In the end, Bike & Build isn't just about helping others, but giving its volunteers a different oulook on life. "This trip helps you appreciate the little things, like a hot shower, a warm meal, or cookies for dinner," said Hawa Ahmed, a bicyclist from Pennsylvania attending the University of Virginia.
As University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox notes, most married mothers with children in the home either don’t work or work less than full time. So if they get divorced, alimony is the way to mitigate the sacrifice they are making. As Wilcox notes, “Alimony has always protected the spouse who specializes in the care of the children and the cultivation of the home. And we know that taking time away from the workplace to raise kids is costly in terms of your immediate personal income and your long-term economic prospects.”
Emily Soule, a Richmond-area student bound for U.Va., discusses her experiences during a “gap year” spent in the Chimborazo province in Ecuador.
It's no secret that in the current job market, new graduates are facing tough times. Even in this climate, the University of Virginia School of Law is finding work for almost all of its graduates.
David A. Martin, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who specializes in immigration issues, said the judge's concerns weren't unfounded. "There have been instances of this kind in the past where someone who bonded out from a criminal proceeding moved quickly through the deportation proceeding and was deported before local law enforcement knew about it," Martin said. "I know ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) was working on better communication in that kind of setting, but these instances have occurred."
Recent high-profile incidents have drawn attention to "bath salts" as a new and potentially hazardous type of recreational drug. Addiction medicine specialist Dr. Erik W. Gunderson of University of Virginia and colleagues review available data on the use and effects of these designer drugs.
“I don’t think the average voter really cares about Holder,” University of Virginia political analyst Kyle Kondik said. “It’s less of a, quote, ‘scandal’ than it is a policy disagreement, a classic battle between law enforcement and the press.”
(Video) University of Virginia's Larry Sabato discusses the political implications of Governor Chris Christie's choice to replace Sen. Frank Lautenberg. He speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line."
One in three patients admitted to the hospital is malnourished, according to several recent studies. "It's a shockingly high number," says Beth Quatrara, a clinical nurse specialist with the digestive health department at University of Virginia Health System. "And if we don't intervene promptly, the number of malnourished patients in the hospital will only increase," she says.
In this post, cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes about how students best learn new material. Willingham is a professor and director of graduate studies in psychology at the University of Virginia and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?”
The University of Virginia recently finished its first semester of free online courses, and hundreds of thousands of people around the world participated. There were 400,000 students enrolled in six total courses. Roughly, 40-percent of them were actively involved in the class, and 25,000 of them passed all the tests.
(Commentary) An academic author’s argument might sound good at first. He might pull you right in. Terms used by thinker-writers, such as good society, pluralism, and parental choice, are engaging or at least appear benign. And you might hear one write something that really draws you in, such as "...A truly good education system will...honour the deeply-held commitments of the parents whose children are being educated.” And then the author, such as academic fellow Ashley Berner at the University of Virginia, continues by laying out a perfectly accurate claim like the following ...
If American universities are spending millions of dollars a year on health services for students, shouldn't they at least know what they're dealing with? Duh: yes, says James C. Turner, director of student health services at the University of Virginia. "We have no aggregate data on either the health trends of college students or their utilization of health services," Turner said here at the annual meeting of the American College Health Association. That's why, last year, Turner started the College Health Surveillance Network, which compiles data from volunteer institution...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat, is running for the seat. Some on Twitter suggested that Christie should appoint Booker to the seat, but University of Virginia Prof. Larry Sabato said that such a move would imperil Christie’s White House ambitions.
The University of Virginia School of Architecture announced plans Friday to launch a new doctoral degree program that will welcome its first students in fall 2014. The doctoral degree in constructed environment will span the school’s primary disciplines, while advancing and augmenting the school’s history of interdisciplinary research, according to a university release.
“Democrats would have preferred another candidate this year, but their bench is empty,” Larry Sabato, the longtime political analyst at the University of Virginia, told Salon. ”In a normal year, you would write him off. He would have lost in a landslide in 2009.”
Most selective colleges, public and private, profess to seek a diverse class of students. But that is often an elusive goal. Sometime this month, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on a suit challenging an affirmative action policy in Texas. At issue in Fisher v. University of Texas is whether a student’s race or ethnicity can factor into admissions decisions.
Other researchers, including Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, said the study will help dispel lingering notions that those who turn to the Internet to find love will fare poorly. But he said the report failed to convince him that meeting online gives couples "a big leg up" when it comes to marriage.
(Editorial) Now, this is impressive. A University of Virginia professor and a former professor have been awarded Asia’s version of a Nobel Prize — which comes with a cool $1 million and a gold medal.
The Verizon Foundation, Swinfen Charitable Trust and the University of Virginia Health System recently announced the expansion of an innovative telemedicine program. It uses telemedicine to connect clinicians at 260 hospitals in 68 developing countries with more than 550 medical specialists around the world, including 68 at the University of Virginia.