Every entrepreneur wants to maximize their productivity and achieve their goals. Each day becomes a white-knuckle grind, and the struggle for self-discipline and will power is exhausting. A study by Timothy Wilson, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, took a group of college freshmen who struggled academically and felt intellectually inadequate. They were split into two groups; the intervention group was informed that it's common for students to struggle in their freshmen year but improve as they adjust to college life. They also watched videos of upper-class student...
Crossfit Charlottesville is standing behind one of its members as he battles cancer. Sunday, the gym put together a fundraiser called Deadlifts for Derek to raise money for Derek Young who was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. More than 80 family members, friends, and athletes from across Virginia came out to Deadlifts for Derek. They participated in rowing and lifting barbells and raised money for the University of Virginia Health Foundation and Cancer Center.
Derek Young was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer earlier this summer. Young is an active member of Crossfit Charlottesville, and the organization decided to host a fundraiser for the place where Young is spending most of his time, the University of Virginia Cancer Center. "It's amazing to see it all come together," said Scott Linton, General Manager of Crossfit Charlottesville. "I felt like I haven't had to do anything but cheer people on." Young is happy to be giving back to the organization that is giving him extra time to live.
(By Brian Balogh, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and co-host of the public radio show and podcast “BackStory with the American History Guys.”) Barely noticed in a sea of odd moments in last week’s third Republican debate was Mike Huckabee’s homespun acknowledgment that he was wearing a Trump tie. It was a reminder that among the 10 candidates on stage, only one was a brand name: Donald Trump. Pundits will begin to explain Trump, the political phenomenon, only when they recognize that his presidential campaign is also a business strategy.
The U.S. Department of Labor has required 401(k) plans to send an annual fee disclosure statement to 401(k) participants for the past three years. This document lists the costs and investment performance of every fund in your 401(k) plan in a single document, and it can be used to find the lowest cost and best-performing funds in your plan. "If your plan includes low-cost index funds, something below 0.2 percent or 20 basis points, that is likely to be a good option," says Quinn Curtis, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Ready or not, Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. Loved by some, loathed by many, our biannual clock twirling ritual has wide-ranging and often surprising implications. “We could easily avoid them by moving to year-round DST — that is, permanently shifting that hour of daylight to the evening, and then leaving our clocks alone,” Jennifer L. Doleac and Nicholas J. Sanders wrote in the Brookings piece Thursday. “Our research suggests that we’d be safer for it.”
“It’s hard to call this anything but good news,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “I remember the 1950s and 1960s, when Virginians would openly decry racially mixed marriage or the adoption of children of another race. And the Senate race is in the Richmond area, once one of the most resistant to change. “Today,” Sabato said, “a mixed-race family is a political plus. Without saying a word, you project an image of progress and modernity.”
Co-authored by Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education, exploring recent funding and strategies that will strengthen Virginia’s early education programs.
Starting college can make you stressed, exhausted, and overwhelmed -- and that's not just in the classroom. The Contemplative Science Center at the University of Virginia is combating those freshman year symptoms.
Shira Lurie, a UVA doctoral student, writes about the elusive pursuit of happiness and its role in reducing stress in grad school.
Many of Virginia’s public TV stations will air a new documentary from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Ball of Confusion” chronicles the 1968 presidential election. Professor Larry Sabato says UVA President Teresa Sullivan wants to have a series of programs highlighting things Americans should know before they vote in 2016. The Friday night premiere of “Ball of Confusion” included a special guest with a famous name. He’s Edward Nixon, the only surviving brother of the late Richard Nixon.
Tesla, Bosch, Tanom, Toyota, Nissan and more brought the latest car tech to the conference, and McAuliffe said he wants the state to lead in driverless technology. He test-drove a Tesla Model X that had semi-autonomous capabilities like steering on its own. Research bodies at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia are working on smart roads and connected vehicles, which means communication between your vehicle, other vehicles, the roadway and other infrastructure.
In fact, research by Associate Professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia Robert Tai clearly shows that almost half of college students who go on to study science and become scientists are first attracted to STEM before fifth grade, and 70 percent are attracted to STEM before high school.
It took more than a century to have the type of art museum Thomas Jefferson had envisioned for the University of Virginia. That dream became a reality on Nov. 1, 1935, when the newly completed Bayly Art Museum presented its first exhibit. The inaugural show consisted of 400 works that included etchings, drawings, paintings and lithographs by noted artists. In 2012, Heywood and Cynthia Fralin announced they would be donating their remarkable collection of American art to the museum. This stunningly generous gift prompted the university to rename the museum the Cynthia and W. Heywood Fralin Muse...
(By Johann N. Neem, professor of history at Western Washington University and a visiting faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia) In the week between the revelation that the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors was looking at former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings to lead the 17-campus system and her ultimate selection, most of the reporting and commentary focused on whether the board and the presidential search committee were following procedures. Yet, as the former University of Virginia President John T. Casteen...
Lawmakers and political observers said the logistics involved in being a member of the General Assembly — two to three months a year full time in Richmond, with part-time pay of $18,000, limited staff and the demands of fundraising — make it difficult to attract a more diverse group capable of serving. “Our system strongly favors the wealthy and the retired, as well as those who have flexible white-collar occupations where they can come and go for months at a time,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Some legisla...
People in Charlottesville took a short stroll Sunday afternoon to raise awareness of a condition that causes seizures. The epilepsy awareness walk is held every year in November. The crowd started its mile long stroll at the Ntelos Wireless Pavilion on the Downtown Mall. University of Virginia neurology professor Doctor Nathan Fountain says epilepsy is a disorder that's often misunderstood.
The education scholar and University of Virginia professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr. showed me just how upside-down this approach is. Hirsch argued that all truly great “critical thinkers” start out by mastering a substantial body of knowledge. Beginning with his 1987 bestseller Cultural Literacy and in other books over the next two decades, Hirsch made it clear that my sons’ teachers—most of them, at least—had abandoned common sense in favor of education fads that were backed by no evidence and that actually did damage, particularly to minority children coming from disad...
Former President Harry S. Truman described it as a “monstrosity in timekeeping”. In 2007, crime rates dropped by as much as seven percent in the days following the implementation of DST, according to an analysis done by Jennifer L. Doleac of the University of Virginia and Nicholas J. Sanders of the College of William & Mary. With Daylight Saving Time ending, “you gain precious moments”, but don’t use them watching an extra late night show and chowing down on junk, suggest the experts.
It’s a more than $1.5 million race and counting — but for Virginia politicos much more than that is riding on the fight to win the 21st District Senate seat. “It’s a very narrow battlefield,” Geoffrey Skelley, of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said of the larger campaign both parties are waging to claim control of the state Senate.