Experts say finding quality child care is not always easy. Parents sign their infants up for daycare before they've even been conceived, competing on lengthy waiting lists. "I think it's a pretty dire situation right now," said Dr. Leslie Cintron, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia.
“Part of (the public proposal) is the rise of a celebrity culture, where everyone is acting like they’re a mini-celebrity and seeking the limelight,” said Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at University of Virginia.
University of Virginia English professor Mark Edmundson is worried about what he views as a false promise to under-served communities. "Mostly online education programs will provide fourth-rate learning opportunities for poor kids who have little intellectual background," he said in an email. "The purveyors of online education will take the kids' money and lock them deep into debt. They will acquire few if any useful skills. But their educational debt will turn them into a class of indentured servants, well-nigh slaves. To say that this will help lots of poor people to get Y...
Former University of Virginia professor and civil rights leader Julian Bond was arrested Wednesday outside the White House. Bond was with a group of prominent activists including actress Daryl Hannah and former Congressman Robert Kennedy Jr. They were protesting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, which would carry oil from Canada to Texas.
Edward Triplett’s dissertation lets visitors enter historical ruins digitally reconstructed from 360 degrees of photographs.
(Commentary by U.Va. law professor Brandon L. Garrett and New York University law professor Erin Murphy) So far courts have all upheld DNA collection from felons, reasoning that convicts forfeit some of the rights of ordinary citizens. Maryland v. King is about something new: More than one-half of the 50 states (including Maryland) and the federal government authorize compulsory collection of DNA from people who have been arrested.
Many of the schools that have produced some of the world's most successful hedge fund managers are not all from the Ivy League, Business Insider reported.
"Most of the tissue in an organism that's recently dead, recently killed, is actually still alive," Charles Grisham, a chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, explained to Discovery News. "In this case, even though the brain function is missing, the tissues will still respond to stimuli."
There is little international policing of land deals resulting in local farmers being forced off lands and deeper into poverty.
Host Michel Martin continues the conversation about why boys fall behind in school. She speaks with a group of parents and experts, including Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education.
House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Chair Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) today released a letter signed by more than 50 constitutional law experts (including Risa Goluboff,
Justice Thurgood Marshall Professor of Law) which says that laws aimed at reducing gun violence and respect for the Second Amendment are not mutually exclusive.
When people incorporate art and technology, the first question is, how do you get the technology to work? This has been true since the days when early electronic composers manually cut and spliced audiotape to the lengths they wanted; and it’s true for today’s multimedia, multi-computer productions Such as “Auksalaq,” the so-called telematic opera by Matthew Burtner and Scott Deal that rolled out at the Phillips Collection on Monday night.
The reassuring hand you reach for in times of trouble has more power than you know: It calms areas of the brain that register alarm, finds a research from the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin.
Over the past decade, Jonathan Kipnis, a neuroimmunologist in the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s department of neuroscience, has discovered a possible link, a modern twist on the age-old notion of the body-mind connection. His research suggests that the immune system engages the brain in an intricate dialogue that can influence our thought processes, coaxing our brains to work at their best.
“Rubio's singular challenge is to fulfill the purpose of his selection--to connect to Hispanics that increasingly are tuning out the GOP, judging by election returns,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “And historic bilingual response is a creative solution, and we'll see whether it helps at all.”
Dr. Donna Broshek with the University of Virginia Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Institute debunks the idea that young athletes should pick themselves up and get back in the game. Broshek said, "Sometimes there are people who have very devastating injuries because they're exposed to too many forces when the brain is in a vulnerable state."
The article quotes Jonathan Turman and Steven Easter, fourth-year mechanical engineering students who created a 3D-printed unmanned aircraft.
Students at the University of Virginia are remembering one of their own, after a deadly accident last month. Friends of alumnus Blair Phillips have set up a memorial exhibit and scholarship to celebrate his life. Phillips, 24, died on January 19, after a fall while skiing in Colorado led to an unexpected stroke.
"Despite the marital misbehavior of a few politicians and athletes, infidelity is becoming less popular, not more popular, in America,” says Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox, Director of the Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
The Catholic Church’s declining influence, priesthood sex scandals and the rise of Islam might convince church leaders to look outside Europe for the next pope, a University of Virginia professor and church expert said Tuesday.