(Commentary) “There is definitely a lot of neuro-garbage in the education market,” Daniel Willingham, a University of Virginia psychologist who is an expert on science and education, says on his blog. And there are lots of vested interests in perpetuating it. A large industry of education consultants, advisers and academics – not to mention publishers and businesses selling everything from seminars and textbooks to interactive smart boards – makes a living off these magic beans. Much of the research claiming that the beans work is remarkably shabby. But, he writes, &ldq...
Certain vitamins, supplements and even medications may contain gluten. Although many more are made from corn, potato or tapioca now, according to a report from The University of Virginia's School of Medicine, some do still contain wheat.
"Immigration has gone to the sidelines for now," said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "Issues like Syria are taking up all the oxygen."
Resolutions have become customary with Charlottesville and Albemarle County’s elected bodies. “They can recognize a cause or a group that many people deem worthy of recognition. They can publicize and support an activity that constituent groups find important or something worth celebrating or sharing,” said Bob Gibson, executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.
When award-winning actress, screenwriter and author Tina Fey steps up as the first speaker in a series of pro-arts education talks sponsored by the University of Virginia, it’s unlikely she’ll say anything new. “I’m not ready to be instructional. I hope it will be entertaining, but I’m only part of the discussion,” Fey said in a recent telephone interview. “I don’t think I’m telling people something they don’t understand. They already know the arts are important.”
Led by Janet Warren, a professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioural sciences at the University of Virginia, the researchers reviewed files of some of the most egregious sex offenders from the past 40 years,
“This rationale will work with some, and there is truth to the idea that attorneys must leave as much of their biases out of their legal work as possible,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “(But) here’s the problem: The attorney general is an elected position. It is political by nature, and the voters make choices based on the views of the candidates. They expect the winning candidate to carry out his platform, which is based in part on his party label and ideological views,” Sabato said.
Pryor, seeking a third term, faced a choice on the Syria issue of joining Cotton in backing Obama or siding with the public, which polls show largely opposes U.S. military intervention in Syria, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Since he’s in a very difficult, tight race, it’s perfectly understandable why he went with the public,” Sabato said in a phone interview.
The silence from incumbents, warns Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, could be the most damning. “The only thing worse than voting ‘yes’ or ‘no’ is voting ‘maybe,’” he said. “If you say you’re a leader and your incumbency matters, you have to demonstrate it in national issues like this one.”
In 2007, Greg Duncan, a professor of education at the University of California at Irvine, did an analysis of the effects of social and emotional problems on a sample of 25,000 elementary school students. He found, he says, “Emotional intelligence in kindergarten was completely unpredictive.” Children who started school socially and emotionally unruly did just as well academically as their more contained peers from first through eighth grades. David Grissmer, at the University of Virginia, reran Duncan’s analysis repeatedly, hoping to prove him wrong. Instead, he confirmed tha...
Former University of Virginia star Dawn Staley is now officially a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Staley was one of 12 members inducted Sunday in Springfield, Mass.
In a “sneak peek” at the annual rankings, scheduled to be released Tuesday, U.Va. is ranked among the top 25 National Universities.
The president might yet turn the tide. But, if he does not do so, experts say the damage would be far reaching. “If he loses this vote, not only is he flummoxed in domestic policy but he’s frustrated in what he wants to do on foreign policy,” said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “It would be kind of shocking to the political system.”
The University of Virginia will host a panel discussion this week on same-sex marriage. The discussion is set for 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Newcomb Hall Ballroom. It's free and open to the public.
Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia expert on school safety, summed up the approach: “How can we intervene before the gunman is in the school parking lot?”
Some hackathons have themes - nonprofit, health-related, mobile-only - but PennApps is "open-ended, so a lot of fun, quirky things come out of it," said Jasdev Singh, 21, a senior at the University of Virginia.
Statistics and interdisciplinary study are the focus of three new academic programs at the University of Virginia. Two of them – both undergraduate – begin this year, while a third – a new Ph.D. program in the School of Architecture – will begin in 2014.
(Editorial) Four years ago, a coalition of Virginia business, civic and political leaders launched a campaign to boost state funding for higher education and reverse a trend of recession-induced budget cuts that had triggered dramatic tuition increases.
The first name that comes to mind is Kalsoom Lakhani, the founder and CEO of Invest2Innovate – a social venture that provides support to seed-stage social enterprises and provides them access to capital in new markets. She received her bachelor’s from University of Virginia, and master’s degree from George Washington University.