2020 is the second year where the FT has included corporate social responsibility, or CSR, in their methodology. It carries a 3% weighting in the overall ranking, and measures the number of teaching hours from core courses dedicated to CSR, ethics, social and environmental issues. IESE Business School in Spain finished top, with UVA’s Darden School of Business finishing in second.
The University of Virginia’s 2018 report on the institution’s ownership and treatment of enslaved people centuries ago tells the tale of a 10-year-old black girl who was savagely beaten unconscious in 1856 by Noble Noland, a student who deemed her reply to his questions too insolent. The attack’s prominence in the report is part of an ongoing effort to account for – and atone for – the ways the university encouraged, enabled and profited from slavery.
This year’s Virginia Film Festival will take place from Oct. 21-25 in a variety of Charlottesville locations. “We had great feedback from our audience last year about the expansion of the festival to five days,” said festival director Jody Kielbasa, UVA’s vice provost for the arts.
UVA psychologist Linda Gonder-Frederick tracked the performance of 14 diabetic alert dogs in a 2017 study. Before the study, their owners believed the dogs would prove more accurate than their glucose monitor devices. That didn’t happen.
David and Jane Walentas committed $100 million to the University of Virginia, earmarking $75 million for undergraduates and M.B.A. students who are the first people in their families to attend college. David Walentas, a real-estate developer and UVA alumnus, said, “Growing up, I didn’t know anyone who had been to college. But I knew it was a way out of poverty and path to opportunity.”
Dana Tierney, an editor, advertising executive, and writer for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post and other publications, died on Friday, February 7, 2020, at her home in Roanoke. Dana was born in Williamsburg on Dec. 12, 1961, graduated from Patrick Henry High School in Ashland and received her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia. She went on to earn a master’s degree in the program in creative writing at Columbia University, where she was awarded a fellowship and won the Heinfield Foundation Award for writing. She worked as an editor at the Mysterious Press and L...
Friends and colleagues recall Emma Edmunds as a gentle soul who had a good rapport and pushed for more inclusive representation in Danville’s history. Edmunds, who spent years studying local civil rights history and was instrumental in bringing a civil rights exhibit to the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, died Sunday at 74. She also worked as director of editorial and design at the University of Virginia and later became a project historian for History United in Danville.
The Howard County Women’s Athletics Hall of Fame will celebrate its 24th year of recognizing outstanding contributions with an induction ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 15 at Howard High School in Ellicott City. This year’s inductees include runner Lee McDuff Elkins (River Hill, 2001), who attended the University of Virginia and graduated in 2005 with a double major in economics and psychology. She ran cross country at UVA for one season “then decided to give my (competitive) shoes a rest. There was too much outside of college sports that I wanted to pursue. … Graduating from Virginia is one of my ...
Spring training is scheduled to begin Sunday in Dunedin, Florida, for Derek Fisher and the rest of the Toronto Blue Jays position players. Fisher, an outfielder, will by competing for a bench role with the Jays. Before being traded to the Jays last season on July 31, Fisher played his entire pro career in the Astros organization after being selected by Houston out of the University of Virginia in the first round (37th overall) of the 2014 draft.
These days, Virginia’s politics are dominated by a suburban crescent arching from Northern Virginia through Hampton Roads. There’s been a large migration to the state through these suburbs – particularly Northern Virginia – by a professional class of government workers and contractors. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that 50.5% of the state’s population in 2018 was born outside Virginia. That nearly matches the 52% of legislators this year who were not born in Virginia. “People like to vote for people who reflect them,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “These l...
Federal expenditures for after-school programs have been criticized by some fiscal conservatives. However, more than 60 after-school programs met the standards of impact under the Every Student Succeeds Act, wrote Nancy Deutsch, director of Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development, in Fortune magazine last year.
Experts will continue to tell you that the biggest mistake you can make is failing to negotiate in the first place. Some people fear losing the offer if they ask for too much, while others find the process awkward or think the offer is cut and dry and there’s no room for improvement. Jeff McNish, assistant dean of the UVA Darden School of Business’ Career Development Center said: “Not negotiating [is] the single, biggest mistake made. Negotiation is a skill that most MBAs need for their post-MBA careers, and I encourage every MBA to demonstrate their negotiating skills before they start.” ...
A 6-year-old pointed a finger gun at her teacher and said ‘I shoot you.’ Her school called the cops.
Tredyffrin/Easttown says it follows school threat assessment guidelines developed at the University of Virginia. At a school board committee meeting last week, Mark Cataldi, the district’s director of assessment and accountability, said the T/E officials had consulted with Dewey Cornell, an education professor and forensic clinical psychologist at UVA who developed the model and “stood by involving law enforcement as part of the threat assessment teams.” Cornell “also emphasized flexibility,” and said law enforcement didn’t necessarily have to be involved every time, Cataldi said.
Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney said, “It looks like he was trying to bring attention to himself, not the issue, because that is what’s being covered – not the slave auction plaque or the plight of the slaves being sold there,” Brackney said. Justene Hill Edwards, a UVA assistant professor of the history of slavery, disagreed. “At end of the day, if this brings about meaningful conversation, not only about the city’s history and connection to slavery but also about how slavery and its legacy continues to influence the African American community here, then I think that’s an import...
Visits to health care providers for influenza-like illnesses (ILI) increased for a third straight week to 6.7% compared to 6% the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s not surprising for researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia who work in a research partnership with AccuWeather. They predicted what is now a second peak of ILI activity for the 2019-20 season a month ago when ILI activity was at its first peak of 7%. However, it doesn’t mean the season isn’t surprising in some ways. “It’s hard to believe we are this de...
A UVA researcher — as part of a study published in the scientific journal Pediatrics — finds more than half of new moms don’t follow safe sleep practices with their babies. The study in which UVA pediatrician Dr. Ann Kellams participated found “only 45.4% of new mothers surveyed both intended to comply and then did comply with the recommendation to sleep in the same room but not the same bed with their baby.”
Dr. Ann Kellams, a researcher at the UVA School of Medicine and pediatrician at UVA Children’s, says more new mothers need to act to protect their babies while they sleep. She found that among 3,260 new mothers surveyed, 59% intended to follow safe sleep recommendations to prevent sudden unexpected infant death syndrome, but only 45.4% followed it in practice.
(Video) Researchers at the University of Virginia are working on a way to test for autism when a baby is born.
Whether it’s hormones, or friends, or fear of the future, is teen angst here today and forgotten tomorrow? UVA social scientist Joseph Allen said, “We’d like to think we’re beyond it and we’re not as far beyond it as we’d like to be and it matters more, and sticks with us longer.”
Decision Desk HQ in partnership with the University of Virginia Center for Politics estimates that Sanders and Buttigieg will win nine national pledged delegates each from New Hampshire compared to six for Klobuchar, with Biden and Warren picking up zero delegates from the state.