Q&A with Darden Professor Ed Hess
... Entrepreneurs are, by nature, idea people. But not all of them are people people, which makes this transition perhaps the trickiest part of an entrepreneur's evolution. "The entrepreneur personally has to continually evolve and grow as the business grows," says Ed Hess, author of "Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses." ... His research has shown that as businesses grow, successful entrepreneurs go through stages: from owner to manager to leader to coach. ...
Although women continue to lag behind men in pay, the gender wage gap has narrowed considerably since the 1960s. Now a new University of Michigan study is thefirst to quantify the impact of the pill on women's labor market advances. ... Published online this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research as a working paper, the study was conducted by U-M economist Martha Bailey and colleagues Brad Hershbein at U-M and Amalia Miller at the University of Virginia.
Ralph Allen
Environmental sciences professor
New Study Shows Toxic Dumping Affects Virginia Waterways
WVIR NBC-29 / March 23
Dr. Jeffrey Barth
Neuro-psychologist
Thoughts on the Afghan killings (letter)
Mississippi Press / March 25
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Law professor
Book on the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta Wins the Bancroft Prize
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Bernard Carlson
Professor of science, technology and society
'Hunger Games' exposes myth of technological progress
Mother Nature Network / March 24
James Coan
Neuroscientist
The Brain on Love
New York Times (blog) / Ma...
I hadn’t planned on two breaks in one week ... It just worked out that way. The first was a cool, foggy weekend at Rehoboth. The second was a warm, sunny, two-night excursion by train to Charlottesville. ... I went down, because my niece graduates from the University of Virginia in May. I hadn’t seen Monticello in 50 years. ... While everyone was an organic gardener in Jefferson’s pre-chemical-spray era, his practices of using native species and fertilizing with rich organic materials to encourage growth and prevent disease are foundations of sustainable practices today. ...
By Neil Snyder, U.Va. professor emeritus
... I'm not arguing for or against attacking Iran. I'm simply pointing out that in the universe of "credible experts" there exist more than a few people who believe that attacking Iran before they travel too far down the path toward nuclear weapons is a very good idea.
... Thomas Jefferson effectively won the debate by successfully founding the University of Virginia, which embodied a civic ideal for higher education but not a political program. ...
... When reviewing the websites of schools like the University of Maryland, the College of William and Mary and the University of North Carolina, students will find that while they list current tuition rates, they have not yet posted the costs for next year. Other schools, like Towson University and the University of Virginia, provide estimates for next year's expenses, but not final prices.
... In their calculations, Ms. Lawson's parents have to consider that tuition at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary would be covered by money they set aside in a Virginia prepaid-tuition plan back in 2001. ...
Orange County grew less than 1 percent in the 2011, according to the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. This estimated growth is on par with the surrounding counties of Madison, Louisa and Culpeper, but is far behind the 3.5 percent growth estimated for neighboring Greene County.
... The center is forecast to generate a $50 million financial impact during its first five years of operation and attract an estimated 75,000 annual visitors, according to a study by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Two University of Virginia engineering students designed a mobile-phone app that this month won a student startup competition at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. The WalkBack app was designed by Ashutosh Priyadarshy and Duylam Nguyen-Ngo to create a safer community on campus.
... Researchers at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia are developing a fall-prevention device that can be worn as a piece of jewelry. It measures changes in gait or stability over time. ...
... Five authors and historians shared little-known facts and anecdotes about Central Virginia with a crowd of about 75 people during the one-hour event at City Hall. ... Dr. Morton C. Wilhelm, professor emeritus of surgical oncology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and historian Henry K. Sharp shared another Jefferson anecdote as they described their book, “A History of Cancer Care at the University of Virginia, 1901-2011.” ... Wilhelm traced the history of cancer care in Charlottesville back to 1933, when philanthropist Paul Goodloe McIntire, whose wife had also ...
The second annual Cavaliers Against Cancer Texas Hold \'Em Tournament was held at John Paul Jones Arena Saturday afternoon. More than 120 poker players from all different skill levels came out to enjoy a few rounds of cards and raise money for the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
A Charlottesville company that got off the ground thanks to a grant from the University of Virginia is hoping to pass along that good fortune this weekend. ...
The University of Virginia's Center for Politics is hosting high school students from Argentina and Chile for a week-long Chile & Argentina Youth Ambassador Program focused on youth leadership training and civic engagement.
... Matthew Engle, said: "The indictment of James Moses Glass shows that the consequences of a wrongful conviction can go beyond the profound injustice of putting an innocent man in prison." ... Engle, with the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, added: "There are no winners, only victims, when the system fails this badly."
... University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan also had voiced support for naming the building in Prior’s memory. She said Friday that the naming was “wonderful.”
“David advanced UVa-Wise in many ways, including the addition of many beautiful new buildings, but he considered the opening of the convocation center just last year a defining moment for the school,” she said. “It’s wonderful that the convocation center, the largest single capital project UVa-Wise has ever undertaken, should be named for the man who was instrumental in its development....
UVa\'s Bruce Boucher launched an international effort to reunite portions of a long-lost masterpiece.