The World Happiness Report, that annual-ish ranker of the world’s chillest, smiliest, most satisfied countries (a contest in which Scandinavia regularly kicks the rest of the world’s teeth in), this year added a new dimension to its analysis: Inequality. Shigehiro Oishi, a UVA professor of psychology who studies well-being and culture, sent me some thoughts over email. “I guess the society where some are really happy and others are really unhappy would look like the winner-take-all society (high-income inequality),” he wrote, “but also highly corrupted and unfair ...
Many cities and states established generous pension packages, and now they can’t afford to keep the promise. “The pensions that run into problems are the defined benefit pensions where it’s entirely up to the employer, the city or the state to put the money into the account and save the money," said Leora Friedberg, a UVA associate professor of economics.
A couple years ago, a team of researchers from UVA and Harvard University decided to study how well people are able to entertain themselves – sans distractions like phones, magazines, or music. They thought it'd be pretty easy, given our big, active brains full of interesting memories and bits of information we've picked up along the way. But actually, the researchers discovered that people hate being left alone with their own thoughts.
Applications are being accepted for an apprenticeship program that some graduates call life-changing. UVA’s Facilities Management Department hosted a job fair at Alumni Hall Wednesday morning for people interested in applying for apprenticeships in carpentry, electrical, HVAC and plumbing.
After seven practices, Bronco Mendenhall is learning a few things about his UVA football players.
UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan will make her second official visit to East Asia next month, traveling to Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo. She’ll speak at forums and participate in panel discussions on a number of issues, including globalization and the role of women in higher education.
The four current law clerks of the late Justice Antonin Scalia have been reassigned to work for the rest of the term for two of his conservative U.S. Supreme Court allies: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr. The court confirmed on Monday that Scalia clerk Jonathan Urick of the UVA School of Law is clerking for Clarence Thomas.
Over the course of the last year, Virginia added about 97,000 jobs – more than any of its neighbors and the fastest rate of growth in the region. Luke Juday at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service says the growth has been focused in several key areas. "The largest sectors that are driving this are what they call professional and business services, that’s going to include a lot of legal and government and tech type of jobs, leisure and hospitality and education and health."
It’s hardly surprising that interns, even the paid ones, won’t walk away with much pocket change when they return to school. Once you’ve got an offer in hand, it doesn’t hurt to ask your employer’s HR department if it can help cover your relocation costs, suggests Kim Link, associate director of UVA’s Internship Center.
UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said Tuesday that governments can’t deny permits based on religious use of a structure and that federal law places further restrictions.
Sanders' win was impressive in that he outperformed his lead in recent polls, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. But Kondik also said Sanders faces a tall order to threaten Clinton's grip on the Democratic nomination.
Last month students from all over the country converged on Grand Canyon National Park, ready to learn how to put on a different kind of spring break, one focused on service projects. UVA and Longwood University students spent the week of March 7 -11 working with the park’s Wildland Fire division.
Dr. Neal F. Kassell, a UVA professor of neurosurgery and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, has been selected to serve on a national panel of experts providing guidance on the most promising approaches to preventing, treating and curing cancer. Kassell will join 27 others appointed to provide guidance to Vice President Joe Biden’s National Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
On a recent afternoon, there was America’s third president, standing serenely on his pedestal in front of the Columbia School of Journalism, flanked by Annette Gordon-Reed and UVA history professor emeritus Peter S. Onuf, the authors of the latest book to plumb the mysteries of his character.
The UVA Medical Center held a surprise birthday celebration for a World War II veteran Tuesday. With the help of U.S. Rep. Robert Hurt, 90-year-old Walter Lemmon Hughes was honored for his service to our country.
Contraline, a male contraceptive company co-founded by 2015 UVA engineering graduate Kevin Eisenfrats, has created a polymer solution called Echo-V that he hopes will finally lead to contraceptive equality for males.
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato on the latest polling in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Thomas Platts-Mills of the UVA School of Medicine looked at the prevalence over the past five decades of asthma, hay fever and peanut allergy, and reports a progressive increase in pediatric asthma, as well as a “dramatic” increase in food allergies. Allergies are more prevalent in developed countries, and particularly in urban settings, suggesting that something in the industrialized lifestyle may have triggered the increase.
UVA political crystal ball gazers issued their first Electoral College prediction in a Hillary Clinton v. Donald Trump match-up. The UVA experts put Virginia, with 13 electoral votes, in the “leans Democratic” column. They have been much too generous to Republican presidential contender Donald Trump. He is going to lose Virginia YUGE against whomever the Democrats nominate.
Ryan must also preserve a tentative peace he has achieved among warring Republican factions in the Congress. “The challenge for Ryan is similar to the challenge Boehner faced. The Republican base, at this point, really doesn’t like its own leadership," said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.