Attorney General Mark Herring on Tuesday instructed Virginia’s public colleges to grant in-state tuition to potentially thousands of students who were previously considered ineligible because of their immigration status.
Most of the research disproves the hypothesis people learn better when taught in a way that matches their own unique style and deems the evidence offered on its behalf junk science. One of the most outspoken debunkers is University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, who spoke a few years ago at a conference I attended in Washington.
One of the best presentations of the meeting was given by Mark Saunders, Director of the University of Virginia Press. It was entitled, “Acquisition Anayltics: Or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Project MUSE.” Saunders presented a case study on how the University of Virginia Press is mining usage data from their participation in the UPCC collections and what the early results have shown.
University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst Kyle Kondik says the attorney general's decision is yet another piece of evidence that the hotly contested race for attorney general, which ended in a recount, was one of the most influential races on the ballot last year.
Public employees are significantly less likely to be fired or laid off than similar private sector workers. This effective insurance policy against unemployment has a value to workers. But sometimes it’s assumed that job security is a freebie that has no cost for government or the public. A new study from Thomas Dee of Stanford and James Wyckoff of the University of Virginia shows why that’s not true.
A new physics discovery led by an Indian-origin scientist may lead to more efficient refrigerators that use less electricity and are cooled not by chemical refrigerants, but by magnetism. The discovery by a University of Virginia-led team may also lead to more efficient heat pumps and airport scanners, perhaps within a decade.
The task force report also expresses support -- and the need to explore further -- for the civil rights resolution model to resolving campus complaints about sexual assault and harassment. Brett A. Sokolow, president of the Association of Title IX Administrators, praised this approach and the report for endorsing a model he said is increasingly gaining acceptance in the field of sexual assault prevention. “It’s potentially transformative for the field” of sexual assault prevention, he said. Most campuses currently adjudicate sexual assault and harassment complaints through an...
A lot of parents want to know, "When should I introduce my kids to the person I'm dating?" Peter Sheras, a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia, and the author of I Can't Believe You Went Through My Stuff!: How to Give Your Teens the Privacy They Crave and the Guidance They Need, advises parents to look first toward the quality of the dating relationship before worrying about how or when to introduce children.
Just think of (Nobel Prize winner) Ronald Coase -- an economist who was just minding his own theories at the University of Virginia when his thoughts proved so (a) unconventional, (b) politically incorrect and (c) sound that he had to take refuge, as many a great scholar has done before, at the University of Chicago, home of that bevy of independent thinkers (Milton Friedman et al.) who became known as, appropriately enough, the Chicago School of economists.
By Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics, and a regular columnist for Politico...Even at this early point in the cycle, political advertising is widespread: Based on records maintained by the Sunlight Foundation, only eight of the nation’s 50 biggest TV markets had no political ad purchases in the first three months of the year. A wide variety of different groups are getting involved. The Arkansas Senate race, for instance, has already seen some $8 million in television spending, which includes buys from 20 different outside groups.
With Sen. R. Creigh Deeds at his side, Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Monday signed legislation meant to reform the mental health system that Deeds said failed his mentally ill son, who stabbed the senator before killing himself in November. A bipartisan group of senators and delegates came from as far as Northern Virginia to witness the event at the U.Va. Medical Center, pledging to keep pushing for more reforms.
The Centers for Disease Control estimate deaths from HAI at nearly 100,000 per year in the United States. That makes HAI a top 10 leading cause of death in America. Though most are not fatal, HAIs affect 7-10% of hospitalized patients, according to Uni­versity of Virginia researchers.
Justin Hopkins, assistant professor of business administration at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, says if he had his druthers, we would do away with corporate taxation entirely. "The largest shareholders of many corporations are public pension plans," he says. "So, by taxing corporations we are basically levying taxes on public servants, employees and customers. If the government wants to tax the 'rich,' it should do so at the individual level."