Robert Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, is blasting Governor Bob McDonnell's office for skipping a federal grant that could have funded preschool programs. Virginia's youngest students miss out on up to $45 million.
(By Larry Sabato, politics professor and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics) In the days and years after Nov. 22, 1963, anti-Dallas sentiment was rampant across the country. I saw it myself growing up in Norfolk, Va., and attending Catholic school there, where Dallas was cursed and condemned in the strongest terms.
Dan Brown, the author of the wildly popular thriller “The Da Vinci Code,” has released his newest book, “Inferno,” which draws from Dante’s masterpiece, “Inferno.” Husband and wife scholars Mark Parker (James Madison University) and Deborah Parker (University of Virginia) have come out with a companion book, “Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown,” to provide readers of Brown’s Inferno with an engaging introduction to Dante and his world.
Do job interviews really help the people doing the hiring make better decisions? Here’s an interesting post by cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes about here that is just as important. Willingham is a professor and director of graduate studies in psychology at the University of Virginia.
(Audio) Professor of Psychology Timothy Salthouse joins the show with Les Sinclair to shed light on why those “tip of your tongue” moments might not be so bad.
The new study “is exciting, but one has to be cautious” about whether such a drug will work, says geneticist Stephen Rich of the University of Virginia. That’s because inhibiting ApoC-III late in life may not mimic being born with an APOC3 mutation, which protects for a lifetime, he says.
Then there’s the reality that, in the social media, privacy may not be an option. From the Fordham blog-sharing snaps of dance floor makeouts to the circumstantial evidence furnished by Steubenville bystanders’ Instagrams and tweets, sex, like all socialization, increasingly has a public, online component. “This act that is ostensibly the most private doesn’t seem to be that way at all for people in contemporary culture, because of the proliferation of the camera devices,” said Anne Coughlin, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. “It&r...
But the party doesn't support the idea of elections to put its strength to a public test. Instead, it teaches that a caliphate is the only way to establish the party's honor and place in the world, said Ahmed Rahim, professor of Islamic studies at the University of Virginia who specializes in Islamic political movements.
McConnell, however, could face future challenges, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Another potential government shutdown looms in January. McConnell has promised no shutdowns over health care reform again. If he can’t deliver on that promise, he will suffer consequences at the ballot box, Sabato said.
Sophia Webb is enrolled in the dual credit program at PVCC and is also working on the guaranteed admissions program at the University of Virginia, which guarantees admission for students into the College of Arts and Sciences from community colleges around the commonwealth. “This program basically allowed me to go to my dream school,” says Webb. “I've always wanted to go UVa since I was about seven.”
The line of communication between the administration and the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia is not always clear – as demonstrated by last year’s attempted firing of President Teresa A. Sullivan – but the board is working to change that.
The remains of a University of Virginia graduate student who went missing in 1986 finally have been positively identified. The body of Patrick D. Collins, who was 27 at the time he disappeared in March 1986, was found several years after he disappeared and was classified as an anonymous cold case in New York state, said UVa police spokeswoman Lt. Melissa Fielding.
At the University of Virginia on Nov. 1, religious scholar Diana Butler Bass will discuss the decline in religious faith among young people.
The University of Virginia Department of Drama’s production of “Crazy for You,” which opened Thursday, is fluff in a blender, a swirl of dancing, singing silliness designed to tear you away from the real world, even if only for a short while. If you’re the kind of person who loves to watch the old 1930s movie musicals, you’ll love this.
The campaigning clock is ticking. The polls will close in Virginia in 11 days, and Friday, one of the country's top political prognosticators says Virginia could be on the verge of a Democratic sweep. University of Virginia political expert Larry Sabato and his team at the UVA Center for Politics say Terry McAuliffe will likely walk away with a win on November 5. "He has a lead, and it's not going anywhere," said Geoff Skelley, political analyst at UVA's Center for Politics.
(Audio) James Wyckoff of the University of Virginia talks about his study on the DC teacher evaluation system and a Boston study that shows charter school students outperforming their peers in public school.
(Audio) One of the greatest horror novels was written almost two hundred years ago by a nineteen year old. “Frankenstein” was published in 1818 in London. Young Mary Shelley came up with the idea while she and her husband, the poet Percy Shelley, were vacationing with poet Lord Byron on Lake Geneva. The weather was dreary and Lord Byron challenged everyone to make up a ghost story. Mary came up with “Frankenstein.” Among the guests: U.Va. English professor Paul Cantor.
Those surveys focused on the public’s opinion of the Affordable Care Act and not on the political leaders involved in the shutdown, although House Republicans also took a hit. “Anyone who can read a poll knows what happened,” said the analysts in Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball newsletter at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
If Mr Clinton had been on the ballot, too, they were asked, would you have voted for him or for her? - 58 per cent answered that they preferred him over his wife. 'This is not a compliment to Hillary,' said Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia. 'It's obvious that without Bill, she would not be in a position to win the party nomination.'
(By Robert Pianta and Nicole Dooley; Pianta is dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia) This month, we learned that Virginia decided not to apply for the latest round of the federal Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge grants. A successful application would have meant up to $45 million to fund more effective early-education programs for Virginia's youngest citizens. Virginia's decision to not take advantage of a federal investment in the human capital of its young, mostly poor citizens, is a strikingly stark statement of our priorities.