... Although these futuristic “predictions” are derived from The Bay Game, a simulated game of logic developed by the University of Virginia (UVA), they are based on real stakeholder decisions, real-world impact of those decisions, and the environmental reality that nobody wins unless everybody wins.
UVa has rolled out its official free iPhone app — nicknamed “The Good Ol’ App” — to offer quick and easy access to a voluminous amount of content for students, alumni, faculty, staff, visitors and Cavalier sports fans.
... Put agreements on paper. William Quandt, a University of Virginia professor who worked at the National Security Council under Carter, says that proved crucial in the Israeli-Egyptian peace accord of 1979.
By Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman, a professor of Law
...As we argued in a recent Op-ed in The New York Times, because there is almost nothing new under the sun in fashion, some designers question whether the proposed law would matter. We agree: if the legislation were strictly applied, it would matter very rarely. But in the real world, the law will almost surely expand in a way that harms many designers and consumers.
By Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology
To mark the new school year, I asked a dozen teachers this question: “If you could magically make parents do ONE thing this coming school year to support their child, what would it be?” The most frequent answer (by far) was “make sure that kids come to school having had a good night of sleep.”
Vital Signs is a community health promotion column sponsored by Martha Jefferson Hospital, Region Ten, Thomas Jefferson Health District, and the University of Virginia Health System.
The Department of Drama is dividing its new 2010-11 season into two series, one for recent works and another for classics.
... At smaller programs, such as the University of Virginia Darden School of Business the campus visit is even more important, because admissions committees make note of it.
A state Supreme Court ruling that struck down part of Nevada's ethics law could have nationwide repercussions and will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law will provide free legal work to file the petition asking the Supreme Court to consider the case.
Two Richmond-area companies are among 12 finalists for the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award handed out by the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. The award, which is to be presented tomorrow at a dinner in Charlottesville, goes to five companies that have shown economic growth, job creation and community support during the past five years. ...
UVA President Teresa Sullivan preached the Gospel according to Luke, and addressed violence and “bystander behavior."
Last Friday, my list of America's Brainiest Cities ran over at The Daily Beast. Boulder topped the list, which comprised a mix of larger knowledge-intensive metros like Washington, D.C., Boston, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Austin, and Seattle, and college towns like Ithaca, Charlottesville, Madison, Iowa City, and Durham, North Carolina, among others.
The University of Virginia was one of the first universities to rent textbooks four years ago. Jon Kates, the executive director of UVA's bookstores, told News 7 the textbooks that are most expensive are often offered for rental. Kates says students at UVA could easily save $200 and $300 per semester. UVA surveyed students and 95% who rented were pleased with the program.
Judge Paul M. Peatross Jr. ruled that Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has failed to show a sufficient basis for obtaining information about the research of Michael E. Mann, who has since left Virginia and become director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University.
Jennifer Burns
A professor of history and author of "Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right"
Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Great Recession
Christianity Today / Aug. 27
Jonathan Haidt
A professor of psychology
Harvard Researcher May Have Fabricated Data
New York Times / Aug. 27
William Lucy
Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning
Tiny houses simpler, easier on the environment
The Missoulian / Aug. 28
Karen Rheuban
Medical Director of Telemedicine
UPMC among few in state using 'tele' technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / Aug. 29
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and...
... The reason for this curious exercise was a research paper, recently published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology with a provocative title "If money doesn’t make you happy, you probably aren’t spending it right." Written by Elizabeth Dunn of the University of British Columbia, Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia, the paper offers eight principles on how to spend money so that it improves, or as the authors prefer to call it, “buys” happiness. Choosing to spend money on experiences rather than things was t...
... [Dr. Jim B. Tucker, a child psychiatrist who studies accounts of past lives, and director of U.Va.'s Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic] is carrying on the pioneering research of his mentor, Dr. Ian Stevenson, who beginning in the 1960s collected more than 2,000 accounts of children between the ages of 2 and 7 who seemed to remember previous lives vividly without the help of hypnosis.