Skin color creates discriminating shoppers according to a University of Virginia study. Public policy professor Jennifer Doleac and her research partner just published the findings of their year-long study "The Visible Hand." They posted online classified ads in 300 communities showing either a black or white hand displaying an iPod for sale. The study finds the black seller got fewer and lower offers. Potential buyers were also more leery of sending online payments to the black seller.
When it comes to the rollout, “essentially, the president is being subjected to a rather lopsided negative advertising campaign against him and his signature program because of the (understandably) brutal news coverage,” said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “If Obama can’t get his approval above 40 or so, it’s hard to see how the Democrats are going to be able to do anything positive in the 2014 midterms.”
Officials from the state’s flagship university maintain that they do not have quotas for admission. “U.Va. does not use quotas, nor do we have admission or enrollment targets or goals for high schools, counties, districts, or regions of the state,” said university spokesman McGregor McCance in an e-mail. “Applications are reviewed holistically and comprehensively based on merit.”
The University of Virginia achieved its highest diversion rate yet in the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Game Day Challenge,” held in conjunction with the Cavaliers’ Oct. 26 football game against the Georgia Institute of Technology at Scott Stadium.
“There is a certain slice of the population that commits this crime, and it’s obvious that working with youth gives you an opportunity,” says University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, a leading authority on the law of religious liberty. “Religious organizations are a place where you can work with youth.”
Every year colleges and universities ask applicants to write essays to explain who they are and to show how they think and write (assuming that the students actually write the essays themselves). Here are some of the more unusual essay prompts for the 2013-14 college application season:University of VirginiaWhat’s your favorite word and why?In 2006, graduate student Robert Stilling discovered an unpublished poem by Robert Frost while doing research in U.Va.’s Small Collections Library. Where will your Stilling moment be in college?“To tweet or not to tweet.”
In the absence of food stamps, however, even a more sophisticated model could show poverty getting worse. "What would people do if they didn't have SNAP? They would probably allocate other money to food," Smeeding says. "But in general they would end up with less, and they would have to spend other money on food, so something else would lose." But Dustin Cable, a poverty researcher at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, points out that another possible scenario is that the "the lowering of taxes and economic growth that would ...
A new Charlottesville senior care facility and program that’s been years in the making is expected to be up and running soon. Officials from across the region and state gathered Monday to celebrate the opening of the building that will house the Blue Ridge Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, or PACE center. The initiative is a joint venture of the University of Virginia Health System; the Jefferson Area Board for Aging; and Riverside Health, a Virginia-based nonprofit health care organization.
It was thought that people only spread the disease when they had coughs and other symptoms, said Dr. Erik Hewlett, a University of Virginia whooping cough researcher who was not involved in the FDA study but has collaborated with Merkel. Health officials have sought to protect small children by vaccinating the people who are in contact with them such as grandparents and baby sitters_ a strategy called "cocooning." But that may not work as well as hoped if infected people who don't show any symptoms can still spread it, the research suggests. "This is a whole new way of think...
College basketball and sports television mark a colorful milestone today: 30 years of coaches wearing Hawaiian shirts at a tournament in a tiny gym that helped turn ESPN into a 24-hour ratings and revenue machine. The Maui Invitational, played annually in the 2,400-seat Lahaina Civic Center, was born two years after one of the most stunning upsets in sports history. In 1982, the top-ranked and unbeaten University of Virginia, led by 7-foot-4 Ralph Sampson, lost 77-72 in Honolulu to Chaminade University, a Catholic school with an enrollment of about 800 that played at one of college basketball&...
“Remember, four months ago, Syria was going to be the key issue in 2014, then it was the shutdown, now it’s Obamacare,” said Larry Sabato, a political-science professor at the University of Virginia. “I have no idea what will dominate the fall, and neither does anybody else.”
A University of Virginia student group is holding an online auction to raise money to aid in the restoration of the school's historic Rotunda. RestoreUVA is holding the auction through Dec. 5.
Experts on gun violence and mental health will recommend changes in Virginia policies at a forum in Charlottesville. The public forum is set for Monday afternoon at the University of Virginia. It's being led by U.Va. professor Richard Bonnie, a nationally recognized expert in mental health policy and criminal law who chaired a commission that made recommendations after the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings.
“It’s really easy to be number 20,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and author of A More Perfect Constitution: Why the Constitution Must Be Revised: Ideas to Inspire a New Generation. “It’s very difficult to be number 34,” he said. “It’s like the last senator to vote for something controversial. You’re held responsible. …It’s not impossible, but I’ll believe it when I see it.”
Yahoo confirmed Monday that Katie Couric will be joining the online giant as “global news anchor” in 2014. She will conduct interviews with newsmakers and oversee a staff of reporters in her new position.
Pearson, the largest education company in the world, has “a new global education strategy.” What exactly is it? Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham explains in this post. Willingham is a professor and director of graduate studies in psychology at the University of Virginia.
But even school board members acknowledge that attaining taxing authority involves a complicated legislative process in Richmond that could take at least three years to accomplish. University of Virginia School of Law professor A.E. Dick Howard, a state constitutional law expert, said that in Virginia power is centralized at the state level. “The General Assembly has been quite jealous of its prerogatives and not inclined to give counties and cities independent authority in any area,” said Howard, who led the commission that wrote Virginia’s current constitution in 1971.
Having been a co-founder of Reddit, the behemoth social news site, at 22 with his roommate from the University of Virginia, Alexis Ohanian cashed out 16 months later, when the company was sold to Condé Nast for an undisclosed sum. He went on to join Hipmunk, a travel site, and was a co-founder of Breadpig, which raises funds for novelty items (he calls it “Newman’s Own for nerds”). When he’s not concocting start-ups, he spends his days as an angel investor to feel-good sites like Upworthy, serves as an adviser to young techies and is an unflappable champion of the Inter...
University of Virginia law professor Dan Ortiz: "I don’t think there’s any constitutional problem there. It’s crazy. It’s, politically, a crazy strategy."