Adopted children tend to have a slightly higher IQ than siblings who remained with their biological parents, a recent study found. "The more educated the adoptive parents are, the bigger the advantage for the child," said study co-author Eric Turkheimer, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. "Even in the presence of genetic differences among people, improving the environment helps children's cognitive ability."
The Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia released a statement on Tuesday in reference to the recent arrest of third year student Martese Johnson.“Like all of you, I was distressed to see the media coverage about one of our students, Martese Johnson, bleeding from a head injury sustained at the hands of ABC agents,” UVA Rector George Keith Martin said in the release.
The fraternity at the center of the controversy over a Rolling Stone article on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia may seek legal action against the magazine, after a police investigation found no evidence of the sexual assault depicted in the article.
More than 125 University of Virginia grad students from all different fields of study came together Monday to show off their extensive research projects. During the 15th annual Robert J. Huskey Research Exhibition, students from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and the School of Architecture, presented their work with poster exhibits, and oral presentations.
Police in Charlottesville said Monday they have found no evidence to support assertions in a 2014 Rolling Stone magazine article that a University of Virginia student had been gang-raped at one of the school’s fraternities.
Seven members of a House public safety committee are questioning whether the power to enforce laws against underage drinking should remain with the state’s alcohol-control board, whose agents have made two controversial arrests involving University of Virginia students.
The "Art, Contemplation, and Wellness" initiative has explored dynamic and varied perspectives on this theme, featuring work from practitioners, scholars, and students. The initiative emerged from a partnership between the University of Virginia, The Phillips Collection, and the National Academy of Sciences, and considers the museum as a meditative space, art as meditation, and the implications of both art and contemplation for human flourishing. OpenGrounds serves as the convener and facilitator of the initiative, with collaborators from across Grounds including the Contemplative Sc...
… Today’s parents enjoyed a completely different American childhood. Recently, researchers at the University of Virginia conducted interviews with 100 parents. “Nearly all respondents remember childhoods of nearly unlimited freedom, when they could ride bicycles and wander through woods, streets, parks, unmonitored by their parents,” writes Jeffrey Dill, one of the researchers. But when it comes to their own children, the same respondents were terrified by the idea of giving them only a fraction of the freedom they once enjoyed. Many cited fear of abduction, even thoug...
Important news for men receiving treatment for prostate cancer: Two new studies from the University of Virginia School of Medicine have upended the widely held view that it's best to delay radiation treatment as long as possible after the removal of the prostate in order to prevent unwanted side effects. "The common teaching has been, without clear evidence, that urinary incontinence and erectile function are worse when radiation is delivered earlier rather than later, but we didn't see any protective effect of delayed radiation compared to earlier radiation," said radia...
Piles of tossed-aside litter and rubbish from water run-off are out of the Rivanna River in Charlottesville Saturday thanks to dozens of volunteers. Their clean-up Saturday was part of the celebration of World Water Day. "There's a day for everything, but not the most precious resource we have," says Robbi Savage, Rivanna Conservation Society. That's why Savage says world water day began. In 2015, her group partnered with business students and teachers at the University of Virginia's Darden School. “We thought that it would actually be good not to talk a...
If the race is to the swiftest, then campaign plans to be announced by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas makes him a winner over Gov. Chris Christie and about a dozen other potential Republican presidential candidates. "Getting in first is an initial boost, but not a long-lasting one,'' said Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "There are no hard and fast rules about this and I don't think the announcement date makes much of a difference in the long run.''
Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, recently wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post blasting critics of a multimillion-dollar initiative by the Obama administration to rate colleges of education. Serving as a cheerleader for the Education Department’s effort, he accuses colleges of education of seeking to escape evaluation of their programs, and he questions whether critics have read the proposed standards. He wrote in part: As a scholar who works in areas related to the assessment and improvement of teaching, as an educator ...
Daniel Willingham is a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia with a background in neuroscience who now focuses on education. He wrote a widely acclaimed 2010 book titled, “Why Don't Students Like School?” His new book, “Raising Kids Who Read,” off the presses this month, is an accessible hands-on guide for parents who want to help kids become avid readers at home and school. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
In a nation of 319 million people, America’s 2016 presidential election could well come down to a rematch between two of its greatest modern political families: the Bushes and the Clintons. “There’s this paradox in the American body politic,” says Barbara Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “We always say that we want someone who’s up from the log cabin, but we are drawn to the wealthy, noblesse oblige candidates as well.”
(By R.K. Ramazani, the Edward R. Stettinius Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia) In the title of a March 12 editorial, The New York Times was right to deplore what it called "Republican Idiocy on Iran." By writing an astonishing letter directly to Iran without President Obama's knowledge, 47 senators attempted to sabotage the deal being negotiated between Iran and the 5+1 powers (U.S., Russia, Britain, France, China and Germany) to restrain Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
(By Larry J. Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, Kyle Kondik, the center’s director of communications and Geoffrey Skelley, the media relations coordinator) Hillary Clinton went before cameras and reporters at the United Nations recently to address the ongoing controversy over her use of a private email system during her time as secretary of state. She was terse, combative, and essentially told the American people to “trust her” when she says that she didn’t do anything wrong and isn’t hiding anything. But Clinton’s p...
(By Larry J. Sabato, university professor of politics and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics) Admit it: You love a juicy scandal. We claim to be high-minded and policy-oriented, but our noses are buried in the accounts of the latest political calamity—and we read those stories before anything elseThe Hillary Clinton e-mail controversy is just the latest entrée in a decades-long, s) calorie-rich menu provided by the former first lady and her husband. But will it make a difference in 2016?
The police in Charlottesville, Va., will release on Monday the results of their investigation into reports of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house, four months after a now-discredited report in Rolling Stone magazine rocked the historic campus — and the world of journalism.
Police Chief Timothy J. Longo on Monday afternoon plans to announce the results of an investigation into an alleged sexual assault at a University of Virginia fraternity, a claim detailed in a Rolling Stone magazine article that has since come into doubt.
More than 125 University of Virginia grad students from all different fields of study came together Monday to show off their extensive research projects. During the 15th annual Robert J. Huskey Research Exhibition, students from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and the School of Architecture, presented their work with poster exhibits, and oral presentations.