boynton, who will follow her graduation from the University of Virginia with a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Sri Lanka.
(By Deborah Boucoyannis, an assistant professor of politics the University of Virginia) Few historical incidents have left as profound an impact on the Anglo-American historical imagination as Magna Carta. It gave birth to a powerful narrative, that of freemen banding together to demand a list of rights from a cruel and oppressive king.
Australian and U.S. scientists from the University of Virginia capture on video each stage of death of a human white blood cell, revealing the dying cells apparently try to alert their neighbours. Their discovery was important because it gave scientists more insight into how pathogens take over dying cells and facilitate disease spread.
The Building Goodness Foundation and the University of Virginia's Nursing Students Without Borders has finished a 15-year project in San Sebastian, El Salvador. The project, with a budget of $95,000, built a permanent medical clinic for the Red Cross.
The University of Virginia plans to open a center for Civil War history for scholars, archivists and students. The new facility will be named the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Nau and his wife Bobbie donated more than $13 million to U.Va.'s College of and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences to create the center.
The newest dorm at the University of Virginia is named after two former slaves who became prominent community members after Emancipation. Last week, the university officially christened Gibbons House, a dorm on Alderman Road that will house about 200 first-year students starting this fall. Naming the dorm in honor of William and Isabella Gibbons — who were owned by UVa professors — is part of an effort by the administration to acknowledge the history of slavery on UVa Grounds.
The University of Virginia approved a $3 billion total budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year, setting aside $45 million in improvements as part of its long-term strategic plan. The Board of Visitors approved the budget Friday afternoon. The budget includes about $1.4 billion in spending for academic programs on Grounds — an increase of about $48 million from the current fiscal year. The rest of the total budget was allocated toward the Medical Center and the College at Wise.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine is welcoming a new dean this fall. Doctor David Wilkes will begin his five-year appointment on September 15. He will succeed Doctor Randolph Canterbury, who served as the interim dean since November 2014.
Charges have been dropped against a University of Virginia student whose bloody arrest sparked a public uproar and a state police investigation.
A judge on Friday accepted Charlottesville prosecutor Dave Chapman’s motion to drop charges against University of Virginia student Martese Johnson, who was bloodied in an arrest by police officers with the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Compassion and personal well-being may not be among the traditional core classes in elementary school — and it’s certainly not tested on the KPREP — but educators say such lessons have become increasingly vital as students face more stresses and trauma. Now Jefferson County Public Schools is testing a new curriculum that puts learning about such things front and center as part of a partnership with the University of Virginia. Patrick Tolan, director of the University of Virginia’s Youth-Nex Center for Promoting Effective Development, said the project is an outgrowth of ...
A University of Virginia economics professor has examined President Obama’s latest push for a huge trade deal with many Asian nations. A package of trade bills is scheduled for a Friday debate in the House of Representatives. UVA’s Ed Burton is monitoring the situation and won’t be surprised if many House members oppose the trade.
The length of antibiotic treatment for abdominal infections can be cut in half and still be equally effective, a new study suggests. Doing so could help efforts to battle the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, the study authors said. The study — led by researchers at the University of Virginia — included more than 500 patients in the United States and Canada with abdominal infections.
Frank M. “Rusty” Conner is the University of Virginia’s new vice rector. The university’s Board of Visitors elected Conner after a brief discussion behind closed doors Thursday afternoon. As vice rector, Conner will serve as second-in-command on the board to incoming Rector William H. Goodwin.
The University of Virginia has a new dean for its school of medicine. Dr. David S. Wilkes, the executive associate dean for research affairs at the Indiana University School of Medicine, was named to the post on Friday, the school announced.
University of Virginia administration currently is sorting through more than 80 suggestions compiled by the Ad Hoc Group on University Climate and Culture, said President Teresa A. Sullivan, who gave the Board of Visitors an update on the ongoing effort to curb sexual misconduct at the university.