Doctors did not even know tick bites could trigger the food allergy until researchers at the University of Virginia made the connection. Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills led the team that noticed the trend of people developing the allergy later in life. After reporting this finding in 2009, his team worked with other research institutions and concluded in 2011 that tick bites were the cause.
When injuries derailed his brief NBA career and forced him to seek a new line of work, Tony Bennett was only sure of one thing. Whatever he did next, it wasn't going to be coaching.
The evidence of Tony Bennett's coaching ability can be found, permanently, in his patience. And with that patience, and his quiet, kind conviction, comes results. They don't pore in; they germinate.
Developed by co-founders John Reardon and UVA law student Eddie Sniezek, both originally from the D.C. area, the “musx” app is a clever mash-up of a streaming music player and a social media-based music-sharing destination. It draws on YouTube content to allow users to find songs they want to share with their musx friends and provides a space for comments below the video-enabled player.
(Essay by Parker Camp, a double major in foreign affairs and psychology) I am a fourth-year varsity swimmer at the University of Virginia, from Nashville, Tenn, and about two weeks ago I began coming out openly as gay. It has been a fast and furious journey.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia who has written often about Internet culture, said Facebook was “entering its adolescence facing all of these moral and political challenges about what to filter and what standards to apply.” He added, “It will need a linguist and a roomful of lawyers to come up with a workable policy to allow some posts about guns to go through and some not to go through.”
The University of Virginia requires students to write essays as part of their applications, but while it does consider the writing score on the SAT, the actual essay is not downloaded from the SAT. Greg Roberts, U.Va. dean of admission, said he wants to review the changes before offering an opinion. “Much is yet to be determined and revealed,” he said by email. “The devil is in the details, but we support any improvements to the SAT that will help us better predict college success, better understand student potential, and increase access in our holistic admission review.&rdqu...
The researchers surmised this was a problem of communication, more than anything else; the information wasn’t reaching the students and families it needed to reach, and in the cases when it did, it wasn’t as clear and useful as it could be. Hoxby and Sarah Turner, an economics professor at the University of Virginia, tested whether they could change enrollment patterns. From 2010 to 2012, Hoxby’s team sent out personalized, detailed packets encouraging the high-achieving, low-income students to apply to several schools and providing application-fee waivers and financial-aid i...
Piedmont Virginia Community College is getting rid of two certificate programs and adding a new one. Officials cited low enrollment and declining state money in unanimous board decisions Wednesday afternoon to cut career studies certificates in biotechnology and human services. The biotechnology career studies certificate was created to help the University of Virginia staff new laboratories, Donnelly said, and Piedmont successfully trained many employees. “That need has since declined,” he said, adding that the only student still enrolled in the program currently is inactive.
Saying its college admission exams do not focus enough on the important academic skills, the College Board announced on Wednesday a fundamental rethinking of the SAT, ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong, cutting obscure vocabulary words and making the essay optional.
Reppas said the agency has been working with local services providers and public and private hospitals to address the concerns Bevelacqua raised, citing a report on emergency evaluations by the University of Virginia’s Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy that was completed in December and had similar findings.
A popular teaching technique to help elementary students develop emotional and social skills also leads to academic achievement, according to a study released Thursday. In a randomized, controlled trial that examined the technique known as Responsive Classroom, researchers found that children in classrooms where the technique was fully used scored significantly higher in math and reading tests than students in classrooms where it wasn’t applied. Sara Rimm-Kaufman, the study’s lead author and a professor of education at the University of Virginia, said the results are important duri...
The name came out of the blue, striking Johns Hopkins University women’s lacrosse coach Janine Tucker like a lightning bolt. Why not, her son Ryan Tucker suggested, ask Steele Stanwick if he would be interested in filling the vacant women’s team offensive coordinator position?
The Blue Ridge Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly opened its doors Wednesday. PACE provides comprehensive care to eligible seniors so that they can remain at home. That care also gives up to 175 seniors clinical care, therapy and other services under one roof. It includes an adult day care center, bathing facilities, physician-supervised exam rooms, and physical therapy. PACE is a joint venture of the Riverside Health System, the University of Virginia Health System, and the Jefferson Area Board for Aging.
(Commentary) Many more of us have heard about the pioneering work on reincarnation by Ian Stevenson, the esteemed University of Virginia psychiatrist who investigated 2,500 cases of little children who seemed to remember their previous life. … A specific example of the paradigm shift showed up recently in the University of Virginia's magazine Virginia. An article titled "The Science of Reincarnation" summarized the recent work by Stevenson's successor, Jim Tucker, on recent American reincarnation cases. What stood out for me more than the well-presented article itself ...
The NYU study is the latest in a line indicating that the baby media products have no demonstrable educational value. A 2010 University of Virginia study found that infants between 12 and 18 months learned roughly the same vocabulary regardless of whether they used materials.
Now a new fight has begun over Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe's pick to be the new chairman of the state Democratic party: Dwight Jones, mayor of Richmond. Back in 2012, he issued a statement opposing President Obama's support of same-sex unions. University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst Geoff Skelley says that's causing a backlash in the party. "It's strange, at least in the sense of messaging and the kind of message that Democrats have been sending," Skelley says. "For them to now do this is a little bit... it just seems counterproductive for what...
In the 2010 elections, GOP politicians who supported the bailout were pilloried. And this year, the issue has been raised against GOP candidates in Virginia, Kentucky and Louisiana. As a result, Republicans are “running as fast as their legs can carry them in the other direction,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“Allowing customers to enter information via a secure offshore website would have saved time for the co-conspirators,” said Maggie Sullivan, a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law and intern with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia.
Dee Elementary School in Ogden School District has been the lowest-performing school in the state for years, but in 2010 the district was given a multi-million-dollar improvement grant to help failing schools, like Dee, succeed. “Our students wanted to learn so badly they just didn’t know how to be successful,” said Sondra Jolovich-Motes, who is the principal at Dee Elementary School. With the funds, Motes was sent to a special leadership program at the University of Virginia. She came back with training and began research on the school’s teachers and students.