Seven books published in 2017 by the country’s most prominent historians have been named finalists for the George Washington Prize. The annual award recognizes the past year’s best-written works on the nation’s founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of early American history. The 2018 prize finalists include S. Max Edelson, associate professor of history at the University of Virginia.
"I think because you have more senior students, more seasoned students in the room, the conversation is a little bit different in our executive format classes versus our full-time classes – just because people have more life experience and work experience to draw on and to talk about these business cases," says Brett Twitty, director of admissions for the executive MBA program at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where the EMBA is about one-third online.
A new study finds that different salaries bring day-to-day happiness versus overall satisfaction with your life–but anything extra doesn’t do much at all for your emotional well-being. The results, which come from Purdue University and the University of Virginia, align with a well-known 2010 study from psychologist Daniel Kahneman and the economist Angus Deaton.
On Feb. 19, 2018, Smithfield Bioscience, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods focused on pharmaceutical benefits of porcine bioproducts, and the University of Virginia School (UVA) of Engineering & Applied Science announced a research partnership to advance regenerative medicine using porcine bioproducts.
The University of Virginia on Thursday unveiled a brand new 17,000 square foot research lab aimed at connecting the cyber world with the physical. It’s known as CPS, or cyber physical systems. The new $4.8 million space at UVA’s engineering school, known as the Link Lab, will be home to more than 30 teachers and 100 graduate students who are for the first time, all under one roof.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer is slated to speak next week at the University of Virginia School of Law.
The university says the goal of the Link Lab is to bring all engineering students and professors together in a collaborative environment that’s unlike any other throughout the country.
The winner of the $10,000 prize was Babylon Micro-Farms Inc., which makes automated hydroponic systems for growing herbs, fruits, vegetables and salad greens in homes or restaurants. The business started as an undergraduate student project at the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission plans to hold 12 public roundtables across the state, including one in Charlottesville, as part of research into King’s visits to Virginia and to honor the 50th anniversary of his death.
Ms. Brennan, who grew up in Danbury, Conn., studied foreign affairs and the Middle East at the University of Virginia and spent time in Jordan, where she learned to read and speak Arabic. Her first job in journalism was an internship at CNN in Atlanta.
Smithfield Foods Inc. and the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Engineering & Applied Science announced Feb. 20 a research partnership to explore and advance regenerative medicine technologies leveraging porcine bioproducts.
The Rotunda at the University of Virginia received LEED Silver certification in 2017 after a significant restoration of the almost 200-year-old structure, originally designed by Thomas Jefferson. This project is one of only three LEED-certified buildings at a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The other two are also located at the university—Pavilion IX and Pavilion X.
Kimberly Diaz, a 2009 graduate of the University of Virginia, is a now a first year in the Darden School of Business. While in school, she also runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. focused on re-imagining how we train our education managers.
Co-written by David Leblang, a professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia and a professor of politics and public policy at the Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy where he directs the Global Policy Center.
Recent research by University of Virginia economist Christopher Ruhm suggests that while joblessness may have created fertile conditions for opioid addiction, the epidemic's spread was fueled more by the availability of prescription drugs.
Virginia will unveil its renovated baseball stadium today when it hosts VMI in its home opener. And when it does, that stadium will have a new name. UVA announced Tuesday that the expanded stadium will be called Davenport Field at Disharoon Park.
Geoffrey Skelley, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, is more skeptical that down-ballot candidates boosted Northam, rather than the other way around. Nonetheless, he credited the candidate surge with making a landslide more feasible. “The lesson from Virginia is that parties should try to run candidates everywhere—ideally strong candidates—and especially if a wave favoring their party is a possibility,” Skelley says.
Sound could be the key to understanding ecological data: in a new study in Heliyon, researchers have turned chemical data that shows salmon migration patterns into sound, helping people hear when they move towards the ocean from one river to another. The authors, from the University of Idaho, Eastern Washington University and University of Virginia in the US, and the University of Tampere in Finland, say turning salmon migration data into sound could help scientists feel less overwhelmed by interpreting big data.
Isabella Gibbons learned to read and write as a slave while working for a University of Virginia physics professor and, after emancipation, taught school to African-American children in and around Charlottesville. The 2018 list includes Rita Dove, a former U.S. and Virginia poet laureate and current UVA Commonwealth Professor of English.
Here is a post about one research effort to look at the educational experience of survivors, which found that enrollment fell and standardized test scores dropped, too. This was written by UVA psychology professor Daniel Willingham.