In what was described as the first major look at relationship quality and religion across racial and ethnic lines, researchers reported a significant link overall between relationship satisfaction and religious factors for whites, Hispanics and African Americans. The study appears in the August issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family. True to the old aphorism, couples that pray together stay together, said study co-author W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, based at University of Virginia, and "African American couples are more likely to have a shared ...
It was almost a year ago when the H1N1 virus sent school officials scrambling to keep students safe from the new flu strain that had invaded college and university campuses across the country — from Washington State University, where officials saw more than 2,000 cases, to the University of Virginia, where hundreds of cases cropped up. ... we’re not expecting H1N1 to surge this year,” Dr. Jim Turner, the executive director of student health at the University of Virginia, told FoxNews.com. “Since students returned from winter break in January – there has been very ...
The University of Virginia, which last week announced a new procedure to ensure that students report whether they've been arrested, will ask other schools to join a voluntary system of letting one another know about serious incidents on their campuses. U.Va. plans to send a letter next week to the state's public and private colleges and universities asking "them to join us in a system of courtesy calls to each other," said Allen W. Groves, dean of students. It's simply one more point of information for use in each school's overall safety and security assessment," he said.
M. Denise Williams
A doctor at the Southern Albemarle Family Practice and an alumnus of the School of Medicine
Dr. Steven DeKosky
Dean of the Medical School
Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer’s
New York Times | Aug. 9
Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills
Professor of medicine, allergy and immunology was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society, which includes the likes of Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.
UVA Medical Professor Joins Great Science Minds
WVIR NBC-29 | Aug. 10
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
85 Days to Decide: Obama's Golden Touch Tested in Colorado Primary Race
Fox News | Aug.
By Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor and author of “Why Don't Students Like School?
The discussions regarding whether or not adopting the Common Core standards will improve education is, to me, emblematic of a larger issue. When we adopt education policies at the state or federal level, the belief that they will improve things is not based on anything much more solid than faith or hope. ... if we don’t have a good understanding of the system, what reason is there to think that we can accurately predict what will happen when we make changes to the system?
As University of Virginia students return to grounds, some local families are preparing to host newcomers. Every year, UVa's International Hospitality Program welcomes dozens of students from abroad. ... This year the program is welcoming students from eight countries, including China, Bulgaria, Malayasia and Thailand. However, they are still looking for more host families.
The University of Virginia has removed about 3,850 land-line telephones from residence halls in a move that will save $500,000 annually. The removal of the telephones marks the fact that today's students overwhelmingly rely on mobile phones. U.Va. also is upgrading the systems that deliver cellular-phone signals.
UVA is the first university in the state to earn Exemplary Environmental Enterprise (E3) status from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. On top of using trayless dining and implementing a new composting program, dining services is also part of the Campus Kitchens Project, a student-powered hunger relief partnership. ... UVA's housing division is also being recognized for green efforts, like using fluorescent light bulbs. It is also in the middle of demolishing 11 dorms and replacing them with seven new LEED certified buildings.
The University of Virginia revealed Monday new details about how it will implement a rule requiring students to say if they have been arrested - and how it intends to protect those students’ privacy. ... UVa students will be prompted to disclose any arrests when they log in for the first time in the fall semester to the university’s NetBadge system that allows access to e-mail and course materials.
Joe Baker
President of the Medicare Rights Center and a graduate of the Law School
Answers About Medicare: Part 5
New York Times | Aug. 8
Meghan Eckman
A 2000 U.Va. graduate and director of the "Parking Lot Movie," which opens in Dumbo, Brooklyn, was reviewed in the New York Times
Imperfect Attendants
New York Times | Aug. 6
and
Film About UVa Corner Parking Lot Plays in NYC
WCAV CAB-19
Tim Lavigne
A former U.Va. shortstop and closer
Tim Lavigne retires from Patriots to pursue coaching
CentralJersey.com | Aug. 7
Meredith Cavalier
A certified lifeguard and a rising second-year U.Va. swimmer
At several local campuses this fall, students will have the option of renting textbooks instead of buying them. The typical rental fee is less than half the purchase price of a new book. ... The idea for the new option at TCC germinated when President Deborah DiCroce visited the University of Virginia bookstore last year and discovered that it had a rental program.
Peter D. Norton
Assistant professor of science, technology and society in the School of Engineering and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.
Auto makers pulling out stops to re-image minivan
Houston Chronicle | Aug. 8
Peter Ochs
A professor of modern Judaic studies
Is India ready for scriptural reasoning?
Hindustani Times | Aug. 8
Larry Sabato
Director for the Center for Politics
Midterm elections set records, says analyst Sabato
Market Watch | Aug. 6
and
President Obama Reaches Out to His Base
Fox News | Aug. 6
and
Why GOP reaction is muted as judge af...
The coaches of the University of Virginia football team weren't the only ones judging the players on the field Friday afternoon. For the first time, fans had the opportunity to sit in on a pre-season practice. Practices are open to the public through Tuesday, August 10.
The offensive and defensive linemen gathered in a circle yesterday, taking turns battling one on one for the first time since last spring. They knew these drills are when playing time is won and lost. For the Virginia coaches, they offer chances to evaluate players in a competitive environment. Offensive-line coach Ron Mattes gave a list of at least six things, off the top of his head, that he was seeking.
It happened on a rare occasion during the Al Groh tenure — an assistant coach stealing the show during a news conference. As first-year Virginia coach Mike London had predicted, his former boss and current Cavalier defensive coordinator Jim Reid impressed during a press conference that fell just two days before training camp starts.
... Despite 275,000 to 325,000 illegal immigrants, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, Virginia is a state where many foreign-born residents become U.S. citizens -- a trend perhaps lost in the current partisan hissing match. University of Virginia demographers estimate at least 43 percent of the foreign born naturalize. They are better educated and more prosperous than those who do not become citizens.
By Dr. Bankole A. Johnson, chairman of the department of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences
... For decades, Americans have clung to a near-religious conviction that rehab -- and the 12-step model pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous that almost all facilities rely upon -- offers effective treatment for alcoholism and other addictions. Here's the problem: We have little indication that this treatment is effective. When an alcoholic goes to rehab but does not recover, it is he who is said to have failed. But it is rehab that is failing alcoholics. The therapies offered in most U.S. alcohol tr...
... Now, over a decade of student computer use data out of the “state for lovers” backs the conclusion that Redmond is increasingly out of sight and mind on campus.
The University of Virginia has published rather telling data about student computer use on their campus and it doesn’t look good for Microsoft.