While 55 percent of Baby Boomers say they're religious, only 36 percent of Millennials do. "Today," University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox notes, "fully 29 percent of Millennials consider themselves religiously unaffiliated, a record postwar high. They are also much less likely to describe themselves as 'religious' compared with earlier generations of Americans."
In many ways, experts say, this is an evolution of what Amazon has been doing all along, enabling users to do online price checks. “There’s a travel cost for consumers to go from one store to the other,” says Raj Venkatesan, a professor of business administration at University of Virginia’s Darden School of business, “but if you’re on Amazon it’s on your phone.”
Enrollment in Northern Virginia’s public schools is surging toward a record even as student populations dwindle in the vast majority of school systems across the state in the wake of the 2008 recession, according to a new University of Virginia study. U-Va. demographics researcher Hamilton Lombard, who led the study for the college’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, said the findings could foreshadow significant changes for Virginia’s public schools.
Public school enrollment in Virginia has grown steadily but unevenly across the state during the past 20 years, according to researchers in the Weldon Cooper Center’s Public Service Demographics Group at the University of Virginia.
Children—regardless of location—thrive best when raised in a stable, intact, biological family. As the recent work of sociologist Bradford Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, and Robert I. Lerman, a professor of economics at American University, evidences, children raised in such environments are more likely to earn more money and achieve higher levels of education.
An astrophysicist at the University of Virginia is beginning her research Wednesday after receiving a grant from L'Oréal USA. Sabrina Stierwalt is the first astrophysicist to ever receive the award of $60,000. She is one of five chosen from 650 applicants. She plans to use the money to further her research into interacting dwarf galaxies.
If teaching hospitals want to keep their doctors from leaving, they should consider personalizing the mix of clinical, teaching, research and administrative responsibilities for each faculty member, a survey by the University of Virginia School of Medicine found.
About four in five college students consume alcohol, and half of them report binge drinking, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. A University of Virginia study shows that alcohol-related automobile accidents are the second-leading cause of death among U.S. college students.
The public is invited to offer comments about the University of Virginia Police Department as part of an assessment to verify if the department meets professional standards.
Harvard, MIT Sloan, the University of Virginia’s Darden School and several other big-ticket US business schools are experimenting with these Moocs, just one example of a plethora of online learning now demanded by “digital natives”. Brought about by great advances in technology, virtual learning environments are fast becoming a necessity for most top-flight schools.
An article published by Rolling Stone on Wednesday accuses the University of Virginia of turning a blind eye to a “culture of hidden sexual violence” on its campus, but the institution’s president, Teresa A. Sullivan, responded in a statement posted on the university’s Website Wednesday evening that UVa takes seriously both the issue of sexual misconduct and the institution’s duty to provide a safe environment for its students.
The University of Virginia has had just eight presidents over the nearly 200 years it has been educating students. Its eighth and current one, Teresa Sullivan, is the first woman to hold the post. It hasn’t exactly been easy. Sullivan was at the center of a captivating drama that played out nationally in 2012, when some trustees decided she was too slow to adapt to innovation and technology in higher education, and attempted a coup. Sullivan showed unrelenting resolve in the crisis.
Robert Siegel talks to University of Virginia professor Brandon Garrett about a National Academy of Sciences study looking at 30 years of research on memory and eyewitness testimony in criminal cases.
Just a year ago, President Obama was among those who doubted he had the power to halt deportations of millions of immigrants living in the country illegally."There is a lot of gray area" in the immigration laws, said University of Virginia law professor David Martin, who worked in the Clinton and Obama administrations.
Everyone planning to shop for a home or considering a refinance is asking the same question: Where will mortgage rates go in 2015?For years, rates have remained low, mirroring other long-term interest rates. Fears have grown that the trend will inevitably reverse. At some point, rates will begin to jump much higher and closer to their historic norms. However, in the coming year, mortgage rates are unlikely to rise much -- if at all, says Patrick J. Dennis, associate professor of commerce finance at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Could Uber punish reporters by deactivating them, too? Under federal law, there’s nothing to stop Uber from adopting such tactics. “The First Amendment restricts government and not private entities, and thus private entities are allowed to discriminate on the basis of speech in ways that government may not,” says University of Virginia Law Professor Frederick Schauer.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has reportedly lost at least 100 pounds as a result of Lap-Band surgery he had last February. Is his slim-down part of his plan to get fit prior to announcing a run for president in the 2016 election?Will Chris Christie run for president in 2016? There is plenty of speculation but the governor has stated that he won’t make the decision until next year. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, says that the announcement should come between January and April.
Victor A. Bolden, the corporation counsel for the city of New Haven, is on the verge of becoming a federal judge, but the days remaining for a confirmation vote in the U.S. Senate are counting down. Despite the obstacles and ticking clock, Carl Tobias, a law professor and expert on the federal courts at the University of Virginia, said the believes most of the pending judicial nominees will get a Senate vote before the gavel comes down on the 113th Congress.
How’s a governor such as John Kasich supposed to stand out?“There’s a surefire way for Kasich to attract media attention: Be a moderate,” said former Ohioan Kyle Kondik, now managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “The press loves a presidential candidate who plays against type in his or her own party — especially when it comes to the GOP.”
(By Edward D. Hess, a professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business) Most public companies hit a growth wall after exhausting the strategies of cost-cutting, stock buybacks, and continuous acquisitions to generate needed earnings per share. That leaves innovation—the creation of new differentiating value propositions—as the untapped value creation avenue. Unfortunately, innovation remains a struggle for many businesses for many reasons.