... The beauty of video gaming is that children understand that “failure is a normal part of the learning process,” said Dan Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia.
“Learning is the product of work, trial and persistence,” he said.
A retired justice of the U.S. Supreme Court will address University of Virginia students. Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will discuss "Leadership On and Off the Bench." The event will be hosted by UVA's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. It will begin at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. O'Connor lived on Park Street when her husband was a student at the Judge Advocate General School in 1954. She has returned many times as a guest speaker.
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
A Journal’s Statement May Aid a Harvard Researcher Accused of Misconduct
New York Times / April 25
William Ruddiman
Environmental sciences professor
Scientists Search for the Lost City of Atlantis
Voice of America / April 25
Larry Sabato
Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
Mississippi Gov. Barbour won't seek 2012 GOP nomination
Kansas City Star / April 25
Last week, a fine event took place in Charlottesville, Va., at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. A dozen members of the policy circle of the great Congressman Jack Kemp gathered there to record an oral history of their working days together in the 1970s and 1980s.
... A researcher at the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia says corporate managers set concrete goals and methodically work toward them. Entrepreneurs don't really have set goals in mind. Instead, they assess what is possible given the resources at hand and their personal strengths, and then they react to events as they occur. Their goals aren't really set. They evolve. ...
Statistically speaking, the percentage of people who cheat on their spouses hasn't changed much in the past two decades.
In a recent study, Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, reported that the rate of infidelity has held steady at about 20 percent.
What has changed radically in the past 20 years, however, is technology.
A new panel, tasked with reviewing Virginia's domestic violence laws, met for the first time on Monday. Governor Bob McDonnell appointed the group, which consists of victim advocates, prosecutors and police.
The goal is to analyze how the state responds to domestic, dating and family violence and to develop recommendations for the governor by this fall. ... The group will pay especially close attention to sexual assaults and physical violence on college campuses across Virginia.
... The final two lengthier surgeries, one per ear, to correct Nicholas' atresia -- an absent or malformed ear canal -- would be conducted by otolaryngologist Dr. Bradley Kesser, another highly experienced specialist, at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville.
The Papaneris had done their homework and found the best surgeons for Nicholas. ...
“Who would have thought that sleeping in the cold and getting up early to carry rocks and work on trails could have been as much fun as lying on the beach,” mused Michael Mathias, one of the 30 spring break students from across the country that worked with the Trails Forever program in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
During the month of March, students from the University of Virginia, New York University and Calvin College spent their days off hard at work with Park staff improving two trails in the Park.
Despite challenges facing some regional projects like the water supply and the Meadow Creek Parkway, Charlottesville, Albemarle, and University of Virginia will launch a three-year planning effort Wednesday under the rubric “many plans, one community.”
Erika Meitner
Religious studies doctoral student
The University of Virginia took home the fist place title statewide in the 2011 Recycle Mania Contest. In just ten weeks, the University recycled almost 654,000 pounds, earning it the coveted Gorilla title.
Nationwide, UVA came in 12th out of 630 colleges and universities. ...
UVA Recycling Program Director Sonny Beale explains, "It's humbling to say to the least, we did so high in the state, can we do better of course, will we do better, we're going to strive too.
Beale says people at the university want to do the right thing for the environment. He hopes this has a ripple effect, spill...
Responsible for 2.1 million injuries and 50,000 deaths annually in the U.S., traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death in individuals under the age of 35. ... One of the challenges associated with TBI, which has been identified as a major public health problem, is obtaining a prompt and accurate diagnosis. To address these issues, researchers at the University of Virginia Health System (including James Stone, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiology and medical imaging, and Greg Helm, MD, PhD, professor of clinical neurological surgery and biomedical engineering at the UVA Sc...
Gary Gallagher
History professor
What ‘union’ meant
The Boston Globe (Ideas blog) / April 24
Mavis Hetherington
Psychology professor emeritus
Fairy tales for straitened times
Financial Times / April 23
Wendy Huber
Darden Associate Director of Admissions
Inside the $20 Million MBA Draft
Poets & Quants / April 20
James Davison Hunter
Sociology professor
Commentary: Greg Rodriguez: The War Between The Whites
Los Angeles Times / April 25
Peter Rodriguez
Darden professor
Three Hidden Market Signals
The Wall Street Journal / April 23
Larry Sabato
Professor of Politics and directo...
By Brandon Garrett
Law professor
Troy Webb was convicted of rape and spent almost eight years in prison in Virginia before DNA tests proved his innocence in 1996. Across the country, growing numbers of innocent people have been cleared by DNA tests, creating new awareness that our criminal justice system is not as accurate as it should be. My new book, "Convicting the Innocent," examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 people freed by such DNA tests. I located and reviewed their trial materials and found systemic failures. Those patterns also appear in the 12 cases of p...
“Evita,” the final production in the University of Virginia Department of Drama’s season, can be seen at 8 tonight, Wednesday and Thursday in Culbreth Theatre.
Some folks at the University of Virginia are trying to put together a group for undergraduate military veterans. So far, however, none of those behind the effort is actually an undergraduate military veteran.
But organizers say they want to plant the seed for the group, Military Veterans @ UVa, or MV@UVA for short, then let it become a veteran-run organization.
... A recent report from the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University and the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Policy at the University of Virginia offered pointed criticisms of the plan. The report demonstrated that the plan approved by Senate Democrats marks a significant step backwards in redistricting, making the average district much less compact and increasing the number of split localities. ...
On Saturday, Charlottesville listeners will have a world of music at their fingertips. The inaugural Virginia Guitar Festival will bring in several top, fingerstyle guitarists from across the country and will open the stage to contestants who share a fondness for the rich complexities of the acoustic guitar. Organizer Hong Mun Tong, [a U.Va. Echols scholar and] a fingerstyle guitarist himself, said he’d like to see audience members come away with a broader picture of the style beyond its customary folk, blues and jazz settings. “I want the festival to be celebrating contemporary ge...