After California became the first state to offer paid parental leave, new mothers were more likely to return to work, according to a study by Maya Rossin-Slater and Jane Waldfogel of Columbia University and Christopher Ruhm of the University of Virginia.
Middle and high school students are camped out at the University of Virginia Monday night. Rising eighth- and ninth-graders will be staying in the dorms until Wednesday, to get a college experience while building model solar cars, Mars rovers, and more. The camp is called BLAST, which stands for Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology. The goal is to advance the students by giving them hands-on experience with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
During the week, Chris LaPierre is cutting his teeth as a young businessman in New York City. The 2009 Shawnee High School graduate recently got a job with Bank of America, so he's learning the ropes of the sales and trading industry. He makes the daily commute between his home in Stamford, Connecticut, and midtown Manhattan. On Friday nights and Saturdays, he could be in cities like Denver, Boston or Rochester — or even his home away from home in Boca Raton, Florida. That's when LaPierre takes off the jacket, puts on his cleats and grabs a stick. It's when "Shocker"...
Carmen Foster recently completed her doctor of education degree at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation examines the integration of Chandler Junior High School in the 1960s. The school in Richmond’s North Side was the first previously all-white city public school to enroll black students.
A group of students from the University of Virginia have challenged Millennials to get educated about why the National Debt defines their future by developing a video showcasing how the National Debt has an impact on their lives.
(By Edward D. Hess, professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business) Non-human employees are filling positions in all sorts of workplaces, and they are proving themselves to be fast, accurate, and reliable—more so than their human counterparts. The displacement of workers by technology is nothing new, of course, but the nature of our rapidly advancing technology is, as is the wide variety of roles it’s poised to replace. To survive in this new environment, we human beings face some pressing questions: What can we do better than smart machines? How can more of ...
(By Robert F. Bruner, dean of U.Va.’s Darden School of Business) On July 20, we observed the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing. The observance looks like a media event; and much of it seems to be about technology (rockets), big organizations (NASA), geopolitics (the space race) and national will (JFK’s aspiration to put a man on the moon). Where are the real people in all of that? What was the experience of the team? With what did they contend? What can we learn from them that could be relevant to the rest of us in our daily lives? Ultimately, the observance asks a radical...
(By Ken Hughes, a historian at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs) On all 2,636 hours of secretly recorded Nixon White House tapes that the government has declassified to date, you can hear the president of the United States order precisely one break-in. It wasn’t Watergate, but it does expose the roots of the cover-up that ultimately brought down Richard Milhous Nixon. Investigation of its origin reveals almost as much about the president’s rise as his fall.
Those who study the horse-race aspect of politics say Tiarht has a difficult, but not impossible, task to defeat Pompeo. “Pompeo hasn’t given these conservative groups reason to dislike him,” says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “There’s this natural impulse to support the incumbent unless he’s done something they don’t like.”
“Look, lots of voters are concerned about the NSA, but I don’t know they would end up blaming x, y or z other than the president,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
So for now, the New Mexico governor's race simply doesn't have enough independent polling yet to show clear trends for how things could shake out in November. In the meantime, nothing is prompting University of Virginia professor of politics Larry Sabato's highly regarded Crystal Ball from changing the race from "Likely Republican."
A professor widely quoted on politics has moved the Minnesota race between U.S. Sen. Al Franken and probable Republican nominee Mike McFadden from "likely Democrat" to "leans Democrat." Professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia said: "While polling doesn’t really support such a move, history suggests this race won’t be a cakewalk for Sen. Al Franken," pointing out that the Democrat won by just 312 votes six years ago.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe has appointed Matthew J. Thomas, a genetic counselor in the Division of Genetics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, to the state Advisory Board on Genetic Counseling; Daniel Rowley, the therapy services coordinator for Pulmonary Diagnostics & Respiratory Therapy Services at the UVa Health System, has been reappointed to the Advisory Board on Respiratory Care … The Central and Western Virginia Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association has appointed Carol Manning, director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at UVa, as its chairman for one year.
Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said 13 of the 16 DNA exonerations in Virginia involved eyewitness misidentifications. In response, in 2005 the state legislature required all police agencies to adopt written policies for lineups, and the Department of Criminal Justice Services adopted a model lineup policy with best practices. The department revamped its model policy beginning in 2011 to strengthen it and provide easy options for smaller agencies to do lineups that minimize error. Garrett said that despite the new model policy, few agencies have adopte...
Prosecutors are relying on a federal criminal statute that the U.S. Supreme Court has challenged as unreasonably vague, and a prosecutorial strategy that one legal expert described as “venturesome.” “I think it’s an aggressive prosecution, on facts that are not clearly distinguishable from everyday politics,” said John C. Jeffries Jr., a professor and former dean of the University of Virginia School of Law. “That’s not to say the governor’s conduct wasn’t stupid or sleazy — I think that’s clear,” Jeffries said, “but ...
According to declarations of medical experts filed with the lawsuit, the hospital’s actions violate medical ethics. Mary Faith Marshall, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics & Humanities at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, called the hospital’s actions “troubling.” “Given the clear statements from ACOG’s Committee on Ethics and other professional groups that coerced or court-ordered medical procedures are not ethically justified, it is stunning that a hospital would threaten such an action,” she said.
Virologist Frederick Hayden of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville says that although he does not know the particulars of this case, he thinks in general that the flu immunizations could do some good. Although the shots are not effective at treating the illness, they could protect the seven tribespeople from future exposure to flu. Moreover, Hayden notes that early treatment with influenza antiviral medications, such as Tamiflu or Relenza, could “shorten the duration of illness and reduce risk of lower respiratory tract infections.”
Professor Ed Murphy, astronomer at the University of Virginia, discusses the latest space news – including the South Pole’s BICEP2 debate, misconceptions about the Big Bang and universal inflation, the fascinating Rosetta Mission, the Space X Company’s efforts to re-invent space exploration, and much more.
The defense has also subpoenaed Maureen McDonnell’s manicurist and 14 researchers and administrators at the University of Virginia, where Williams sought to have his dietary supplement studied.