"Not many nonprofits manage to outcomes, and among those that do, few do it well." So said McKinsey & Co. consultants Lynn Taliento, Jonathan Law, and Laura Callanan in their introduction to “Leap of Reason.” It’s not that the leaders of charities don’t care enough or aren’t smart. What seems to be missing, they say, is a lack of resolve to take on the hard work that change requires, insufficient resources to invest in management capacity, and the absence of tools to do so effectively. To better understand its impact, the organization has also commissioned an external evaluation led by sch...
UVA computer scientist Madhur Behl discusses the future of autonomous vehicles. How much testing is needed? Will machine learning be integral? What about human trust?
The study measured the number of crimes reported to the FBI and Department of Education and compared them to the total number of students on campus and severity of crime. According to the study, UVA is No. 4 on the list of the top 10 safest schools.
New Kent teen Juan Mikel-Jones recently shared his heart transplant success story with the world. Juan, along with his father Woody Jones and transplant surgeon James Gangemi from the UVA Medical Center, discussed his story and recovery on Facebook live in honor of Donate Life Month.
At the annual Conservative Political Action Convention in February, a bright pink booth stood out in a sea of red, white and blue. Fashionably dressed women lined up to take their pictures in front of a sign: “This is what a conservative looks like.” The booth belonged to the Network of Enlightened Women, which was started in 2004 by Karin Agness Lips as a conservative book club at UVA. The expanded organization now has chapters at 40 campuses across the United States.
Researchers have found that in past trade negotiations, presidents typically made an extra effort to protect swing states from foreign competition. Trade economists Xiangjun Ma of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing and John McLaren of UVA even put a number on it, estimating that past presidents valued the welfare of swing-state voters about 1.3 times as much as those in solidly partisan regions.
Throughout the fall, Anne Coughlin, a professor of criminal law and procedure, and Rebecca Kimmel, a third-year law student, have worked with students and faculty to advocate for sanctions against Jason Kessler on a different avenue: prosecution for burning objects on Aug. 11, the eve of Unite the Right.
Barbara A. Spellman, a UVA professor of psychology and law and former editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science, signed the letter, but also called for Sternberg’s termination as editor on her own. “So, APS, before we get back together, I want you to fire Sternberg as editor of Perspectives,” she wrote on her blog, saying that when editors publish in their own journals, it should be to explain something, not compete with principal articles and self-cite.
After the Columbine massacre in 1999, Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, explained why such incidents don’t necessarily result in new laws. “The Columbine shootings have energized the gun-control debate, and moreover, they have given the emotional edge to the gun-control advocates,” Sabato told the Denver Post. “However, an edge in a debate is not an edge in Congress or the state legislatures.”
The UVA review was conducted because there have been mixed findings about whether women and girls have differences in concussion incidence and recovery, said senior author Donna Broshek, a neuropsychologist and co-director of UVA Health System’s Acute Concussion Evaluation Clinic.
UVA catalysis specialist Robert J. Davis and coworkers to study zeolite Y and its effect on the pyrolysis of JP-10. Zeolite Y is a porous aluminosilicate catalyst used commercially for petroleum cracking. JP-10, exo-tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene, is a high-energy, nearly single-component hydrocarbon fuel used in specialty jet-propulsion applications. Because of its compositional simplicity, JP-10 is often used in combustion research.
For instance, out of the 330 people exonerated by DNA evidence as of 2015, 24 percent of those convictions involved informant testimony, according to research by UVA law professor Brandon Garrett.
A recent examination of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, performed by UVA economist Christopher Ruhm, estimates that states may have undercounted opioid deaths by 20 to 35 percent between 1999 and 2015. That translates to thousands of deaths each year.
The design of the study, in Science Advances, which involved observing almost 9,000 people at 256 coffee shops in six different Chinese cities, is a surprisingly clever way for scientists to observe cultural differences in the real world, researchers who weren’t involved in the study told Science. The study’s authors, from the University of Chicago’s business school, Beijing Normal University, and UVA, wanted to know if the cultural differences of farming wheat and rice persisted through non-farming generations. Across local coffee shops and big chains like Starbucks, they observed that on wee...
In the university’s iconic rotunda, I meet 20-year-old student, Elma Adusei. She shows me one of the prized student rooms overlooking the main lawn. I can’t say I’m as excited as she is – all it has is a bed, a wardrobe and a sink. Students have to walk across the lawn to the bathrooms. “We wear our university dressing gowns like a badge of honor!” Elma says.
The UVA Board of Visitors moved forward Friday with a decision to demolish University Hall. Along with Onesty Hall, The Cage and the Sports Medicine complex, U-Hall has been slated for removal since March.
Dr. Linda Martin, the program’s lead surgeon at the UVA Medical Center, said the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery program, initially introduced in 2013 as a trial for patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery, has reduced the amount of opioids patients use, decreased health care costs and shortened patients’ length of stay for specific thoracic surgeries.
“Today’s adults are not spending a lot of time shopping like my parents’ generation did,” said Kim Whitler, a marketing professor at UVA’s Darden Business School. “Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, they’re all time-starved and want to order groceries while they’re riding a bus to work.”
“Often, racism is dismissed under the guise of humor,” says Shilpa Davé, a UVA professor and author of “Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film.” “There is always an undercurrent of truth to it and there is also an undercurrent of censure and satire.”
For the first time in five seasons, the Cavaliers are part of the ACC’s championship weekend. Virginia made the tournament as the fourth and final seed, getting in ahead of North Carolina thanks to a confusing and contested tiebreaker.