When asked why men — black men in particular — graduate at significantly lower rates than women, other universities might monitor the situation at the University of Virginia. UVA clearly is doing something right.
Positive changes are being seen at four schools began participating in a program for struggling campuses, implemented by UVA’s School Turnaround Program.
James W. Ceaser, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, described the difference between ordinary politicians and demagogues, “While all politicians in a democracy must make occasional small sacrifices of truth, subtlety, or long-term concerns to maintain popular support, demagogues do these things relentlessly and without self-restraint. In trying to shape the historical record his tenure in office (AKA, his legacy) the 2016 SOTU was packed with distortion, misrepresentation, and demagoguery, in the expectation that future students, like today’s low-information voters, wil...
China isn't going to be happy with the likely victory for Taiwan's pro-independence opposition in this weekend's presidential election, but it has limited options to respond: Any angry reaction could further alienate the island's public, while a passive response could weaken Beijing's influence there. China hoped that would set an important precedent and offered extraordinary concessions to make it happen, including agreeing not to use formal titles or have Chinese flags in the room. A major meltdown in relations could scupper hopes for another such encounter while making X...
“There is no record of Washington getting bent out of shape over political, legal, or military issues,” Edward Lengel writes early in this book. “Economic disputes, however, could get him thoroughly riled.”Admittedly, Lengel has chosen to focus on a drier topic of Washington’s life which sometimes leads to similarly parched prose. But the professor at the University of Virginia and director of the Washington Papers project certainly has literary command.
(By A. Benjamin Spencer, the Earle K. Shawe Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law) Devotees of federal judicial procedure were pleased to find that U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts committed the entirety of his 2015 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary to procedure in the federal courts. It may sound like an arcane topic, but civil cases are the most common kind of case heard by federal courts, and civil procedure offers a set of rules to help ensure fairness for people seeking justice in response to corporate wrongdoing, among other matters.
The University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville is working to gather its patient outcomes statistic on a variety of conditions with the intention of making them public as part of an initiative to improve transparency.
Researchers in the United States and United Kingdom have shown how the bacteria responsible for many urinary tract infections have adapted to prevent being flushed out when you pee. "The particular bacteria that are responsible for 80 percent or so of these urinary tract infections are a form of E. coli," said study co-author Edward Egelman in a video released by the University of Virginia.
Tiny, compact 'green pea' galaxies were responsible for heating up the early universe some 13 billion years ago, says an international team of researchers led by University of Virginia astronomer Trinh Thuan. The study is published in the journal Nature.
A series of dwarf galaxies, nicknamed "green pea" galaxies, may have been the main catalyst. In a paper published in Nature, a team lead by the University of Virginia found a dwarf galaxy that emitted a stream of ionized particles.
Architecture and engineering students at the University of Virginia are designing new ways to house the thousands of refugees fleeing Syria to other countries. Thanks to a grant from the 4-VA program, their fabric tent designs are quickly becoming a reality.
"Ground-penetrating radar and high-tech aerial photography shed new light on the topography of the site as it is today and as it was in 1692," UVA professor Benjamin Ray said.
Two-hundred-five UVA Health System physicians have been named among the best in their respective fields in the 2015-16 “Best Doctors in America” list, by Best Doctors Incorporated.
"The finding is significant because it gives us a good place to look for probing the re-ionization phenomenon, which took place early in the formation of the universe that became the universe we have today," UVA astronomer Trinh Thuan said.
Head Coach Dane Damron, his family and other members of the football coaching staff will be on hand Monday, Jan. 18 at 1 p.m. to meet members of the local and UVa-Wise community inside the David J. Prior Convocation Center. Damron was named the fourth head coach in program history on Dec. 17.
A.E. Dick Howard has been called the “chief architect” of Virginia’s 1971 Constitution for his role in helping to draft it. He also has consulted in the birth of more than a dozen constitutions around the world, including those in Brazil, Czechoslovakia and Malawi. At the University of Virginia Law School, where Howard has taught for more than 50 years, he is listed as an expert in the fields of constitutional law, comparative constitutionalism and the Supreme Court. He has explored the subject of the Magna Carta in 22 books, including The Road from Runnymede: Magna Carta and...
At a time of intense planetary warming, it’s odd to even contemplate a counterfactual world in which we might instead be in or heading into a glacial period, sometimes more popularly called an “ice age.” But new research published Wednesday in the influential journal Nature suggests that we may have had a close scrape with such a period earlier in the current geological epoch known as the Holocene — and that pre-industrial human modifications of the climate through agriculture, fires and deforestation might have just barely staved it off. This idea i...
Seniors in Charlottesville learned about the future of Medicare and the ongoing challenges the Medicare Trust Fund will face. Along with the Senior Statesmen of Virginia, Dr. Richard Shannon, Executive Vice President of Health Affairs at the University of Virginia, spoke on the quality in health care as well as the health care cost.
After nearly three centuries of conflicting beliefs, the city of Salem confirms a team of scholars verified the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the 1692 witch trials as Proctor’s Ledge. The historic site is an area located in between Proctor and Pope Streets in Salem, Massachusetts. Members of the Gallows Hill Project Team include Salem State University Professor of History Emerson Baker, Salem Award Foundation Chair Shelby Hypes, Director, the city of Salem’s Corwin House (The Witch House) Elizabeth Peterson, Salem Witch Trials: Examine the Evidence Producer and D...
A long-held hypothesis is that newly-formed dwarf galaxies were the key to heat about 13 billion years ago. But astronomers have struggled to confirm it for twenty years. “The finding is significant because it gives us a good place to look for probing the reionization phenomenon, which took place early in the formation of the universe that became the universe we have today,” said lead author Trinh Thuan, an astronomer from the University of Virginia, in a statement.