Church support for marriage among poor and middle class Americans can play a key role in combating income inequality and providing a good environment for children, a sociologist told the U.S. bishops. “If you care about bridging the marriage divide, you should care about economic justice, cultural change, and the renewal of civil society,” Professor W. Bradford Wilcox, a University of Virginia sociology professor, told the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ general assembly in New Orleans on June 12.
Using data gathered on a nationally representative sample of adolescents ages 7-12, Brad Wilcox of the University of Virginia divided teens into four groups based on their fathers' level of involvement in their lives: not involved, less involved, involved, and very involved. He found that, regardless of socioeconomic status and compared to teens of not involved dads, teens with involved dads were 98 percent more likely to graduate from college while teens with very involved fathers were 105 percent more likely to graduate from college. Clearly, more involved fathers contribute to more coll...
Ever wonder what happens to the leftover tissue from your cancer biopsy? We didn't either, but apparently the very thing you're trying to get rid of is in high demand by researchers. Eastern Virginia Medical School is working with the University of Virginia to collect leftover tissue for cancer research. The University of Virginia announced Wednesday it was awarded a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand a program that provides such specimens to researchers.
This fire-the-worst policy could have benefits beyond those calculated by Chetty and his co-authors. Economists Thomas Dee of Stanford and James Wyckoff of the University of Virginia recently analyzed Washington, D.C.’s IMPACT program, which financially rewards the best teachers and threatens the worst with dismissal. Dee and Wyckoff compared teachers who were near the thresholds for bonuses or dismissal threats with teachers who actually crossed the thresholds. They found that the highest-graded teachers performed even better as a result of IMPACT’s bonuses. The lowest-graded...
A study of Virginia’s religious exemption by the Child Advocacy Committee at the University of Virginia’s law school in 2012 found that few states carve out a specific exemption for religion, instead applying the same requirements on all families seeking to educate their children at home. Of the four states that do grant a religious exemption, Virginia stands alone in not monitoring the progress of these students.
UVA demographic researchers made some fascinating graphs of demographic divides in the Washington area which show what we know is happening: more affluent and educated people are moving farther east in the region, and young people are living near the center more than ever.
Staunton native Michael Bugas received a prestigious award for his service to others when he graduated from the University of Virginia this year. Bugas was chosen along with a peer and a faculty member to receive the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award. According to award committee chairman William Wilson, the winners “represent our highest ideals and our very greatest hopes.”
The University of Virginia alum spoke frankly with soon-to-be graduates of Carthage College, offering encouragement and guidance, but in a very real, down-to-earth way. He exhorted seniors to take risks, fall every once in a while only to learn from your failure and embrace change no matter the circumstance. Ohanian would know, too, as the first company he launched on UVa's Charlottesville campus, My Mobile Menu – Mmm for short – went nowhere after a year and a half of hard work.
A Chinese pulp and paper company plans to invest $2 billion and create 2,000 jobs in establishing its first U.S. advanced-manufacturing facility in Chesterfield County. State and county officials describe the move as the largest Chinese investment and job creation project in Virginia’s history. Jerry Z. Peng, the company’s chairman and CEO, received his master’s in business administration from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business; hence the project was dubbed “Project Cavalier” during the planning stages, says Will Davis, Chesterfield&rsquo...
Once Wall began seriously thinking about playing water polo in college and talking to coaches, she began to think about what school she would want to go to. The University of Virginia, where one of her brothers was on the swim team, always stood out to her for its sense of community and the school pride the students there had.
For the first time, there is a chance to see over fifty years of Charlottesville and University of Virginia history through the lens of a legendary photographer. A career-spanning exhibit of Ed Roseberry's photographs are going on display at Alumni Hall.
A new study shows that most cops use the same interrogation techniques on both adults and juveniles—and why that needs to change. ...Todd Warner, a psychology graduate student at the University of Virginia, is interested in the intersections of brain development and criminal justice. As part of his research for his dissertation, Warner recently attended a national conference where police from across the country come to get various kinds of training, and surveyed 178 cops there on this topic.
You'd think that those low-income college students who, despite the odds, applied for federal financial aid, enrolled in college, and had early academic success as freshmen would continue to do what's needed to persist in college. But while many of them do, almost 20 percent don't take what would seem to be a pretty basic step toward continued success: re-filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid for a second year. "They may not know they have to renew, they're likely to be working and really busy, and at some many community colleges, particularly, they probably ...
We’re one step closer to the quantified household. University of Virginia associate professor of computer science, Kamin Whitehouse, is leading a team that’s designing the software to make it possible. “We need to not just be users of the internet of things, we need to also be objects in the internet of things,” Whitehouse told a Massachusetts Institute of Technology digital summit last week.
A few months ago, Milwaukee joined four other cities in the Thriving Cities Project. Each explored “what it means and what it takes to thrive in” their city. The University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture designed the project and over a five year period, hopes to distil their findings into a new method of community assessment.
The findings, published in the journal Child Development, are the result of a decade-long study by researchers at the University of Virginia.
According to a 2013 economic impact study conducted by Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, agriculture is Virginia’s largest industry, generating more than $52 billion per annum.