“Business Strategy Specialization” is a series of courses taught by the University of Virginia’s top faculty and accessible to anyone.
Both Edgar Allan Poe and William Faulkner spent time at the University of Virginia (Poe as a student, Faulkner as a professor). You can even visit Poe’s dorm room on Grounds.
To some extent, the entire concept of political feuds ending at U.S. shores is “an aphorism that serves to shore up an apparent consensus while quieting dissenters,” said Nicole Hemmer, a visiting research associate at the UVA’s Miller Center.
So far, more than 60 people have volunteered to host a bee colony in their yard to help with research that will be done by UVA students and professors who work at Blandy Experimental Farms in Boyce.
It appeared as if the camps were going away, until the NCAA rescinded its ban on them last month. The camps allow schools to hold events for prospects away from their campuses, and for coaches to act as guest counselors at other school’s camps, often in prime recruiting territory like Hampton Roads.
Columnist Linda Greenhouse refers to professors Richard C. Schragger and Micah Schwartzman of the UVA School of Law as smart observers of the Supreme Court.
“Disney is doing something in China that has never been done before,” says UVA Darden School of Business professor Elliott Weiss, who has written a case study on Shanghai Disney.
A study by UVA law professor Brandon Garrett looked at settlements that companies of all kinds had struck with the Justice Department from 2001 to 2014 to resolve criminal charges without suffering the stigma of a corporate conviction. His research found that individuals were charged in only about a third of these deals, known as deferred prosecution or non-prosecution agreements.
Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor and author of “Too Big To Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations,” commented on a federal appeals court that overturned a $1.3 billion judgment against Bank of America, ruling that good intentions at the outset shield bankers from fines for subsequent fraud.
A 13-year-old Norfolk girl is the first patient to receive a liver transplant in a new partnership between hospitals in Charlottesville and Pittsburgh.
Slate’s pop critic, Jack Hamilton, UVA assistant professor of American studies and media studies, writes about Russell Westbrook of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder.
Larry J. Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, has been selected as the speaker for Monticello’s 54th annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony.
Historian Peter Norton, associate professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Department of Engineering and Society, talked with Audie Cornish about calling them “crashes” instead of “accidents.”
“Maybe Trump will stimulate a higher Hispanic turnout, and if so, it won't be good news for Trump,” Larry Sabato, director of the UVA’s Center for Politics. “But it's May, and the elements of an election can look very different by November.”
"I really don't think there is much future for nuclear energy," said Donal Day, a UVA nuclear physicist. "I don't think it's because people are opposed to it, but because the market just won't support it." Day says that the future of energy in the state should be renewable energies.
(Co-written by Benjamin Castleman of UVA’s Curry School of Education) Chances are that someone has nudged you today. Maybe it was your doctor’s office, texting you about an upcoming appointment. A growing body of research demonstrates that nudges like these, despite being low touch and costing very little, can lead to substantial improvements in educational outcomes.
UVA-Wise is among the 10 public universities where nonresidents who received financial aid were awarded the most during the 2014-15 school year. The average financial aid award for out-of-state students was $28,659.
There are people known as “non-responders,” who, no matter how hard they try, see no change in muscle mass or overall strength, says Max Prokopy, director of Speed, a sports performance clinic at the UVA School of Medicine.
UVA’s Darden School of Business offers the fourth-best executive education program in the world, according to the Financial Times rankings for 2016. The school’s executive education open-enrollment program climbed the rankings from the No. 11 position it held in 2015, after a drop from the No. 3 slot it occupied in 2014.
UVA students are cleaning up their apartments and clearing out of Charlottesville for the summer, or for good in the case of the new graduates. All their unwanted belongings are benefiting several nonprofits in Central Virginia.