The school with the most satisfied graduates is the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. The school ranked fifth on job satisfaction and tops for both education and preparation.
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley talked about gun control, green energy and student debt at the University of Virginia on Tuesday night.
University administrators say terror threats against popular destinations have heightened vigilance but have not caused a rethinking of study-abroad programs.
The Charlottesville Fire Department is rotating on-duty crews to train with structure fire simulations. For the first time, the department is partnering with the UVA School of Nursing.
Perhaps the most bizarre bit of business in the multimedia exhibition “Jefferson and Palladio: Constructing a New World” is a video of an imaginary confrontation between Thomas Jefferson and Andrea Palladio, depicted as silhouettes.
According to the World Health Organisation, over 3 million people die each year as a result of health problems caused by unsanitary water. That is why Dr. Theresa Dankovic from Carnegie Mellon University has focused her efforts on developing new and inexpensive ways to provide clean water to those who need it. Dr. Dankovic is the inventor of pAge – a sheet of paper “equipped” with silver and copper nanoparticles that kill dangerous microbes in dirty water. Dr. Dankovic came up with the idea for the “Drinkable Book” while working at McGill University in Montreal an...
The killings of Chinese citizens by Islamic militants in Syria and Mali place President Xi Jinping in a quandary: How can Beijing respond effectively without betraying its strict stance against intervention? The dilemma underscores the tension between China's desire to be seen as a leading global power and its desire to maintain its own independent foreign policy while shunning the U.S.-led Western liberal democratic political agenda. Such attitudes dictate that, despite pressure on the government to respond to recent incidents, Beijing is unlikely to do so "in a meaningful way,"...
But here’s the thing about rivalries: A team’s performance in any single year isn’t supposed to matter. What distinguishes rivalry from competition are the psychological stakes that exist even if one team is undefeated and the other is incompetent. One paper published last month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that rivalries make people behave more recklessly than non-rivalries. The co-authors, Benjamin Converse and David Reinhard, came to their finding after studying rivalry in the NFL, international soccer and even fantasy sports. “You can...
University of Virginia Health System researchers have opened a national clinical trial examining a non-surgical treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms caused by an enlarged prostate . Also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia, an enlarged prostate is a common condition unrelated to cancer that affects about 210 million men worldwide, according to researchers from UVA's Division of Interventional Radiology and Department of Urology.
It was a group project of staggering proportions. University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and his colleagues at the nonprofit Center for Open Science got help from over 350 scientists to repeat 100 high-profile psychology experiments published in 2008 — the largest replication study to date. In August, they announced the results in Science, forcing psychologists to face some hard truths about the reliability of their field’s studies.
Immigrants don’t just bring their labor to the United States; they bring their needs, too. Just as native workers demand food, clothing, housing and entertainment, so, too, do immigrants. That creates job opportunities. A recent study by researchers at Indiana University and the University of Virginia, for instance, found that each new immigrant produces about 1.2 new jobs. Most of these new positions are filled by domestic workers. Typically, we hear that immigrants “take our jobs.” If this were true, however, we would expect the unemployment rate to rise significantly as th...
With winter on its way, a group of University of Virginia students decided to take action and give back to kids in need. UVA's Iota Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. kicked off a coat drive to help students in need at Clark Elementary School.
The U.S. has polarized attitudes on paid family leave because of how disparately couples treat work and family issues, said Brad Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia.
“Students too often forget they’re residents of Charlottesville,” said Abraham Axler, Student Council president. “We really appreciate the opportunity to have a direct conduit between us and the city. We want to think of ourselves as more than just students.”
"If you ask people if they think climate change is an important issue they'll say yes, but if you think of it comparatively to other important issues it kind of falls to the wayside," says Geoffrey Skelley, of the Center for Politics.
(By Dyanna Jaye, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia) Hailing from six different universities, we were all members of the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition, a statewide student network with a goal of halting new fossil fuel infrastructure in our state. Now — beginning today — crucial intergovernmental negotiations will take place in Paris, France. The aim: the first universal agreement on climate change. Virginia is more than a drop in the bucket within this global effort.
The list of what a child needs in order to flourish is short but nonnegotiable. Food. Shelter. Play. Love. Something else, too, and it’s meted out in even less equal measure. Words. A child needs a forest of words to wander through, a sea of words to splash in. A child needs to be read to, and a child needs to read. Reading fuels the fires of intelligence and imagination, and if they don’t blaze well before elementary school, a child’s education — a child’s life — may be an endless game of catch-up. “Reading follows an upward spiral,” s...
Climate is the average weather over a 30-year period, and it changes all the time, just like the daily weather. Unfortunately, gauging climate change with daily weather is nearly impossible. "Here at the climatology office,” said Jerry Stenger, Head of the climatology office at the University of Virginia. “We're often asked the question 'is the weather we're having due to global warming?’""The answer is yes, but not by much. The variations of so many other things completely swamp that," said Stenger. Stenger said that the increase in ...
It’s time to shed a bright light on one of Bay Street’s most annoying and well-hidden practices. It’s known as “closet indexing” and occurs when a financial planner, bank or mutual fund company sells you a fund that is supposed to be actively managed but actually hugs the market benchmark. New research suggests that Canada’s mutual fund industry has earned the dubious distinction of being the world leader in closet indexing. In their paper, Indexing and Active Fund Management: International Evidence,” four professors of finance – Martijn Cremers ...
During a recent TV interview, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson was asked which Founding Father impressed him the most. "I’m particularly impressed with Thomas Jefferson, who seemed to have a very deep insight into the way people would react and tried to craft a constitution in a way that would control people’s natural tendencies and control the natural growth of government," Carson replied during a Nov. 22 broadcast on C-SPAN. Peter Onuf, a retired University of Virginia professor who specialized in Jefferson, wrote in an email, "Jefferson never...