In higher education, the House would limit tuition increases at state universities to 3 percent, which matches a proposal from the University of Virginia on Friday. The Senate calls for a 2 percent faculty pay raise.
In higher education, the House would limit tuition increases at state universities to 3 percent, which matches a proposal from the University of Virginia on Friday. The Senate calls for a 2 percent faculty pay raise.
UVA’s Miller Center has undertaken a “First Year Project” examining the history of presidential first years and the policy options available to Barack Obama’s successor in theirs. Excerpted is an article by the Brookings Institution’s William Gale on the next president’s opportunity to enact a carbon tax.
A UVA alum is using a new model to teach students how to get a leg up in the job market. Students learned all about it at a career workshop called “Crush the Competition.”
“Overall, our findings reveal that it physically hurts to be economically insecure,” said researcher Eileen Chou of UVA. “Results from six studies establish that economic insecurity produces physical pain, reduces pain tolerance and predicts over-the-counter painkiller consumption.”
The United States has a dropout crisis. UVA’s Benjamin L. Castleman and Lindsay C. Page of the University of Pittsburgh devised a program that nudges students to complete the administrative paperwork required to stay in college.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said he would be shocked if South Carolina doesn’t break its turnout record Saturday. “Never before has there been such a crush of national TV attention nor so many dynamic, polarizing candidates,” he said.
Rubio’s paid family leave plan has been touted as the first of its kind for a GOP presidential candidate, which makes it significant on its own. “The fact that you have a Republican presidential candidate talking about paid family leave is important. It says that there is a widespread recognition of its importance,” said Christopher Ruhm, a UVA economist and an expert in the economic effects of paid family leave policies.
The constant warming and cooling above and below water's freeze point promotes pothole development. "Potholes start with water,” UVA physics professor Lou Bloomfield said, “which is just an amazing chemical ­– one of the only chemicals in nature that when it freezes from a liquid to a solid, it expands."
Two authors with different life experiences and worldviews – UVA’s W. Bradford Wilcox (conservative, Catholic and a married father) and Nicholas Wolfinger of the University of Utah (an unmarried, childless liberal and a nonbeliever) – have written “Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, and Marriage Among African Americans and Latinos.” Wilcox and Wolfinger discuss the influence exercised by churches on relationships and marriage among blacks and Latinos.
UVA researchers have found that for university students, doing nothing may in fact be a lot more stressful than that French test you’ve been cramming for. Psychologist Timothy D. Wilson headed up a 2014 study which sought to gage the comfort level of students when left alone with their own thoughts.
UVA President Teresa Sullivan has been looking for novel ways to celebrate the school’s 200th birthday next year.
Some of the nation's top political analysts and pollsters were in Charlottesville Thursday night taking a look at the upcoming election. UVA’s Center for Politics hosted a panel of those pollsters.
A UVA study of people living together and married couples found that those who were married had much lower levels of activity in their hypothalamus, a region of the brain partly responsible for managing stress. For those who were cohabiting but not married, the level of activity in their hypothalamuses was heightened.
With a slew of presidential primaries coming up in the next few weeks, UVA hosted a panel of four nationally renowned pollsters to discuss the business of polls and how some of them may impact this year’s election.
The drive for the next challenge led an energized and invigorated Bronco Mendenhall to UVA, where he inherits a program long on talent – which has never been an issue, despite recent on-field evidence to the contrary – but short on results.
In a poll taken Sunday and Monday, Sanders trailed Clinton by 40 percentage points among African-Americans, who likely will make up more than half of the voters heading to the polls Feb. 27. The race still could change – it’s politics, said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. A loss for Clinton in South Carolina would be an “utter catastrophe” for the front-runner, Kondik said, adding winning by single digits would be a disappointment.
According to pollsters and political science professors, Bernie Sanders appears to have combined elements of both Obama and Clinton's 2008 voting blocs – he's building something new and untested as an electoral force in American politics. "It looks like Clinton's coalition from 2008 is definitely not her coalition in 2016, which is fascinating," says Kyle D. Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. "It's almost like Clinton 2016 is taking some pieces from Obama and some pieces from her own coalition, and Sanders is doing the same thing."
Hillary Clinton is struggling to fend off the surprising popularity of Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, with a poll showing they are virtually level in Nevada heading into the state's caucus vote this weekend. UVA political analyst Kyle Kondik said Nevada would be a barometer for Clinton's support among Hispanics.