News & Announcements

• John Nesselroade’s  grant proposal entitled “Higher Order Measurement Invariance and Aging Research” was funded by the National Institutes of Health/NIA.
  
  
• Steve Boker, Timothy Brick and Jeffrey Spies were one of the seven UVa teams to present their research discoveries at the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Innovation Showcase in McLean, VA on November 14th. The showcase is co-hosted by the UVa Patent Foundation and aims to bring inventive UVa technologies to the industry. The exhibition by Boker, Brick and Spies was titled "High-Presence Low-Bandwidth Video Conferencing."
  
• University Research in the News: New LIFE Faculty member- Jim Wyckoff
  November 21, 2008 | GothamSchools (NY)
  High-achieving teachers make for high-achieving kids
  Programs such as Teach for America and the city’s Teaching Fellows program have made the distribution of high-achieving teachers more equitable across New York City and might have helped narrow the gap in students’ test scores, a recent study concludes. Jim Wyckoff, a University of Virginia professor who was one of the authors of the study, told me his analysis suggested that if schools only “hired teachers who looked like the best group,” or the very best college graduates, student achievement could rise even more.