A lot of parents want to know, "When should I introduce my kids to the person I'm dating?" Peter Sheras, a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia, and the author of I Can't Believe You Went Through My Stuff!: How to Give Your Teens the Privacy They Crave and the Guidance They Need, advises parents to look first toward the quality of the dating relationship before worrying about how or when to introduce children.
Just think of (Nobel Prize winner) Ronald Coase -- an economist who was just minding his own theories at the University of Virginia when his thoughts proved so (a) unconventional, (b) politically incorrect and (c) sound that he had to take refuge, as many a great scholar has done before, at the University of Chicago, home of that bevy of independent thinkers (Milton Friedman et al.) who became known as, appropriately enough, the Chicago School of economists.
By Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics, and a regular columnist for Politico...Even at this early point in the cycle, political advertising is widespread: Based on records maintained by the Sunlight Foundation, only eight of the nation’s 50 biggest TV markets had no political ad purchases in the first three months of the year. A wide variety of different groups are getting involved. The Arkansas Senate race, for instance, has already seen some $8 million in television spending, which includes buys from 20 different outside groups.
With Sen. R. Creigh Deeds at his side, Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Monday signed legislation meant to reform the mental health system that Deeds said failed his mentally ill son, who stabbed the senator before killing himself in November. A bipartisan group of senators and delegates came from as far as Northern Virginia to witness the event at the U.Va. Medical Center, pledging to keep pushing for more reforms.
The Centers for Disease Control estimate deaths from HAI at nearly 100,000 per year in the United States. That makes HAI a top 10 leading cause of death in America. Though most are not fatal, HAIs affect 7-10% of hospitalized patients, according to Uni­versity of Virginia researchers.
Justin Hopkins, assistant professor of business administration at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, says if he had his druthers, we would do away with corporate taxation entirely. "The largest shareholders of many corporations are public pension plans," he says. "So, by taxing corporations we are basically levying taxes on public servants, employees and customers. If the government wants to tax the 'rich,' it should do so at the individual level."
“Self-publishing is still verboten in literary land…literary authors have long resisted that approach, and rightfully so to some extent,” says Jane Friedman, Scratch Magazine publisher and Virginia Quarterly Review web editor, in the run-up to Friday’s Grub Street Muse Town Hall.
Monique Saunders Patrick has been selected as one of 10 Darden School of Business alumni to be honored in the 2014 Alumni Showcase. She was selected from more than 50 student and faculty alumni nominees and will have her name and biography displayed in Darden's Saunders Hall for the next two years. Patrick serves as the chief financial and administration officer of the Points of Light Foundation, the largest organization in the world dedicated to volunteer service.
After years of high divorce rates and growing skepticism of institutions, is marriage making a comeback? Beginning with the basics: Americans are waiting longer to marry than ever before. Why the wait? “People wait until their financial and educational ducks are in a row, and their relationship ducks are in a row,” said Brad Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
In the past couple decades, a whole industry has grown up around marketing the surprising-yet-oddly-intuitive findings of social psychology, behavioral economics, and related fields, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell and others. The industry feeds on new, dramatic findings from the lab. But many of these findings, critics point out, are not readily reproducible. Brian Nosek, U.Va. professor of psychology, is tackling this problem with the Reproducibility Project and the Center for Open Science, founded by Nosek and U.Va. graduate student Jeffrey Spies, to encourage openness, accessibility and re...
For years, scientists suspected that E. histolytica caused disease by poisoning and killing human cells before gobbling up the cellular corpses. But details of the lethal mechanism had been unclear. To learn more, a team led by Drs. Katherine S. Ralston and William A. Petri, Jr., of the University of Virginia used advanced microscopy to watch as live parasites and host cells interacted with each other. Results appeared in Nature on April 24, 2014.