(Commentary) Children raised by a single parent are two to three times more likely to drop out of high school, says Bradford Wilcox, head of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, and boys from single-parent homes have double the risk of being arrested before they reach the age of 30.
"It was a post mortem on the 2012 election, and it was, 'why did we lose? What did we not do well? What can we do better?'" said Geoff Skelley, political analyst at the UVA Center for Politics.
(Video) A Politico editorial today asked "Where is today's Jack Kemp?" Discussing ways in which the Republican party can revive its entrepreneurial spirit, with Larry Sabato, University of Virginia; Jim Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute; and Grover Norquist, Americans For Tax Reform.
Essay by John Alexander, Associate Director of Sciences, Humanities and Art Network of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI). This is the winning entry for the Faculty/Staff/Administrator category of The Fetzer Institute -- Sustained Dialogue Empathy Essay Contest.
The University of Virginia expects to lose up to $12 million in research funding in 2013 and could see significant financial aid reductions in the coming years due to sequestration, the massive package of federal spending cuts that went into effect March 1.
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the U.Va.-based National Marriage Project) In February, President Obama delivered a speech in Chicago about strengthening the middle class and reducing gun violence. He made an observation that drew little attention but has the potential to bring together gridlocked Republicans and Democrats.
That's right, kids drinking low-fat milk tended to be heavier. "We were quite surprised" by the findings, Dr. Mark DeBoer told me in an email. He and his co-author, Dr. Rebecca Scharf, both of the University of Virginia, had hypothesized just the opposite.
For her dissertation project, Sophia Rochmes, a doctoral student in the history of art and architecture at UC Santa Barbara, is researching 15th-century manuscripts in ducal and noble libraries of present-day France and Belgium. She will be assisted in her work through a fellowship awarded by Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.
(By Professors Ed Hess and Jeanne Liedtka of U.Va.’s Darden School of Business) When it comes to growth, most managers, sadly, are like the little old ladies with the cups of quarters playing the slots, They just pull the handle and hope for the best. Sure, they may spend millions of dollars on consultants trying to create the right strategies, but in most cases the results are anemic. Strategies by themselves are not enough. What many CEOs and leaders think they know about growth is wrong.
(Commentary) Last year I wrote about the work of Andrew Kaufman, who teaches Russian literature at the University of Virginia. His community-service learning course helps demonstrate the relevance of 19th-century Russian literature to his students' lives by asking them to lead discussions on the texts with the residents of a nearby juvenile correctional center. Those residents find much with which to identify, and useful material for analyzing their own past mistakes, in the stories of authors like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. While the residents are discovering how long-dead Russian writers ca...
Jessica Lewis, who grew up in Cetronia, survived a second week on Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen." On Tuesday night's second episode of season 11, the chefs had to scale an eight-foot wall, run into a lobster cage and drop them one at a time in a bucket. Lewis, a former Hall of Fame swimmer at Parkland High School and the University of Virginia, relished the chance to compete in a physical challenge.
While some pundits have said Sanford is the prohibitive favorite, others, including Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, are more cautious. “The conventional wisdom is ruling Bostic out much too quickly,” Sabato said. “This election isn’t about Bostic. It’s about Sanford. Sanford has 100 percent name identification and got 37 percent of the vote.”
(Commentary) Communists and certain elements of the far left have engaged in such behavior for a long time, readily placing their faith in (leftist) men and replacing traditional religion—Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, etc.—with a Marxism or socialism that they essentially treat as a religion. Brian Lowe of the University of Virginia notes that in the Soviet system, Marx was the Messiah, the Party was the Church, the Proletariat was the Elect, the Revolution was the Second Coming, and more. The Communist Manifesto was accorded a level of sanctity approaching Holy Scri...
As different as the programs appear, common themes uniting them include not just interdisciplinary cooperation and a desire to explore how new technologies affect research, but also the mentality that their students should broaden their understanding of the sort of career options an advanced degree in the humanities can lead to. “[T]his is about sharing a model,” said Bethany Nowviskie, director of digital research and scholarship at the University of Virginia Library, who founded the network in response to a surge of interest in a fellowship program that brings students from diffe...
Print Consultants gave Gelman Library a stinging critique this week, calling it a subpar research library with sparse resources and staff as part of a months-long University review. Administrators declined to release details of the report, conducted by top librarians from University of Virginia and Columbia University.
Ashley Deeks, an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and an expert in international law, said many of the scenarios are case by case. "Even in the kinetic world, there is no real definition of what an armed attack is," she said, adding that states look to past practices.
(Commentary) We are fortunate to have two preferred training sites which have tailored their existing fellowship programs to meet the training needs of Navy neuropsychologists. Under the leadership of Dr. Jeffrey Barth and Dr. Donna Broshek of the University of Virginia and Dr. Bill Perry of the University of California San Diego, we have robust training programs that provide the highest quality training with special emphasis on concussion, specialized military populations and the neurologic conditions most often seen in active and retired military personnel.
When Lena Dunham's HBO series, "Girls," ventured into darker territory this season, she stepped on Meg Jay's turf. Although Jay said she has not seen the drama, hailed as the millenial generation's answer to "Sex and the City," she lives it, as a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in "twentysomethings."
Conservatives have long argued that society should encourage stable parental relationships. A recent report by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia concluded that promoting marriage is the best way “to make family life more stable for children whose parents don’t enjoy the benefit of a college education.”
Shahriar Nirjon of the University of Virginia and his colleagues devised a personal music player that attempts to sync music with a runner's pace and heart rate. Accelerometers and a tiny microphone embedded in a pair of earbuds gauge the runner's pace and record the pulsing of blood vessels. The device wirelessly transmits the data it collects via a smartphone to a remote computer that chooses the next song.