Seeing University of Virginia students and others cross the railroad tracks in Charlottesville is an everyday sight. What you don't get to see every day is the perspective from inside the locomotive. In this NBC29 special report, we go inside the cab with the men who deal with dangerous railroad crossing situations every day.
Just one day after learning she’d been accepted into the University of Virginia, James River High School senior Madison Ruddy is also learning that her family will pay $12,458 for her first year of education. UVA recently announced a 4 percent tuition increase. “My dream is to go to medical school,” Ruddy says. “If the cost continues to rise, that’s definitely going to affect me.” In the last few weeks, UVA, Virginia Tech, Virginia Military Institute and Virginia State University have all announced tuition hikes ranging from 2.9 percent to 5 percent.
But for all the buzz given to the studies that uncover telltale genes, rarely mentioned are the most obvious and familiar examples of how genes aren’t destiny: identical twins. They share the same genome and, usually, the same parents, same neighborhood, and same food. And yet, as anybody who’s ever met a pair knows, they are not the same person. Why? “Ten years ago the prevailing theory was that there must be systematic differences in their environments,” says Eric Turkheimer, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. One twin is favored by her mother, s...
Virginia’s universities are reporting modest increases in tuition next year after nearly a decade of double-digit hikes. In April, the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors announced approval of a 3.8 percent tuition increase for in-state students and a 4.8 percent increase for out-of-state students.
Nailing the point, Larry Sabato, longtime political analyst at the University of Virginia, tweets later that evening: "Returning to email after pleasant Easter to find 11 obnoxious pleas for $$$. Now know answer to age old Q: Is nothing sacred?"
A study of genetically identical mice is providing some hints about humans. How can one identical twin be a wallflower while the other is the life of the party? A series of small events can reinforce one another and lead to lasting changes in the brain. The finding could help scientists finally figure out how one identical twin can become very outgoing while the other remains shy, says Eric Turkheimer, a psychologist at the University of Virginia.
“The narrative isn’t flowing the way McAuliffe hoped it would,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “He has to define his whole persona before Ken Cuccinelli does.”
Elizabeth Bass has been named the new executive director of the Virginia Mentoring Partnership. Bass comes to the agency after having served as executive director of Madison House, the University of Virginia’s student volunteer center in Charlottesville.
The three-year decline in applications to the top business schools appears to be over. Half of the Bloomberg Businessweek top 10 full-time MBA programs today reported healthy increases, with three citing double-digit gains in applications. Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management led the pack with a 12 percent increase in applications to the full-time MBA program, followed by the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, with an 11 percent jump.
Just walk into the cafeteria and you can see this is no ordinary elementary school. "One of the most striking differences is the openness of the eating space," said pediatrician Dr. Matthew Trowbridge, who also consulted on the project. Students can look into the area where the food is prepared, and they can look outside to a planned school garden, where vegetables will soon be planted. "The point is that you can see where the food is grown, where it is prepared." said Trowbridge, who is an emergency room doctor at the University of Virginia Medical School. "You are co...
The cost of college athletics is rising, but at the University of Virginia these expenses are matched by rising revenues. The school is bringing in more than it's shelling out - collecting more than $81 million last year.
In addition, using federal stimulus money, Cincinnati schools sent the principals and lead teachers from the targeted schools together to attend leadership-training workshops at the University of Virginia. One critical area of emphasis of the Virginia program is a team-based approach to problem solving, in which administrators and teachers become accustomed to sharing ideas with minimal confrontation or defensiveness. In contrast to the norm where teachers are isolated in their own classrooms, Cincinnati's personnel learned to welcome ongoing feedback focused on improving the quality of in...
“Aluminum is so common, so prevalent in the environment, that studying it is a hard task,” says John Savory, a professor emeritus of pathology at the University of Virginia who helped discover that aluminum exposure can cause neurological and dementia-like symptoms in dialysis patients. “Just a speck of dust can contaminate your sample, because it’s everywhere.”
Every two years the University of Virginia’s Miller Center host a transportation policy conference known for attracting prestigious participants and an equally distinguished audience. This year’s conference was no exception. Held in Washington, D.C. on April 29, the conference brought together an impressive group of panelists drawn from among Washington’s best known and most respected transportation insiders.
Four legendary investors gathered at the University of Virginia in late April to share their philosophies and strategies for success, personal fulfillment and philanthropy. All four were men, white and aging, and that prompted several audience members to submit questions wondering: Where are the women?
The magazine profiles PGA Commissioner Tim Finchem, a U.Va. law graduate.
Among the tidbits of wisdom cited was this one from Katie Couric’s 2012 commencement address: “Don't look for jobs. Look for people.”
The article mentions a possible agreement between a Ghanaian education school and U.Va.’s Curry School of Education. (Note: The Internet connection is spotty.)
“I don’t think most Virginians know this is happening,” Larry Sabato, University of Virginia Center for Politics director, said Wednesday on “The Daily Rundown.” “It will play out over a number of months. Either the FBI will find something or it will not. That will affect the final results. The guy’s been governing now for three years. He’s had ups and downs–a big success in transportation…People are viewing him over a long period of time. That’s why it hasn’t had that much of an impact yet.”