“The University of Virginia's Hidden Nurses were recognized Friday night during the Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP's annual Freedom Fund Banquet. These nurses were the first African-American women to help desegregate the University of Virginia Hospital.
Many schools simply tackle bullying by hosting an anti-bullying assembly. While that might be a good start, experts agree that an annual address does little. “We can’t teach math overnight," Catherine Bradshaw, senior associate dean for research and faculty development in the Curry School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia, told TODAY Parents. "It is not a skill you can learn in an hour. That is the whole issue with social emotional learning."
Democrat Sally Hudson, an economist who’s running unopposed for a House seat from Charlottesville, says that she and fellow progressives will mount efforts to ensure that Virginia’s healthy business climate is shared with its workforce through a higher minimum wage, as well as legislation empowering unions and protecting workers’ bargaining rights. “I think it’s important that the top state for business is also good for workers,” says Hudson, who has taught public policy at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy the past two years.
Opportunities to go studying in China have increased for American students of all ages, which is essential to bolstering their Chinese language proficiency and cultivating better career skills Charles A. Laughlin, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures at UVA. Learning Chinese could be a great help for students who wanted to become journalists, doctors, diplomats and scientists, he said.
In the aftermath of the Clinton impeachment, Republicans lost five House seats in the 1998 midterm elections. University of Virginia expert Larry Sabato said that amounted to a political backlash over the impeachment effort. “Given the fact that the Republicans took a wounded Bill Clinton and made him almost invulnerable for the rest of his term, it should serve as a warning to Democrats,” he said.
“I’m already seeing where this is having a rallying around the flag effect for Biden and he’s been slipping to Elizabeth Warren. She’s been going up in the national and the key state polls, this may reverse that trend,” said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
“Our network had 500 people turn out for what we called the Virginia Sustainable Futures Conference in 1999. The draw was our main speaker Will McDonough, the architect, designer, author and Charlottesville resident who was then the dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia,” said Annette Osso, the managing director of Resilient Virginia.
Schools are also being judged on how they reduced chronic absenteeism, which affects 1 in 10 students across the state, according to a University of Virginia study, with absence rates being worse in Virginia’s urban school districts, including Richmond.
North American academia is currently all over pop culture. A course on Lady Gaga (Sex, Gender and Identity) offered by the University of Virginia is one example of what’s going on; another is the recent slew of tomes on the Beatles, Dylan and even the Clash emanating from campus corridors. Most shed little light on their already well-covered subjects (Why Dylan Matters by Harvard Latin don Richard F Thomas is an exception), and this self-styled “first major academic study” of the Stones likewise comes up short.
In May, UVA announced it was moving forward with a planned hotel and conference center at the corner of Emmet Street and Ivy Road. The space is envisioned for visiting faculty, parents and prospective students and for smaller academic conferences. The roughly $100 million project will be built and operated by a third-party developer, which university officials are reportedly close to selecting. The space is expected to hold 225 hotel rooms and 25,000 square feet of conference space, according to materials presented to the school’s Board of Visitors.
It takes a long time to pack and move 1.7 million books and other library materials across the University of Virginia, but contractor Jacob Bastian estimates his team is halfway done with their part of the job. The project is the first leg of a $160 million renovation of the library, which opened in 1938.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease affecting a person’s central nervous system. On Sunday, the University of Virginia Multiple Sclerosis Center hosted its first Patient and Care Partner Education Day in Albemarle County. “My patients inspire me every day with just their resiliency with living with MS. We wanted to put together an event, our team, to give back to our patients to show them how to live the best life possible even living with multiple sclerosis,” said Denise Bruen, nurse practitioner and certified multiple sclerosis nurse.
A new study coauthored by researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of Colorado, Boulder shows large literacy gains and other benefits for full-day preschoolers as they enter kindergarten compared with their half-day peers. The new study found that full-day preschoolers had significantly better scores on tests of receptive vocabulary — the set of words they understand and can apply to the world around them.
With a federal Abandoned Mine Land Pilot Program grant, the city of Norton, Virginia, is converting a 200-acre, vacant surface coal mine into an industrial park. City Manager Fred Ramey said they hope the space will attract manufacturing and technology companies. University of Virginia’s College at Wise is nearby, providing an educated workforce. Once completed, the project is expected to create 63 jobs.
“It is highly unlikely that the internet could be universally shutdown,” said Ryan Wright, associate professor of commerce and associate director of the Center for Management of IT at the University of Virginia. “Internet infrastructure consists of several redundant connections that make it near impossible to bring down the entire internet unintentionally or accidentally. Internet traffic is resilient and can dynamically reroute around any problems.
(Commentary) As Steven Rhoads, professor emeritus of politics at the University of Virginia, and I detailed in National Affairs earlier this year, over more than a decade, several well-respected studies have found that Quebec’s child-care policy has led to a host of negative outcomes, including increased family stress, increased aggressiveness and anxiety and worse health outcomes among children, worse parenting, reduced mental health and relationship satisfaction among adults, and even a rise in criminality.
Democrats are by no means in the clear. Their liberal base has been clamoring for impeachment, but it could blow up in their faces, experts say. “There’s the chance that Democrats will muff their opportunity to get articles of impeachment passed, demobilizing the Democratic base,” said Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“On one level, this whole issue helps Biden, because it makes the president look afraid of Biden,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. “But the president has a great ability to drag people into the mud with him, and you wonder if that might happen to Biden.”
(Video) Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center for Politics makes the case for why the Democrats would be "wise to act expeditiously."
An already highly-accomplished basketball career now begins a new chapter for Faith Randolph, who recently was named the head girls varsity coach at Washington-Liberty High School. The head high-school coaching position is the first for Randolph, who was a standout player on the prep level at Good Counsel, then in college at the University of Virginia from 2012-2016, where she scored 1,346 career points, was team captain as a junior and senior and an All-ACC player.