A two-time Academy Award-winning actor will be a special guest at the upcoming Virginia Film Festival. Christoph Waltz will attend the festival in November. Waltz will appear with Academy Award-winning producer Mark Johnson for "A Tribute to Christoph Waltz" on Nov. 3, which will combine an onstage interview with clips of scenes from Waltz's career.
Seven Virginia coastal localities are participating in The RAFT project, an initiative designed to help improve resilience to flooding and other coastal storm hazards while remaining economically and socially viable. The RAFT project was created by an academic interdisciplinary collaborative Core Team led by UVA’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation, the Virginia Coastal Policy Center at William & Mary Law School, and Old Dominion University, Virginia Sea Grant.
How should professors handle recommendations for students who want to pursue studies or causes the instructors disagree with, and how should colleges respond? “It’s a delicate process, and one that has to be handled with utmost professional and personal care,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies. “The thing is, nobody tells us this when we start the tenure track.”
A total of 33,555 Virginia addresses were not included in the 2010 Census, according to a study by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. These addresses are not included in the U.S. Census Bureau’s address lists and—using the bureau’s estimate of 2.58 people per residence—mean that more than 70,000 people will not be counted in the next census if they are not incorporated.
Exploring Jupiter’s moon Europa will be a treacherous task, it seems: scientists reckon its surface is covered in sharp towering icy daggers. The menacing shards are known as penitentes, according to a paper published in Nature Geoscience this week. On Earth, these structures have been spotted pointing in the direction of the sun in the Andes and can reach up to five meters tall. Researchers from Cardiff University in the UK, and the NASA Ames Research Center and the University of Virginia in the US, estimate that conditions on Europa can nurture the growth of penitentes to almost 15 metres or...
Virginia’s health commissioner kicked off a statewide listening tour Wednesday evening with a town hall at UVA.
(Video) Students with UVA’s largest student-run organization are gearing up to flip thousands of flapjacks that will all go toward a great cause.
Just in time to text and post Homecoming memories on social media, WiFi is coming to Scott Stadium Saturday night. The University of Virginia announces a partnership with Ting to provide a high-capacity, cutting-edge wireless network. UVA AD Carla Williams says the service has 168 access points precisely placed throughout the stadium.
This was posted on Twitter by Daniel Willingham, a well-regarded UVA psychology professor who focuses his research on the application of cognitive psychology to K-12 schools and higher education.
It sounds all too familiar to historian Peter Norton, a UVA professor who wrote "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City." The book covers a similar period of social turbulence when automobiles were first seen on city streets. "It's a new version of an old problem," Norton said.
The competence of your manager is one important factor in deciding how you view his or her intervention in your project, said Roshni Raveendhran, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
Half of women – a key voting bloc in the fight for the House that’s playing out in America’s suburbs – said they’re likely to support the Democratic candidate, including 41 percent of women who identify as independents. “It’s hard to quantify exactly” what kind of electoral gains Democrats would make were that 10-point margin to bear out on Nov. 6, Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, said in an email Tuesday. But one study he pointed to, published on his website last year by Emory University professor Alan Abramowitz, predic...
According to Margaret Edwards, program director of counseling and wellness services at the UVA Women’s Center, these responses are indeed part of a re-traumatization process. The victim-shaming that came with Kavanaugh’s appointment has likely had a serious psychological impact. “Lack of understanding, when exacerbated by general lack of respect and empathy for others, reignites the worst aspects of trauma for anyone who has ever experienced it,” Edwards wrote.
Exactly four weeks before the midterm elections that will decide whether his Republican party continues to control Congress, Trump traveled to campaign for GOP incumbents in three highly competitive House races and for Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the University of Virginia's election-prognosticating Sabato's Crystal Ball, said that Trump's appearance isn't likely to have much of an effect on the outcome of the three House races.
Complicating the issue – and confusing parents further – is the fact that our expectations for young kids have changed drastically over the past generation. One recent University of Virginia study, “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?” compared kindergarten teachers’ approaches in 1998 versus 2010 and found that teachers in the later years had much higher academic standards, spent far more time on teacher-directed instruction, and less time on play, science exploration, art and music.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine and others in an international coalition say children around the world are suffering from unnoticed infections, resulting in stunted growth and mental development.
UVA graduate students are presenting their research on topics relating to race and education this week during a symposium for the Center for Race and Public Education in the South.
A statewide study of addresses has turned up more than 4,000 Central Virginia homes that were not included in the 2010 Census, according to officials at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
Other major capital campaigns underway include a $5 billion effort at the University of Virginia.
Our Nurse of the Week is Clareen Wiencek, a UVA associate professor of nursing who is helping drive new education in the area of palliative care.