An IRS proposal that would change the way charities report donations has nonprofits in the Shenandoah Valley rallying in opposition. It would make them collect private information that puts donors at greater risk for identity theft. A professor of law and taxation, at the University of Virginia, George Yin, offered his take. “What this does is it gives an alternative to the charity to report it and then the taxpayer can still get the deduction without the receipt,” said Yin. Yin doubts many nonprofits would fill out the optional form.
A recently-released survey from the National Survey of Engagement – commonly called ‘Nessie’ – featured a student poll that brought to question whether students are being adequately challenged by their universities. The survey first discovered that admissions had no correlation to the level at which students felt they were challenged. The selectivity wasn’t a guarantee for academic rigor or a high-quality educational experience. Josipa Roksa, an associate professor of sociology and education at the University of Virginia, suggested that researchers look closely at...
National political groups are bigfooting their way into state elections through ad campaigns, part of a growing trend in which groups independent from candidates or parties are taking a larger role in shaping the narratives of political campaigns. “National groups may be digging deeper down the ballot because the money may be more valuable the more you go down the ballot,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “However, the Kochs intervened and didn’t win. The [school board members] were recalled, which shows ju...
(By Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia) For a thousand years, the societies of the Western world transmitted and preserved much of their written cultures on and between the skins of beasts.
According to a study recently published in the Journal of Child Development, the cool kids in school (you know, the ones who had blonde and black hair extensions in at the same time and carried their PE kits in Jane Norman bags) are not likely to be successful in later life. The study, entitled 'What Happened To The Cool Kids', chronicled ten years of research as scientists followed the lives of 180 teenagers from the ages of 13-23 to see how their lives developed. Professor Joseph Allen from the University of Virginia was involved in the study and said: "It appears that while so-...
Some University of Virginia doctors have been recognized for going after a rare and deadly disease. Pulmonary fibrosis is the name for more than 200 lung diseases that are still largely unknown. The disease happens when the lung tissue becomes damaged or scarred. A patient may go see their general practitioner, which may lead to a misdiagnosis. That’s when specialists at UVa come in to give the patient better treatment.
As Bethany Teachman , a professor in the Department of Psychology, puts it, awkward situations can be boiled down to "an incongruence" between what's happening and what you think should happen, or between what two people think should happen.
"This variant has been studied for years, but this study provided more convincing evidence on the role of this genetic variant in smoking cessation by analyzing a significant large number of smoke samples," said UVA professor Ming Li.
The school with the most satisfied graduates is the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. The school ranked fifth on job satisfaction and tops for both education and preparation.
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley talked about gun control, green energy and student debt at the University of Virginia on Tuesday night.
University administrators say terror threats against popular destinations have heightened vigilance but have not caused a rethinking of study-abroad programs.
The Charlottesville Fire Department is rotating on-duty crews to train with structure fire simulations. For the first time, the department is partnering with the UVA School of Nursing.
Perhaps the most bizarre bit of business in the multimedia exhibition “Jefferson and Palladio: Constructing a New World” is a video of an imaginary confrontation between Thomas Jefferson and Andrea Palladio, depicted as silhouettes.
According to the World Health Organisation, over 3 million people die each year as a result of health problems caused by unsanitary water. That is why Dr. Theresa Dankovic from Carnegie Mellon University has focused her efforts on developing new and inexpensive ways to provide clean water to those who need it. Dr. Dankovic is the inventor of pAge – a sheet of paper “equipped” with silver and copper nanoparticles that kill dangerous microbes in dirty water. Dr. Dankovic came up with the idea for the “Drinkable Book” while working at McGill University in Montreal an...
The killings of Chinese citizens by Islamic militants in Syria and Mali place President Xi Jinping in a quandary: How can Beijing respond effectively without betraying its strict stance against intervention? The dilemma underscores the tension between China's desire to be seen as a leading global power and its desire to maintain its own independent foreign policy while shunning the U.S.-led Western liberal democratic political agenda. Such attitudes dictate that, despite pressure on the government to respond to recent incidents, Beijing is unlikely to do so "in a meaningful way,"...
But here’s the thing about rivalries: A team’s performance in any single year isn’t supposed to matter. What distinguishes rivalry from competition are the psychological stakes that exist even if one team is undefeated and the other is incompetent. One paper published last month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that rivalries make people behave more recklessly than non-rivalries. The co-authors, Benjamin Converse and David Reinhard, came to their finding after studying rivalry in the NFL, international soccer and even fantasy sports. “You can...
University of Virginia Health System researchers have opened a national clinical trial examining a non-surgical treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms caused by an enlarged prostate . Also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia, an enlarged prostate is a common condition unrelated to cancer that affects about 210 million men worldwide, according to researchers from UVA's Division of Interventional Radiology and Department of Urology.
It was a group project of staggering proportions. University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and his colleagues at the nonprofit Center for Open Science got help from over 350 scientists to repeat 100 high-profile psychology experiments published in 2008 — the largest replication study to date. In August, they announced the results in Science, forcing psychologists to face some hard truths about the reliability of their field’s studies.
Immigrants don’t just bring their labor to the United States; they bring their needs, too. Just as native workers demand food, clothing, housing and entertainment, so, too, do immigrants. That creates job opportunities. A recent study by researchers at Indiana University and the University of Virginia, for instance, found that each new immigrant produces about 1.2 new jobs. Most of these new positions are filled by domestic workers. Typically, we hear that immigrants “take our jobs.” If this were true, however, we would expect the unemployment rate to rise significantly as th...
With winter on its way, a group of University of Virginia students decided to take action and give back to kids in need. UVA's Iota Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. kicked off a coat drive to help students in need at Clark Elementary School.