The University of Virginia and Charlottesville community came together to honor three Muslim students killed near the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A vigil took place in the UVA McIntire Amphitheatre Sunday night to remember the three students who police say were killed by their neighbor Tuesday.
Virginia has served as a model state for university mental-health reform since 2008, when it changed its laws in the wake of the 2007 shooting spree at Virginia Tech, according to Richard J. Bonnie, director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and chair of the Virginia Commission on Mental Health Law Reform from 2006 to 2011.
U.S. officials blame a lack of sufficient evidence to press charges, but experts say a more likely explanation is a shortage of government resources, and perhaps willpower, to go toe-to-toe with America’s richest companies and the people who run them. Instead, prosecutors now seem to prefer hefty civil suits as their weapons of choice in fighting white-collar crime. “The [dearth] of prosecutions is why people have ‘too big to jail’ concerns,” says Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor who wrote a book on the subject. “It’s not just ab...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expanding a crackdown on a little-known program to dole out visas to wealthy foreigners in exchange for investments that generate jobs. “It’s not been demonstrated that it does much to create jobs, it’s given rise to a lot of questionable schemes, and it’s very complicated,” said David Martin, a law professor at the University of Virginia who has served as general counsel to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
When it comes to styles of thought, American conservatives have more in common with East Asian cultures than they do American liberals. And those liberals? They’re WEIRD. That’s the takeaway from a paper published recently in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, based on research led by University of Virginia doctoral candidate Thomas Talhelm.
Once upon a time, you may have thrived in the workplace by being smart. But I.Q. smart may not be enough any more. Furthermore, what you already know may not count as much as your willingness to acknowledge what you don’t know and your willingness to learn more. Edward Hess, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has done some interesting research into the need to be an “adaptive learner,” a person who honestly sees his or her shortcomings and asks the right questions.
Civil rights leader Julian Bond has teamed up with a University of Virginia historian to document the experiences of 51 African-American leaders.Bond and professor Phyllis Leffler discussed their project during a joint appearance at UVA's Miller Center Wednesday.
Civil rights leader and former University of Virginia history professor Julian Bond spoke at UVa's Miller Center Wednesday about a new project on black leaders.The project is a book and website that Bond and his fellow U.Va. professor Phyllis Leffler have been working on for more than a decade. The pair spoke with 51 African American men and women, who are considered leaders, about their experiences.
(By Gerry Warburg, assistant dean, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia) I teach public policy students at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. I have found that this next generation of leaders are not interested in solely public sector work. Some are very interested in social entrepreneurship and creating a business. Others want to lead mission-driven careers within non-governmental organizations. Many want to affect change in government, but through innovative and non-traditional ways. A good porti...
(By Christopher Swift, an adjunct professor of national security studies at Georgetown University and a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Center for National Security Law) There are different narratives about what ISIL is in the Middle East. One of the difficulties people have is coming to grips with the idea that ISIL could be quite as bad as it is. Over the last several years the concern in that part of the world has been over the Syrian civil war and what their government is doing to the Sunni community. Coming to grips with the fact that the people fighting [Syrian President Bas...
What pairs well with vodka? Small bites of Anton Chekhov’s early short stories.The University of Virginia Department of Drama will present “Vodka Variations: an evening of Chekhov shorts” at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Ruth Caplin Theatre.
A nursing shortage is hitting hospitals hard in central Virginia. At UVA Medical Center, 200 nurses are needed. With approximately 2400 nurses currently on staff, that's almost a 10 percent shortage.
In a recent study, a research team from the University of Virginia School of Medicine was able to isolate a substance in lung cancer cells, which allows the cells to proliferate and metastasize.
Preparing your taxes can be complicated, time-consuming, stressful and pricey if you need some help filing. Thankfully, there is one free resource for those who can't afford assistance: University of Virginia law students.
The more depressive symptoms third grade teachers had in a new study, the less progress in math their struggling students made during the school year. One theory is that depression makes it harder for teachers to maintain the optimal learning environment for kids. For third graders, that means an active and dynamic environment rather than a lot of desk work. “This study is just a reminder that teachers are people and that for all of us our mental health impacts our daily interactions with others,” said Bridget Hamre, associate director of the Center for Advanced Study of ...
Bridget K. Hamre, research associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education , also lauds the benefits of Head Start program. “One of the advantages for families of Head Start is that those programs tend to provide more wrap-around services in support for the families as opposed to other alternative child care centers that tend to be mediocre than your typical Head Start,” Hamre said.
It's a topic more and more in the news—cyber security. Jack Davidson, a professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, explains how to keep your information safe.
Ever wonder what your life would be like if you weren't married? Or imagined how things might've turned out if you'd tied the knot with someone else? What matters is how you answer the two questions you should ask yourself next. University of Virginia economics researchers Leora Friedberg and Steven Stern looked at how 3,597 couples answered those two questions at two different points in time.
(By Geoffrey Skelley, the Associate Editor at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia) The United States is in the midst of an era of great competitiveness in presidential contests. Not once in the last seven presidential elections has a party won more than 55% or less than 45% of the two-party vote. In a recent article for Politico Magazine , the Crystal Ball team argued that fundamentals, recent history, and the nation’s marked political polarization portend a highly competitive 2016 tilt.
Whatever its source, midlife stress does not foredoom us to a life out of control, especially in our relationships. Of the marriages that do break down, the husband is not typically the one to walk out. According to the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, women instigate two thirds of all divorces—most likely not because they are having midlife crises but because their husbands are behaving badly.