Though parents have been teaching their children not to argue with adults for generations, new research from the University of Virginia shows that young teenagers who are taught to argue effectively are more likely to resist peer pressure to use drugs or alcohollater in adolescence. “It turns out that what goes on in the family is actually a training ground for teens in terms of how to negotiate with other people,” said Joseph Allen, a UVa psychology professor and the lead author of the study, results of which were published in a recent edition of the journal Child Development.
Tina Fey U.Va. College of Arts & Sciences alumna
Daniel Bluestone Professor of architectural history Brothels shaped Charlottesville’s history Charlottesville Tomorrow / June 1 Jay Dicharry Director of the SPEED Performance Clinic and Motion Analysis Lab Coordinator What Can the NBA Learn from Barefoot Running? HardwoodParoxysm.com / May 31 Eric Lott English professor ‘Brown Sugar’: The Song That Inspired Me To Become A Music Writer Sabotage Times.com / June 1 H. Edward "Chip" Mann Center for Politics director of development and co-author of "The Queen and the USA" Pageantry aplenty for Queen's Diamond Jubilee The Waterloo Record.com / Ma...
With the presidential election heating up, you may be interested to know that former occupants of the White House held down jobs just like you and me. OK, maybe a few of these occupations weren't quite as normal as the kind of work we do. But it is refreshing to know that not every president was a lifetime politician or lawyer before taking office. ... Thomas Jefferson: He was also a lawyer, writer, farmer and rector at the University of Virginia. ...
The University of Virginia Medical Center is putting the spotlight on pediatrics Thursday, highlighting some of the innovative research going on to help kids. ...
... Starting July 1, the family car a student uses full-time will be taxed in the jurisdiction in which the motor vehicle's owner lives. Currently, the car is taxed based off where the student garages it - like at the University of Virginia. Charlottesville Commissioner of Revenue Lee Richards said, "If you are a student at the university but you live in another locality, if you pay the taxes on the vehicle in that locality than you would not pay the assessment." ...
[NYT "You’re the Boss" contributor Melinda Emerson, who] will be writing regularly about the use of social media in small-business marketing, [in her debut column explains how she got where she is]. ... In addition to this hands-on experience, I took classes onmanagement, business plans and leadership, including programs offered by ... the University of Virginia, Dartmouth and Harvard. ...
... According to a survey from HNTB Corporation, nearly 9 in 10 (87 percent) agree transportation funding is a public investment worth making. ... Yet few are willing to pay more in gas taxes, the traditional form of revenue for surface transportation projects at the state and federal levels. ... A recent report issued from the Miller Center at the University of Virginia ... acknowledged this lack of confidence and the need to better articulate the positive stories generated by such investment in communities’ economic competitiveness and quality of life. ...
This weekend is packed with events in the city of Charlottesville, with alumni weekend at the University of Virginia, the NCAA baseball regional, and multiple high school graduations. University of Virginia officials expect about 5,000 alums to visit grounds. ... Restaurant and hotel owners say they welcome the business boost ...
An international experience is wrapping up in Charlottesville as citizens fromAfghanistan have spent the past three weeks here and are ready to take all they've learned back to their country. Through the professional partnershipprogram of UVa's Center for Politics, this group of judges, defense attorneys, and teachers are absorbing all they can about how the U.S. functions. "They're learning about the importance of the rule of law, the importance of being civically engaged and not just letting other people make all the decisions," said Daman Irby, Director of Global Initiatives at the UVa Cent...
Retired Commonwealth Professor and the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought and Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the White Burkett Miller Center William Lee Miller, a historian who explored the confluence of politics, religion and ethics and wrote an account of the congressional battle to end slavery, as well as books about Abraham Lincoln, died May 27 at a hospice in New York. He was 86.
An inmate whose death sentence was overturned will avoid the possibility of another one after brokering a deal in which he gets life in prison in exchange for admitting guilt in another killing. ... “From the commonwealth’s perspective, they can do something fairly remarkable, which is to undo a jury acquittal in a capital murder case and obtain a conviction in a case that would otherwise remain unsolved,” said University of Virginia law professor Matthew Engle, one of Andrews’ attorneys.
The debut of a new national database tracking who visits college health centers and why -- the first of its kind -- generated considerable interest ... at the annual convention of the American College Health Association. ... "College students represent a pretty critical subpopulation of Americans," said James C. Turner, a professor of internal medicine and executivedirector of the department of student health at the University of Virginia,which sponsors the project jointly with the Centers for Disease Control. "This concept of sharing private health information with a central health network is...
Daniel McDowell Bankard Fund for Political Economy Predoctoral Fellow
Catherine Bauman U.Va. alumna Danville native heads to Africa to become education director of health clinic WLSL.com / May 31   Stephen Malkmus U.Va. alumnus Happy Birthday, Stephen Malkmus! A Solo Salute to Other Indie Icons Broward Palm Beach NewTimes blog / May 30   Beth Wilkinson Law alumna FTC hires U.S. legal all-star for Google antitrust probe Reuters, The Globe and Mail / May 3
Rob Cross William Stamps Farish Professor in Free Enterprise, Commerce School The Most Productive Way For Execs To Leverage Social Networks FastCompany.com / May 31   Jim Donovan Adjunct professor of law Goldman Sachs Exec Serves As Trusted Advisor To Romney FinAlternatives.com / May 30 Brandon Garrett Law professor Wal-Mart Board Faces Angry Investors at Annual Meeting: Retail Bloomberg BusinessWeek / May 31 Jonathan Haidt Psychology professor Opinion: Compromise is not a dirty word Edmundson.com / May 30   Marcia Invernizzi Curry School of Education professor 6-year-old is youngest to qual...
By Meg Jay, Curry School of Education clinical psychologist It’s graduation time again, and about 2 million students will walk across a stage and pick up a college diploma. Then they will face terrifying statistics about employment, pressure to make their 20s the best years of their lives, and slogans that suggest that what you do right after college may not matter anyway. What not enough graduates are hearing, however, is that — recession or not — our 20s are life's developmental sweet spot. They matter. A lot. ...
An inaugural interactive workshop discussing historic and future sea level trends and their implications for Virginia's Eastern Shore is planned for June. ... Representatives from the University of Virginia Institute for EnvironmentalNegotiation, Wetlands Watch, and the Accomack-Northampton Planning DistrictCommission will provide presentations ...
Bonnie Gordon Music professor U.Va. Music professor Bonnie Gordon discusses what life at Jefferson's Monticello might have sounded like in the late 18th-  to early 19th-centuries on the New Hampshire Public Radio program, "Word of Mouth."
The University of Virginia Medical Center has made Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of 100 great hospitals. ...