The youngest example of one of the oldest objects in the universe may have been discovered by astronomers, who say it appears ready to hatch millions of stars.“We may be witnessing one of the most ancient and extreme modes of star formation in the universe,” lead author Kelsey Johnson, an astronomer at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said in a statement.
The Ivy League is losing its historic lead on one of education’s most important playing fields: endowment investing. Over the last five years, the story is similar. The University of Virginia was tops and Swarthmore College, a small liberal arts school with Quaker roots, wasn’t far behind.
Many of the students graduating from the University of Virginia this weekend have already accepted jobs in the working world. Eighty-seven percent of students from the UVA McIntire School of Commerce have accepted full-time jobs, while the UVA School of Nursing says 75 percent of their soon-to-be graduates have employment lined up too. The Darden School of Business and the UVA Law School report more than 90 percent of 2015 grads have employment offers.
Occasional conflict in the workplace is inevitable, but whether those disagreements lead to a healthy resolution or a full-on fight is largely up to you, according to a recent paper in the Academy of Management Review. “We decided to look at not what people fight about, but how they fight,” said Kristin Behfar, one of the authors of the paper. Behfar, an associate business administration professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, added that how someone expresses opposition leads to a chain reaction. “It’s more predictive of conf...
Attacks are undermining India's global standing, the stability of its democracy and its role in upcoming climate talks, experts say. William Antholis, an expert in climate change, international negotiations and development at the University of Virginia, said it is "hard to read what is happening" in India.
The U.S. government’s plan to extract criminal pleas from five global banks related to currency manipulation, along with penalties of billions of dollars, sounds harsh. It may also, say some former regulators and prosecutors, have little bite. The question is whether the latest guilty pleas will keep financial institutions from committing future crimes. The settlements, while momentous, will likely leave unanswered questions, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia who studies corporate crime enforcement.
Yesterday's expected big guilty pleas by five banks to foreign exchange rigging charges seem to have been pushed back for another week. "Part of the reason for the delay is that banks are still trying to lock down waivers" for the collateral consequences of their guilty pleas, because you get those waivers by going to a bunch of regulators and begging for them, and that is a fairly arbitrary process: “Now that bank guilty pleas are becoming more common there is a real need for much clearer rules on the regulatory consequences of bank convictions,” ...
Scientists recently reported that they had identified an important new potential driver of aging, a finding that could have vast implications for human longevity and the treatment of diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s. “This is a beautiful example of how genomics, human stem cells and the new gene-editing technologies conjoin to provide major insights into human disease,” said Rick Horwitz, executive director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science, who is on leave from his position as a professor at the University of Virginia. “This is an early example o...
(By Carolyn Long Engelhard is the director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences.) Just a few weeks ago, the Supreme Court decided not to hear Coons v. Lew, a case that challenged the constitutionality of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a 15-member panel of healthcare experts authorized under the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). IPAB's mission is to make cost-cutting recommendations for the Medicare program whenever its annual spending exceeds a target growth rate of 3 percent. ...
One of the most interesting findings on women and leadership, from the work of Amalia Miller at the University of Virginia, is the evidence that women are more likely to get promoted in organisations where senior executives are female. Women seem to get more out of other women. The productivity of female workers has been shown to increase under female managers and leaders.
In a strongly-worded op-ed for The New York Times, William Bradford Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, claimed that prenups are antithetical to a happy marriage. “If you’re thinking about a prenup, or — worse yet — your intended is pushing a prenup on you, you might as well go ahead and just cancel the wedding… Marriage is about establishing a common life together, about putting someone else ahead of yourself, and sharing the things that mean the most to you, including your money&hellip...
Governor Terry McAuliffe has announced the recipients of the Governor's Public Service Awards, one of whom works at the University of Virginia. Bucky Crickenberger, known as Mr. UVa, was given the Customer Service Award. He has worked as a high voltage electrician for 30 years and helped install one million BTUs an hour without interrupting service during that time.
The House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday that would strip the government of the statutory authority it says allows for dragnet collection of U.S. phone records. The limited reform threatens to undermine courtroom efforts to have such activities branded unconstitutional. Law professors Martin Redish of Northwestern University, Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia and Richard Fallon of Harvard University, who are experts on mootness, told U.S. News last year, when the Freedom Act last advanced in Congress, many of the lawsuits are likely to be dismissed if legislation e...
Looking for George Washington’s papers has been a challenge according to UVA Professor Edward Lengel. In addition to the Library of Congress and Mount Vernon, his team has searched around the world, touching base with many small museums, reviewing records of auctions and constantly monitoring E-Bay, which is why he was pleased to find many of Martha Washington’s papers in one place.
Chuck Rosenberg, a top official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will replace Michele Leonhart as the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. As a federal prosecutor, Rosenberg was involved in trials of espionage, kidnapping, murder, crimes against children and complex financial fraud. He was hired by the Justice Department right after he received his law degree from the University of Virginia.
While the worst of the latest Ebola outbreaks has subsided, hospitals in Virginia are still on stand-by and preparing for possible cases. While there weren't any cases in Virginia from the Ebola epidemic in 2014, Governor Terry McAuliffe says he's proud that the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University are both equipped to handle that medical scenario.
Los Angeles is the most segregated city in the United States between whites and Hispanics, and this map illustrates just how divided we are. From the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service comes this very cool Racial Dot Map of the United States made up of 308,745,538 individual colored dots. Whites are blue, Blacks are green, Asians are red, Hispanics are orange, and everyone else is brown. Each dot represents every person counted in the 2010 Census, further color-coded by the race and ethnicity they reported as.
It has been three long years since the first Pitch Perfect film brilliantly turned Hollywood’s outdated expectations upside down (women will go see a women-centric film in the summer? Shocker!), and since then, you’ve probably watched/rewatched the hilarious musical comedy a dozen times. However — chances are there are some even you don’t know. Remember the group singing “The Final Countdown” during the ICCA finals scene? Those guys are the (very successful) real life all-male a cappella group The Hallabahoos from The Univers...
The University of Virginia will host a free traumatic brain injury and stroke awareness fair in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday. Members of the UVa Neurosciences Center’s Brain Injury and Stroke Quality Support teams will provide free blood pressure checks and stroke risk-factor screenings. They also will provide information on reducing risks of brain injury and stroke.