Earlier this year, AOL and the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science conducted an in-depth study of how consumers engage with content across multiple devices, and the findings have provided some valuable, no-BS insight into real-world mobile usage trends. Here are three key takeaways that should come in handy for marketers this holiday season.
In 1979, University of Virginia sociologist Theodore Caplow, in keeping with the tradition of a generation of sociologists led by Robert and Helen Lynd, travelled to the small town of Muncie, Indiana – a stand-in for “Middletown, USA” – to study something the Lynds had neglected: the annual exchange of gifts on Christmas, a ritual in which even the most socially isolated residents participate.
A recent study from University of Virginia researchers supports a finding that’s been gaining science-fueled momentum in recent years: the human brain is wired to connect with others so strongly that it experiences what they experience as if it’s happening to us.
U.Va. alumna Jule Roach is featured as the proprietor of The Frenchman’s Corner in Fairhope, Ala.
(Co-written by Robert Landel, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business) The big idea: Many executives find themselves in a functional, line role and then are also selected to lead an organization-wide change effort. What are the best practices for performing that dual role well?
Usually, recounts don’t change much, said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “A recount is an extension of the political wars after the election night armistice. The stakes are very high for both parties, plus the candidates, their staffs, and families are exhausted by the long campaign and now the overtime process,” Sabato said, adding that the recount has the potential “to get very nasty.”
The budget gives McDonnell a chance to capitalize on what he’s accomplished as governor, and to add to it, said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. An incoming administration has little chance to change much while learning the ropes. He also noted McDonnell is a governor who is “working overtime on redemption.”
“There’s a growing literature about how the brains are quite different in children than in adults, and they do not recover as quickly,” said Jeffrey Barth, a neuropsychologist at the University of Virginia Medical School, which has studied concussions since the early 1980s. “I would agree that it would be very good if we did not have significant contact sports available to kids until high school.”
This study goes beyond those findings, seeming to “narrow down the possibilities of what educational interventions are achieving,” Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia who was not part of the research team, was quoted as saying by a report on study published on the MIT website.
The very type of laws used by federal marshals to bust up Mormon polygamous families more than a century ago are now being criticized by a U.S. judge as unconstitutional in a ruling that, if it stands, could allow Utahns to live with plural partners. What has changed from then to now, observers say, is society’s attitude toward sex. "The state has got to feel a little foolish enforcing these old statutes that are particular to Utah history," says Kathleen Flake, chair of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia. "We no longer criminalize adultery or fornication. Any co...
Stroke patients may soon be treated by a doctor before they even arrive at the hospital. University of Virginia researchers have developed a mobile telemedicine toolkit.
Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist and education professor at the University of Virginia, sees another danger as well. Despite the grim headlines, the rate of violent assaults has been dropping sharply for decades at the nation’s 100,000 schools. That means the chance of gunfire at any one building is vanishingly remote. Yet schools girding for the worst are spending scarce resources on armed guards and flexing zero tolerance policies that require suspending students for nearly any infraction. All of that alienates students and raises tensions, he said — not exactly a recipe fo...
A portion of 11th Street between Lee Street and the railroad tracks will be closed to motor vehicles from 7 a.m. Monday through 5 p.m. Thursday as road crews work to relocate an electrical line. The roadway also will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 20 and Dec. 23-25 as crews complete utility work in the area.
Only 15 percent of donor lungs end up being usable, but thanks to University of Virginia researchers that could be changing.
Southern Title’s troubles were precipitated by agent misuse of funds in Texas and a corresponding rise in claims, according to a 2011 SCC news release. “[T]heft that leaves insurance companies financially impaired and policyholders unprotected, although unusual, isn’t unheard of,” bankruptcy law expert Steven Walt, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said in an email.
"What's nice about this study is it seems to narrow down the possibilities of what educational interventions are achieving," says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia who was not part of the research team. "We're usually primarily concerned with outcomes in schools, but the underlying mechanisms are also important."
Really good books will create immersive, fireside reading even without the fireplace. We think these have that power – from meditations on mothers, to thoughts on good foundations, to histories from Virginia and beyond, to studies of World War I, to sharp social commentary. “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1831” by Alan Taylor, a National Book Award finalist. Taylor, a professor at the University of Virginia, looks at, among other things, how enslaved people struggled for their own freedom during the Revolution; how the War of 1812 made slavery — a...
In 13 of 16 high-profile DNA exonerations in Virginia, eyewitness misidentifications were involved, according to a University of Virginia professor’s research. Brandon Garrett, who teaches at the UVa School of Law, has concluded in a recent report that “institutional inertia, and not policy choices, explain the slow pace of adoption of best practices” statewide.
The place where Northup was held before being put on a brig for Norfolk and then New Orleans was most likely William Goodwin’s slave pen at Broad and Union Streets in Shockoe Bottom, according to University of Virginia professor Maurie D. McInnis, author of “Slaves Winning for Sale,” and researcher David Fiske, author of “Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave.”
When deciding whether to make an online purchase, skin color matters to some consumers, new research finds. A study recently published in the Economic Journal of the Royal Economic Society discovered that online shoppers are less likely to purchase a product if a black person or someone with a tattoo is selling it. "We were really struck to find as much racial discrimination as we did," said University of Virginia professor Jennifer Doleac, a co-author of the study.