According to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, which conducted an economic impact analysis for the county, the construction project alone will generate 93 jobs and $6.6 million of “value added” economic activity.
A 2016 working paper by researchers at the University of Michigan, the Urban Institute, the University of California, San Diego and the University of Virginia estimated that a 10 percent reduction in state funding is associated with a 12 percent bump in enrollment of international students at public research universities, suggesting that colleges are seeking out foreign students to fill the budget gap.
A study published Aug. 27 in Nature Human Behaviour showed that scientists are skilled in detecting questionable and/or unreliable results. Corresponding author Brian Nosek, with the University of Virginia and colleagues tested 21 studies from Science and Nature, two highly regarded journals. Most were psychological studies with student subjects. Experimenters were able to reproduce results of 13 studies, results that were better than previous research.
(Video) Many UVA students may be spending their final days of summer relaxing before classes ramp up, but one group of students spent Monday volunteering around the Charlottesville community. Students from UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy spent the day helping out the community.
A new ranking puts University of Virginia as the No. 2 public university in the United States. The national assessment organization Niche released its 2019 rankings on Monday.
(Video) Aug. 28 marks the first day of classes for students at the University of Virginia, and for more than 3,000 of them, this is their first day of college.
We’ve only, for the most part, seen him in a suit-and-tie around the Grounds… so maybe some first-years and their parents can be excused for not recognizing new University of Virginia President James Ryan in plain sight this past weekend. President Ryan put on some elbow grease, an orange “greeter” t-shirt, white shorts, and a baseball cap — blending in as one of the student and alumni greeters who come out in force each year to welcome new students. He had a mic in his hand, and was followed by a video camera speaking with persons on the Grounds … and even helping move some things.
Do ethical values and rules hinder the innovative spirit of Silicon Valley to invent new and exciting things? Two of the world’s leading experts in corporate ethics, R. Edward Freeman and Bobby Parmar of UVA’s Darden School of Business, don’t think so.
(By Emily Ogden, assistant professor of English and author of “Credulity: A Cultural History of U.S. Mesmerism”) In our historical moment, the mesmerists are worth considering, for they were frequently debunked, but the debunkings rarely had much of an effect.
Doctors and medical scientists have long believed that our nervous system and brain were completely separate from our immune system, but Dr. Jonathan Kipnis, chair of UVA’s Department of Neuroscience, is compiling evidence to the contrary. He’s shown, for example, that mice don’t learn well without a healthy immune system.
“In the Senate, you need two-thirds of the Senate to convict a president and that has never happened before,” said University of Virginia legal analyst Saikrishna Prakash. “Two presidents have been impeached, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. No president has actually been removed (from office).”
Losing just one of the Democratic seats in West Virginia, Indiana, North Dakota, Montana and Missouri – all won by Trump in 2016 – could doom any shot of retaking the Senate. “Those five states are clearly the biggest targets for Republicans,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a non-partisan analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “There’s two ways to look at the Senate map. It’s really bad for Democrats, but the flip side of this is that this is a perfect year for them to be defending it.”
English literature scholar and teacher Mark Edmundson of the University of Virginia describes how many college students actively avoid the classic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries because they no longer have the patience to read longer, denser, more difficult texts. We should be less concerned with students’ “cognitive impatience,” however, than by what may underlie it: the potential inability of large numbers of students to read with a level of critical analysis sufficient to comprehend the complexity of thought and argument found in more demanding texts, whether in literat...
“In the Senate, you need two-thirds of the Senate to convict a president and that has never happened before,” said University of Virginia legal analyst Saikrishna Prakash. “Two presidents have been impeached, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. No president has actually been removed (from office).”
McCain “had a temper the size of a volcano,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. But “you almost always got an apology, followed by quality time with him.” And, while voting most often with his fellow Republicans, he “didn’t hesitate a minute to work with Democrats,” Sabato added.
The White House’s announcement of the intended nominations of Travis LeBlanc and Aditya Bamzai to be members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is a welcome development for this low-profile but increasingly significant board. The planned nomination of Bamzai, a UVA law professor and former lawyer at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and National Security Division, to be a fifth member helps ensure partisan balance; it indicates that Elisebeth Collins will be leaving the board since Bamzai would have to fill her seat. This enables pairing LeBlanc with a Republican...
Conservative regulatory experts are among those expecting the Trump administration to again say this fall that it’s met its goal of cutting two government regulations for every new one created—though many predict that claim will largely be based, like last year, on smoke and mirrors. “The two-for-one order is as gimmicky as it sounds, and as a consequence, just doesn’t have that kind of deep, useful prospect for changing the system,” said UVA law professor Michael Livermore.
Trump remains baffled that Mueller’s team is overturning every rock around the president to find collusion between his campaign and Russia while ignoring ties between Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party and the author of a so-called dossier of dirt on Trump from Russian sources. “Both sides got information from the Russians,” said Saikrishna Prakash of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Called the Social Sciences Replication Project, it is the latest bid by the nonprofit Center for Open Science in Charlottesville and far-flung collaborators to quality check the scientific literature. Like its predecessors, the new effort found that a large fraction of published studies don’t yield the same results when done a second time. But this time, the five independent research teams that did the replications strove to give the studies the benefit of the doubt: They increased the statistical power of the studies by enlisting, on average, five times as many participants as the originals. ...
“If we’re going to study reproducibility, we need that investment,” says Brian Nosek, head of the Center for Open Science and a psychologist at the University of Virginia. The question wasn’t just whether the original claims were replicable. It was whether would-be replicators could rule out some of the excuses for why they weren’t.