If you want a preschooler to get the point, point. That\'s a lesson that can be drawn from a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. As part of their investigation of how small children know what other people know, the authors, Carolyn Palmquist and Vikram K. Jaswal of the University of Virginia, found they were able to mislead preschoolers with the simple introduction of a pointing gesture.
The William Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project includes firsthand accounts given by scores of attorneys and scholars who were active in the civil rights movement.
Long before Thomas Jefferson was born, an Italian painter created a colorful work for a church in Sienna. When it closed nearly 500 years later, the artwork was cut into pieces and sold to collectors. Today, two of those pieces are reunited in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia Art Museum after a long and complicated trip.
The University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University have received a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for brain cancer research.
About 18 months after launching, some five dozen devotees of the Clinch River Valley Initiative gathered in St. Paul’s Oxbow Center on Wednesday to compare action group notes and plot strategies. Coordinated by the Institute for Environmental Negotiation at the University of Virginia, the group is pursuing five general areas of interest.
Business schools have long used case studies—write-ups of real-life business situations—to challenge students to diagnose and fix strategic business problems. University of Virginia's Darden School of Business began selling cases written by its faculty in 2004 but didn't see broad interest until two or three years ago, says Steve Momper, director of Darden Business Publishing. That's when the publisher overhauled its website, improving its search-engine results.
Size matters at business school—especially when it comes to job recruiting. Students at smaller programs may have to do more legwork than their peers at larger institutions to land interviews. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.—a perennial top destination for business school graduates—visits 15 to 20 U.S. schools including Harvard Business School, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and University of Virginia's Darden School of Business for most of its M.B.A. recruiting.
A panel of pundits and pollsters gathered at the University of Virginia for a Center for Politics event, Inside the 2012 Elections.
Schools with Supreme Court clinics now include Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Virginia and the University of Texas. ... "There's no other place in the legal curriculum where students are put up against the best people in the country on the most cutting-edge issues of law," said Dan Ortiz, a law professor at the University of Virginia and co-director of its clinic, which was involved in four cases before the court in the last year.
Americans, it seems, have never been more polarized about religion and politics. With minds made up and combat-ready, we have a hard time bridging the chasms that divide us. In The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, explains why. A moral perspective, he argues, is a feature of our evolutionary design.
A recent study from the University of Virginia suggests that when a school has a climate of bullying, it’s not just the targeted kids who suffer — the entire school lags academically.
The 2012 Virginia football schedule includes the first Thursday night game at Scott Stadium in six years.
Jeffrey Barth
Director, Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Institute
Weighing the effects of sports-related head injuries
Summit Daily.com / Feb. 29
David Breneman
economics professor
Not From My Wallet
Inside Higher Ed / Feb. 29
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Law professor
Supreme Court Case Could Change the Face of College Campuses
Annandale Patch / Feb. 29
Dewey Cornell
Education professor
Alleged Ohio school shooter: 'Die, all of you'
Hakaii Now / Feb. 28
Kyle Kondik
Politics professor
Democrats grow confident of House win
Financial Times / Feb. 28
David Martin
Law professor
Alabama's immigration...
Penn Law placed 56.93 percent of its 2011 graduates, or 156 of 274, at the nation’s 250 largest law firms. That percentage was the highest in the nation. U.Va. Law School was among the top.
We've ranked the top 50 law schools by the percentage of 2011 juris doctor graduates who took jobs at NLJ 250 firms, the nation's largest by headcount as identified by The National Law Journal's annual survey.
The University of Virginia has announced the 2012 recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, the highest external honors given by the Charlottesville school.
The University of Virginia has announced the 2012 recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, the highest external honors given by the Charlottesville school.