UVA Darden School of Business Professor Morela Hernandez has a passion for behavioral research. It’s this passion that led the associate professor in leadership and organizational behavior and academic director of the Behavioral Research at Darden Lab to develop a new project: the Behavioral Research for Society Lab.
In the U.S., some perceived a generational gap in reaction to the detailed account by a woman identified as "Grace" of a sexual encounter with comedian Aziz Ansari that left her feeling disrespected and abused. Among millennial men such as Ansari -- who is 34 -- there's a cultural contradiction at play, according to sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at UVA. "There's a public embrace of more egalitarian, feminist sensibilities and ideas," he said, but that often doesn't carry over to their private approach to sexual encounters. As for millennial women, Wi...
Analysts predict Trump will start by claiming credit for America's strong economy after his recent tax cuts, even though he inherited low unemployment and a booming stock market from his predecessor. Larry Sabato, UVA professor of politics, said: “Most people have no idea how much a president influences the economy, but Trump will take 100 percent of the credit for the good news – of that we can be sure."
Kyle Kondik, an Ohioan who is a political analyst for UVA’s Center for Politics, said there are "scattered signs" that Kasich is weak among Ohio Republican voters.
In 2016, UVA researchers published a paper that described how two massive image collections used to train programs to process images that had gender biases, like associating images of cooking with women. These collections passed on the biases to their ‘students’, who not only reproduced the bias but even amplified them. Other research shows that AI also picks up racial bias from online text content, and gender bias from general news. If what singularity, that much-speculated-on churn of AI generating better AI, finally spits out is a version of our worst self, with a tendency for racist tweets...
A study from the UVA Health System found that men between the ages of 71 and 93 who walked more than a quarter of a mile per day had half the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease compared to those who walked less.
Several buildings at the University of Virginia are being renovated with modern amenities and being upgraded to become more sustainable and higher performing. In fact, the school’s new president won’t be moving into the traditional presidential hall in August. That building, Carr’s Hill, will be undergoing renovations – the latest historic structure on the campus to be overhauled as the university tries to update and preserve historic sites while reducing its carbon footprint.
Charlottesville’s vision statement aspires for the city to be “A Great Place to Live for All of Our Citizens.” “The way you get to that vision is you tackle the tough problems in a safe space and people see their ideas put into action,” said Suzanne Morse Moomaw, director of the Community Design Research Center at UVA’s School of Architecture.
Among 10 poetry books this NPR review recommends is “Holy Moly Carry Me” by alumna Erika Meitner, who earned her M.F.A. from UVA’s Creative Writing Program in 2002. Meitner is known for what's called "documentary poetry," which combines some of the journalistic work of the reporter with the subjective renderings of the poet.
UVA students, staff and alumni are brainstorming how to deal with its historical landscape in reference to statues and plaques honoring the past.
(Commentary) What we know now, for sure, is what we might have suspected before tip-off Saturday afternoon at Cameron Indoor Stadium: There are no limits to what the men’s basketball team from Virginia can accomplish this spring. That guarantees nothing, of course, and there could be a night when a shot doesn’t fall or a call goes the wrong way. But, man, watch these Cavaliers play defense as if their dinner and dessert depended on it, and it doesn’t take much to dream a bit.
Republicans would be especially vulnerable in what is now the 7th district outside Philadelphia, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a UVA political forecasting unit. The sprawling district, which is the one likened to Goofy and Donald Duck, is currently held by Republican Patrick Meehan, who is retiring after reports that he settled a sexual harassment allegation.
Everyone mostly agreed that transparency, ethics and openness were good goals. But the resources available to a big, multi-year, multicenter trial to deal with burdensome bureaucracy are very different than a small, non-clinical lab. “The use of the term ‘clinical trial,’ this was just a huge distraction. There is a sense in science of what that means, and basic scientists really didn’t think of their research as being that,” says Brian Nosek, a UVA psychologist and founder of the Center for Open Science, a major advocate of pre-registration and data sharing.
If Democrats have any hope of keeping Ohio competitive and rebuilding the Midwestern blue wall that fell to Donald Trump in 2016, Sherrod Brown needs to win reelection this fall. “The worry for Brown is that the state has taken a turn toward the Republicans and won’t turn back,” said Kyle Kondik, part of UVA’s Crystal Ball team who quite literally wrote the book on Ohio. “If Brown loses, it’s hard to see how Democrats can really contest the state in 2020 – in fact, they likely wouldn’t even try.”
Fast-growing Prince William County has leapfrogged Virginia Beach to become the second-most-populous jurisdiction in Virginia, further cementing the dominance within the commonwealth of its Washington suburbs. Three out of four of the state's largest jurisdictions are now in northern Virginia, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
A new estimate from UVA’s Cooper Center pegs Arlington’s population at 239,074 as of mid-2017. That would make Arlington the fourth-fastest-growing locality in Virginia since the 2010 U.S. Census, when Arlington’s population was 207,627.
In their book “Rot, Riot, and Rebellion,” Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos describe how honor culture imperiled the University of Virginia in its infancy. In one incident, two recently expelled students horsewhipped a professor who told them they had disgraced themselves. "Neither of them pretended I had done him any injury," the astonished professor wrote. But of course, in the eyes of the two students, the professor’s insult was the injury.
Dozens gathered at UVA’s Miller Center for Politics Thursday afternoon to hear experts give their thoughts on President Trump's first year in office. Miller Center scholars say Trump is lucky because he took office as the economy boomed and Republicans had control of Congress.
The University of Virginia climbed in the rankings to No. 56, with just under $400 million in research expenditures.
One or two of the kids coming of the bus today at Southwood today might be attending St. Anne’s-Belfield in August, thanks to the generosity of one of the school’s most proud alumni, Eagles defensive end Chris Long. Also a UVA graduate, Long promised at the beginning of the season that he would donate his first six game checks to fund scholarships for two deserving kids that would take them from sixth grade through high school graduation.