The Partnership for Public Service is one entity urging transition improvements and offering expert advice, and there are others, including the Miller Center’s First Year 2017 Project at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is also in agreement with the report. “We support Turning the Tide because we philosophically agree with many of the principal points in the document, [like] promoting, encouraging, and developing good citizenship, strong character, personal responsibility, [and] civic engagement in high school students,” says Gregory Roberts, the school’s dean of admissions.
Q&A with Professor Rajkumar Venkatesan, Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, whose research focuses on how analytics helps in earning return on investment, and adds to customer lifetime value.
Christina Bryant was an art history major undergrad at UVA and began her career at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
McClure vs. Sports & Health Club is the only example of a major U.S. court case in which for-profit business owners claimed that employing a gay person violated their religious beliefs, according to UVA law professor Douglas Laycock.
McCormick’s paper trail tracks the weather back 120 years including the largest official snowfall in 1922.
China isn't going to be happy with the likely victory for Taiwan's pro-independence opposition in this weekend's presidential election, but it has limited options to respond: Any angry reaction could further alienate the island's public, while a passive response could weaken Beijing's influence there. China hoped that would set an important precedent and offered extraordinary concessions to make it happen, including agreeing not to use formal titles or have Chinese flags in the room. A major meltdown in relations could scupper hopes for another such encounter while making X...
South Carolina’s Gov. Nikki Haley (R) did something unusual in her Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. She made a strong – and good – impression. Not for her the poor delivery and goofs that characterized the GOP responses of Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio in prior years. Although Haley would not add electoral votes to the GOP ticket, she does have other assets that would be helpful across the nation. She’s “a woman, a minority, and is now viewed as a moderate conservative since the Confederate flag issue,” says Larry Sab...
The latest CNN/WMUR poll of New Hampshire voters, released late Tuesday afternoon, generated immediate buzz in the political press not just because of the margin between Sanders and Clinton but because of the magnitude of the change it showed from the last time the same poll was in the field. “The margin itself seems like an outlier but Sanders has led most of the recent polls of New Hampshire, so it feels safe to say he’s leading there at the moment,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. H...
The metaphor is an old one in Western civilization—the head represents rationality and the heart represents emotion. The link is often made in speech and literature by pointing at one's head (thinking) or at one's chest (feeling). In a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, Krishna and colleagues Luca Cian of the University of Virginia and Norbert Schwarz at the University of Southern California found that people more strongly resonate with rational messages when placed at the top of a page or display, and with emotional messages displayed toward the bottom.
Arctic ice-core climate data from the past 800,000 years supports the idea that human activity has had a warming effect that “cancelled most or all of a natural cooling that should have occurred,” UVA’s William Ruddiman said.
Preston Avenue is the subject of the school’s fifth annual Vortex, a weeklong planning charrette that seeks to bring the school’s young minds and expertise into the community.
Among the items on display are an NAACP voting comic book, a signed copy of Coretta Scott King's memoir, and a Stevie Wonder album sleeve promoting the Martin Luther King Jr. Day recognition.
Members of the Bluefield community shared their sense of loss Monday as word the spread that former banker and leader R.W. “Buzzy” Wilkinson had passed away. In 2007, Wilkinson was honored at the 54th annual Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament for his accomplishments in college basketball, naming him one of the “Legends of the ACC,” according to a previous story in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. From 1953-55, Wilkinson scored 2,233 points at the University of Virginia, setting both an ACC and UVa career record at 28.6 points per game.
Anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and microbiology have always been part of the curriculum at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. But officials there are considering an unusual addition to that list: wisdom. The Phronesis Project — a reference to the Greek word for “prudence” or “practical wisdom” — seeks to cultivate in students the intangible qualities that make a good physician. Walker Redd, a second-year student, has personal relationships with several patients. Redd makes periodic house calls and visits them when they come to the hospit...
The Salem Witch Trials in colonial Massachusetts started in February, 1692 and ended in May, 1693 and resulted in the execution of twenty people (14 of which were women), all but one by hanging. Now, a team of scholars has discovered the incongruous site of the hangings – an abandoned and trash strewn wooded lot frequented by the homeless. Researchers from the University of Virginia and Salem State University combined the old and the new to definitively ascertain that Proctors Ledge was the actual location of the executions. After reviewing the written accounts from eyewitnesses, researc...
There is a newly published study out of the University of Virginia titled, “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?” (based on a 2014 working paper) which finds, not surprisingly, that it is. The new study — by Daphna Bassok, Scott Latham and Anna Rorem of the University of Virginia, and published Jan. 7 by AERA Open, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association — says there has been until now “surprisingly little empirical evidence about the extent to which kindergarten classrooms have changed over time.” The rese...
Sunday marked the first of 40 days of prayer and reflection for students at the University of Virginia. The Student Prayer Collective on grounds organized the Collegiate Day of Prayer. This is the 101st year of the event. Students at UVA and dozens of other college campuses around the country are calling for 40 days of prayer and fasting as a countdown to the National Day of Prayer on Feb. 25.
The University of Virginia and the city of Charlottesville will honor the legacy of Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. with a series of events throughout the rest of January.
When asked why men — black men in particular — graduate at significantly lower rates than women, other universities might monitor the situation at the University of Virginia. UVA clearly is doing something right.