Psychology professor Jonathan Haidt explains what the protest signs at Zuccotti Park say about the moral foundations of the Occupy Wall Street protestors.
... Schools have also begun issuing a Peer Support Survey, developed by the UVa Curry School of Education’s Youth Violence Project, to identify victims of bullying. The anonymous survey asks students to list peers they have seen victimized, Cornell said. School counselors then schedule follow-up meetings with children who receive multiple nominations.
Psychology professor Bethany Teachman created a new website that will help people learn more about their unconscious views on mental illness and will provide more data for study.
Since its founding in 2008, the RideForward program has given students the opportunity to convert conventional gasoline-powered cars into vehicles that run on electricity alone.
U.Va.'s Parking and Transportation has managed to reduce reliance on employee permit parking fees by creating a variety of new revenue streams, including selling parking spaces for special events like football games and concerts, installing additional parking meters on campus, offering a new occasional parker permit, leasing parking lot spaces when underutilized during holiday and summer breaks, and chartering buses.
Raymond C. Bice Jr., a longtime University of Virginia administrator and beloved psychology professor, died Thursday evening at the age of 93. Those who knew him described him as a dedicated educator and problem solver who was devoted to UVa, his family and friends.
Gregory Fairchild
Darden School of Business associate professor
Should an Employer Allow an Employee to Work on a Side Business?
‎Entrepreneur / Dec. 24
Jonathan Haidt
psychology professor
The Cognitive Primary
‎American Thinker / Dec. 26
James Davison Hunter
Sociology professor, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and author of "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World."
Commentary: At the crossroads of Christianity and journalism
‎Richmond Times Dispatch / Dec. 25
Kyle Kondik
Po...
Across the nation, a historic collapse in state funding for higher education threatens to diminish the stature of premier public universities and erode their mission as engines of upward social mobility. At the University of Virginia, state support has dwindled in two decades from 26 percent of the operating budget to 7 percent.
Virginia football coach Mike London will have one of his linemen play Santa Claus next week when bowl gifts are distributed in Atlanta. This week, the role is his. On Friday, for the second day in a row, the coach announced a substantial gift to the school, this one a $225,000 pledge towards the construction of an indoor practice facility.
You’ve probably never heard of Pattie Sellers. But Warren Buffett has. And so have Sheryl Sandberg, Oprah Winfrey and Indra Nooyi. It’s an enviable list, really. They’re among the many who’ve joined Sellers at the Most Powerful Women summit. ...Sellers is the brains behind Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women rankings and the heart behind this annual summit. ...Sellers arrived at Fortune in 1984, two years after graduating from the University of Virginia.
David B. Isbell, 82, a partner in the Washington law firm Covington & Burling, former president of the D.C. Bar Association and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Virginia Law School for almost 50 years, died Dec. 7 at Montgomery Hospice in Rockville. ...Beginning in 1962, Mr. Isbell taught a seminar on civil liberties at the University of Virginia Law School. He described it to Virginia Law magazine as an examination of the tensions that sometimes arise between individual rights and other interests, both public and private. At his retirement in 2010, he was the law school’s ...
WHY YOU KNOW HER: Crute's first year at the University of Virginia turned tragic when she was paralyzed in a diving accident while on a spring-break trip to build latrines in Panama.
WHAT'S NEW: The Matoaca High School graduate has spent the past nine months trying to come to terms with her injury and deal not just with the changes to her body — she's paralyzed from the chest down — but with physical complications, such as debilitating nausea and anxiety that makes sleeping difficult. But Crute, 19, of Chester says she is becoming more comfortable in her new life. For starters, sh...
WHY YOU KNOW HER: An era ended at the University of Virginia when Debbie Ryan relinquished her role as women's basketball coach after 34 seasons and 736 victories. Ryan, widely regarded as one of her sport's more significant pioneers, led Virginia to three Final Fours and 28 NCAA tournament appearances. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008.
‎By Cammy Brothers, associate professor of architecture
Inventor, mechanical engineer, architect, hydrologist, anatomist of the body and brain—Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) could do all these things. But how did he make his daily bread? Fascination with his proto-scientific explorations have made his main professional endeavor of painting seem like a hobby. The exhibition now on view at the National Gallery, "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan," curated by Luke Syson, returns the focus to Leonardo's painting.
Echoing our cover story of last month, Army Captain Damon Armeni wonders how the U.S. military will fare if it and society continue to drift apart. Armeni, now finishing his Masters in foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, served three combat tours in Iraq. He writes, in an article entitled "A Question of Legitimacy," in Small Wars Journal:
by Ronald T. Wilcox, a professor at the Darden School of Business
...Not long ago we studied the patterns of financial success, and the predictors of that success, of students who had graduated from the Darden School about 25 years earlier. ...What predicted financial success? ... Intelligence and success in school were linked in an interesting way to financial success. Individuals who were highly intelligent but did not perform well in the graduate school classroom were among the least likely to be financially successful. ...Likewise, if we observed two very strong students and one stud...
By Brian Balogh, a professor of history
The following paper is in opposition to the resolution, "There's Too Much Government in My Life" debated on "This Week" on Sunday, Dec. 18. ...a quick history quiz reveals that we are debating the wrong question. That is because the common ground that Americans have historically occupied is akin to a traffic circle located at the intersection of government, the market, and civil society. Whether citizens have arrived via State Street, Market Street, or United Way, they have consistently reached their destination safely and swiftly by...
The kids are all right. When Books Behind Bars recently moved its stock to a new storefront, it had its inventory boxed up for moving. But to get back in the game of sending dictionaries and other book to Virginia jails and prisons, it needed help. ...Enter the members of Alpha Phi Omega at the University of Virginia. ...Alpha Phi Omega is a national service fraternity, the Theta Chapter of which is grounded on the Grounds. Members perform more than 2,000 hours of service each semester at the university, in the community and across Central Virginia.
...The University of Virginia National Marriage Project also recently conducted a study on generosity, which revealed that spending time recognizing and thinking about the goodness around us actually rewires us for more happiness, less stress and better health.
...Research being carried out elsewhere using 3-D printing systems has also produced tantalizing results. At the University of Virginia, mechanical and aeronautical engineering professor David Sheffler helped students design a replica Rolls-Royce jet engine made of plastic using a 3-D printer. The students' model engine runs on compressed air instead of jet fuel, but the underlying science is the same. In fact, the replica's turbofan jet runs at the same idle speed as the real engine, according to Popular Mechanics.