Incoming chief executives tend to replace top lieutenants within the first few years of joining a company. New academic research suggests there might be an incentive to do so when it comes to at least one key position: the finance chief. CEOs who appoint their own chief financial officers receive more compensation on average than those who don’t, according to a new study by accounting professors from UVA, Duke University and Cornell University.
The University of Virginia community is getting ready to officially ring in the holiday season. Nearly 15,000 people are expected to pack the UVA Lawn Thursday, December 5, for the 19th annual Lighting of the Lawn.
Dominion surprised industry experts this fall when it announced plans to build a massive wind farm off Virginia’s coast. Critics say customers could be stuck with big bills if the company is not required to compete for the right to build. UVA professor Bill Shobe, who studies the economics of energy, says about 100 countries have already shown how powerful that approach can be.
Many black professionals are so used to changing up how we speak, look, and act to make others comfortable that we’re hardly even aware we’re doing it anymore. Though it often helps us get ahead, it’s taking a toll on our well-being, according to an analysis published by Harvard Business Review and co-written by Courtney L. McCluney, a postdoctoral fellow in UVA’s Darden School of Business.
Ever gaze up at the starry night sky? This stunning view is at risk of disappearing -- unless we act now, says UVA astrophysicist Kelsey Johnson. She explains how light pollution affects almost every species on Earth (including us) and shares five "stupidly simple" things you can do to help solve the problem.
The Madison House on the UVA Grounds, in partnership with the Salvation Army, is collecting money and gift donations to be handed out to Central Virginia families in need this holiday season. With the help from community members, UVA alumni and current students, Madison House has raised $50,000 for the Holiday Sharing Program.
As Trump campaigns for reelection, he has abandoned more deals than he has struck, and his boasts about eager negotiating partners could face scrutiny from voters who expected more results from the self-described master dealmaker, said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
(Subscription required) Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the non-partisan Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA, said Harris had fallen in a cycle political scientists John Sides and Lynn Vareck call “discovery, scrutiny and decline.”
“That’s the interesting push and pull of the [United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement],” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of a nonpartisan political newsletter at the University of Virginia. In addition to the substance of the agreement, Democratic leaders must consider “competing political incentives” as they weigh how – and whether – to proceed.
The University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary pledged Monday to team up on projects to reduce fossil fuel consumption and limit greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to make their operations “carbon neutral” by 2030.
UVA student Ashley Heuser was diagnosed with sporadic hemiplegic migraines – a migraine that can also make the left side of her body numb. Now, she is working to make sure other mobility-impaired students can have better access to parking on Grounds.
As UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox pointed out in a response to Edsall’s column, for all the bright talk about the blue-state, upper-middle-class marriage model, in the aggregate Republicans marry more and divorce less than Democrats, ideological conservatives are much more likely to be married than ideological liberals, and conservatives are more than twice as likely to describe marriage as something “needed” for “strong families.”
The Hoops2o program, founded by former UVA basketball player Malcolm Brogdon, has its first head coach. The program – part of the Chris Long Foundation's Waterboys initiative – announced Monday that UVA men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett is joining it.
With so much to go through, legal experts said it’s easy to understand why there ended up being a problem with getting all of the discovery to the defense attorneys. Those experts said they see both sides of the situation – it was difficult for an overworked Danville commonwealth’s attorney’s office to meet the demands of such an expansive case, but the office, headed by Michael Newman, still should have done better at performing such a basic task as keeping records. “If Newman performed like this in a private-sector corporate setting, he’d be fired or at least demoted,” Darryl Brown, of the U...
University of Virginia law professor Rich Schragger is an expert in property law and takings claims. As he told Register & Bee reporter Caleb Ayers, “The law doesn’t guarantee that you get to do the most valuable thing with your land; the law only prevents the government from seizing it.”
Alan Taylor’s “Thomas Jefferson’s Education.” A Pulitzer prize-winning historian, Taylor explores the links between slavery and the founding of the University of Virginia, where he’s on the faculty. He demonstrates how slavery shaped the University just as it did every institution of that time.
Trump’s win in Wisconsin in 2016 came as a surprise — the state hadn’t gone for a Republican nominee since Ronald Reagan in 1984 — but some handicappers say it’s likely to favor him again in 2020, said J. Miles Coleman, associated editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a political handicapping and analysis website at the UVA Center for Politics. He said some of its key suburban counties have been more resistant to Democratic efforts to turn them, and rural voters have remained energized on Trump’s behalf.
“Deepfakes give rise to concerns that increasingly advanced tools to manipulate video materials will also increase the capacity to manipulate people,” said Dr. Samuel Lengen, research associate in the master’s in data science online at the University of Virginia. “While we have had some time to get used to ‘Photoshopped’ images, deepfakes are a relatively recent phenomenon. One easy answer to the challenges it creates is that we need to raise media literacy and catch up with this new reality. However, the burden of responsibility cannot solely lie with the consumer.”
Some scientists, such as Dr Bruce Greyson, UVA professor emeritus of psychiatry and neurobehavioural sciences and co-author of “The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences,” believes that [near-death experiences] challenge a purely physical account of human experience. NDEs “…present us with data that are difficult to explain by current physiological or psychological models,” he wrote in 2013.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies) Zuckerberg’s politics favor two things: the interests of Facebook and people like him. So it’s no wonder Zuckerberg got close to the two American presidents who have served over his company’s history. Since the world abandoned its mindless worship of Facebook and Silicon Valley in recent years, Zuckerberg has been on a constant if unsuccessful campaign to save face and stem efforts to regulate or fracture his company.