Gift giving "is an expression of truly seeing the other person and knowing what they want," said Allison Pugh, a sociologist at the University of Virginia who studies consumption.
UVA’s JoAnn Pinkerton, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, says she talks about Addyi every day but hasn’t written many prescriptions for it yet.
Denis Nekipelov, an associate professor of economics and computer science at UVA, addresses the skills tech firms want from today’s graduates. The answer is simple and daunting.
Her career culminated as Director of the Innovation Lab (i.Lab) at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where she mentored dozens of budding entrepreneurs.
Author [and UVA alumna] Jeanne Martinet joins the program to discuss the art of mingling during the holiday season.
Hoos in Recovery, created at the University of Virginia in 2007, is the longest-established program in the state, offering free lunches every Monday to students who may need help. “We’ve had a number of students where that was their first step in recovery,” said Susie Bruce, director of the Gordie Center for Substance Abuse Prevention at UVa.
"[Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell is a party man,” said Kyle Kondik, a campaign analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Dewey Cornell, a professor of education at the University of Virginia and co-author of a 2013 report by the American Psychological Association on predicting and preventing gun violence, said approaches that “do more than just address guns and provide prevention programs, counseling services and threat assessment … that's a very promising development.”
The Virginia Festival of the Book has confirmed three nationally renowned authors for the 2016 program, featuring some of the most essential African American voices of our time.
Following Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, Muslim students at the University of Virginia decided to fight Islamophobia through hugs.
Students are preparing for a robotics competition at the University of Virginia and both students and robots are geared up and ready to go.
Judge Barry G. Williams, 53, graduated from the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland School of Law.
It only seems as if Brian Nosek, a UVA professor of psychology, is trying to destroy psychology. Really, he’s trying to save it.
Following Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, Muslim students at the University of Virginia decided to fight Islamophobia through hugs.
Greenhouse gas levels were stable or declined between 8,000-6,000 years ago, but then began to rise slowly after 6,000 years ago. According to William Ruddiman at the University of Virginia, this rise in greenhouse gases was due to deforestation, burning and land clearing by people. This stopped the decline in greenhouse gases and ultimately prevented the next ice age. If so, human-caused climate change began much earlier than we usually think.
Webster’s defines a demagogue as “a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power.” The word comes from the ancient Greek demos, or people, referring to common or working poor. “There’s a fine line between populism and demagoguery,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for American Politics. “Both words describe rabble-rousers. Populism can be used for good, to invoke the little guy versus big business or big government. Demagoguery is a kind of extreme populism that ...
A former U.S. ambassador has been named to a one-year position at the University of Virginia's Miller Center for public policy. The university announced Wednesday that Eric S. Edelman has been appointed the next James R. Schlesinger distinguished professor at the center. In that role, Edelman will participate in Miller Center conferences, interact with faculty and students, contribute to Miller Center publications and appear on the center's public affairs television interview program, American Forum.
"That's something legislators have rarely ever taken up, at least not in the open," said UVA employment law expert JH Verkerke. "Usually it just gets kicked to the courts."
UVA Law Professor David Martin, a veteran of the Homeland Security, State and Defense departments, said there's no easy solution to closing the gaps in the system, but thinks the best way to improve security in the program is to improve intelligence collection.
The Donald Trump Show continues to dominate the airwaves and the polls, and the other candidates seem mere apprentices by comparison, writes Larry J. Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics.