Improvements to digital customer services and a bricks and mortar expansion are the centerpieces of the University of Virginia Community Credit Union’s growth strategy. Officials recently shared their vision at the credit union’s annual meeting, which marked the start of the organization’s 60th year. Founded in 1954 to serve UVa hospital employees, today the credit union has expanded its membership to anyone who lives or works in Charlottesville or Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Madison, Nelson or Orange counties.
Emerging technologies and workforce development for the defense, security and intelligence industries will be the focus of an upcoming conference hosted by the University of Virginia. About 40 academic and business experts are slated to attend the conference on national defense and intelligence, which opens with a reception at the UVa Research Park on June 15.
Modern medicine can be complicated - relying on high-tech procedures and multiple medications, so it’s no surprise that medical mistakes occur. One study estimates they lead to 400,000 preventable deaths a year and ten times as many serious injuries. To attack that problem, the University of Virginia Medical Center has launched a pilot program called “The Room of Errors.”
Donna Broshek is a neuropsychologist at UVA Health System’s Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Clinic. She joins Les Sinclair to talk about the White House Healthy Kids & Safe Sports Concussion Summit that President Obama hosted today.
This year, three long-standing business school deans announced they would step down. As they prepare to depart, taking with them nearly four decades of combined experience, we asked deans Danos, Zupan, and Darden’s Bob Bruner about how their thinking has evolved when it comes to business schools, MBA students, and fundraising, among other topics.
Erika James arrives from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where she taught leadership courses and led the school’s executive education programs as senior associate dean. Her time at Darden also included a stint as the school’s first associate dean of diversity, a role in which she fostered conversations about diversity in the classroom setting.
Dr. Elizabeth Powell, assistant professor of business at Darden, said that Erika James “was instrumental in helping Darden see that there were women out there who would treasure the opportunity to get together and talk about leadership. She’s the master designer of the program, and has the insight to put it together. But she also has a tremendous amount of professional grace that is a role model to the women in the program.”
As my colleague Dahlia Lithwick notes, University of Virginia student Greg Lewis and alum Stephanie Montenegro have launched a campaign against University of Virginia law school professor Douglas Laycock, carefully orchestrated by the prominent LGBTQ group GetEQUAL. Why? Because they don’t like his work. ... Instead of providing a persuasive counterpoint to Laycock’s views, the activists—led by GetEQUAL—tried to intimidate him into halting the conversation, submitting Freedom of Information Act requests for two-and-a-half years’ worth of cellphone records and univ...
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said both methods have merits. Primaries include a wider swath of voters, which generally results in a more moderate, electable candidate that can appeal to many different constituencies, Skelley said. Conventions allow parties to pick a more “ideologically pure” candidate, he added.
Vivian Thomson, an associate professor of environmental sciences and politics at the University of Virginia and author of a new book, “Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy: Federalism in the United States, Brazil, and Germany,” joins Les Sinclair to talk about the effect of the EPA’s decisions on us.
By Gerry Yemen and Elliott Weiss, a senior researcher and a professor, respectively, at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.The big idea: News flash — airlines are service operations. With elites comfortably flying the friendly skies under Premieres, AAdvantage, Gold Member and SkyPriority programs, what do service operations look like for an airline carrier that offers no frequent-flier perks? What choices must an organization make to compete effectively?
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities radio show “With Good Reason” this week will feature the stories of veterans who, as they sailed off to Vietnam, scribbled reflections on the cramped bunks of their troop ship, which eventually came to rest, like a time capsule, in the Norfolk harbor.
University of Virginia history professor Andrew Kahrl calls it “coastal capitalism” in his book The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South, released somewhat quietly in late 2012. If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll note that I referenced the book a couple of times, including in my last post on how black people have been historically excluded from safe swimming spaces in the U.S. I caught up with Kahrl by phone to further unpack his research around racial segregation, “coastal capitalism,” and how these might be recon...
Photo filters are blunt instruments. Our faces, it turns out, are extremely hard to filter—even when you have the app that promises to make you look flawless. And that's because our minds are extremely attuned to the nuances of other people's appearances. However, a group of scientists from MIT, Adobe Systems, and the University of Virginia say they've solved that problem.
Our country was founded upon dissent and freedom of speech. During his campaign for President in 1800, Thomas Jefferson endured savage verbal attacks from his political opponents. According to the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, one newspaper wrote that a Jefferson victory would mean "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes." Despite a level of discourse that would be unthinkable today, Jefferson stood his gr...
The University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, found that men ages 71 to 93 who walked more than a quarter-mile a day had half the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease compared to those who walked less.
The ABC7 I-Team is investigating how police are using web pages and platforms to solve crimes and sometimes prevent them. Chicago could do that, according to a recent study of Chicago police crime data paired with Twitter traffic from certain neighborhoods. That combination, according to University of Virginia researchers, improved predictions for 19 of 25 crimes types including theft and assault. Even a tweet as simple as "I'm leaving for work" could tip off burglars... said Matthew Gerber, Ph. D, Predictive Technology Lab at University of Virginia.
Not addressing bullying can have a negative effect on the entire student body. A 2012 study by the University of Virginia Curry School of Education found that high schools with high levels of bullying have a dropout rate 29 percent above the average.