“George H.W. Bush knew Congress. He was a congressman. He did congressional briefings as the CIA director. Bush was the rare combination of politician and statesman,” said Barbara Perry, who studies the U.S. presidency at the University of Virginia. Washington outsiders, including the sitting president, have come to the Oval Office after declaring, “I’m not going to get dragged into the muck,” Perry said, and “they quickly learn they don’t know what they’re doing.”
You can fill a room with studies on leadership that hail the importance of being a likable, honest, caring, and modest boss. In the work world, however, that’s not what people want most. When people have a chance to choose whom to work with, and their own success depends in part on those people, a new study finds that cold competence becomes more important and likability less so. “It should be obvious, but it’s not,” says Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, who coauthored the study with Peter Belmi at University of Virgi...
There is a story about a pair of anthropologists in the Amazon living with a diminishing tribe, learning their dying language and creating a phonetic notation, lexicon, and grammar to record its existence beyond its spoken survival. The anthropologists led the people through the signs and sounds. Upon hearing themselves say aloud the spelled name of the tribe and terrified that their spirit had been captured by this alchemy, they jumped up and went running. I worry that we are just as uncomprehending of what we are looking at in the world; I don’t know what the consequences are of our computat...
A Charlottesville woman says she wants to run against Democratic State Del. David Toscano for his seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. Sally Hudson, an assistant professor of public policy, education and economics at UVA, tweeted about her campaign for the Democratic nomination for the 57th District on Tuesday.
For this week’s dose of historical context, we talked to Peter Norton, an engineering and society historian at UVA, about the largest industrial retooling in the history of the world. It began in 1940, when then-President Franklin Roosevelt called up GM’s CEO, Bill Knudsen, to talk about converting the auto industry into one big war factory.
A surge in the number of people going to state hospitals under temporary detention orders for evaluations has added to the strain. Although the number of orders issued by courts and magistrates has declined in the past two years, the number of people going to state hospitals under such orders has increased from 3,498 in fiscal year 2016 to 5,356 in fiscal year 2018. One big reason is that private psychiatric hospitals are taking more patients who are admitted willingly, UVA law professor Richard Bonnie told the panel.
Brian Williams studies the intersection of race and public safety. As he settles into a new post as associate professor of public policy at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy, he wanted to expand scholarship beyond the classroom walls. Williams gathered his UVA students to join government officials, law enforcement and residents from across the state Saturday to lobby ideas for improving relationships between police and the communities they serve.
Another new Schwarzman Scholar is Varun Sharma, the valedictorian of that class. Sharma, 21, studies commerce and international economics at the University of Virginia. "It's a blessing and I'm really, really excited to go," Sharma told The Jersey Journal. "China has been a big part of my life for a while."
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, says that JFK’s father, the influential businessman and politician Joseph Kennedy, played up his son’s hero status during campaigns, as did the newspapers and magazines, but that JFK himself didn’t wear it on his sleeve.
The dean of the UVA School of Engineering has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS awards this lifetime honor to people who have made “extraordinary achievements in advancing science.” Dean Craig H. Benson was recognized along with 415 others from around the world in the Nov. 28 edition of Science.
UVA political analyst Larry Sabato said Bush's stature among the country's 45 presidents has grown in the quarter century since he left office. “It's pretty obvious as people look back, and as people are recollecting the Bush presidency, it looks a heck of a lot better than it did at the end of it,” he said. “Bush of course was defeated for re-election and most people at the time considered him a failed president because of a recession during his time in the White House. But now I think we can see in retrospect that he was actually quite successful,” Sabato added, particularly in foreign affai...
An automated pop-up screen in the electronic ordering system reduced unnecessary testing for Clostridioides difficile — formerly called Clostridium difficile — infections and saved on overall costs, according to study findings published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Dr. Gregory R. Madden, an infectious disease clinical fellow at the UVA Medical Center, explained that the most common test used in hospitals to detect C. difficile — the nucleic acid amplification test — is unable to differentiate between infection and colonization in patients.
Political observers say Kasich's path to the White House is narrow – if it exists at all. "At this point, it doesn’t seem like there is a path for John Kasich to be the next president of the United States," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
The University of Virginia’s Long-Term Ecological Research Project has just received a $6.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study climate changes, rising seas and encroaching civilization on the coast’s ecosystems. UVA has been doing this for 36 years.
The district has entered into a $135,000 grant-funded contract with the University of Virginia, which has a track record in assisting urban school districts in their turnaround programs. The work touches a variety of components, including screening principals to make sure they are suited for work in an urban setting, with large populations of children who live in poverty.
In 2010, VMFA and the University of Virginia, with a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, used digital technologies to study the statue for evidence of ancient pigments, finding traces of a man-made blue and an organic pink. Combined, they form purple, a significant color in the imperial court.
In 2016 heart-rending pictures of aquatic creatures tangled up in the unforgiving grip of plastic six-pack rings sent the New York creative agency We Believers on a mission to develop alternative packaging for its client, Florida-based craft microbrewer Saltwater Brewery. The sustainable six-pack experiment could have begun and ended with Saltwater, but the co-founder of We Believers, Marco Vega, is a graduate of UVA’s Darden School of Business who spent time as a process engineer at Procter & Gamble.
Attending a very selective school affects women’s personal lives, the research by economists at UVA, Virginia Tech and Tulane University shows. “This pattern is certainly suggestive that the school that you attend has a big influence not just on the skills that you gain, but also on your aspirations and your expectations,” UVA professor Amalia Miller said.
Women in Virginia are more than twice as likely to reach the age of 85 than men. That’s according to Kathryn Crespin at the University of Virginia, who says women are twice as likely to face disability in old age and three times as likely to face Alzheimer’s.
UVA’s first consecutive bowl appearances since 2004-05 became official Sunday afternoon when the Belk Bowl selection committee announced that the Cavaliers will face South Carolina at noon on Dec. 29 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.