(Commentary) Responsible behavior isn't just associated with upward mobility and life satisfaction among individuals. In a new peer-reviewed study, scholars from the Urban Institute, Cornell University, Brigham Young University, and the University of Virginia found that, all other things being held equal, states with higher-than-average marriage rates among working-aged adults had higher-than-average economic performance.
Gov. Ralph Northam came to listen during a Monday afternoon visit to UVA’s College at Wise. The governor heard about the college’s accomplishments, along with aspirations and concerns from students and college officials.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam returned to the campus of UVA’s College at Wise on Monday to learn more about the college’s efforts to expand – which he strongly supported during the campaign.
Student teams from George Mason University, George Washington University, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech participated in the competition, which tasked competitors with developing potential solutions to address veteran suicides. The five-person team from UVA, which consisted entirely of undergraduate students, ultimately emerged as the 2018 University Data Challenge winner.
Ten days after his season ended in the most unpredictable manner, UVA men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett was still trying to make sense of it.
As the scandal unfurled over the last seven days, Facebook’s lackluster response has highlighted a fundamental challenge for the company: how can it condemn the practice on which its business model depends? “This is the story we have been waiting for so people will pay attention not just to Facebook, but the entire surveillance economy,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies.
"We should be shocked about this, but we shouldn't be surprised," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship. "Scholars who have been watching Facebook have been raising alarms about this since 2010, but nobody was listening. Facebook encouraged it; this was Facebook policy."’
During the winter of 2017, after multiple meetings, including one with the renowned mind-set researcher Chris Hulleman, a UVA professor and director of the Motivate Lab there, Gallin began to test a run of tweaks. He started by gently encouraging students not to leave blank any classroom worksheet problems, especially the hardest ones. That didn’t really work.
"For those of us who hold out no hope that our government will stand up for our rights, we are grateful to Europe," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor who studies technology and intellectual property. "I have great hopes that GDPR will serve as a model for ensuring that citizens have dignity and autonomy in the digital economy."
Jim Ryan is good at questions. In a wide-ranging and fast-paced discussion with his old running coach, Mark Lorenzoni, at the Virginia Festival of the Book on Saturday, Ryan aced a pop quiz on Atlantic Coast Conference trivia and offered insight into his background, family and hopes for his tenure as UVA’s next president.
UVA’s president-elect introduced himself to an audience at the Virginia Festival of the Book. Jim Ryan spoke to a soldout crowd about his book titled "Wait, What?," which focuses on the essential questions to ask people in a conversation.
The UVA Medical Center is trying to help area residents safely get rid of unwanted or unused prescription medications. The Medical Center recently added a green receptacle at its main outpatient pharmacy inside the lobby of UVA’s Education Resource Center. The pharmacy and receptacle are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
When Dr. Ziv Haskal saw a virtual reality video of a buffalo walking through a field, he immediately knew the value of the technology. Haskal, a UVA professor of interventional radiology, recently unveiled his virtual reality teaching tool, which places viewers at his shoulder as he performs a complicated procedure, and enables a 360-degree view of his procedure suite.
In Virginia, which became the only state to mandate threat assessment teams in every K-12 school after the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, the results are clear: A UVA study of 1,865 cases in 785 schools found that 30 percent of investigated threats were serious; after the team’s intervention, only 1 percent of the acts were carried out – and none resulted in the shootings or stabbings that had been threatened.
A rating of high severity of autism from the latest version of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” tracks with low intelligence scores, a new analysis suggests. The study is the first to assess how clinicians use the DSM-5 severity ratings. “I’ve heard clinicians talking about how they’re not sure how to complete [the DSM-5 ratings], because they’re so new,” says lead investigator Micah Mazurek, a UVA clinical psychologist and associate professor of education. The findings are reassuring, she says, because they suggest the ratings are accurate.
The latest round of students admitted to UVA’s Class of 2022 test higher and are even more competitive than current first-years, according to data released by the University this week.
Elections Commissioner Chris Piper said his department plans to look at improving training and outreach, including to outside groups that conduct voter registration drives, to better explain that college students in Virginia have the option of registering at their school address or registering at home and getting an absentee ballot. It is not uncommon for UVA students to end up “unwittingly registered back with Mom and Dad,” Albemarle County General Registrar Jake Washburne said.
UVA’s ROTC programs are hosting a blood drive for military medical centers. Though all three UVA ROTC units are contributing, the Army cadets are the organizers and hosts of the drive for the fourth year.
UVA’s Curry School of Education continued to rise in graduate school rankings, and three other UVA graduate programs maintained their status in the top 20. The Curry School has seen a steady rise in rankings among other education graduate programs, from No. 21 in 2017 to a spot tied for 18 last year to this year’s No. 16 placement.
The Men's Leadership Project is bringing UVA students together with middle school boys to build character and community. On Sunday, the pairs spent the day building dog houses for Houses of Wood and Straw, a group that provides shelter to outdoor pets in Central Virginia.