The University of Virginia’s School of Nursing announced Thursday that it has received its largest-ever gift. The $20 million donation from Washington, D.C.-area billionaire philanthropist William E. “Bill” Conway Jr. and his wife Joanne will support the enrollment of more than 1,000 nursing students during the next 10 years.
A new semester launched Wednesday for UVA’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, which offers educational opportunities and outings for adults in the community. Meadows Presbyterian Church hosted “A Taste of OLLI,” giving people a chance to become familiar with course offerings and meet members and instructors.
UVA Health is using technology to help people in rural areas cope with all the stress that comes with cancer.
“The book is fictional," said Kenneth J. Hughes, historian with UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. "There’s no real reason to believe it. That said, Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is fictional too. And it’s great. And ‘The Irishman’ is a great movie too.”
There are several other types of mental shortcuts people take, according to Ben Castleman, a UVA associate professor of education and public policy. People put off making choices, which may mean missing deadlines for school applications. One strategy, Castleman said, is to “rely on some kind of social norm or social reference. So, especially when we face uncertain decisions, it’s pretty common to say, ‘Well, what do other people I know do? What do people like me do?’”
Among those making the biggest jumps from last year in the annual rankings of education researchers are UVA’s Sarah Turner. Other UVA scholars listed in the top 200 include Carol Tomlinson, Daniel Willingham, Robert Pianta, Josipa Roksa, Benjamin Castleman, James Wycoff and Daphna Bassok.
(Commentary by Ken Hughes, research specialist at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) Once, not so long ago, congressional Republicans were impeachment’s constitutional stalwarts. They stood up for the House of Representatives’ “sole power of impeachment,” a power granted in the Constitution, including the right to subpoena witnesses and evidence. Even when the president under investigation was a Republican. Even when the Republican political base threatened to turn against them. But that was when the president was Richard Nixon, not Donald Trump.
"We forecast moderate to high levels of active transmission of influenza to continue for most U.S. states for the next couple of weeks," according to a report from researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia who work in a research partnership with AccuWeather.
(Commentary) A recent study from the University of Virginia updated those findings, adding that as the female representation of officers within an area increases, so do the reporting rates of violent crimes against women in the area. Female officers make women in the community feel safer to come forward.
According to a new study, the eating pattern in the United States has worsened in the past 50 years. “With highly processed foods readily and cheaply available at any time of the day or night,” Ali Guler, a professor of biology at the University of Virginia, said. “Many of these foods are high in sugars, carbohydrates, and calories, which makes for an unhealthy diet when consumed regularly over many years.”
Two grad students convinced the University of Virginia to save and store its library's card catalog, arguing that researchers and historians can use the cards.
Even if legal scholars believe that past precedent could potentially clear the way for Trump’s strike, some express discomfort with both the underlying law and the real-world results. “Many of the legal issues here are contested,” UVA law professor Ashley Deeks said. “Which legal framework even applies to the killing? What does it mean for a threat to be imminent? Is that even the proper test for today?”
Enrollment management is going to become increasingly unpredictable. Gregory Roberts, UVA’s dean of undergraduate admission, projects that “schools will be using their waitlist more than in years past and it will be increasingly difficult to predict yield in a highly competitive and intense admission environment.”
(Video) UVA’s Campbell Hall is slated to become a historic Virginia landmark. However, this building contains much less history than the others on the register.
UVA sociologist Bradford Wilcox has demonstrated that people in the upper class often still enter into, and benefit from, monogamous marriages, but that marriage norms have seriously deteriorated among the poor, with serious consequences for single parents and children: “Children born to working-class mothers are almost three times as likely to be born outside of wedlock, compared with children born to middle- and upper-class mothers. Children born to poor mothers are about five times as likely to be born out of wedlock.”
“One way to assess the situation regarding executive pay is to construct a ratio of CEO pay to that of the average corporate employee,” said George S. Geis, William S. Potter Professor of Law at the UVA School of Law. “For example, if the CEO earns $1 million at Firm X, while the average worker earns just $50,000, then the compensation ratio is 20x – or it’s 20 times as great.”
Junk foods can lead to weight gain not simply because they are high in calories, but because they interrupt with people’s sleep patterns.
The University of Virginia is in the midst of a major library renovation – a project that posed a unique problem – what to do with the old card catalog. Four million cards had been in storage since UVA switched to an electronic system, but some scholars were not ready to toss the paper record.
It’s time to start thinking about tax season, and a local partnership wants to help low-income families get their taxes done correctly. Among the partners of Cville Tax Aid are the Madison House CASH Program, UVA Human Resources and the UVA Medical Center.