By Joseph J. Thorndike, visiting scholar
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. has been waging a different kind of war. It’s been both smaller and longer than previous wars, taking less money to fight and more time to win. It’s also been the nation’s first war to be fought entirely on credit.
The center is expected to attract 75,000 visitors annually and have a nearly $50 million economic impact in its first five years, according to a study by the University of Virginia’s Weldon-Cooper Center for Public Service.
I took a long bus ride from Dulles International Airport to the University of Virginia last month with two dozen incoming international students who peppered an upperclassman onboard with questions about cellphone plans, summer storage options and Charlottesville weather patterns.
Robert O'Neil, the 76-year-old former president of the University of Virginia, retired from the Thomas Jefferson Center earlier this year and will be honored at an Oct. 29 gala.
New technology, invented at the University of Virginia, is helping to save the lives of premature babies.
In a time when many businesses are still struggling, the University of Virginia is awarding some that are beating the odds.
The country needs “a renewed national acknowledgement” of research’s “vital role” in the nation’s economy, University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said.
Chad Harbach
He earned his MFA at U.Va. and has just had his first novel, "The Art of Fielding," published.
A Novelist Discovers ‘The Art of Fielding’
Wall Street Journal | Sept. 6
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Racine native's first novel generating literary buzz
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel | Sept. 6
Alexis Ohanian
A U.Va. alum who co-founded Reddit in 2005
Reddit spun out, Ohanian returns to board
Mass High Tech | Sept. 7
Robert M. Conroy,
The J. Harvie Wilkinson Jr. professor of business administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
CFA Institute growth passes the test
Charlottesville Daily Progress | Sept. 5
Zaneta Hong
A lecturer in the School of Architecture
"Material Evidence"
Landscape Architecture Magazine | August 2011
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Notable & Quotable: Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011
Sumter Item, Sumter, N.C. | Sept. 7
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Bachmann hopes to gain back momentum at Calif. debate
‎Bellingham Herald | Sept. 6
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A study by the University of Virginia's Weldon-Cooper Center predicts the heritage center would generate 75000 annual visitors and a $50 million economic impact during its first five years.
The way some people talk, you’d think that a flat tax system—in which everyone pays at the same rate regardless of income—would make citizens feel better than more progressive taxation, where wealthier people are taxed at higher rates. Indeed, the U.S. has been diminishing progressivity of its tax structure for decades. But a new study comparing 54 nations found that flattening the tax risks flattening social wellbeing as well. “The more progressive the tax policy is, the happier the citizens are,” says University of Virginia psychologist Shigehiro Oishi, summariz...
... there are several distinguishable advantages and disadvantages of the e-books, which could help people to come to their own conclusion. ... According to the Financial Times, MBA students at the University of Virginia said, “Kindle, is more inconvenient than printed books.
Florida State University has joined a group of 36 higher education institutions across the country to launch Gig.U: The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project. The group advocates for faster off-campus Internet services. In addition to FSU, the partners in Gig.U are ... the University of Virginia ...
Heavy rain over the past 24 hours has rendered part of one University of Virginia academic building “unusable”. The basement of Gilmer Hall on Grounds quickly filled with three inches of mud and water early Tuesday morning due to a mudslide that began at a construction site in the Alderman Road Residence Area. ... The basement, which is home to faculty and graduate student offices, research labs and storage, will be closed for at least a week as crews clean up the mess. The rest of the building will remain open.
By Larry J. Sabato, director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics
Straw polls, real polls, debates, caucuses, primaries—that's the public side of presidential campaigns 14 months before Election Day. But behind the scenes, strategists for President Obama and his major Republican opponents are already focused like a laser on the Electoral College. The emerging general election contest gives every sign of being highly competitive, unlike 2008. Of course, things can change ... Voting is predictable for well over half the states, so even 14 months out it's easy to shade in most of the map for Nov...
“Design thinking can do for organic growth and innovation what TQM [total quality management] did for quality – take something we always have cared about and put tools and processes into the hands of managers to make it happen,” Jeanne Liedtka, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and Tim Ogilvie, an innovation strategy consultant, write in Designing for Growth.
Even with the anniversary approaching, reading about 9/11 feels like a matter of duty, not desire. ... The event itself is hard to think about -- just as it was at the time. ... It is a date that names an era. Melvyn P. Leffler’s essay "9/11 in Retrospect," appearing in Foreign Affairs, tries “to place the era in context and assess it as judiciously as possible.” That means from the perspective of an unexcitable centrism, with an eye to calculating the long-term effects on U.S. power. Leffler, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, is co-editor,...
Russell Steven JonesEarned a Master of Science degree in biomedical engineering