More than $2.6 billion will be spent on political advertising this year according to an estimate from Moody’s. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, is tuned in and trying to figure out how these ads will impact us.
Scientists studying climate change have focused on greenhouse gases – how we can produce less or maybe remove some of what’s already in the atmosphere, but a team at the University of Virginia will take a different approach. Eleven people from eight different fields – including business, law, anthropology and engineering – will look at how we use land as part of a massive mapping and modeling project for planet Earth. Deborah Lawrence is professor of environmental sciences at UVA. Working with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and colleagues from China ...
The overwhelming first choice is for the university to hold two ceremonies on the lawn on two separate days.
In the few years following The Great Recession, a master's in business administration (MBA) was the last degree on anyone's mind. But in 2013, after three years of double-digit decline, the MBA's popularity began to return, and many of the country's highest ranked business schools noticed a boost in application volume. The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University saw a 12 percent increase in applications to its full-time MBA program, while the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business reported an increase of 11 percent. In its recovery, however, ...
David Evans is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia and joins Les Sinclair to talk about the latest computer security threats in Internet Explorer.
A degree from a respectable law school used to all but guarantee you a job, but in today’s post-recession market, that’s no longer the case: According to statistics from the American Bar Association, only 56 percent of 2012 law school grads landed in full-time positions requiring bar passage. UVA’s School of Law, however, is sitting pretty when it comes to job placement stats. When U.S. News and World Report released its law school rankings last spring—a list that carries serious weight—it revealed UVA had an employed-at-graduation rate of 97 percent, higher ...
Driverless cars simply do not have enough miles logged to provide reliable statistics about their safety just yet, especially in navigating the complexities of urban driving; most of Google's tests to date have been on highways. This complaint has been voiced by Noah Goodall, a scientist from the University of Virginia, in a recent study, in which he calculated that at least quadruple the data collected so far is required to demonstrate comfortably that these vehicles are truly safer.
After all the effort nationwide to eliminate hazing, the news that two University of Virginia fraternities are losing their charters for exactly that reason is disheartening. One of the fraternities has a history of lapses, but also the distinction of being one of two fraternities founded at the university. The second was founded at another commonwealth school, the Virginia Military Institute — in a deliberate effort tocounteract hazing. ... Despite years of effort toward eliminating hazing by colleges and universities across the country, the perilous tradition persists. ... Of cour...
Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Atkins, representing the U.S. Air Force as a National Security Affairs Fellow in 2013–14, is known at Hoover as a funny guy. But in this interview, Atkins showed a different, more serious side. We can only suppose that the humor and gravity dichotomy are necessary qualities of an intelligence officer and man hunter. Atkins earned his undergraduate degree in economics and Russian from the University of Virginia.
The research records of climate scientist Michael Mann are exempt from disclosure under Virginia's Freedom of Information Act, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled April 17. The court relied in particular on the affidavits of scholars, quoting the vice president and provost of the University of Virginia at length, who argued that requiring release of the requested documents in this situation would chill the desire of academics to work for and with the university.
The Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation today announced that $1.25 million in grants have been awarded to four collaborative bioscience commercialization projects between Virginia's research universities and private companies. These awards are being matched dollar for dollar by federal grants and/or direct industry contribution, creating a cumulative $2.5 million investment. Three of the four projects, worth roughly $1.7 million, included U.Va. as a research partner with, respectively, Hemoshear, Tau Therapeutics and FirstString Research.
The recommendations stem from three months' work by the task force that was formed earlier this year, in response to widespread dissatisfaction with the way college campuses handle cases of sexual assault. A unique February conference on the issue hosted by the University of Virginia was filled to capacity by college presidents and others.
“The GOP could potentially win the Senate in November, but the party could hurt its chances if primary voters make poor decisions in some upcoming primaries,” said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Several states with Senate contests in May feature some classic insider-outsider matchups, and national Republicans are hoping the insider/establishment candidates get the nominations.”
Attorney General Mark Herring on Tuesday instructed Virginia’s public colleges to grant in-state tuition to potentially thousands of students who were previously considered ineligible because of their immigration status.
Most of the research disproves the hypothesis people learn better when taught in a way that matches their own unique style and deems the evidence offered on its behalf junk science. One of the most outspoken debunkers is University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, who spoke a few years ago at a conference I attended in Washington.
One of the best presentations of the meeting was given by Mark Saunders, Director of the University of Virginia Press. It was entitled, “Acquisition Anayltics: Or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Project MUSE.” Saunders presented a case study on how the University of Virginia Press is mining usage data from their participation in the UPCC collections and what the early results have shown.
University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst Kyle Kondik says the attorney general's decision is yet another piece of evidence that the hotly contested race for attorney general, which ended in a recount, was one of the most influential races on the ballot last year.
Public employees are significantly less likely to be fired or laid off than similar private sector workers. This effective insurance policy against unemployment has a value to workers. But sometimes it’s assumed that job security is a freebie that has no cost for government or the public. A new study from Thomas Dee of Stanford and James Wyckoff of the University of Virginia shows why that’s not true.
A new physics discovery led by an Indian-origin scientist may lead to more efficient refrigerators that use less electricity and are cooled not by chemical refrigerants, but by magnetism. The discovery by a University of Virginia-led team may also lead to more efficient heat pumps and airport scanners, perhaps within a decade.
The task force report also expresses support -- and the need to explore further -- for the civil rights resolution model to resolving campus complaints about sexual assault and harassment. Brett A. Sokolow, president of the Association of Title IX Administrators, praised this approach and the report for endorsing a model he said is increasingly gaining acceptance in the field of sexual assault prevention. “It’s potentially transformative for the field” of sexual assault prevention, he said. Most campuses currently adjudicate sexual assault and harassment complaints through an...