If the price for 'Reproducible' shares are low when the market closes, that means that most people in the field don't believe the experiment can be replicated. "Our research showed that there is some ‘wisdom of the crowd’ among psychology researchers," said Brian Nosek, co-author and professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. "Prediction accuracy of 70 percent offers an opportunity for the research community to identify areas to focus reproducibility efforts to improve confidence and credibility of all findings."
Writing in the Times, Ross Douthat pointed to academic studies showing a decline in marriage rates, religious attendance, and other traditional behavioral patterns among whites of moderate education. In a 2012 paper provocatively titled “No Money, No Honey, No Church,” a group of four sociologists, including W. Bradford Wilcox, of the University of Virginia, refer to the “social marginalization of working class whites who are also increasingly disconnected from the institutions of marriage and work.”
On Monday night members of the University of Virginia’s ROTC marched throughout the night to remember America’s prisoners of war and those missing in action. This 24 hour vigil is held every year around Veterans Day. It's a chance for the community to remember all of those who never came home from war.
University of Virginia ROTC cadets and midshipmen is conducting a vigil to remember prisoners of war and those missing in action. The vigil began at 3 p.m. Monday and concludes with a ceremony honoring veterans at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the McIntire Amphitheater on UVa Grounds. Air Force Col. R. Wyn Elder, executive assistant to the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, will deliver the keynote address.
Ahead of Veterans Day, the University of Virginia ROTC honored American prisoners of war and those missing in action with a vigil at McIntire Ampitheatre on grounds. The annual vigil was originally scheduled to last 24 hours but was suspended for several hours overnight due to rain.
The changing face of K-12 public education presents its own challenges, Virginia’s superintendent of public instruction told state legislators on Monday. The comments from Superintendent Steve Staples were made to members of the Virginia General Assembly’s House Education Committee, which gathered at the University of Virginia for a two-day education summit.
Saturday's first-ever meeting is fundamentally "about recognition, not about results," said University of Virginia China expert Brantly Womack. "The meeting is the message."
The one year program in systems engineering is making it easier for veterans to transition back to civilian life.
Cammie Brothers, who teaches art and architectural history at UVA, says some of the best sculptures in the European tradition were produced not for palaces or gardens but for cathedral facades.
Peabody Energy, the world’s biggest private coal company, has agreed to make more robust disclosures to its investors about the financial risks it faces from future government policies and regulations related to climate change and other environmental issues that could reduce demand for its product. Commenting on the settlement, Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said, “The most interesting question is whether this will be a template for further disclosure and greater transparency by other companies, particularly energy companies.”
Jeb Bush has moved from presumed frontrunner to a candidate trying hard to gain his footing in a field crowded with quicker-off-the-mark hopefuls. But his clumsy campaigning is something of a family tradition, a political liability that prompted ridicule for his father and brother but wasn't enough to keep them from the presidency. But Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Jeb Bush has a tougher task than did his family in previous elections. "Unlike his father and brother, Jeb is running in a strongly outsider, anti-establishment year. ...
“The sprawling nature of the Feb. 5 event will test the candidates’ ability to draw votes under an array of different systems of voter participation,” wrote Rhodes Cook for Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “In short, Super Tuesday will test the candidates’ organizational ability, campaign skills, and most importantly, their vote-getting appeal, in far-flung settings unique in their scope and variety.”
If you’re watching CBS’s CSI, trying to get a grasp on anything that deals with clinical forensics, Dr. Ralph DeSimone says the more you watch, the dumber you’re going to get. Situated at his desk behind an oversized microscope, the 57-year-old petite pathologist carefully eyed several glass slides, studying the tissue and searching the specimen for possible diseases. After starting his employment at UVA Culpeper Hospital (formerly Culpeper Memorial and Culpeper Regional Hospital) in 1991, Dr. DeSimone became the county’s medical examiner in Culpeper and Madison from 19...
The Obama administration is under increasing pressure to investigate allegations that Exxon Mobil Corp. misled the public about its knowledge of climate change. All of the Democratic candidates for president have called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation, joining a number of Dem lawmakers and major environmental groups. Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia College of Law, said the DOJ might look into a case if it could find investors who could prove harm.
At the Virginia Film Festival Friday Charlottesville Tomorrow was pleased to co-sponsor with the University of Virginia Curry School of Education the documentary film Most Likely to Succeed. A panel discussion after the showing featured the film's executive producer Ted Dintersmith, Kathleen deLaski of the Education Design Lab and Jennifer Chiu, Joe Allen and Bob Pianta from the Curry School.
Famed film critic Leonard Maltin offered his review of the Virginia Film Festival Sunday. Maltin took part in a discussion at the University of Virginia's Culbreth Theater as part of the festival. He talked about historic films preserved by the Library of Congress including "The Maltese Falcon" with Humphrey Bogart and "Employees’ Entrance" from the 1930s.
The Charlottesville community is commemorating the 50th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The University of Virginia Center for Politics held a documentary screening and discussion of "Selma: the Bridge to the Ballot.” The film portrays the role of young people in Selma, Alabama and the struggle for African-Americans to attain voting rights.
As the screams of a crying baby faded in and out of the soundtrack and images of violence and bloody wounds filled the screen, a Virginia Film Festival audience was taken to the front lines of the Vietnam War. With three Academy Awards under his belt, director and producer Oliver Stone drew a huge crowd to the Paramount Theater on Saturday for a discussion and showing of his 1989 film “Born on the Fourth of July.”
Are you happy? Very happy? If you’re in your 30s or older, a new study has found that you’re less likely to answer “yes” than your parents were. The findings, being published online Thursday in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, come on the heels of another recent report that found that death rates of middle-aged white Americans have been rising, largely due to suicide and substance abuse. It is, of course, also impossible to ignore the economic downturn in the past decade. Shigehiro Oishi, a researcher at the University of Virginia, has documente...
On Thursday a panel will review the Columbia University report “Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected” at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies' second forum in the year-long “Engaging Race” series. The forum will begin at 4:30 p.m. at UVa’s Robertson Hall, Room 123.