Some researchers question what conclusions can be drawn from studies that show benefits from shared parenting, since children being raised in joint custody arrangements probably have parents who get along better – a situation that would not necessarily extend to those compelled to adopt shared custody. "It's not the amount of parenting time but the quality of parenting and the quality of co-parenting that matter," said Robert Emery, a UVA professor of psychology and author of "Two Homes, One Childhood."
During the annual event, which takes place Saturday at the Paramount Theater, singers will team up with instrumentalists on organ, brass and percussion to perform Christmas music and take some time to celebrate a milestone in their musical lives. “The ‘Christmas at the Paramount’ concerts have become a Charlottesville tradition for several years now,” music director Michael Slon said.
Becker's Hospital Review picked the University of Virginia Orthopedics at the UVA Health System for its list of 100 hospitals and health systems with great orthopedics programs.
Consolidation talks were tabled until this year, and Superintendent Jennifer Parish said it was fortunate they waited – the schools saw a rebound in enrollment from 2,080 last year to 2,139 this year. UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center predicted enrollment would continue to recover, getting close to the 2006 peak enrollment by 2027. The center previously predicted the 10-year enrollment decline from 2006.
Two reports Friday focused on UVA’s broader emergency and safety strategy moving forward.
VA4E, or Virginia is for Entrepreneurs, measures a company’s progress through an online diagnostic survey and application, then links that company with about 50 partnering investment firms and potential funders – not necessarily for financing right away, but at least for guidance in how to reach that growth stage. Other partners in VA4E include UVA’s College at Wise.
The long and short on hedge funds is that long and short isn’t working so well anymore. “The one strategy that is facing an existential question is long-short equity,” Ted Seides, former head of hedge fund investor Protégé Partners, said recently at an investor conference at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
Gov. McAuliffe has signed an executive directive that focuses on a current teacher shortage. In late October, McAuliffe visited UVA and discussed teacher shortages with senior educators.
Different types of privacy laws in U.S. states produce markedly different effects on the willingness of patients to have genetic testing done, according to a new study. UVA economist Amalia R. Miller is a co-author.
After spending 26 years at McKinsey & Co., Scott C. Beardsley did on unusual career pivot. He became dean of a business school. Not any school, mind you, but UVA’s Darden School of Business.
Carla Williams has moved on from player to assistant coach to deputy athletics director. On Monday, she took over as UVA’s athletics director – the only African-American female to lead a Power Five school. The roots of her leadership come from her playing days at Georgia.
A UVA graduate student will have a chance to win $1 million. Hannibal Brooks will play on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” on Monday.
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to determine if the legal rights of married same-sex couples can be balanced with the constitutional protections of freedom of religion and speech guaranteed to people of faith who cannot accept same-sex “marriage” on moral and religious grounds. Douglas Laycock, a UVA law professor who studies religious liberty cases, said that if the high court wants to issue a narrow ruling, it could decide the case on the basis of free exercise of religion rather than free speech, and to confine that to weddings.
Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of UVA’s Center for Politics, is dubious that a Republican will lose this district. “We rate this special election as ‘likely Republican.’ This is a district the party should be able to hold, but I’m very curious about the margin and whether the Democrats can really compete,” Kondik said.
Geoffrey Skelley, with UVA’s Center for Politics, said he disagrees with the committee’s reasoning for holding a convention instead of a primary. At the end of the day, he said, voter turnout and participation are higher with a primary.
While black voters are the core of the Democratic base, Alabama’s voting-age population is about 27 percent black and 69 percent white, according to 2014 Census data. “If black voters make up about 25 percent of the electorate and [Democrat Doug] Jones wins at least 90 percent of them, that would mean that Jones would probably have to win at least one-third of the white vote to have a chance of winning,” wrote Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, in an analysis of the Alabama race.
This is a moment that has arrived on so many college campuses already. There is Georgetown University, which has worked to confront its ties to slavery. And the University of Virginia, where officials are planning a memorial to commemorate the contributions of enslaved people who helped build the school.
The awards keeping coming for UVA senior linebacker Micah Kiser. On Sunday night, Kiser won the 2017 Dudley Award, which is awarded to the state of Virginia’s top college player.
A team of UVA computer scientists trained AI image-recognition software to tie certain scenes to gender. It went through billions of images in two collections, one from Facebook and the other from Microsoft. The trained AI decided that shopping and washing are things women do, while linking coaching and shooting to men – because the images the AI analyzed were already marinated in human biases.
So when Daniel T. Willingham, a UVA professor of psychology and the author of “Raising Kids Who Read,” told me that parents don’t need to worry about teaching young kids the mechanics of reading – and in fact, he warns against doing so – I felt free. Parents, it turns out, are pretty crummy reading instructors.