(By Cammy Brothers, an associate professor at the University of Virginia and the author of “Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture”) In our era of rapid prototyping and 3D printing, technologies that promise to transform the production of everything from medical devices to skyscrapers, it is easy to lose sight of how three-dimensional objects came into being in the predigital age.
(By Edward Hess, a professor of business administration and Batten Executive in-Residence at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business) Old-school competitive advantages that depend on all-knowing leaders and better mousetraps are dead. In today’s rapidly evolving global marketplace, the only way to develop and sustain a competitive advantage is to create a “learning organization,” according to author and professor Edward Hess.
In all the attacks against President Barack Obama’s executive action on illegal immigration, there’s another policy that got caught in the fallout: Obamacare. Critics say the two policies together have created a $3,000 incentive to hire illegal immigrants. "The trigger for the employer mandate is that at least one of their full-time workers obtains a marketplace subsidy -- so the only way an employer could be sure would be to only hire permitted illegal immigrants," said Margaret Riley, a health law professor at the University of Virginia.
A new program lets people purchase e-signatures that enable them to open bank accounts and run a domestic business without being physically present. But according to new research, people may not have the same trust in such businesses as they would others. A new paper finds that people are much more likely to discount the validity of an e-signature than a hand-signed document. "Although e-signatures provide greater efficiency and convenience, they just seem a bit inauthentic," says Eileen Chou of the University of Virginia.
(By Nicholas Sambanis and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, an assistant professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics in the College of Arts & Sciences.) Earlier this year, Iraq’s parliament approved a new power-sharing government led by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi. The move toward political inclusion was encouraging, especially as Iraqi forces continued to battle the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). For weeks, though, two key cabinet positions—Minister of Defense and Minister of the Interior—remained unfilled. Onlookers held their breath as th...
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman barely caused a ripple in the political world with his announcement Tuesday morning that he won’t seek the 2016 GOP presidential. “All candidates are equal, but some are more equal than others,” said Larry J. Sabato, a political scientist with the University of Virginia.
Researchers found that a protein responsible for regulating the body's sleep cycle, or circadian rhythm, also protects the body from developing sporadic forms of cancers. "Over the past two decades we've learned a great deal about the inner workings of the circadian clock, the internal timepiece that controls our sleep:wake cycle and a whole host of other daily bodily rhythms," said Ignacio Provencio, a professor of biology at the University of Virginia who was not involved with the study.
An article in Rolling Stone magazine about an alleged gang rape on the campus of the University of Virginia has come under scrutiny for its reporting methods, even as the university and the local police investigate the events the article described.
Several articles have appeared in the last two days raising questions about the recent article in Rolling Stone in which a woman describes being gang raped at a University of Virginia fraternity party. The Rolling Stone article has shaken the U.Va. campus, with many saying that it has exposed a campus culture that has looked the other way as women have been raped and mistreated. The critiques of the article that are appearing criticize the Rolling Stone piece's author for failing to contact the men described (without their names) as rapists. The...
Amid the furor over allegations of a gang rape at one of the University of Virginia’s oldest fraternities, questions are arising about the account that fueled the scandal.
For the sake of Rolling Stone’s reputation, Sabrina Rubin Erdely had better be the country’s greatest judge of character. On Nov. 19, the magazine published Erdely’s story about a ghastly alleged gang rape at the stately Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan announced more steps to combat sexual assault on campus in the wake of a blistering magazine account of an alleged gang rape at a fraternity house.
Rolling Stone clearly identifies the culture that must die: rich, white-boy fraternities. But is the focus too narrow? Is it time to close the University of Virginia? Or would a more responsible response include an investigation of the facts alleged in the magazine story before unleashing the furies? If we can’t find “Drew,” can we begin to imagine the Rolling Stone story, while illuminating a broad societal problem, is merely bad fiction posing as journalism?
In the November 19 Rolling Stone article about campus rape at the University of Virginia that sparked rampant discussion about sexual violence, journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely writes that survivors of rape often stay silent because reactions of “dismissal, downgrading and doubt is a common theme UVA rape survivors hear, including from women.” But in the past few days, various doubts have been raised about possible holes in Erdely’s reporting.
UVa is one of 86 schools being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education for Title IX sexual assault violations. UVa’s review was sparked by one specific lawsuit, but it also has been under an additional, broader Title IX compliance review since 2011.
Students and staff at the University of Virginia are hoping words will turn into action regarding sexual misconduct on grounds. Tuesday night, they met at Garrett Hall at UVA to start hashing out what they can do in response to the Rolling Stone article criticizing an alleged rape culture at UVA.
(By Larry J. Sabato, Director of the Center for Politics and University Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia) Think of the billions the parties must raise to elect a president in 2016. Consider the millions of paid and volunteer man-hours that will be devoted to this enterprise. The White House is the center of the partisan political universe, and Democrats and Republicans alike measure success or failure by their ability to win and hold the presidency. Instead, maybe they ought to hope they lose.
Rising frustration with Washington and conservative electoral victories across much of the U.S. are feeding a movement in favor of something America hasn’t done in 227 years: Hold a convention to rewrite the Constitution. Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist, wants a convention to adopt sweeping changes, including a single six-year presidential term and concomitant House and Senate terms, to create more of a parliamentary system.
It is becoming clear that the native form for data is alive, not dead. Online, interactive charts will become the norm, nudging aside paper-based, static ones. One of the most impressive interactive works in the book, “The Best American Infographics 2014,” published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in October, is the racial composition of America by Dustin Cable of the University of Virginia.
For many people, the defiant act of jaywalking alone put Michael Brown and his friend in the wrong. But given the tragic outcome — Wilson killing Brown after a reported altercation between the two — it’s worth unpacking why walking in the street was ever seen as a crime or a threat at all. It raises the question: Just who do these streets belong to, anyway? Peter Norton, a history professor at the University of Virginia, also wrote about how jaywalking came about in his book, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.