Meg Jay
Clinical psychologist and adjunct professor, Curry School
Two psychological scientists at the University of Virginia, Carlee Beth Hawkins and Brian Nosek, decided not to take Independents at their word but instead to probe the unconscious biases that churn deep inside the Independent mind. The scientists used a tool called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT, which allows them to dig below conscious awareness and intention to uncover hidden preferences, in this case hidden preferences for Democratic or Republican identity and ideas.
Joseph Davis is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia who has studied undergraduates' attitudes toward achievement and their use of antidepressants and ADHD medications. Davis believes that some students use psychiatric medications to live up to the perceived demand of flawlessness. In such cases, medication is seen as protection against emotions ..."
An unnamed U.Va. law student discusses tuition and debt.
Charlottesville, VA, home of the University of Virginia, is one of several college and university towns that make great places to retire.
When DNA testing cleared him two years ago no one told him. He found out from the University of Virginia's School of Law's Innocence project just three months ago.
Barbour’s lawyers, Matthew Engle and Deirdre Enright with the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, along with the Virginia Attorney General’s Office, asked the court to grant the writ based on the new DNA evidence.
A crowd of history buffs gathered in the University of Virginia's Confederate Cemetery Saturday morning to celebrate Memorial Day weekend and listen to the history of the Charlottesville General Hospital as told by the facility's superintendent, James Lawrence Cabell.
The class will also feature a speaker from the University of Virginia's Asia Institute coming and speaking to the students. The program is funded through the institute and it will be paying for a native Japanese educator to work with the program.
University of Virginia Law School professor Anne Coughlin led an effort to look into the policies. The lawsuit stems from an initiative by Coughlin, a law professor specializing in gender discrimination, and several U.Va. law students in the Molly Pitcher Project.
Representatives from the University of Virginia Institute for Environmental Negotiation, Wetlands Watch, and the Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission will provide presentations at the workshop. The Coastal Flooding Workshop will take place on June 13 from 6 - 8:30 p.m. at Shore Bank Headquarters, 25020 Shore Parkway in Onley.
University of Virginia officials are hoping that a new joint business-education graduate degree will harness the entrepreneurial spirit to solve today’s education problems.
Barbara Perry
Senior fellow at the Miller Center
Roger Simon: Businessmen make lousy presidents
Marietta Daily Journal (Ga.) / May 25
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director, Center for Politics
It's all about Bain as presidential battle heats up
USA Today / May 24
Philippe Sommer
Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at the Darden School
Tom Tom organizers say the fest will be back next year
May 22 / C-ville
Chris Sprigman
Law professor
Bar Fight: Cuervo and Maker's Mark Duke It Out Over Red Wax
Bloomburg Law / May 2
Marie Billaud and colleagues from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, reported these findings in mice, the Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research reports.
David Smith of the University of Virginia and colleague Jeffrey Plank facilitated the UVA Bay Game with a class of UD environmental studies and environmental science majors.
There also will be a $25,000 feasibility study to determine how biking could be made safer on Emmet Street north of the University of Virginia.
The suit, filed Wednesday in Washington, was inspired by a group of students at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville who formed a group called the Molly Pitcher Project. It aimed to explore whether combat-exclusion policies could be challenged in court and whether women in the military were interested in challenging the ban.
A group from the University of Virginia School of Law engaged in the Molly Pitcher Project is making important strides in their efforts to lift the military's ban on women in combat, said Anne Coughlin, a professor and member of the team.