UVA psychology professor Timothy Wilson considers our reliance on the unconscious to be the price that we pay for survival as a species. If we were forced always to consider every aspect of the situation around us and had to weigh all our options about what to do, humankind would have died out long ago.
“The research indicates that tax policy does influence decisions about getting married and staying married, but this influence is modest,” said UVA sociology professor Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project.
Lifelong Virginia Cavaliers fan and UVA junior Grant Kersey spent two years as a manager for his school’s men’s basketball team before Virginia head coach Tony Bennett gave him a jersey to dress for home games.
Speculation as to who will succeed Alexander immediately erupted. As political analyst and UVA professor Larry Sabato, pointed out, a plethora of candidates for Alexander’s seat is expected to emerge. Sabato tweeted, “Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) retiring, seat up 2020. Hope springs eternal for Dems, but the early rating for Crystal Ball is Safe R. I asked good source: Which Rs are running now? Answer: ‘Everyone I know.’"
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato rates Alexander’s seat as “Safe R,” but even if the Democratic candidates stay down in the polls, they will be able to drive some of the talking points in the campaign.
At the University of Virginia, English professor Andrew Stauffer leads a team that has made a book’s annotations, inscriptions and insertions discoverable as part of UVA’s online library catalogue. Any user will be able to find such markings through a simple online search.
George Yin, a UVA law professor and the former executive director on the Joint Committee on Taxation, told The Post that while the 6103 authority does not require a congressional subpoena, it could be considered analogous to a subpoena and therefore would likely require a legitimate legislative purpose if Trump or the Treasury Department challenged it in the courts.
Kimberly Whitler – who earned her Ph.D. in marketing in 2014 after two decades as a high-level marketing practitioner and now works as an assistant professor of marketing at UVA’s Darden School of Business – wanted to explore what effect marketers could have on boards. After eight years of research and writing, Whitler and two colleagues published their paper, titled “When and How Board Members with Marketing Experience Facilitate Firm Growth,” in the September issue of the Journal of Marketing.
(Commentary by Tom Bateman, a professor in UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce) On Oct. 8, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its far-reaching report painting a somber picture of Earth’s potentially rapid demise. Every country, every sector and every industry – is it too much to expect every company? – must ratchet up its strategic and operational efforts to slow climate change and create a stronger, more sustainable future.
When teachers and administrators work to create a more positive school climate — which includes presenting and enforcing clear rules and creating positive teacher-student relationships — student suspensions can drop by as much as 10 percent, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of Virginia.
More than 250 authors, illustrators and publishing professionals are heading to Charlottesville for the 25th Virginia Festival of the Book, which is set for March 20 to 24.
At No. 38 on the list is the University of Virginia.
Kelsey Johnson is a mother, astrophysicist and UVA professor of astronomy. She says she is “distraught” about the sorry state of science literacy in this country and believes that it is undermining American democracy and society. And for Johnson, that’s where Santa Claus comes in.
Fourth-year engineering students at the University of Virginia, Ryan French and TJ Sample, organized a Christmas light show at IX Art Park throughout the month of December to raise money for Computers4Kids.
The Children’s Choir of Central Virginia performed at the Crozet United Methodist Church to benefit the UVA Children's Hospital.
By using the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the speed of the galaxies relative to one another, UVA astronomer Nitya Kallivayalil and her colleagues calculated the accurate 3-D velocities of the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud.
Female graduates of the most competitive schools earn 14 percent more than women with comparable entrance-exam scores who went to less selective colleges, researchers at the University of Virginia and Tulane University found.
The study, “Elite Schools and Opting-In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes,” was conducted by three economics professors, Suqin Ge at Virginia Tech, Amalia Miller at the University of Virginia and Elliot Isaac at Tulane University, and is being circulated as a white paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Women who were key in Thomas Jefferson’s retirement will be the subject of a free public lecture on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Dome Room of UVA’s Rotunda. Leslie Greene Bowman, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, will present “Women in Jefferson’s Retirement: Martha Jefferson Randolph and her Aunt, Sally Hemings” during the lecture. Sponsored by the UVA Colonnade Club, the presentation is a part of the Bicentennial Lecture Series, created in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the university’s founding.
Smart families have figured out they can save significantly by placing their child in a good community college for a year or two, then transferring them to a traditional four-year school. Thomas Nelson Community College has transfer arrangements with a variety of great universities including Virginia Tech, The College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia.