UVA, Albemarle County and the city of Charlottesville all have pledged support for a program aimed at accelerating the growth of local startups.
Some of the proposed changes would make less of a difference, except on rare occasions. Still, that choice could present interesting challenges for institutions like the University of Virginia, which uses the highest standard in the law — "beyond a reasonable doubt" — to adjudicate cases under its vaunted honor code. That’s because the new rules would also require colleges to use the same standard for all conduct violations that carry the same sanction.
UVA sociologist Tristan Bridges has written about the “myth” of the bachelor pad (made up by Playboy to sell ads!) and is working on a book about the phenomenon of man caves. “Sometimes, to sell people something that they don’t actually want or need or have any context to value, one thing that behavioral economists will do is provide context to people to make sense of it, so they can justify spending more than they would imagine,” he said.
New research from UVA and Northwestern University claims men are more likely to leave a job if their boss is a woman.
UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development is considering renaming itself and its main building, Ruffner Hall.
Suburban areas are drawing more college-educated professionals who may be fiscally conservative but are socially liberal, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA's Center for Politics. The party of Donald Trump isn’t a fit for many of these voters, he said. “Instead of a polished, well-educated fiscal conservative party, they’re faced with an in-your-face, rude and offensive party and that’s quite a contrast,” Sabato said. “Of course it’s caused people to rethink their affiliations. That’s not the (way of the) suburbs.”
Confronted with increasing calls for his resignation and his second major protest in a month, Moïse opted not to travel to the northern city of Cap-Haïtien where Haitian leaders have long celebrated the Nov. 18, 1803 Battle of Vertières. “This is all ‘déjà vu’ and it indicates that the political crisis is unending after more than 30 years of so-called ‘democratization,’” said Robert Fatton, a longtime Haiti political observer who teaches political science at UVA.
(Commentary) In research that will appear next year in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, I and Amalia Miller of the University of Virginia explored who voted in favor of Medicaid expansion in Maine. Because there was no exit polling, we examined local area voting results and Census information. We found that the expansion drew the most support in areas where a significant portion of residents had four-year degrees.
Independent experts agree that there are portents of trouble for Trump in the midterm results, even though they stress plenty of caveats. “Midterms are not presidential elections, and they are not predictive,” cautioned Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. “But the president’s standing is undeniably shaky and his deliberately divisive style is not allowing him to capitalize on a time of relative peace and prosperity.”
(Commentary by Bob Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development, and Tara Hofkens, a UVA postdoctoral research associate) The Bush-Obama years saw unprecedented investments in education research, mostly focused on solutions—generating and evaluating interventions that improve student performance. In fact, the structure through which the Institute of Education Sciences allocates resources to research is designed primarily to produce tools, practices and policies that increase student performance on state assessments of academic achievement.
Such programs to strengthen marriages helped reduce the Duval County divorce rate 28 percent from 2015 to 2017, according to studies by Florida State University and UVA that were commissioned by Live the Life. The UVA study reported the Live the Life/Culture of Freedom Initiative outreach alone had “a marked effect” on the local divorce rate.
A husband-and-wife team of doctors at UVA has pioneered a system of breast cancer treatment that allows a patient to receive a single dose of radiation at the same time as surgery and then go home without weeks of additional doses.
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was interviewed in a live taping of “The David Rubenstein Show” by Rubenstein, a financier and philanthropist, at UVA’s School of Law on Friday. The event launched the school’s Karsh Center for Law and Democracy, which aims to promote the study of civil discourse and civic engagement.
Macaroni and cheese is serving a valuable purpose than just as a tasty side dish. People around Charlottesville gathered at Common Grounds at the University of Virginia on Sunday, November 18, to help raise money for the Charlottesville Community Resilience Fund.
Members of UVA’s transgender community gathered Sunday to remember lives lost to transphobic violence.
(Video) Members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at UVA and Virginia Tech are working together ahead of a big rivalry game set for Friday.
(Commentary by Jeffrey W. Holmes, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine) Artificial heart valves, prosthetic hips, bedside monitors, MRI machines – these and so many other innovations that we now take for granted emerged at the interface of engineering and medicine. In an era of big data, personalized medicine and artificial intelligence, the importance of engineering, especially in medicine, is increasing.
(Commentary by Robert F. Bruner, a UVA professor of business administration) Ten years after the financial crisis, here are the best books on what went wrong and what still should be fixed.
As snow and cold rain fell on Virginia, I spoke with state climatologist Jerry Stenger at UVA. I asked if Virginia has ever suffered the kind of fires California is enduring now. Later in our conversation, he explains why it is so hard to come up with an accurate long-term outlook for Virginia’s winter weather.
Three political scientists, including UVA’s Jennifer Lawless, studied how members of Congress acted in four ways: travel to research foreign policy, co-sponsor bills, cast procedural votes and offer amendments. In each area, the women in Congress did not have more bipartisan tendencies and they did not demonstrate a greater willingness to collaborate. They also found that Democratic women and men are "statistically indistinguishable" from one another, as are their Republican colleagues.