“He managed with the complicity of foreign powers and domestic politicians to avoid facing justice both when he was in France and when he returned to Haiti in 2011,” said Robert Fatton Jr., a University of Virginia professor and the author of “Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery.” “Because he escaped trial, the extent of his crimes and looting will not be fully documented.”
By Benjamin L. Castleman, assistant professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia and Lindsay C. Page, an assistant professor of education and a research scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Their book, “Summer Melt: Supporting Low-Income Students Through the Transition to College,” has just been published by Harvard Education Press.... We urge all higher-education institutions to respond to the president’s call. Institutions spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars per enrolled student in...
One of the most simple and effective films in “Projections” this year, and one of my favorites, follows this approach. Claudrena Harold and Kevin Jerome Everson’s “Sugarcoated Arsenic” is structured around an audio recording of Vivian Verdell Gordon, the director of the University of Virginia’s Black Studies program between 1975 and 1980, whose lecture is presented in a sequence at the beginning that is as gripping as anything on screen at the festival. The images, rich in texture, evoke the past but, based on what is being said, are firmly rooted in the pre...
Prevention is key when it comes to breast cancer — and UVA Culpeper Hospital and Pepperberries is leading that charge.The partnership will again sponsor the ninth annual Pamper Me Pink, Oct. 28 from 5 to 8:45 p.m. at the State Theatre.Attendees will sample a variety of complimentary pampering stations and delicious refreshments, be entered into drawings for door prizes, and have the opportunity to purchase raffle tickets for spectacular grand prizes.... Dr. Brandi Nicholson, a radiology physician at CRH and the University of Virginia, said women should get their first mammogram at age 40...
Overall, agriculture and forestry are two of Virginia’s largest industries, providing more than 400,000 jobs and combining for an economic impact of $70 billion annually, according to a 2013 economic impact study conducted by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
But a new study suggests that the decisions you make before your wedding could largely influence the outcome of your marriage.Researchers from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia studied over 1,000 unmarried Americans, ages 18 to 34, who have been in a relationship for five years. The report found that happy marriages may be based on the decisions people make before they say 'I do.'
I won’t get into the debate over whose model is better, or whether forecasts are bad or good for political science. Rather, I wanted to address an interesting question raised by Brian Rosenwald, a graduate student at the University of Virginia: Could these forecasts influence the election?The idea is that with so much information out there about who will likely win, some non-trivial number of potential voters may be influenced. You may plan to vote knowing nothing about the outcome and just assuming that your vote has some chance of mattering. But if Nate Silver tells you that one candid...
... Cooney, who conducted the research with co-authors Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University and Timothy D. Wilson of the University of Virginia, was interested in exploring the downstream consequences of extraordinary experiences based on his own encounters with others:"We all appreciate experiences that are fine and rare, and when we get what we want, we're always eager to tell our friends. But I've noticed that conversations always seem to thrive on more ordinary topics," Cooney explains. "This made me wonder if there might be times when extraordinary experiences ha...
You're faced with around 11 million pieces of information at any given moment, according to Timothy Wilson, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of the book Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious. The brain can only process about 40 of those bits of information and so it creates shortcuts and uses past knowledge to make assumptions.How and why our brains choose the way they do has been generating lots of conversation at Google, which recently announced a workshop focused on unconscious biases.
The Common Core standards being adopted in the District, Maryland and most other states grew in part from the work of E.D. Hirsch Jr., a University of Virginia scholar who persuaded many advocates like Petrilli that children often don’t learn to read very well because they have not been taught enough facts about their world to understand what they are reading. Virginia didn’t adopt the Common Core standards in part because it was already happy with its Standards of Learning, written by devout Hirschites in the 1990s.
Even before he was considering a run for the Senate, Mr. Kaine — then Virginia’s governor — was consulting with the leaders of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs on legislation to replace the War Powers Act of 1973, which some consider toothless. The center’s National War Powers Commission, led by the former secretaries of state James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher and staffed by a who’s who of bipartisan national security veterans, produced its recommendations on re-energizing executive and legislative cooperation on war in 20...
Scientists first realized that this rare species, which was found in open habitats in New England, the upper Midwest, and parts of Canada, was in trouble about ten years ago throughout much of its range, says T’ai Roulston, an entomologist with the University of Virginia. The insect was last spotted in the eastern U.S. around 2009, and since then researchers have been actively looking for them.Roulston hopes this new find will allow him and his colleagues from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute to figure out why this bee is disappearing. (See more amazing pictu...
For instance, researchers from the University of Virginia and Rutgers University used the Education Longitudinal Study data to determine if college-attendance expectations made while students were in 10th grade could predict if students would still be in college four years later. The researchers found that of three groups—students, parents, and teachers—teacher expectations were more powerful predictors of postsecondary education status than the expectations of students and parents. They also found, however, that “teachers had the lowest expectations” for students. ...
According to the Daily Tar Heel, activists are fed up with the lack of transparency in law school employment reports. The University of Virginia Law School boasts the Number 8 ranking on U.S. News and World Report, and it also lists a 95.6 percent employment rating within nine months of graduation, the highest employment rate in the United States.
All of the media coverage surrounding the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham is opening old wounds for women who've been attacked - especially those who were sexually assaulted. ... There are thousands of women who sit and watch the coverage of Graham on television every day, and they see themselves in her shoes."They all relate to her in some way or another. The young men do too, and to think that it happened to her, it could happen to me,” said Claire Kaplan with the UVA Women's Center.
An emotional gathering at UVA Friday as students unite with one wish -- Hannah Graham's safe return. Hannah's classmates come together to say they haven't lost hope. It comes as search crews prepare to ramp up their efforts in the coming days. ... It's why they organized a Hugs for Hannah event - showing support for Hannah's family and thanking authorities for their hard work to find her. It comes as authorities are balancing what they will and won't share about the investigation.
Some University of Virginia students are using an embrace as a way to help the community heal. “Hugs for Hannah” gave the community an opportunity to come together on the lawn Friday afternoon and simply hug.Three weeks after Hannah Graham disappeared and two weeks after a vigil, students say they're still hopeful, and they want to express themselves."Of course, you can talk about support and can say ‘I support you' in that way, but hugging is a more physical act. And sometimes actions speak louder than words,” said Harrison Helm, a member of the UVA Societ...
An author who spent the last few years studying the University of Virginia's founder Thomas Jefferson spoke Friday night at Old Cabell Hall. ... Meacham spoke on the shift in the view of politics in the 1700s through today, noting the change in public engagement. He says, nowadays, a thorough knowledge of the United States political system is seen more as a personal interest than a necessity, and it's something he hopes to see change.
A group of University of Virginia faculty members is looking at ways to boost science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the classroom. The initiative is being funded by a series of grants from the National Science Foundation.Professors in the Curry School of Education are working on three research projects focused on the STEM fields. They say they are trying to address a critical shortage of both stem teachers and manpower of the workforce in these areas.