Today, it’s applied as a product development and brand positioning strategy by high-profile software firms like Intuit, Samsung and Google, and its efficacy has been affirmed by scholars like Jeanne Liedtka, a professor in the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Writing for the Harvard Business Review, Liedtka cites a seven-year study of 50 projects from business, health care and social services sectors, in which she found “design thinking has the potential to unleash people’s full creative energies, win their commitment, and radically improve processes.”
It will be hard for undecided voters to “contextualize what he is saying here,” said Russell Riley, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center. “Some of this will require contextualizing,” Riley said. “And what you hear depends on whether you are getting your context from MSNBC or ... from (Fox News commentator) Sean Hannity.”
A new study of how teaching innovation spreads found that early adopters prefer to talk to like-minded colleagues about their teaching practices, rather than with instructors who may not share their approach. This suggests that colleges need to do more to spread the use of evidence-based teaching practices on their campuses. I spoke with the study’s authors about their findings and some possible solutions, including Marilyne Stains, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia.
The film is being called “a scandal” Stateside after Disney disclosed cooperation with Xinjiang authorities in the movie’s credits, thanking four Xinjiang propaganda organs and the Public Security Bureau of Turpan, entities that have ties to the forced internment of up to 1 million Muslim Uighurs. It’s a humongous ethical lapse (not to mention PR malpractice) that “underscores that in China, Disney is operating as a Chinese company,” UVA media studies professor Aynne Kokas tells China Watcher. “They are willing to make the same trade-offs Chinese production companies would ...
(Commentary by Aynne Kokas, assistant professor of media studies) Disney’s live-action remake of “Mulan” was initially celebrated for “embracing diversity” and “push[ing] themes of identity and girl power.” The basic facts of the movie seem to bear that out: It was led by a female director and featured a majority-Chinese cast. The plot follows a young woman who, despite being told that she has to “hide her gift away,” decides to join the army disguised as a boy. But the film’s real villain isn’t the patriarchal society that keeps Mulan from living out her true identity and full potential ...
The COVID-19 crisis may also have particularly affected the counting of people living in group settings – think college towns, nursing homes and prisons, according to Qian Cai, director of the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Students make up most of the cases of COVID-19 that have been reported on Grounds.
Between 1817 and 1865, approximately 4,000 enslaved people worked on the campus at the Thomas Jefferson–founded University of Virginia. Both owned and rented by the University, these forced laborers were responsible for the creation and maintenance of the school’s lauded Grounds, including the UNESCO Heritage–protected Rotunda that was designed by Jefferson, an architect, the third United States president, and a slave owner. Catalyzed in 2010 by a group of students who assembled themselves to raise awareness about the history of slavery at UVA, the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers honor...
Three years ago, A.D. Carson released a hip-hop album that took 34 tracks into original territory at the intersection of education and entertainment. “Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhyme & Revelations” wasn’t just a blend of beats and musings; it was Carson’s dissertation for his doctorate in rhetorics, communication and information design from Clemson University. And now his brand-new album is being released not by a popular record label, but by the University of Michigan Press.
(Commentary by Andrew Kaufman, associate professor and assistant director of UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence) The perfect storm created by the COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd’s tragic death and its aftermath has offered an unusual opportunity to renew our democracy in the place where it can have far-reaching impact: inside our nation’s classrooms.
Cville Education Equity collaborated with Youth-Nex, Madison House and UVA’s Equity Center to offer resources for teachers and families across the Charlottesville area. The website offers anti-racist curriculum for teachers, virtual education help for families and food resources for those experiencing food insecurity.
The training camp bubble for the UVA football team has been working to perfection.The Cavaliers are less than two weeks away from the start of the regular season, and they have not had any positive COVID-19 tests since July 24. Head coach Bronco Mendenhall is having players cross-train at different positions, just in case one group is hit hard, and they need to quickly fill spots, even on the other side of the ball.
In 2018, first-time candidate Gina Ortiz Jones nearly toppled U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-Helotes, in one of the closest races in the country – losing, as she now says repeatedly, by 926 votes. “TX-23 is one of the top Democratic pick-up opportunities in the nation,” said Kyle Kondik, the expert on House races at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
In a separate 2018 Institute for Family Studies report, “Black men making it in America,” Brad Wilcox, Ronald B. Mincy and Wendy Wang write: More than one in two Black men (57%) have made it into the middle class or higher as adults today, up from 38% in 1960, according to a new analysis of census data. And the share of Black men who are poor has fallen from 41% in 1960 to 18% in 2016. So, a substantial share of Black men in America are realizing the American dream – at least financially – and a clear majority are not poor.
Graduates from higher-ranked universities tend to earn more money. That is well known. What is less understood is why. One theory is that these schools are better at imparting knowledge – employers might reasonably offer higher salaries to new hires they believe are better qualified. An alternative theory is that admission is a form of signaling. Prestigious colleges are selective. Their students may not learn anything particularly useful, but are paid more because simply getting accepted to a leading college gives employers the impression that they are talented. A new paper by Sheet...
(Commentary by Lisa Russ Spaar, English professor, poet and author or editor of more than 10 books of poems and poetry anthologies) The current pandemic has certainly upended and disordered everyone and forced us, willingly or unwillingly, to re-think who we are.
Scientists have studied the impact of high ozone air pollution on the chemical communication between flowers and pollinators, and made a remarkable discovery. The work by researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute and the University of Virginia is described in a paper in the Journal of Chemical Ecology.
Albemarle’s Confederate monument also contains a time capsule in a bronze box within the soldier monument, which officially is known as “At Ready.” The University of Virginia’s Special Collections department will temporarily take charge of that capsule, said Trevor Henry, the assistant county executive.
The National Institutes of Health awarded Fairfax-based health technology company Vibrent Health $39 million to develop the technology backbone for the NIH’s All of Us research program, which will gather health information of about 1 million Americans to be used for research studies. The company has partnered with Dartmouth College, the University of Virginia, ICF, Eureka, the University of California and HackerOne to contribute machine learning, technology innovation, research expertise and emerging cybersecurity approaches for the project.