“Once students are fluent decoders, the key determinant of comprehension is what a student already knows about a topic,” said Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of psychology. “[Our challenge is] to assure that every child is exposed to a curriculum that is knowledge-rich and appropriately sequenced.”
As UVA celebrates its bicentennial, a series of panelists on Friday explored the societal effects expansion has had on Charlottesville throughout the decades.
The Virginia men’s and women’s tennis teams each earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament on Tuesday. Both Cavalier teams will face off against VCU in the first round. And both teams will be playing in Columbia — well, sort of.
Some critics even suggest that an overreliance on Narcan is making the problem worse, primarily because people addicted to opioids feel a greater sense of impunity. Researchers at UVA and University of Wisconsin recently reported similar findings. The researchers examined the time period before and after different Narcan-access laws were put into place, such as allowing anyone to buy Narcan in a pharmacy without a prescription.
A study released in March by economists at UVA and the University of Wisconsin looked at states that increased access to naloxone versus those that did not. It found that broadening access “led to more opioid-related ER visits and more opioid-related theft, with no reduction in opioid-related mortality.” The study ignited a firestorm online. Defenders of the research said critics didn’t like the findings. Naloxone advocates countered that the study confused causation with correlation during a worsening crisis.
A library at the University of Virginia is now the owner of an archive of material from a Pulitzer Prize-winning artist.
UVA Provost Thomas Katsouleas, termed the project as a single largest, multidisciplinary study by the university.
One hypothesis was whether a good elementary school helped the preschool boost last longer. "That's a very compelling premise, and it makes some intuitive sense," said Daphna Bassok, a UVA associate professor of education and public policy and the lead author of the study.
Currently owned by UVA (thanks to the generosity of its previous owner, John Kluge), Morven is a Georgian-Federal house that dates from 1820.
A Connecticut native, Brennan graduated with highest distinction from UVA, where she earned a bachelor's degree in foreign affairs and Middle East studies with a minor in Arabic.
"The bill prohibits the provision of certain services and advertisements of those services, and the Bible is neither of those things." But what if the Bible were part of some sort of sexual orientation conversion program? Douglas Laycock at the University of Virginia said "no judge is that stupid" to view the Bible so narrowly. "The Bible is a vast collection of books," Laycock said. "Only a few brief passages say anything about same-sex sexual conduct, and those don't say anything about sexual orientation, or about changing it."
One study found that caregiving mates can exhibit signs of burnout identical to those found in nursing staff at psychiatric hospitals. The fallout is a high divorce rate, says UVA psychiatrist Dr. Anita H. Clayton. Research suggests mental disorders are linked to an increase in divorce ranging from 20 percent (in the case of minor phobias) to 80 percent (when addiction or major depression are factors).
In 2012, Klobuchar carried all but two of Minnesota’s 87 counties, and every single congressional district, even the 6th District, then the territory of arch-conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann, with 58 percent. Kyle Kondik, an analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics – which also rates Klobuchar’s race as a safe Democratic hold – said Klobuchar’s current strength is something like a self-fulfilling prophecy. “Sometimes strength breeds strength, in that, if you show yourself to be electorally strong, that dissuades strong Republicans from running against you,” he said.
Maybe they were joking, or maybe they didn’t even realize what they said could be offensive. But it was, and you want them to know it. Take a minute to consider your history together, says Mary Gentile, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. The goal is to put the offending moment in context. Is this an isolated incident that you can let go? Or is it part of a pattern?
The UVA Health System developed and implemented a special recovery program for thoracic surgery patients is getting them home sooner while decreasing both health care costs and opioid use.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist has donated an archive of material to the University of Virginia. Patrick Bruce Oliphant, who was born in Australia in 1935, moved to the United States in 1964 to become the political cartoonist for The Denver Post. His work became nationally syndicated that year, and international syndication followed in 1965. He won a Pulitzer Prize for a Feb. 1, 1966, cartoon titled “They Won’t Get Us to the Conference Table … Will They?” that depicted Ho Chi Minh, the president of North Vietnam, carrying a dead Viet Cong soldier.
Blue Ridge PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) is the winner of the 2018 Community Service Award from the UVA School of Nursing’s Beta Kappa chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International.
"Not many nonprofits manage to outcomes, and among those that do, few do it well." So said McKinsey & Co. consultants Lynn Taliento, Jonathan Law, and Laura Callanan in their introduction to “Leap of Reason.” It’s not that the leaders of charities don’t care enough or aren’t smart. What seems to be missing, they say, is a lack of resolve to take on the hard work that change requires, insufficient resources to invest in management capacity, and the absence of tools to do so effectively. To better understand its impact, the organization has also commissioned an external evaluation led by sch...
UVA computer scientist Madhur Behl discusses the future of autonomous vehicles. How much testing is needed? Will machine learning be integral? What about human trust?
The study measured the number of crimes reported to the FBI and Department of Education and compared them to the total number of students on campus and severity of crime. According to the study, UVA is No. 4 on the list of the top 10 safest schools.