A 2012 study by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center says this cycle of poverty poses multiple problems. “Childhood poverty is particularly troubling for its long-term effects on individuals, society and the economy,” according to the study. “Children who grow up in poor households have worse health outcomes, poorer cognitive development and tend to suffer from greater degrees of social isolation than their non-poor counterparts. These patterns often combine to create lifelong detrimental effects, such as lower educational attainment, lower lifetime earning...
"When you run for president, you will be questioned about absolutely everything, and you can’t bluff your way past something like this. It’s not personal life or his weight; it’s related directly to his conduct in office," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Cousteau is co-founder of Azure Worldwide, which offers environmental expertise to clients including a skin-care company and eco-tourism ventures in Costa Rica. It has also developed, with the University of Virginia, an interactive game that simulates the Chesapeake Bay watershed, with its 100,000 rivers and streams.
The words spoken by Navy Lt. Philip Kirkwood likely carried the tone of loss as well as pride. "Tuck was the best flier I've ever flown with," Kirkwood said of Ensign Horace W. Heath, who had been attending the University of Virginia when the nation entered World War II. The flight commander spoke the words during a ceremony in early December 1945, when Heath was posthumously awarded the last of seven medals.
Buildings that have been changed to “contributing” currently house Shenanigans, Horse and Hound, Mel’s Café, the Islamic Study Center, the former Under the Roof building and the University of Virginia’s Stacey Hall.
Researchers have said that massive neuron death that occurs in Alzheimer's Disease seems to be caused by raw ingredients of plaques and tangles working in concert, rather than by plaques and tangles themselves. However, George Bloom, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Virginia, said that a novel group of proteins, Rac1, Gas (Gs alpha) and NCAM, and two protein kinase complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, play a role in driving mature neurons to their death.
(By Bob Gibson, executive director of U.Va.’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership) The Virginia General Assembly that I covered for 20 years occupies the same physical space but is a different place today. Every 10 years, a partisan majority that redraws district lines drives a sharper stake through the heart of each chamber, as if trying to vanquish the vampire that has been cast as the other party. Some of the unhealthiest changes in politics during the past three decades are related to the super-partisan redistricting that follows each federal census.
Carey Albertine grew up surrounded by books. From a nook in Jabberwocky, the children’s bookstore in downtown Fredericksburg that her mother opened, Albertine developed a passion for reading that would only grow over the years. In 2012, Albertine, along with one of her best friends from college, Saira Rao, started a publishing company for works aimed at young audiences. The company, In This Together Media, takes a unique approach to producing content.
The U.Va. Health System is spotlighted as one of the few hospitals in the country to offer a new, less-invasive form of treatment for a severe heart condition.
Bundled in coats, gloves and winter hats, the Virginia soccer team gathered in a circle. The players were rubbing their hands to stay warm Thursday when freshman Riggs Lennon walked to the middle of the huddle. It was time for some oratory. He recited the entire speech from the movie “Miracle on Ice” in which Kurt Russell, playing the role of coach Herb Brooks, addresses the U.S. hockey team before it beats the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics. No doubt, this weekend’s College Cup – the Final Four of the NCAA Division I men’s soccer tournament – won&...
Regardless of what unfolds in the NCAA men’s soccer semifinals Friday night in Chester, Pa., a team from the Washington area will play for the title two days later. The 2013 College Cup culminates a record-setting year for the region – nine teams invited to the 48-team NCAA tournament, four among the 16 seeded squads – and features two ancient rivals colliding for the last time as members of the same conference. After third-seeded Notre Dame faces No. 7 New Mexico at PPL Park, fifth-seeded Maryland (16-3-5) and No. 8 Virginia (13-5-5) will meet for the third time in two month...
Rebeca Orellana grew up in Arlington, graduated with high honors from Washington-Lee High School and now studies civil engineering as a freshman at George Mason University in Fairfax. Yet under Virginia’s senseless and self-defeating laws, she remains an outsider, ineligible for state resident status and struggling to pay annual tuition of $28,592 – three times more than the $9,908 her high school classmates pay. Ms. Orellana’s sin was to have been born in Bolivia and brought to America at age 5 by her parents, who are undocumented immigrants.
University of Virginia environmental scientist Howard Epstein warned that changes in the Arctic are felt around the globe. "The Arctic is not like Vegas," he said. "What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic."
There is mixed news about black carbon – also known as soot – which is a “climate forcer” in the Arctic because it darkens ice and snow, hastening melt. Since the early 1990s, the total amount of black carbon in the Arctic atmosphere has decreased by about half, largely the result of the economic collapse of the former Soviet Union, U.Va.’s Howard Epstein said. But new black-carbon sources are emerging: Smoke from more frequent wildfires that are burning vegetation that has been spreading northward over the past three decades, he said. On Alaska’s North Slop...
Study co-author Dr. Dewey Cornell says secondary programs can help people who are having emotional issues before they ever feel the need to turn violent. "In almost every one of the mass shootings that we've seen, there have been family members and friends who were deeply concerned about the person but didn't know who to go to for help."
Groundbreaking research at the University of Virginia School of Medicine that aims to dramatically increase the number of lungs that can be used for transplant has received a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Days from the anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a new report released Thursday aims to detail how we can prevent another tragedy. The University of Virginia professor who co-wrote the report, Dewey Cornell, says we have focused too much on crisis response and need to provide more resources to prevent gun violence.
The University of Virginia Medical Center unveils this year's Light of Love tree, which helps raise money for auxiliary programs at the hospital. For $10, you can take an ornament from the tree, and the money goes to benefit the patients and families in the UVa. Health System. Money raised this year will go toward projects like the therapy dogs and Hospitality House, which provides affordable lodging for out-of-town patients and families.
Students at Charlottesville High School had a conversation about immigration policy with Senator Mark Warner on Thursday. Sen. Warner spoke to the students via teleconference. It's all part of collaboration between the high school and a University of Virginia graduate class. They're working to create a curriculum on global citizenship and human rights.
"We know that some kinds of mentoring programs are effective," says Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist and University of Virginia education professor. Cornell, director of the Youth Violence Project, agrees mentoring can be helpful. But in an age where people with firearms training have committed mass shootings, Cornell says groups that want to help young people should look to other programs. "It's much more important to have a relationship and to be dealing with the other problems in a young person's life, which sometimes require more than mentoring – if there...