By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of VirginiaIs strengthening marriage and family one strategy to reduce the violence, and threat of violence, that girls and women face over the course of their lives, a threat highlighted in the #YesAllWomen campaign? With Robin Fretwell Wilson, a family-law scholar, I answered in the affirmative in an article for the Washington Post. That article has gotten a lot of pushback, in part because the Post initially ran it with a needlessly provocative headline encouraging women to “stop taking lovers and get m...
It’s tempting to give in to hyperbole and predict that everything has changed in Washington due to Cantor’s loss, write Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. But not much really has changed. Far more important is the battle for control of the Senate in the upcoming 2014 midterm elections.
Less than a year ago, the lack of psych beds left Senator Creigh Deeds' son to spiral into violence, stabbing his father and killing himself. And none of the reforms that resulted are slated to increase psych beds for children. ... Mental health expert Richard Bonnie at UVA says mobile crisis units may fill the gap. But because of budgetary constraints, Bonnie also says that kind of progress may take years.
Thomas P. Loughran, Jr., MD, UVA Cancer Center director joins Les Sinclair on 1070-WINA to talk about the new development of University of Virginia Cancer Center’s Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program being designated as a National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)/Be The Match transplant center and now has access to the Be The Match Registry, the world’s largest and most diverse bone marrow donor registry.
Fans don’t have to wait for the June 26 opening of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in Culbreth Theatre to dive into the 40th-anniversary season of Heritage Theatre Festival. Thanks to actor, director and playwright Frank Ferrante, comedy fans only have to wait until Tuesday for a salute to an unmistakable comic outlook that has stayed fresh for generations. That’s opening night for Ferrante’s “An Evening with Groucho” — his one-man, two-act, rapid-fire salute to the emperor of ad libs, innuendo, insults and inspired witticisms — in the Ruth Capl...
Charlottesville-based Rivanna Medical, founded by two University of Virginia alumni, developed a pocket-sized ultrasound for doctors during delivery.
Taking a longer-range view, an American Enterprise Institute report in April found that teens with involved fathers were 98 percent more likely to graduate from college and those with “very involved” fathers were 105 percent more likely to graduate. While the author, Brad Wilcox, of the University of Virginia, cites father involvement as a likely cause, Naomi Schaefer Riley speculates that it’s because fathers grant children more independence than mothers typically do.
One of the major hurdles for the big data industry, which the report laid out, was a major skills gap between the number of qualified workers and the expected demand over the next few years. Some area schools have taken a notice to the expected shortfall in qualified employees. George Washington partnered with IBM for a big data master's program last year, and the University of Virginia earlier this year received $10 million for its Data Sciences Institute.
The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the nation's next poet laureate will be Charles Wright, a retired professor at the University of Virginia.