Researchers like University of Virginia's Tish Jennings are getting closer to finding out whether students benefit when teachers bring mindfulness-related practices into the classroom. She's currently running a randomized controlled trial with 224 teachers, who as a group, oversee thousands of students across 36 New York City public elementary schools.
The high overall degree of dissatisfaction with compensation calls for further research to determine whether CMOs are actually underpaid relative to key benchmarks for other C-level executives -- and if not, why CMOs believe they're underpaid, says Kimberly A. Whitler, assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, who analyzed the data and authored the report.
University of Virginia marketing professor Kimberly Whitler recently spoke with the CMO of a multi-billion dollar company who told her he reported to someone who reported to the CIO. The episode points up two of the key findings of a new compensation report that Whitler authored for the CMO Council: 1) CMOs can still be disrespected even at sophisticated enterprises; and 2) executives in charge of digital strategy can and do receive greater respect.
At best, half of Central Virginians who need public mental health care might not get it, according to a study by a University of Virginia economics professor. At worst, nearly nine in 10 might not get care. UVa’s Steven Stern estimates that 9,634 to 38,022 people in the region annually fall beyond the reach of the Region Ten Community Services Board, which served an average of 4,813 people a year from 2008 to 2010.
University of Virginia medical researchers announced they have a new drug that could prove to be a breakthrough for thousands of people who have Crohn's disease. Crohn's disease is a gastro-intestinal condition, like colitis or irritable bowel syndrome. The new drug is called Amixicile and even though it is still in clinical animal trials, researchers and doctors at UVA say its ability to fight infections in the gut could forever change the way antibiotics are developed.
The construction fence surrounding the University of Virginia’s Rotunda restoration project is expanding outward. Crews are setting up more fencing on the northwest side of the Rotunda out toward University Avenue and over by the chapel. The university says it needs to enclose the area to install a new storm water line.
Using the New York Times’ new language search tool, a Chronicle editor traced the first mention of “adjunct professor” to an 1855 article profiling the University of Virginia. (Amng the writer’s observations: “For all we know, we doubt if, as a College, [UVa] is not the superior of Harvard and Yale. It makes a worse show upon paper; it has a shorter list of instructors; it has no such endowments, and fewer volumes in its Library, and is further from Boston; but as to what it actually accomplishes as an educational institution, we doubt if any College in the Union ...
LCPS Superintendent Stan Rounds said Booker T. Washington has a high number of students transferring in and out of the school, as well as 100 percent low-income students and one-third English language learners. It is one of a dozen LCPS schools participating in the University of Virginia Turnaround program, aimed at reforming struggling schools.
Four local law schools across D.C. and Virginia are among the top 10 law schools that received the most full-time applications for fall 2013. Georgetown University was most popular when it came to full-time applications in fall 2013, acquiring interest form 7,257 aspiring lawyers. The University of Virginia and George Washington University weren't fall behind, attracting 6,048 and 6,005 applicants, respectively.
The University of Virginia’s Project on Lived Theology has received a $2.1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to extend the project for five more years, from 2015 through 2019.
The life of Kevin Sauer, a modern day Joe Rantz, is another.Kevin, 60, the women’s varsity rowing coach at the University of Virginia, is one of the best collegiate coaches – and men – you’ve never heard about. Twenty years after he took over the women’s club team when the former coach committed suicide, he’s transformed a program that rowed out of a boathouse with a dirt floor and no electricity or water into a national powerhouse in contention for the ultimate prize – the NCAA championship – each year. Eight of Kevin’s crews have bee...
The three leading political forecasters have now all changed their predictions for Iowa's U.S. Senate race from "leans Democratic" to "toss-up." Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball, written by nonpartisan analysts, switched the rating Wednesday, saying it was the biggest change in their national outlook for this fall's critical battle for control of the U.S. Senate. Republicans would need to gain six seats to reclaim the majority.
Longtime political observer Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and founder of "Sabato's Crystal Ball" political report, said the Times revelation dealt a serious blow to Democrats' hopes of keeping the seat."This is very bad news for Walsh," Sabato said in an email Wednesday. "Democrats in D.C. had hoped that incumbency, even the appointed variety, would make Walsh competitive, but Daines has led in polls and fundraising even before this damaging revelation." Sabato said November is still far off, but this news mean...
University of Virginia analyst Larry Sabato believes Republicans should be doing better than they are this year, though, given the huge advantage they have in going after so many Democratic Senate incumbents in Republican-leaning states.“This is the best map for Republicans since 1980,” he said. “They should run up a huge margin based on the conditions that ought to be present in sixth year [of a president’s term] election. Ain’t happening so far. It’s just not happening.”
"Given the traditionally understandings about who cares for children or aging parents, what we often see is that women take on those roles," said Annie Rorem, policy associate in the demographics research group at Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. "We often see differences in female and male earnings often that are related to, although I would not necessarily say caused by, family structure."
Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said that the race leans Republican. “Nunn is a strong candidate and Georgia is trending toward battleground status over the long run, I think, but Georgia is still a Republican state and this is shaping up to be at least a moderately Republican year,” Mr. Kondik said.