With no fanfare, the University of Virginia has announced a new sexual misconduct policy, prompted by a federal investigation.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) met with black community leaders and students in Charlottesville on Wednesday for a discussion on police use of force after the violent arrest of a black University of Virginia student last month.
There is no single reliable source to compare the U.S. ratio to other countries, or even to accurately measure the U.S. ratio. But The Fact Checker could not confirm Webb’s claim that Japanese chief executives make 10 times, and German chief executives make 11 times, than average workers. Pedro Matos, a University of Virginia Darden School of Business finance professor who studies international corporate governance structures, is critical of comparing the ratios between countries. While the numbers in his 2009 study are now outdated, the research notes interestin...
If you're traveling at 60 miles per hour, just a few milliseconds can mean the difference between life and death when you need to come to a quick stop. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, drivers react more quickly to road signs with symbols depicting motion. "Warning signs are static visuals, yet they can vary in their ability to evoke a sense of movement. For example, the children depicted in a school crossing sign can be drawn as if they were running or walking. We discovered that more dynamic warning signs lead to quicker responses and chan...
Tidal has created a product that, in theory, woos artists by promising them that no one will listen to their music without paying for it in some way. And there's some justification for this thinking. Free streaming tiers, according to the Financial Times, brought US labels only $295 million in the US in 2014, compared with the $800 million created by paid subscriptions. That's a significant difference. But if Tidal really wanted to make the most money possible for its artists, it would charge somewhere around $6. According to research done by David Touve, an assistant profess...
A new commission at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs will examine new ways to fund higher education. The National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education, which met for the first time Tuesday, is tasked with searching for new financial models that can sustain colle es and universities while making cost of attendance affordable for all students.
The University of Virginia released a new sexual misconduct policy this week, a measure prompted by an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education.
In 2012 the University of Virginia created a new recruiter position in the development department with the goal of taking a more proactive approach to hiring fundraisers.
A list of the 50 best value graduate degrees includes both Georgetown University, where graduate tuition is as high as $44,000, and George Washington University, where a global MBA can top $90,000. The University of Virginia is the highest-ranked regional school, at No. 11.
The first symptom, a shaky hand, surfaced a decade ago when Grady Harris was sanding his boat. Harris, who was 57 at the time, thought it was the strain of the sanding, but his brother noticed the tremors, too. It turned out to be the beginnings of Parkinson's disease, a progressive nerve disorder that affects a million Americans. Harris said yes to a clinical trial that would be conducted by doctors at two U.S. hospitals, the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville and Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. Clinical trials are under way at U.Va., exploring the approach for peo...
The amount of time parents spend caring for their children has been steadily rising since the 1970s. Yet many report feeling guilty for not spending more time with their kids. One group of sociologists, including Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, wondered: Is more time actually better? And the answer surprised them. According to their new study, the number of hours spent with a parent had no impact on how a child turned out, upending long-held beliefs about what’s best for our kids. But that’s not the whole picture. Existing r...
The Northern Virginia Technology Council interviews President Teresa Sullivan on the future of the University of Virginia, adoption of new technology, U.Va. research and innovation.
After Henry Ford’s 1908 introduction of the Model T, automobiles suddenly became not just the playthings of the very wealthy but an affordable means of transportation for millions. Significantly larger than pedestrians, less predictable than streetcars, and ultimately much faster than either, automobiles were soon seen as reckless endangerments of society. With this potent new technology being introduced to necessarily inexperienced users, accidents were commonplace and fatalities, especially of children, quickly accumulated. University of Virginia historian Peter Norton estimates that &...
Hospitals are starting to abandon the time-honored drill for surgery patients— including fasting, heavy IV fluids, powerful post-op narcotics and bed rest—amid growing evidence that the lack of nutrients, fluid overload and drug side effects can do more harm than good. Instead, they are turning to “enhanced recovery” protocols that are easier on patients, help them get better faster with fewer infections and other complications and reduce health-care costs. “This is contradictory to the way we’ve practiced for 50 years, but it is becoming more and ...
A University of Virginia Neuroscientist says our sense of taste could be a key to understand why we lose our hearing and eyesight and eventually, what to do about it. Getting lunch is a bit simpler and safer than it was for cave men and women, who depended upon their sense of taste to keep them from eating something toxic.Taste buds are often thought of as among the least important senses, but they have qualities that are unique. Even more important are the olfactory senses that are part of the sense of taste. Brain cells do not regenerate, which is why diseases such as Alzheimer’s are s...
Republican lawmakers in Indiana promised yesterday to amend a religious liberties bill that critics have labeled as anti-gay, bowing to protests that have rapidly spread to several other states considering similar measures. University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, one of the nation’s leading law-and-religion scholars, said “religious freedom” has become a catchphrase since last year’s Supreme Court ruling in the Hobby Lobby case. The court found that business owners who object to certain contraceptives on religious grounds may decline to provide them throug...
After Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a state religious liberty bill last Thursday, liberals lined up to ravage this "anti-gay" legislation as a "license to discriminate." Indianapolis-based Angie's List said it was shelving a headquarters expansion plan that would have brought the state a thousand jobs. Hillary Clinton and Apple's Tim Cook objected. Even singer Miley Cyrus weighed in, writing that "the only place that has more idiots than Instagram is in politics." In a recent speech at Boston University, University ...
How will the harsh Martian environment affect the evolution of a separate human culture on the Red Planet? Although Martian environmental features will influence the new colonists’ culture as it evolves; they may talk about red mountains instead of blue ones, the environment itself will have no influence on the underlying cultural structure, Richard Handler, a professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, told Forbes. “Given ongoing [Earth] contact, it would [probably] take hundreds of years for a truly distinct separate Mars-based human cult...
In this week's "UVa Today," we spoke with Professor Karl Shuve from the UVa Religious Studies Department about the History of Easter.
Over the past decade, the Saudis and Iranians have supported opposing political parties, funded opposing armies, and directly waged war against one another's proxies in Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. While they did not create the crises in those places, they have exacerbated them considerably. Driven by power politics, and fueled by Sunni-Shia sectarianism, the conflict between the two powers — often called the Middle East's cold war — has become one of the most dangerous elements defining Middle Eastern politics today. "The fall of the shah and the establis...