The five winners of the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards range from a seafood company on the Eastern Shore to a cafe in the Shenandoah Valley. The awards, presented by the Initiative for Business in Society at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, recognize companies that have overcome significant economic obstacles to grow and create jobs in their communities.
It's going to be a bit noisy over the next couple of days at the University of Virginia. Work to remove river rock used as ballast atop the UVA bookstore is underway.
"You can't legislate good governance," said David Toscano, a democrat from the 57th District. "A lot of what happened is a function of the personalities involved in this dispute. At the same time there are some changes we could make in how we select the visitors to the UVa and we'll look at some of those in the next few months and potentially come up with legislation to deal with that."
An op-ed by Christopher Sprigman of the School of Law and Kal Raustiala of the UCLA Law School, authors of "The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation."Apple's big victory over Samsung underscores a central economic issue: What is the right balance between competition and copying?
Preservation Durham has named Wendy Hillis, a preservation architect, as the organization’s executive director. ... She has a master of architecture degree from the University of Virginia and a master of business administration degree from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Three University of Virginia nurses and a nurse practitioner traveled to southeast Africa in May to open a clinic and distribute medical supplies. On Tuesday, nurse practitioner Lucy Goeke and nurses Erin Donnelly, Rebecca Thornton, and Megan Veasey spoke to the UVA community about what they did to help those needing medical care in Malawi.
An innovative after-school program started in South Carolina to help kids control their tempers and make good choices expanded Tuesday to two schools in Atlanta. This year, researchers from the University of Virginia are to begin a four-year, randomized $2.8 million study of the program's impact.
Professors from Old Dominion University presented a sea level rise report to Virginia Beach council members Tuesday evening. ... Another rising sea level report conducted by the University of Virginia said that Virginia Beach will likely lose 43,000 acres of land over the next 100 years.
INDIANAPOLIS — The 2012 R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture will be at the Indiana State Museum on Sept. 12 at noon. Renowned Civil War scholar Gary W. Gallagher will speak on “A Mighty War for Union: Reality, Memory, and America’s Greatest Conflict."
The national fight for the hearts and votes of Latino voters is being shaped by two young Texans with Hispanic roots. In the past week, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and Republican Senate nominee Ted Cruz both energized their parties’ national conventions with impassioned stories of the family’s immigrant experience and only-in-America success. ...“Horatio Alger lives, over and over, at both party conventions,” said University of Virginia government professor Larry J. Sabato.
In two studies, researchers found that college students who teamed up to play violent video games later showed more cooperative behavior, and sometimes less signs of aggression, than students who played the games competitively. ... Among the authors of the paper is James DeCoster of the University of Virginia.
UVa has a new medical research center that is 'BIG'. 'BIG' stands for the Brain Immunology and Glia Center. Researchers from many different medical disciplines are coming together to unlock the secrets to many complex diseases and disorders that affect many of us.
A new movie of Anna Karenina has been attacked by film fans because the hero – described as dark-haired in the classic novel – looks like a ‘blond poodle’. … Professor Andy Kaufman, a Tolstoy expert at the University of Virginia, said: ‘One of Tolstoy’s themes is the conflict between Russian values and Western values, and there’s the idea that Vronsky, as a Westernised, particularly Germanised, Russian would be an outsider, and his having blond hair could be a way of demonstrating that. “
Five pairs of masterworks concerts presented by the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra and music director Kate Tamarkin will explore rhythms of dance from around the world.
Op-ed by Kathryn Neeley and Stephanie Moore of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.Online learning appears to offer the ultimate win-win proposition: a combination of efficiency, quality and access. It is no surprise, then, that the online course platform Coursera recently expanded from four to 16 partners, including our own institution, the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia law school’s library is making use of an unusual and valuable gift from an anonymous alumnus by displaying a series of enlarged photographs taken by groundbreaking photojournalist André Kertész.
Applying design-oriented thinking to business development is an essential element of modern management, according to a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
When Jennifer Maiorano and her wife, Samantha, moved to Charlottesville so Samantha could finish her doctorate in developmental psychology, Maiorano’s biggest concern was finding a job.
Following last week’s debate about the Apple vs Samsung verdict Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman, authors of “The Knock-Off Economy,” contacted me to talk about the innovation benefits of imitation. …Here is what Kal (law professor and IP specialist at UCLA) and Chris (research law professor at the University of Virginia) think. Though we touched on Apple vs Samsung, we also talked about imitation more generally.
University Of Virginia student Rory Stolzenberg is a business owner at the age of 20. Stolzenberg wants to revolutionize ordering takeout from a cell phone, using a phone app he developed called Foodio.