Children with married parents also have access to more engaged parents, better resources, and larger networks to draw from when looking for jobs, said W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “Most kids who are raised in a single-parent family turn out fine and we can’t lose sight of that,” Wilcox said. They are, though, two to three times more likely to experience delinquency, depression and drop out of high school.
Sidney Milkis is part of UVA’s Miller Center. He and others at the Miller Center are specialists on U.S. political history. Milkis says that, when it was created in the late 1700s, the U.S. presidency was unlike any other position in world history.
Whether the continuing standoff will wound Trump remains to be seen. "The political stakes as to who gets helped and who gets hurt are so uncertain," said Chris Lu, a former Obama administration official who is now a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center. And in today's fast-paced and volatile political environment, any "advantage or disadvantage could be mitigated next week by another news event."
The way a department handles misconduct, enforces its rules and instructs its officers – or doesn't – influences police conduct, according to a 2004 report, "Organizational Culture and Police Misconduct," by UVA law professor Barbara E. Armacost. When an incident of police misconduct becomes public, departments tend to distance themselves from the officer by characterizing them as "rogue" instead of looking at the organizational norms and policies that framed the cop's judgment in the first place, she said.
Gibbons and Renacci have much in common on the face of it. Both are northeast Ohio Republicans and both area very successful and very wealthy businessmen. Renacci starts out with more name recognition, but not a whole lot more. Kyle Kondik, an Ohioan is who is managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a highly-regarded weekly politics newsletter published by UVA’s Center for Politics, is not convinced that Renacci is unbeatable in a GOP primary. "Mandel was a candidate who didn't have a federal voting record that could come back to haunt him,'' Kondik says.
The UVA Medical Center is improving its processes, officials said. Dr. Tracey Hoke, chief of quality and performance improvement, said the hospital has seen its rates of several hospital-acquired infections decrease by as much as 70 percent in the past four years due to deliberate, methodical adjustments in all stages of care.
Each year, the congregation honors one Charlottesville citizen with the MLK Community Award. This year, UVA President Teresa Sullivan was the honoree. “I'm terribly honored, and frankly I was quite surprised – I didn't know this was coming,” says Sullivan. Recipients of this award are chosen for their efforts in fostering King’s principles and ideals within the community. Church leaders believe that Sullivan embodied those traits over the past year.
“Today’s adults are not spending a lot of time shopping like my parents’ generation did,” said Kim Whitler, a marketing professor at the UVA’s Darden School of Business. “Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, they’re all time-starved and want to order groceries while they’re riding a bus to work.”
As colleges and universities look ahead to their spring terms, or welcome students back for January winter sessions, the new year of 2018 promises to be a critical one for higher education. From the impact of new federal tax legislation to the debate about immigration, these and other national and global issues have relevance to institutions large and small, wealthy or not.
The annual event featured the presentation of an annual award given to an individual who fosters the principles and ideals of The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Rev. Alvin Edwards, pastor of Mount Zion First African Baptist, presented the award to UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan.
Gary T. Settle was sworn in Thursday as superintendent of the Virginia State Police, replacing Col. W. Steven Flaherty, who announced his retirement last month after 14 years at the helm. He also is a graduate of the FBI Executive Management Course and the National Criminal Justice Command College of the UVA School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Another prominent co-author of the original paper is milder. “The paper’s message is perfectly fine from my point of view, and not actually a critique of our paper,” says UVA psychologist Brian Nosek, who directs the Center for Open Science. The “Redefine” paper’s key message was quite limited, he says: The current threshold of 0.05 yields weaker evidence than many people realize, and if it’s going to be dropped, 0.005 is a reasonable alternative.
The president is coming off a late-2017 high, when he managed to ram his massive tax cut plan through Congress. But one year into his presidency, Trump is entangled in an alarming face-off with North Korea, has antagonized US allies over Iran, and faces accusations of racism and hate-mongering. "Historically, this is bound to be a Democratic year," said Larry Sabato, who heads UVA’s Center for Politics.
It has thrilled many of his supporters, who love that Trump is taking on the media and smashing Washington norms like so much dainty china. Others disapprove of his style but embrace his policies. “He ran on a platform of chaos, and so in that sense he’s been very successful,” said Barbara Perry, who has studied presidents’ first years at UVA’s Miller Center.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) Republicans retirements give Democrats some clear targets, but path to House majority is more about beating incumbents.
The UVA School of Engineering has been selected to lead one of six centers as part of a roughly $200 million national effort to reinvent computing.
Members of Charlottesville City Council are discussing protocols for meeting and the city budget. Councilors, City Manager Maurice Jones, and UVA officials met Thursday at Morven Farms.
“A visibly frustrated Marc Short, the White House’s legislative affairs director who is working to try to avoid a shutdown, placed all of the blame of the current predicament on Congress [writ large, not just Democrats]. In an event hosted by the University of Virginia on Thursday, he said everyone was hyperfocused on the government funding vote but not enough attention was being paid to all the missed opportunities in past months to avoid the deadline.”
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is urging Congress not to pass a continuing resolution without a two-year renewal of the $150 million program Special Diabetes Program, which has led to groundbreaking research in Type 1 diabetes treatment, including an artificial pancreas being developed at UVA.
If you looked at all the spiral galaxies in the local volume of the universe, the Milky Way wouldn't stand out as being much different than any other. "As galaxies go, the Milky Way is pretty ordinary for its type," said Steve Majewski, a UVA professor of astronomy and principal investigator on the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment.