... I present the Top 10 Most Attractive Schools (and yes, this is based solely on the hot men):
...2. The University of Virginia: Super fit Southern gentlemen. Need I say more?
...What can we learn from UVA? When we neglect the need to be collaborative and communicative with the wide variety of stakeholders, something bad is going to happen. In contrast, when we collaborate and communicate thoroughly with the multitude of stakeholder groups, we are more likely to progress farther and faster with less stress and strain.
Scratch a chief financial officer and you'll find, under the surface, a bit of a social scientist, at least when it comes to consumer spending habits. At least, this was the idea behind a CFO roundtable at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business on July 13. The apparent lack of enthusiasm for spending among baby boomers, in particular, and the resulting inclination of CFOs to keep a tight rein on the corporate pursestrings -- holding back on hiring and investments until consumers start to open their wallets, were top of mind for corporate managers as they discussed the economy.
Despite the 'existential threat' involving online education at the University of Virginia, Mr. Jefferson's school certainly seems to be at the forefront of the debate.
A dozen major research universities including Georgia Tech, Princeton, Duke, Johns Hopkins and the University of Virginia announced plans this week to offer 100 free online courses that will enable millions worldwide to take the same classes as students at elite U.S. campuses.
"We\'ve never been aware of a tick giving rise to a form of allergy before," said Dr. Thomas Platts- Mills, an allergist at the University of Virginia. Dr. Platts Mills and his colleagues reportedly discovered the allergy. He says the reaction occurs after a person gets bitten by ticks and then eats red meat.
Invited to any weddings lately? Grab the opportunity to attend before they become a rare occasion. At least that's what scholars such as Charles Martel, computer science professor at U.C. Davis, suspect after carefully analyzing data prepared by the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project on U.S. marriage rates since 1960.
... Researchers and an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia reported in the Nature Geoscience last May that conserving and restoring seagrass meadows may reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon stores, while also delivering key ecosystem services to coastal communities.
... The [School Improvement Grant] program... has shown promising indications of having helped some low-achieving schools boost performance -- a point U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made in March. And University of Virginia researcher Thomas Dee found California's SIG-funded schools did indeed improve test scores at a better rate than campuses with nearly identical demographics that did not receive the extra federal dollars.
While waiting for exam results, or the outcome of a job interview, many of us might catch ourselves bargaining with the universe; in return for exam or job success we promise to become better citizens, kinder to our friends etc. ... Now researchers from Chicago Booth and the University of Virginia have examined this phenomenon a little more closely.
...Export crops can guzzle vast amounts of water, leaving local people short of water for themselves. A new study examines the virtual transfer of water associated with the global trade in food products, and reveals an astronomical increase in virtual water movement over the last 30 years. ... To better understand this trade in virtual water, Paolo D'Odorico from the University of Virginia, US, and his colleagues reconstructed 23 years of global trade data for 309 crops and animal products. For each product they estimated the virtual water consumed and then totted up the transfers of virtual w...
...The study, published in the Journal of Consumer Research, reveals that buyers are subliminally influenced by hues, and will pay more in a bidding war if the page's background is red, as opposed to a less vivid hue. Rajesh Bagchi of Virginia Tech and Amar Cheema of the University of Virginia asked study participants to pretend they were buying a Nintendo Wii on eBay.
The University of Virginia Faculty Senate released a report this week compiling efforts in online education across the university's 11 schools as well as the College at Wise. ... The task force, made up of 53 faculty and staff from across the university and the College at Wise, sampled nearly 200 individual online education efforts, including everything from supplemental materials to online degree programs.
By Frank Armstrong, founder and principal of Investor Solutions, a Miami-based NAPFA fee-only registered investment adviser with more than $550 million of assets under management.
... At the University of Virginia we had a very simple honor code: A gentleman neither lies, cheats, nor steals, nor tolerates anyone that does. These guys are three times losers under that code. Do you really want them to continue business as usual on Wall Street?
Kyle Kondik
An expert on U.S. House races at the Center for Politics
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Russell Riley
Chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program
Expert: Christie's 'Larger-Than-Life' Personality Problem For Romney
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Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Romney Looks To Capitalize On Relationship With Netanyahu
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Geoffrey Skelley
A political analyst with the Center for Politics
Latest Pew Poll: Minor Shift Among GOP Voters Over ...
...Peter Norton, a technology historian at the University of Virginia and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, says America did eventually welcome the automobile. But it was not an instant love affair. In fact, he says, cars were initially greeted in cities with hostility and militaristic language.
By Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor and chairman of the department of media studies
... This Coursera platform offers everyone a chance to see some of the best work we do here at UVa. And it offers experimental systems of feedback and assessment for viewers who are not part of the formal UVa program. Eventually Lou [Bloomfield] should be able to measure which lectures work well and which do not. He should be able to see what parts of the world seek out his lectures and which do not. ...
In a May 3 memo, University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan ... described a plan to eventually convert many general-education courses at U-Va. to “hybrids,” offered partly online. ... Nancy N. Rooker, a U-Va. alumna and parent, wrote a letter to Sullivan and members of the Board of Visitors responding to that plan.
... My apprehension grew into alarm when I read in today’s Washington Post about the plans to make many introductory courses hybrid. Have any of these people ever tried to take an online course? I think we would all agree, if choosing between small or large classes, that smal...
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan was the clear winner, the rector who tried to fire her was the loser, and Gov. Bob McDonnell was unscathed by the leadership crisis that roiled the state's flagship university, a public opinion poll released Wednesday found.
Doctors at the University of Virginia are trying out a new form of heart surgery to target people living with leaking heart valves, and they're learning how to do it with the click of a mouse. ... The mitraclip is already widely used in other countries, mostly for older patients who aren't good candidates for open heart surgery. It's still going through clinical trials here in the United States, and UVA is leading that effort.