RelishMBA, one of a series of start-ups coming out of the University of Virginia's i.Lab, provides an online recruiting platform that Rumbaugh describes as a cross between LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Salesforce, and Google Analytics that's currently used only for MBA students. The tools are free for both students and university administrators.
The Charlottesville Planning Commission has weighed in on a concept for a new look for West Main Street, a rapidly developing corridor that has been the subject of many years of study. Representatives from the University of Virginia said they felt they should have been consulted earlier in the planning process. “From the Medical Center’s perspective, the unimpeded flow of emergency vehicles on West Main Street is critical to our operations,” said Kevin Fox, facilities administrator for UVa Medical Center.
How realistic is your favorite paranormal TV drama? Fans didn’t seem to waste much time wondering how realistic the smoke monster of “Lost” was — or quibbling that parallel universes never really collide quite the way they did on “Fringe.” But “Proof,” a new summer series on TNT, practically invites that kind of analysis. So how realistic does “Proof” seem to real-life near-death researchers? Take the scenario presented in the season premiere: A child dies and has an out-of-body experience while clinically dead. Somehow, aft...
New speakers have been added to the lineup for TEDxCharlottesville’s “What If …” event, which is set for Nov. 13 at the Paramount Theater. The new participants include Bobby Parmar, ethics professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. They will join the event’s previously announced speakers, including Deirdre Enright, director of investigation for the UVa Law School’s Innocence Project Clinic.
Of course the gay community is quick to say that there are “no adverse effects” if a child would be reared by two mommies or two daddies. But keep in mind that the research in this area is often done by those who are proponents of such arrangements. Sociologist Steven Nock of the University of Virginia, who is “agnostic” on same-sex marriage, said as an expert witness in a Canadian court that was considering same-sex marriages, “Through this analysis I draw my conclusions that 1) all the articles I reviewed contained at least one fatal flaw of design or execution;...
Lisamarie Wiley lost her left leg below the knee when she stepped on a mine in Afghanistan, where she was serving with the 10th Mountain Division. What she wants is a prosthetic that does not have to be customized for her specific height, or for what shoe she wants to wear. On Tuesday, Young, Wiley and two other veterans detailed their requests at the VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, where they discussed their challenges to a diverse gathering of would-be problem solvers who immediately went to work trying to find solutions as part of a VA-sponsored "Make-a-thon." Brad Poziem...
(By Sidney M. Milkis and John W. York. Milkis is White Burkett Miller Professor in the department of politics, and John W. York is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of politics, both at the University of Virginia) On June 30, Organizing for Action, a nonprofit group that grew out of Obama’s campaign machine, sent out a flurry of e-mails to potential donors announcing the impending conclusion of OFA’s fiscal quarter and requesting recipients chip in before midnight. These sorts of e-mails are standard little more than a year out from a general election, as we are now.
A 2013study indicates that one in seven women in the United States suffer from postpartum depression. Women who suffer from this condition often have a lower level of the hormone oxytocin, which is also known as the “love hormone” since it has a critical role in maternal bonding, the development of a healthy birth, mood regulation and lower stress levels. That’s the assumption which the researchers started from when they conducted the study. The paper was published in the journal Frontiers in Genetics and was led by Professor Jessica Connelly from the University of ...
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced $2.9 million in grants for 13 projects in Virginia. The recipients include the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, George Mason University, the Public Broadcasting Service, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Tech.
Duke University of Durham, NC has earned back its title as the Best Southern College in 2015, after slipping into second place last year. Rice University (nicknamed the Harvard of the South) places at No. 4 and the University of Virginia, one of just three public institutions in the top 10 best regional schools, comes in at No. 5.
The Jefferson Education Accelerator, an effort by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education to help efficacious educational technology companies, has found its first partner company: the online learning platform provider Echo360. The accelerator supports companies that have progressed past the start-up stage and provides services such as consulting, mentoring and efficacy research.
The Jefferson Education Accelerator (JEA) announced today the selection of teaching and learning platform Echo360 as the first company partner for JEA, which helps to evaluate and scale education solutions that can make demonstrable impacts on student learning outcomes. “We know that traditional lectures present a significant challenge for institutions grappling with completion rates and student engagement. Echo360 already shows strong evidence of supporting faculty and engaging students,” said Robert Pianta, Ph.D., Dean of University of Virginia Curry School of Education...
A sluggish economy brought Virginia businesses, university leaders, and lawmakers together Tuesday for the launch of a problem-solving coalition called Go Virginia. The collaborative economic plan is designed to connect various sectors for growth opportunities and to lift up Virginia region by region. Leaders in support of Go Virginia made pitches in Richmond, Norfolk, and Danville Tuesday. Representatives from different sectors - University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, Dominion Resources CEO Thomas Farrell II, former Landmark Communications Chief Executive John O. ‘D...
When Sasheer Zamata joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live” early last year, controversy and criticism surrounded the sketch-comedy institution. A national conversation about the show's lack of diversity had grown increasingly louder, and Zamata — only the fifth black female cast member in “SNL's” 40-year history — became the embodiment of a pop-culture debate, whether she liked it or not. So Zamata handled the scrutiny the way many others would: She logged off. Zamata laid the groundwork for her career as a student at the University of Vi...
The airline industry, for example, is enjoying record profit thanks primarily to significantly lower fuel costs. But ticket prices continue to rise, as do fees for almost everything, including checked bags and getting an assigned seat. When companies merge, federal authorities aren't tasked with making them live up to their rosy promises of consumer benefits. Instead, officials focus almost exclusively on the potential for harm. "Regulators typically use concentration or market share as a proxy for 'harm' to competition and, by extension, to consumers," said Ira Harris, a...
Republicans have turned against the court in the aftermath of the health-care and marriage cases. In a Gallup poll this month, the court's approval rating among Republicans plummeted to 18 percent, 11 percentage points below the previous low in 2012. Support among Democrats was at 76 percent, up from 47 percent in September. Republicans will be able to use some key decisions by the justices to energize core conservatives, says David O'Brien, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. He sees parallels to the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan invi...
A common argument in the dispute over official displays of the Confederate battle flag is that most people misunderstand the reasons behind the Civil War. It was not about slavery, these advocates say, but about the right to secede from the Union. In addition to McPherson, we reached historians Robert Tinkler at California State University-Chico and Gary Gallagher at the University of Virginia. All of them agree on the approximate totals. So, in round figures, it is reasonably accurate to say that 300,000 white men from slaveholding states fought on the Union side. (In addition, as many as 200...
More than 50 years after William Faulkner's last book, educators are creating an online database of his books and short stories, featuring maps, characters and other information that can be accessed online by scholars and the public. They're calling it Digital Yoknapatawpha, a play on Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional county based on and inspired by Lafayette County.Stephen Railton, director of the DY project, is a professor of English at the University of Virginia and a "pioneer" in digital humanities.
When you think about working in college, your mind goes to an on-campus job at the bookstore or gym, or building skills at an unpaid internship, right? Well, LeiLei Secor, 19, is paying her way through college with the jewelry business she runs out of her dorm room. Now, as a rising sophomore at the University of Virginia, she's able to pay for school thanks to her entrepreneurial savvy.
During those last few seasons, University of Virginia football player Thomas Jones founded a production company called Independently Major Entertainment, which started promoting music artists and later developed a film division. Still, Jones couldn't recreate the satisfying feeling of competition that football provided. "I was used to working out for a reason," Jones, 36, said. "I had to really change things around in my life and re-prioritize things. It was a tough transition." He found his way while working on one of his company's film projects with veteran actor ...