State Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, visited a group of students at Monticello High School on Wednesday to discuss mental health. The students outlining reasons why they believe attention to mental health issues an essential part of the education experience and offered ways services and resources can be improved statewide. The students started working on policy to address mental health issues during the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership’s high school program at the University of Virginia.
Study co-author and UVA allergy researcher Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills first discovered the connection between the alpha-gal syndrome and exposure to Lone Star tick bites in 2002. He recognized that patients who had unusual allergic reactions to the cancer drug cetuximab, which contains alpha-gal molecules, also shared a history of Lone Star tick bites. Researchers are still unsure how Lone Star tick bites lead to alpha-gal allergies.
An industrial hemp research program kicked in 2015 in Virginia. About 80 acres have been planted on farms in 12 counties so several universities, such as UVA and Virginia Tech, can study best cultivation practices and marketability for the crop, a process that’s ongoing.
Civility and politics aren't words found together too often these days, but a conference for high school students held at UVA aims to change that. The Common Grounds Initiative brought hundreds of high school seniors from around the state to UVA on Tuesday to learn about civic engagement.
Civil rights leader Ruby Sales is participating in a public conversation in Charlottesville Wednesday. Sales was among those who marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. The conversation is being hosted by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and is open to the public.
On Tuesday, UVA hosted a discussion with students to see what it can do better to help students feel safer.
Population projections from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service offer a slightly lower distribution: By 2040, the 15 most populous states will be home to 67 percent of the U.S. population and represented by 30 percent of the Senate. But, then, that’s already about the distribution – and it has been for a long time.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies and director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, gives a net neutrality refresher, and talks about what's at stake in the FCC's proposal to end it.
The UVA men’s basketball team is starting to get some national recognition. The Cavaliers were ranked No. 18 in the latest Associated Press poll, released Monday afternoon.
(Commentary) Are we moving forward or backward? That appeared to be one implicit question during the Women’s Global Leadership Forum, an event organized by the University of Virginia for its bicentennial commemoration. The two-day conference, held earlier this month in Charlottesville, obviously centered on the achievements of women and did so with good cause. It was an impressive event.
Thomas Jefferson’s “sanctum sanctorum” was where he read books in six different languages, corresponded with hundreds of people around the globe, puzzled over scientific mysteries and relaxed in solitude. With his greenhouse right outside and huge windows to let in sunlight, the space offered him a quiet retreat in an often bustling home to think, write and reflect. Now, when visitors come to Monticello and walk through the third president’s private quarters, they will see what Jefferson saw — a neatly arranged mix of carefully collected curiosities, books, papers and scientific instruments.
Though UVA and Virginia Tech are rivals, students from both schools are uniting in the name of fighting cancer. Members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity from both schools took part in the FIJI Run last week.
“Any Office of Legal Counsel, in any administration, would have given the same answer with respect to this issue,” said Aditya Bamzai, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “But if we see a legal challenge, the executive branch’s positions don’t always prevail in court.”
Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics said while some of the seats Republicans are leaving could be vulnerable – Dave Reichert of Washington, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Florida – many of the seats are considered safe for Republicans.
“In the larger ledger of history, I think it will fade and his reputation will continue to grow,” says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. “People may not be paying attention to all the stories that come out about him and just remember the first two, with him sitting in a wheelchair, and everyone has an elderly grandpa or uncle who says things inappropriate at the dinner table.”
An American study in academic journal Frontiers in Psychology has found that Montessori early years settings can improve outcomes for disadvantaged children. A co-author of the report, Professor Angeline S. Lillard at the University of Virginia, said, ‘I hope the findings will give more people the confidence to implement authentic Montessori pre-schools, ones that closely follow the program she laid out in her books. The two schools used in the study were recognized by the Association Montessori Internationale. We don’t have lottery studies from Montessori schools that implement the program di...
Even a small decline could hurt many schools. UVA receives roughly $20 million in annual athletic donations tied to seat priority. The department doesn’t anticipate getting any more help. “We have zero room for error,” said Dirk Katstra, executive director of the Virginia Athletics Foundation.
What’s the point of the death penalty? Is it about deterring crime or bringing a measure of peace to victims? Is it about vengeance or justice? Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor and the author of a new book on the subject, explores these questions, but also makes a broader claim: that defense lawyers are helping to gradually abolish the death penalty, and that we can improve the entire criminal justice system if we understand why.
There's a niggling question that keeps coming back to torment fans of audiobooks: Is listening to one in some way cheating? Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of cognitive psychology who studies the brain processes behind reading, hates the question, but he'll gamely answer. "The answer is a very clear no," he said emphatically. "Listening to an audiobook is not cheating.”
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA's Center for Politics, said the results suggest that voters' rejection of "Trump's brand of Republicanism" is potent in suburban areas that are "increasingly diverse and/or highly educated." "These results should scare them," Skelley said of Republicans inside Chesterfield and beyond.