And you’ll find the best-and-brightest at the top schools covering a range of topics: Gamification (Wharton School of Business), Technology Entrepreneurship (Stanford), Game Theory (Stanford), Innovation and Commercialization (MIT), Business Growth (University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business), Financing Entrepreneurship (Babson), and Organizational Behavior (HEC Paris).
An Employment Policies Institute report from economists at the University of Virginia and Middle Tennessee State University found clear evidence that part-time work by young adults translates to future career benefits. Young adults employed part-time at the turn of the millennium earned 20 percent more six to nine years later than their counterparts who weren’t employed, according to the researchers.
While the U.S. maintains its neutrality on territorial disputes, the study tries to pin-down what it calls the ambiguous basis for China’s nine-dash line. Laying out three possible interpretations of China's claim, the U.S. paper concludes it has no basis in international law. Myron Nordquist is associate director at the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia. He thought the tribunal would find it did not have jurisdiction over the case.
A scientific paper co-authored by a University of Virginia researcher has been named one of the most cited scientific papers of all time by Nature. The respected journal highlighted work by the School of Medicine's Wladek Minor for its influence on researchers using it as a reference to extend on their own experimental endeavors.
Robert F. Bruner, Dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, suggests that it is imperative for managers who move into environments that are new to embracing marketing (e.g., higher education, professional services) to have access to information that is better than their competitors. Bruner illustrates his thought with a Warren Buffett quote found in a Feb. 29, 1988 Berkshire Hathaway letter in which Buffett personifies competition as “Mr. Market.”
Notwithstanding their more egalitarian attitudes, for instance, college-educated households still tend to have male primary breadwinners: As the University of Virginia’s Brad Wilcox points out, college-educated husbands and fathers earn about 70 percent of their family’s income on average, about the same percentage as working-class married couples.
Opponents of House Bill 5958 say it would make it easier for people and businesses to discriminate. For example, they claim emergency medical workers could legally refuse to treat LGBT people. Douglas Laycock, a religious liberty scholar at the University of Virginia’s law school, says that’s not true. “(Similar laws in other states) certainly have not been interpreted in crazy ways that produce the kinds of problems that we’re now hearing about from opponents of the bill,” said Laycock on a conference call with reporters Monday.
This year saw a number of high-profile efforts to open college doors to more students, and Nicole Hurd seemed to have a hand in all of them. … Ms. Hurd wasn’t always focused on college access. The idea came to her in a parking lot in May 2004, when she was dean of undergraduate research and fellowships at the University of Virginia. Ms. Hurd was reflecting on a meeting she’d attended with local business leaders and staff from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which was interested in supporting college access.
“In my research of people who falsely confessed and were subsequently exonerated by DNA evidence, one-third were intellectually disabled or mentally ill,” Brandon Garrett, a Professor of Law at University of Virginia who studies false confessions, said.
Volunteers have collected hundreds of toys for boys and girls of all ages who will be spending Christmas in the hospital. The Mason's Toy Box charity will deliver the toys to patients at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital.
As countless unmade beds and unfinished homework assignments attest, kids need rules. Yet how parents make demands can powerfully influence a child's social skills, psychologists at the University of Virginia recently found after the conclusion of a study investigating the notorious transition from adolescence to adulthood.
The University of Virginia has expelled no students for sexual misconduct in the past decade, a record that has intensified scrutiny of the public flagship university now at the center of debate on campus sexual assault. Why, skeptics ask, has U-Va. dismissed dozens of students for academic cheating in recent years but none for sexual assault?
Letter to the Editor: Readers of The Daily Progress editorial, “True or not, article has UVa hiding” Dec. 14, deserve a response from the university. As we focus on strengthening policies on sexual assault, UVa will be guided by the work of an independent counsel, appointed by the Virginia attorney general to pursue a thorough review of university policies and practices. We will cooperate fully and embrace change where needed.
Three friends of the alleged University of Virginia rape victim are growing more skeptical about her account, saying they have doubts about information she gave them and why she belatedly tried to get herself deleted from the Rolling Stone article that engulfed their campus in controversy.
In an interview with CNN’s Brian Stelter, Alex Pinkleton, a rape survivor and U-Va. student, said of Sabrina Rubin Erdely, who wrote “A Rape on Campus“: “I think she had her heart in the right place. She wanted to bring light to this issue and it is a prevalent issue at U-Va. and on campuses across the nation,” said Pinkleton when asked to comment on Erdely. “However, she did have an agenda and part of that agenda was showing how monstrous fraternities themselves as an institution are and blaming the administration for a lot of these sexual assaults.”
Rolling Stone's top editors have gone silent over the past 10 days, as other news organizations continue to poke holes in its story. Founder and editor Jann Wenner, managing editor Will Dana, and Woods, the magazine’s deputy managing editor, have not any given interviews in that time. Melissa Bruno, a spokeswoman for the magazine, told The Huffington Post that the magazine "is conducting a thorough internal review of the reporting, editing, and fact-checking" of Erdely's story. Bruno did not comment specifically as to whether Rubin herself is re-reporting the story, or ...
The Rolling Stone reporter, initially defiant, has gone silent. Sexual assault awareness advocates, who rallied for Jackie and still support her, are now attacking the media for perpetuating "the myth of the false rape accusation."
Friends of an alleged victim of gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity are stepping forward with their side of the story after a Rolling Stone article that first reported the incident is questioned for its accuracy.
Friends of an alleged rape victim at the University of Virginia are coming forward, calling some of the claims in the Rolling Stone article about her ridiculous. They say they did all they could to help her.
The three University of Virginia students who came to the aid of their friend, a freshman named Jackie who was at the center of an explosive Rolling Stone account about her alleged sexual assault, are now speaking publicly about what they believe occurred that night in 2012.