Sarah Milov, a UVA assistant professor of history who has written a book about the tobacco industry, said, “it was very well-documented” that officials at cigarette companies recognized the importance of attracting young people. “They all knew the brand at initiation (when they first started smoking) was very important,” she said, “and the initiation age was before age 18.”
A cultural suspicion about big cities seems to be part of the problem. It’s not just the reputation for corruption. “There’s an even longer-standing American historical association with cities as being dangerous places,” UVA historian Brian Balogh said.
UVA has backed off its decision to nix the 21-gun salute from future Veterans Day events. On Saturday, President Jim Ryan said the salute will be reinstated next year.
The American Psychologist has published an account of walkable neighbourhoods, districts where people are comfortable using sidewalks to get around. Those who live in such places are more active, healthier, have more time to spend with family and friends, and report higher levels of happiness and well-being. And they end up making more money — that is, they show higher levels of upward economic mobility. The study, titled The Socioecological Psychology of Upward Social Mobility, was written by psychologists at Columbia University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Illinois.
Beyond simply involving stakeholders, for universities, donor policy rules can be integrated into student education. Students, Elliott notes, often help tie institutions to their values, as students did at the University of Virginia, where student activism ultimately led the school administration to create a memorial for the 4,000-plus slaves that helped build the campus. “Bringing students into the discussion,” Elliott emphasizes, “is likely to result in policies and responses that are consistent with the school’s values and with the whole point of higher education.”
Business school have raised tuition above the cost of inflation every year for the past quarter of a century. And when you crunch the numbers on what it costs to pay for the degree in after-tax dollars, it is frankly overwhelming. It’s why just about every dean is spending inordinate amounts of time fundraising for more scholarship money. Scott Beardsley, dean of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has made a priority out of this challenge in trying to make his school’s full-time MBA program among the most affordable in the nation.
The 26th annual Virginia Festival of the Book, scheduled for March 18 to 22, will bring more than 250 writers, illustrators and publishing professionals to a variety of Charlottesville and Albemarle County locations. Book lovers will see plenty of fresh faces among them – particularly at the festival’s marquee events.
Republicans show few signs of deserting Trump, but UVA expert Barbara Ann Perry predicted they will be closely watching public opinion polls as the hearings play out. "If they saw that the people in their state or members of Congress in their district saw that Donald Trump was becoming increasingly unpopular and disapproved of, I could see then that members of Congress could turn on him even in his own party. That is the impact of public opinion," she said.
The three players in the Virginia men’s basketball team’s 2020 recruiting class signed their national letters of intent this week to officially commit to the program. Both 247 Sports and ESPN rank Virginia’s class as the sixth-best nationally, the highest ranking that a UVA recruiting class has received since Tony Bennett arrived in Charlottesville, according to 247 Sports.
When Al Groh resigned as head coach of the NFL’s New York Jets to return home and take over his alma mater’s football program at Virginia, his dreams were to lead the Cavaliers to a national championship. While that didn’t occur as the Atlantic Coast Conference expanded, adding several football powerhouses to the mix, Groh ended his career with the second-most wins of any coach in UVA gridiron history, behind only Hall of Famer George Welsh.
The influx of immigrants and their U.S.-born children, the spread of high-density suburbia and the growth of higher education all tilt the field toward the Democrats. Still, that doesn’t give them a lock on the state, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Google’s work to help Ascension, the nation’s largest nonprofit health system, collect and analyze data on millions of patients is coming under intense scrutiny from lawmakers, privacy advocates and regulators. … “Within the letter of the law it appears to be meeting all of HIPAA requirements,” said Margaret Riley, a law professor at the University of Virginia who focuses on health law.
Susie Bruce, director of UVA’s Gordie Center, which focuses on ending hazing and substance abuse, said that working with students to create a prevention plan based on evidence from experts often does the most to discourage risky behavior. But every college should still have a “laundry list” of further policies and reforms to pursue, she added, because prevention is a “resource-intensive” process. “When you lose a student, it's devastating,” Bruce said. “It’s making sure that you have an effective plan, that there's lots of student input, and that you have that time to look through and see what...
The analysis is based on parent reports, which don’t always tell the whole story, experts caution. This is especially true for autistic children, who may have difficulty communicating that they are in pain. “A parent’s report of pain is sort of a proxy,” says Micah Mazurek, a UVA associate professor of human services who was not involved in the research. “Pain is an internal experience. For very young children, and for those who don’t have language, it’s hard to assess that directly.”
(Commentary by Evan A. Feigenbaum, the 2019-20 James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at UVA’s Miller Center) Security is now bleeding the economies of the U.S. and China, with flow of capital, people and technology being disrupted.
The University of Virginia has announced a $25 million commitment from alumnus Greg Olsen in support of its School of Engineering and Applied Science, the largest gift ever to UVA Engineering.
An interview with Kiki Petrosino, UVA professor of poetry in the English Department’s Creative Writing Program, about the role of the racialized and gendered body in her newest book, “Witch Wife”; how Kiki teaches her students to wrestle with the histories buried in the land they’re on; why culture and art are such powerful ways to do public intellectualism; and how building a world full of conversations is how Kiki “imagines otherwise.”
(Commentary by Marc Johnson, senior executive director of global affairs and enterprise initiatives at UVA’s Darden School of Business) By selecting from a range of courses with this focus across key disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing and technology and operations, students can take their analytical skills to a deeper level across many domains.
Amanda Shaver, a wedding planner in Virginia, said the chapel at the University of Virginia is in such high demand that it uses a lottery to whittle down its waiting list and, during peak season, frequently hosts several ceremonies on a single weekend day.
According to several political experts, these elections were a referendum on President Donald Trump. “I think that that’s where the Democratic energy is coming from,” said Kyle Kondik, communications director at UVA’s Center for Politics. “If Hillary Clinton were in the White House, we would not be talking about the Democrats today.”