Average annual salaries are expected to inch up to more than $54,500 for classroom teachers in Virginia’s public schools and nearly $100,000 for principals, according to a recent state report by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education.
First came the 36 questions that could make you fall for anyone.Now a new study has revealed that there are just two questions that married couples can ask on another to make sure they are definitely in love. Using data from a survey originally conducted in the 1980s, University of Virginia economists Leora Friedberg and Steven Stern analysed the answers of 4,242 couples who were asked two simple questions.
A doctor at the University of Virginia cancer center is being nationally recognized for improving patient's lives during various stages of treatment. Dr. Leslie Blackhall founded the Palliative Care Clinic in 2001. Her work helps patients through pain relief, and to manage symptoms during and after treatment. She is one of seven winners of the American Cancer Society's Quality of Life award.
Epigenetic changes in cells also occur at the histone level via posttranslational covalent modifications such as methylation, acetylation, and phosphorylation. One group has figured out how to image histone modifications in single cells. Delphine Gomez, a research associate working with Gary Owens at the University of Virginia, looked at histone modifications in smooth muscle cells using fluorescent probes and in situ hybridization. In their method, secondary antibodies light up modified histone residues though a modified proximity ligation assay. Although the technique works only in...
Kate Tamarkin, UVa music professor and director of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia, discusses this year's UVa Valentine's Day weekend extravaganza.
Late last month, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a unanimous victory for religious freedom in Holt v. Hobbs. It held that a federal civil rights statute requires prison officials to accommodate peaceful expressions of religious devotion, an issue arising from a dispute between a bearded Muslim inmate (named Holt) and the Arkansas Department of Correction. In ruling for Holt, the court adopted the reasoning of his pro bono advocates, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and professor Douglas Laycock at the University of Virginia’s Law School.
A new history website launched Monday by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center features interviews with scholars, policymakers and journalists on wide range of contemporary national and world issues, center officials say. The Great Issues website, at www.millercenter.org/academic/great-issues, contains short videotaped interviews in which experts provide historical insight into some of the nation’s most pressing challenges.
University of Virginia's secret societies are all about doing good on school Grounds, much of which is made possible through lofty donations to support efforts that encourage student leadership, faculty mentorship and worthy causes that positively impact the university community as a whole. UVa's Seven Society offered $57,777.77 for sexual assault prevention in December and the Z Society announced a $30,000 donation to the College and Graduate School of Arts and Science's Faculty Forward initiative in a letter to faculty Friday.
Hot on campus. Binge drinking. Sexual assault. Greek life trouble. And a lot of youthful courage. We’re checking in with college newspaper editors. We wanted to hear straight from campus about what’s going on. We’ve got three top student editors in to share. From Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, Dartmouth. This hour On Point: College now, right from the source.
Reproducibility is a core scientific principle. A result that can’t be reproduced is not necessarily erroneous: Perhaps there were simply variables in the experiment that no one detected or accounted for. Still, science sets high standards for itself, and if experimental results can’t be reproduced it’s hard to know what to make of them. “The whole point of science, the way we know something, is not that I trust Isaac Newton because I think he was a great guy. The whole point is that I can do it myself,” said Brian Nosek, the founder of a start-up in Charlottesvil...
Some legal experts predict judges will be offended by state actions that impede their efforts to impose same-sex marriage in states where either voters or their elected representative have rejected it. “I think they’ll be angry,” Risa Goluboff, a law professor at the University of Virginia, told the New York Times. “I think they’ll see this as outright defiance and treat it that way.”
Getting a conviction reversed is hard because the court system was built upon faith in the jury trial, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia who serves on the advisory board of the National Registry of Exonerations. “Beyond a reasonable doubt,” the legal standard at trial, is no longer good enough. The legal standards for reversing a conviction are intended to be high, but whether an argument meets those standards is up to the interpretation of a judge, who has discretion to overturn a conviction and call for a new trial.
Thousands of people packed the John Paul Jones Arena Saturday morning. Some folks camped out overnight and lined up before sunrise, all to secure a spot on ESPN's nationally televised pre-show. SPN's College GameDay show came to Charlottesville to spotlight the University of Virginia Cavaliers for the first time ever.
The University of Virginia recently acquired a collection of 19th-century American and English books in jackets, amassed by bookseller Tom Congalton of Between the Covers. In a post announcing that acquisition, curator David Whitesell wrote, "Relatively few 19th-century jackets survive in institutional collections, and fewer still are available on the market."
The University of Virginia has confirmed one case of mumps at the Elson Student Health Center and is testing four suspected cases. The university doesn’t have confirmation that the diseases is circulating, said Christopher P. Holstege, executive director of the Department of Student Health, in an email to students Friday night.
Virginia's population is growing, but at a noticeably reduced rate, according to a report by University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center. But Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro have increased in population, according to the study.
The infamous column capitals atop the Rotunda at the University of Virginia are finally coming down. They have been covered in black sheets to protect from falling bricks, and now they’re ready to be replaced. They removed the last two on the south wall on Friday, Jan. 30. These capitals had been installed and completed back in 1902 and after a hundred years they really started to crumble. The new capitals are ready to be installed Feb. 9.
The General Assembly is working on bills that could compel college officials to report sexual assaults to law enforcement, but experts and university administrators are both concerned about the problems some proposals could raise. University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said she’s also concerned about any potential clashes between a state law and federal student privacy law.
Amid the echoes of fall's tumult, Teresa A. Sullivan is seeking more time at the top. Contract talks for the first woman to lead the University of Virginia were expected to begin last month under an extension signed following the ultimately failed bid to oust Sullivan in 2012. A meeting to launch the discussions has not been scheduled.
For mothers, social scientists say, the benefits of paid leave go well beyond the fact that newborns need round-the-clock care and mothers need time to recover from childbirth. In California, for example, the paid leave law doubled typical maternity leaves to six to seven weeks, according to a study by three researchers, Maya Rossin-Slater, Christopher J. Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel. The increases were striking for unmarried and nonwhite women and those without a college degree, who have been less likely to work at companies with paid leave. Leave-taking among high school graduates rose ...