Coaches rarely stop and smell the roses, so sometimes their aides have to place the fragrance right under their snouts. Andy Fledderjohann, who dutifully keeps track of everything concerning Virginia’s baseball team, summed up the deeds of Brian O’Connor’s 13-year career in 140 words or less this week when the Cavaliers were invited to the NCAA Tournament.
A trio of political data experts empaneled by FiveThirtyEight for a podcast in August estimated Trump’s chances of snagging the nomination at 2 percent, 0 percent and minus-10 percent, respectively. “If Trump is nominated, then everything we think we know about presidential nominations is wrong,” Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics, wrote at the time.
UVA professor Siva Vaidhyanathan says operating in China is a fraught proposition for major U.S. tech companies these days. "If I ran a major global corporation, I would want to do business with China, too. But doing heavy business on the ground in China is high-cost and high-risk right now," he said.
Volatile markets offer the opportunity for big gains and the risk of big losses. Robert I. Webb, professor of finance at UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, said the trick is to focus on the catalysts that spark wild stock gyrations.
CEOs can generally count on their orders being put into practice; American presidents cannot. The separation of powers and the political process itself, Barbara Perry of the University of Virginia's Miller Center explained, are "meant to preclude models and skills used in the corporate world."
When UVA alumni first approached Siva Vaidhyanathan with concerns that the university was not part of the national discussion of media, one thing was immediately clear: The answer was not to build a journalism school. "We cannot compete with Columbia University’s journalism school or Northwestern or the University of Missouri," says Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies. "Our real challenge was to consider these issues within a different tradition." In January, Vaidhyanathan became executive director of the university’s new Center for Media and Citizenship...
Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor, said Trump benefits from all the attention – and that his voters don’t care when he spouts off. “Trump has gained after gaffes because, even with a controversy, he has seized center stage,” he said.
Some schools have installed locks in recent years following attacks, but experts say wider adoption has been hindered by the cost to retrofit doors and local fire codes that require doors to open in one motion during emergencies. Even when there is a lock, the shooter has often been a student with access to the classroom or building. "We should be spending more time on prevention than door locks," said Dewey Cornell, a UVA forensic clinical psychologist.
A UVA study said that crops like corn and sugar cane have been found to be cultivated increasingly to produce biofuels. About 4 percent of the world's farmland is used to grow crops mainly for fuel than food.
It isn’t only historians and future military officers who study D-Day, the largest amphibious military assault in history. The invasion of Normandy by Allied troops during World War II also provides lessons in leadership and strategy at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Fourteen eventful years after she herself accepted her diploma from the University of Virginia, “Grey’s Anatomy” star Sarah Drew returned to Charlottesville to address this year’s crop of graduates as the keynote speaker at the college’s valedictory exercises this month.
Compared to women who do not use Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder, African-American women who apply powder are more likely to get ovarian cancer. The study, primarily conducted by UVA epidemiologist Joellen Schildkraut, was reported by Reuters Health.
Brian O’Connor has coached the UVA baseball coach team to the NCAA tournament in each of his 13 seasons. After each successful finish, he has been humble as he deflected praise to his players and staff. Sunday, O’Connor was in a different situation.
Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics discusses the upcoming Democratic primary in California.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said the speech should boost Democrats’ confidence that Clinton can beat Trump in November. For too many months, he said, Clinton has seemed off balance, unable to focus on Trump’s weaknesses. “She finally did it. She clearly was enjoying it,” he said. That could also help her in Tuesday’s neck-and-neck primary race in California, he added.
A new book from the authors of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses seeks to answer one of the main critiques of that widely read 2011 study. One knock on that book, by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, an associate professor of sociology and education at the University of Virginia, is that they relied largely on scores from a standardized test to support their conclusions that many students don’t learn much during college.
Crops such as corn and sugar cane have been increasingly cultivated to produce biofuels. About 4 percent of the world's farmland is used to grow crops for fuel rather than food, according to a University of Virginia study published in March.
Kevin Eisenfrats, the young co-founder and president of the biotech startup Contraline, is racing them to the finish line with a gel-based male contraceptive called Echo-V. But whereas Vasalgel requires a tiny incision prior to the injection, Echo-V will use an imageable gel along with ultrasound technology researched by the University of Virginia (UVA) to guide the injection without an incision—a technique that Eisenfrats jokingly compares to “taking a strand of spaghetti and injecting it with a viscous polymer.” The imageable gel will also simplify check-ups after the initi...
In an effort to increase interest and education in construction and the building trades among young women, the University of Virginia’s Facilities Management Department will host its first Girls Day on June 14. Modeled after a traditional Take Your Daughter to Work Day program, Facilities Management employees will bring girls between the ages of 12-18 to participate in various planned activities to show off their work.