(Commentary co-written by Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor) Recent analyses show that distance learning went poorly; most students will be far behind where they should be this fall. That’s not just because teachers had to throw together lessons on the fly; kids didn’t do their part.
(Commentary by Raymond Scheppach, professor of public policy) Many public employee pension plans run by states don’t have enough money in them to make upcoming pension payments to retired state workers.
Teens who feel their parents are overly controlling may have more difficulty with romantic relationships as adults, a new UVA study suggests.
For Richmond attorney Jackie Stone, seeing the historical marker on Main Street honoring Oliver Hill Sr. serves as a reminder not just of the late civil rights attorney’s legal legacy, but of the path he helped blaze for African Americans in the legal community. So when the marker was vandalized with crude language during this past weekend’s protests, Stone decided to act. “He was such a very special man,” said Stone, a graduate of the University of Virginia and Harvard Law School. “To be able to do what we could do to honor and preserve his legacy, that’s something that meant a lot to me.”
J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said he thinks Good is a risky candidate for the district given its demographic makeup: It’s one of the largest congressional districts in the country, spanning from the Washington, D.C., suburbs to the northern border of North Carolina, and it encompasses many different political views.
On Saturday, Kyle Kondik, managing editor for “Crystal Ball” at the University of Virginia's Center of Politics
Ebony Hilton Buchholz, an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Virginia, said she expects a similar spike attributed to Memorial Day festivities to happen two weeks following the Floyd protests. But she said that if the protests presented a risk, racism too is a public health threat. “The same determinants that lead to worse health outcomes are the same determinants that lead to an increase in what we see with police brutality,” said Hilton Bucholz. ”If you look at the intersectionality of pandemic and protest, they share the same vein. It’s the same disease.”
With a new state law concerning public statues about to take effect, Albemarle County officials are hoping residents will chime in through an online survey and virtual meetings on how the Court Square grounds in downtown Charlottesville should look. The county has planned a virtual discussion at 6:30 p.m. June 29 on how to present multiple stories in a public setting. The meeting will be led by Sara Bon-Harper, executive director of James Monroe’s Highland; Louis Nelson of the University of Virginia; and Jennifer Stacy, a member of Highland’s Descendant Advisory Panel. Court Square will the to...
These people tried to improve the world, and succeeded, but also indirectly killed millions of people. That, at least, is the lesson of this week’s Giz Asks, in which a number of historians wrestle with the question of which technological innovation has accidentally killed the most people.Peter NortonAssociate Professor, Science, Technology and Society, University of VirginiaIn 1963, Tiny Helwig of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company said, “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” But with the help of guns and other technology, people kill in far greater numbers than they otherwise ...
(Podcast) Rachel Harmon, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, and Vesla M Weaver, a professor of political science and sociology at Johns Hopkins University, discuss the role the federal government, and federal funding, have played in transforming policing in the U.S.
(Commentary by Marlene L. Daut, professor of African diaspora studies and associate director of UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies) Here in the United States, we have over a half-dozen statues of Thomas Jefferson. While these monuments are meant to highlight an ideal history of Jefferson as one of the United States’s “Founding Fathers,” they also remind those of us unwilling to forget that our country’s third president, the architect of the Declaration of Independence, was also an enslaver and by many accounts also a rapist. Because he founded ...
Why does it happen? If the doctor has a racial bias, he or she will have a general impression that African American women are more likely to be uncooperative or less likely to do what the doctor has prescribed. Moreover, the gender and race of patients influences whether these doctors follow the usual treatment guidelines. But it’s not only African Americans and women that face physician bias. To overcome bias, Chapman suggests doctors should take the Implicit Association Test, developed by psychologists at Harvard University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington.
This month, the University of Virginia said it would suspend its ACT/SAT mandate for a one-year “pilot” and then evaluate the results in 2021. The halt “will give us an extraordinary opportunity to explore the utility of tests in our overall admissions process going forward,” UVA President James E. Ryan said in a statement.
There's no more talk of 20% declines in enrollment. At regional public universities, the picture is more mixed but still better than a few months ago. At the University of Virginia, 4,000 freshmen have committed to enroll; the target is 3,748. Brian T. Coy, a spokesman, said that “more attrition than normal” was expected.
While many organizations have promoted diversity and inclusion over the years, the idea of being explicitly anti-racist may be a newer concept to some. “To be anti-racist is to acknowledge the permanence of racism through organizations, industries and communities, and to recognize that racism is a system of disproportionate opportunity and penalties based on skin color,” says Laura Morgan Roberts, a UVA professor, author and speaker.
English professor Kiki Petrosino, whose book, “White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia,” was recently published, and MFA alumna Safiya Sinclair are among 15 poets who tell us about the verses and books they are reading, or that they hope others seek out.
Ending up in the neonatal intensive care unit with a new baby is a nightmare for many parents, especially during a global pandemic. Now, a grant is helping nurses and families get through that tough time at UVA Children’s Hospital.
Depending on the sample group, anywhere between 10% and 43% of people infected with COVID-19 had no symptoms, according to a body of research reviewed by William Petri, a professor of medicine and microbiology at the University of Virginia who specializes in infectious diseases.
Some respondents worried the system simply won’t be effective because Bluetooth isn’t precise enough to tell whether people are genuinely close enough to each other to spread dangerous microbes or sitting on opposite sides of an office wall. “Why compromise privacy for a tool that is not the best way to suppress the spread of COVID?” said Ashley Deeks, a former State Department official and professor at the UVA School of Law.
Humanity: A Leader’s Secret WeaponLeading through a crisis with humanity is not simple, acknowledges Morela Hernandez, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. “But it’s not an impossible task,” she contends. Hernandez, this week’s guest on the “Three Big Points” podcast, explains that we know from social science how to address the key issues of leading through difficult times at the individual, relational, collective and contextual levels.