We're not born with racial prejudices. We may never even have been "taught" them. Rather, explains U.Va. psychologist Brian Nosek, prejudice draws on "many of the same tools that help our minds figure out what's good and what's bad."
Color-coded maps, created by Dustin Cable, a senior research associate at the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia, show both population density and race. Caucasians are in blue, blacks in green, hispanics in orange, Asians in red; other races are in brown.
Gov. Christie, who is openly weighing a run for president, in recent months has met with donors across the country and made multiple trips to the early presidential nominating states of New Hampshire and Iowa. And though Christie doesn't have a fund-raising committee, he did have "a leadership PAC in a very real sense," the RGA, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science Department of Systems and Information Engineering announced the success of an early-stage demonstration to improve defenses for unmanned aerial vehicles against cyber attacks.
U.Va. professor Christa Dierksheide has published a new book, “Amelioration and Empire: Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas” by (University of Virginia Press. The book discusses slave owners in the British Caribbean and South who advocated a gradual process toward eventual abolition.
In their latest paper “Marriage, Divorce and Asymmetric Information,” Steven Stern and Leora Friedberg, both esteemed professors at the University of Virginia, take an economist’s look at perceived happiness within marriages.
An inmate in the Fluvanna prison system may be surprised to find a professor from one of the nation’s premier business schools leading a workshop on entrepreneurship– but this vision of self-employment can be one that transforms the prospect of life after prison in an otherwise bleak job market. Greg Fairchild is a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and was ranked by CNN as one of the top 10 business professors in the globe.
In 2011, Elizabeth Dunn of the University of British Columbia, Daniel Gilbert of Harvard, and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia sought to figure out how to shop in a way that optimizes happiness. They came up with 8 rules.
By all accounts, he is an extreme long shot, but Jim Webb has set up an “exploratory committee” to see about running for president in 2016. Aaron Blake, writing for The Fix at The Washington Post, lays out several criticisms against Mr. Webb. “He retired after one term in the Senate and didn’t seem to particularly enjoy being in public life.” He also refers readers to Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia professor commonly referred to as the “dean” of Virginia politics, who said after Mr. Webb’s retirement from the Sena...
Some political analysts and policy makers warn, however, that Rand Paul may encounter stiff headwinds on the campaign trail for straddling or flip-flopping on sensitive issues. “Trying to have it both ways is fairly common in politics, but there’s a cost,” said Larry J. Sabato, a prominent University of Virginia political scientist. “His likely presidential opponents in the GOP are already taking note. The opposition research reports on Rand Paul will be substantial. The TV ads write themselves: ‘Which Rand Paul are you voting for?’”
Violins, ukuleles, guitars, and banjos all have strings, but in one UVa professor's engineering class the instruments come with a Surgeon General's warning. A down-home jam session isn't exactly what you'd expect to hear in an Introduction to Engineering class at the University of Virginia, but it's all part of Professor Keith Williams' message to his First Years.
Violins, ukuleles, guitars, and banjos all have strings, but in one UVa professor's engineering class the instruments come with a Surgeon General's warning. A down-home jam session isn't exactly what you'd expect to hear in an Introduction to Engineering class at the University of Virginia, but it's all part of Professor Keith Williams' message to his First Years.
"The story used to be that satisfaction with life went downhill, but the remarkable thing that researchers are finding is that doesn’t seem to be the case," says Timothy Salthouse, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.
Prior to her attempted ouster as president of the University of Virginia, Teresa Sullivan referred to a reputation gap at the school. “In a number of critical areas, we are reputed to be better than we actually are,” she explained. She may have said more than she realized.
Despite its roots in post-Revolution America, the University of Virginia has never been known as a hotbed of campus activism. But that may be changing, thanks to cuts to student grant aid and a recent magazine article on sexual assault on Grounds.
Shocked, tearful and at times defensive, members of the board that oversees the University of Virginia insisted that they would combat the problem of sexual assault on campus after a magazine article reported a gang rape at a campus fraternity and allegations that the university was more concerned about its reputation than a history of sexual assault embedded in its hard-drinking social life.
Today the University of Virginia held a special meeting to discuss the issue of campus rape and sexual assault. This is in reaction to a Rolling Stone article that documented a pattern of a rape on campus.
Six days after gang rape allegations cast the University of Virginia into turmoil, the school’s Board of Visitors unanimously approved a zero-tolerance stance on sexual assault Tuesday.
Many University of Virginia students — including several self-described sexual assault survivors — are expressing their support for an embattled campus administrator following a sexual assault scandal that has rocked the school.