Harvard Business School was the runaway winner in the 2015 Case Centre awards, the “Oscars” of the business school publishing world. The Case Centre introduced a new award in 2015 for outstanding case teacher. This was won by Casey Lichtendahl, associate professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Like Harvard, Darden is renowned as one of the world’s top case-writing centres.
Research by special education professor Michael Solis from University of Virginia, Curry School of Education has shown that incorporating the child’s interest into reading instructions can increase the reading comprehension. The unwavering interest of a child is termed as ‘preservative interest’ and using this Solis and Farah El Zein from Cleveland State University have designed a new technique. The study showed that reading comprehension improved when the preservative interest was repeatedly mentioned in the instructions for children with ASD.
Once upon a time, you might have thrived in the workplace by being smart. But IQ smart might not be enough anymore. Furthermore, what you already know might not count as much as your willingness to acknowledge what you don't know and your willingness to learn more. Edward Hess, a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, has done some interesting research into the need to be an "adaptive learner," a person who honestly sees his or her shortcomings and asks the right questions.
Albemarle County has a preschool problem. Bright Stars — Albemarle’s pre-K program for at-risk youth — has seen its waiting list grow to about 90 in the last two years. What’s more, schools and social services officials say many eligible families don’t bother applying because of the relatively small chance of being selected, and they estimate the true number of at-risk 4-year-olds in the county to be about 230. Josh Ogburn, who is studying social impact bonds at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, said ...
(By Anton Ovchinnikov and Gal Raz. Ovchinnikov is an associate professor at the Queen’s School of Business in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Raz is an associate professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business) The big idea: To speed adoption of electric vehicles, governments are providing incentives, including rebates for consumers and subsidies for manufacturers. The challenge is finding the best mix of these from the perspective of stakeholders and society as a whole.
Around the time of Washington’s 282nd birthday, a reader sent us the meme, which includes a painting of Washington and a quote purportedly written or uttered by the nation’s first president: "When government takes away citizens’ right to bear arms it becomes citizens’ duty to take away government’s right to govern." But are those really Washington’s words? We contacted Edward Lengel, editor in chief of the Papers of George Washington project at the University of Virginia. He said "there is no evidence that Washington ever wrote or said these w...
Prosecutors in Geneva said this week they are now probing the money laundering allegations in the U.K. bank’s Swiss operation. Experts say that the new allegations — years after the bank was said to have come clean — will fuel the public perception of an unsavory, unaccountable institution. “What’s so troubling here is that the HSBC [AML] case is years old,” said Brandon Garrett, a corporate crime specialist at the University of Virginia School of Law. “For an entirely new set of allegations to come out that was not yet disclosed is a nuclear...
Now, thanks to Brandon L. Garrett, a specialist in corporate prosecution at the University of Virginia law school and author of the recent book “Too Big to Jail,” we know the notion that the government has been lax on individual corporate wrongdoers isn’t just folk wisdom. Professor Garrett analyzed 303 nonprosecution and deferred prosecution agreements with corporations from 2001 to 2014 in which companies avoided guilty pleas by paying fines and agreeing to other measures. It would seem axiomatic that in all of those cases, individuals actually committed the crimes, since c...
Many of us take MP3s for granted without realizing it’s not actually how a musician wanted their music to sound. MP3s are so successful as an audio format because of their compact size, which is achieved by compressing the waveform into something 10 times smaller, thus losing many nuances that can only be heard on the original finished track. Thus we bring you news of The Ghost In The MP3, a site created by Ryan Maguire, who is a Ph.D. student in Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia Center for Computer Music.
Economists like the University of Virginia's Andrea Larson have argued that economic opportunities are ripe in environmentally relevant market failures. As some companies resist the tide, other businesses strive to be environmentally responsible, sustainable, and profitable. In these situations, thestress of having to adapt to environmental and social pressures are actually resulting in positive outcomes. Those who resist adaptation will simply fail and be replaced by new companies willing to fill in the gap.
What if you could attack cancer cells at their source without hurting the surrounding healthy cells? A group of researchers from the University of Virginia, the University of Massachusetts, Cornell University, and the University of Kansas constructed a small molecule inhibitor that targets a mutated protein present in leukemia cells, halting the progression of leukemia in both mouse models and in human cells. Their work appears in Science.
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, virtually preserving them in place for us to study today. Among the artifacts recovered was a vast array of medical tools, including bone levers and forceps, tile cautery, catheters, scalpels, scissors, as well as gynecological tools, all of which can be seen at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia.
The Peace Corps on Wednesday announced its annual list of colleges that produced the most Peace Corps volunteers nationwide, and American took the No. 2 spot among medium-sized schools (5,000-15,000 undergraduates), with 41 alumni currently in service. The area didn’t fare too badly overall — George Washington and the University of Virginia tied for third behind American in the medium category with 36 each.
Craig H. Benson is scheduled to take the reins as dean of the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science. Benson — who chairs the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Geological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — will replace current dean James H. Aylor in July.
In the list of the top-ranked medium-sized schools — with 5,000 to 15,000 undergraduates — American University landed in second place with 41 volunteers, followed closely by George Washington University and the University of Virginia, each with 36.
There were red flags that bite mark analysis was flawed even as the first cases in the 1970s secured its use in the courtroom. For example, a 1975 study asked bite mark analysts to match bite marks made in pig skins under optimal laboratory conditions to the teeth that were used to make the marks. The error rate was 24 percent. Michael Bowers was one of those early critics. Bowers is a practicing dentist in Ventura County, Calif. Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in criminal procedure and innocence cases, reviewed the transcripts of ...
There are many incredible colleges and universities in the United States. The “traditional” American college is typically situated in suburban areas and often supports a satellite town; however, a few campuses and their architecture stand apart from the rest. While this is by no means an exhaustive list, here are five college campuses that are stunning exemplars of American higher education. Fifth on the list is the University of Virginia.
(By Carolyn Long Engelhard, the director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences) One of the stated priorities of the newly inaugurated Republican-controlled 114th Congress is to modify the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) definition of a full-time worker under the employer shared responsibility rule. The law requires that employers with at least 50 full-time-equivalent workers offer health coverage to employees who work at least 30 hours per week, or else pay a penalty. Republicans have vowed to repeal t...
The federal government has cleared the way for oil exploration and drilling off the coast of Virginia, but a public hearing period is underway, and citizens are invited to share their views before any land is leased or any permits issued. And if drilling were allowed, it would spark an economy that’s struggling with defense department cuts. On the other hand, a large oil spill would likely hurt our economy according to Michael Livermore, an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Law.
Aniko Bodroghkozy, a professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, joins Coy to discuss the new movie Selma and the media’s coverage of the Civil Rights Movement.