(Andrew Isaac Burrill, a student at the University of Virginia) Last week I was at the University of Virginia Career Fair that helps get graduating students full time jobs after walking down the Lawn in May. From what I've heard from friends last year, people got offers from the White House, the FBI, Art Museums, Wealth Management Firms, and Architecture Firms, even some positions with starting six figure salary offers. It was awesome to hear that all of these newly employed students came from a vast array of different academic backgrounds and majors. Needless to say, I was excited to go i...
In place of prosecutions, there has been a rise in deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) and non-prosecution agreements (NPAs), which allow defendants to avoid jail time, a trial and even a no-contest plea. “If they are bringing more cases—but stronger ones—or settling cases more readily and more favorably, that does speak in favor of the current approach,” said University of Virginia Law Professor Brandon L. Garrett.
The ability to defeat Hillary Clinton in a general election debate is the ultimate test of 2016’s Republican presidential hopefuls. That’s why, following tonight’s GOP primary debate in Milwaukee, Politico Magazine asked political experts on left and right which Republican candidate would fare best against Clinton. ‘The best debate opponents for Clinton will be ones who manage to hold her accountable without looking harsh’
By Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal B...
Virginia Film Festival officials announced today what attendees and special guests of the Festival saw all weekend long – that by every possible measure, the 28th Annual VFF was an unqualified success. Record numbers of film fans streamed into theaters across Charlottesville throughout the four-day festival to take in more than 130 films and special events in what was one of the VFF’s deepest and most diverse programs in its 28-year history.
Virginia Film Festival officials announced today what attendees and special guests of the Festival saw all weekend long – that by every possible measure, the 28th Annual VFF was an unqualified success. Record numbers of film fans streamed into theaters across Charlottesville throughout the four-day festival to take in more than 130 films and special events in what was one of the VFF’s deepest and most diverse programs in its 28-year history.
To attract and keep younger customers, community banks are swallowing the costs of offering products like free checking in exchange for the potential long-term gains that come with serving the generation’s mortgage, investing and eventually retirement needs, said Karin Bonding, a recently retired finance professor from the McIntire School of Commerce.
Richard Bonnie, the director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy at UVA, is studying the trend of rising mental health calls. He says that they are seeing a change statewide, but at this point do not know what is causing it.
University of Virginia Professor Andrew Mondschein and his students have two goals this lovely fall day: chronicle the evolution of Tysons Corner from traffic-clogged edge city to walkable urban oasis — and don’t get killed in the process.
As the United States prepares to celebrate Veterans Day, people at the University of Virginia paid tribute on Tuesday. A 24-hour-long vigil held to honor those veterans who did not make their way home, and it ended with a big ceremony held in the ballroom of UVA's Newcomb Hall.
The federal government has, historically, licensed nuclear power plants for a period of 40 years – long enough for investors to make money, and utilities have designed reactors that could last at least that long. And at a time when the world is increasingly worried about pollution from burning of coal, gas and oil, nuclear energy is sitting pretty. Houston Wood is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia. “Many people are worried about climate change, global warming, worried about the atmosphere, and the carbon fuels cause a lot of...
Maker camps and programs that empower K-12 students to unleash their entrepreneurial potential attract a steady following of educators. Among their fans is Saras Sarasvathy, a renowned scholar of entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. While her primary focus is MBAs, she strongly advocates for teaching entrepreneurship to K-12 students—the younger, the better.
When men do get lupus they tend to have more severe symptoms than women, says Janet Lewis, MD, chief of rheumatology at University of Virginia's School of Medicine. "They're often more likely to experience some of the more serious manifestations of lupus such as renal disease, neurologic disease, and serositis (inflammation of the linings of organs such as the heart and lungs)," she explains. "And it isn't clear why."
The polls were wrong ahead of last week’s off-year election in Kentucky. Not a single survey showed Republican Matt Bevin in the lead, yet he won by 9 points. Larry Sabato’s outfit, the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, moved the contest yesterday from Leans Republican to Toss-Up. Louisiana State University plays Ole Miss, on the road, at 3:30 the Saturday of the runoff, which could dampen turnout.
Consider psychology. The field has been recently embarrassed by failed attempts to repeat the results of classic textbook experiments, and a mounting realization that many papers are the result of commonly accepted statistical shenanigans rather than careful attempts to test hypotheses. Tellingly, as I covered in August, a coordinated attempt to repeat 100 published experiments, led by Brian Nosek from the University of Virginia, managed to reproduce the results of just a third of them. Which raises the question: Exactly how good are psychologists at working out whether their own studies are r...
The median probability of a hypothesis proving accurate after publication of an initial finding was 56%. In other words, after one publication affirms a hypothesis, “the probability of the hypothesis being true does not rocket up to near certainty”, says psychologist Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who is one of the co-authors of the study. After a successful replication, however, the probability of a hypothesis being true approaches 100%, the study found.
If the price for 'Reproducible' shares are low when the market closes, that means that most people in the field don't believe the experiment can be replicated. "Our research showed that there is some ‘wisdom of the crowd’ among psychology researchers," said Brian Nosek, co-author and professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. "Prediction accuracy of 70 percent offers an opportunity for the research community to identify areas to focus reproducibility efforts to improve confidence and credibility of all findings."
Writing in the Times, Ross Douthat pointed to academic studies showing a decline in marriage rates, religious attendance, and other traditional behavioral patterns among whites of moderate education. In a 2012 paper provocatively titled “No Money, No Honey, No Church,” a group of four sociologists, including W. Bradford Wilcox, of the University of Virginia, refer to the “social marginalization of working class whites who are also increasingly disconnected from the institutions of marriage and work.”
On Monday night members of the University of Virginia’s ROTC marched throughout the night to remember America’s prisoners of war and those missing in action. This 24 hour vigil is held every year around Veterans Day. It's a chance for the community to remember all of those who never came home from war.
University of Virginia ROTC cadets and midshipmen is conducting a vigil to remember prisoners of war and those missing in action. The vigil began at 3 p.m. Monday and concludes with a ceremony honoring veterans at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the McIntire Amphitheater on UVa Grounds. Air Force Col. R. Wyn Elder, executive assistant to the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, will deliver the keynote address.
Ahead of Veterans Day, the University of Virginia ROTC honored American prisoners of war and those missing in action with a vigil at McIntire Ampitheatre on grounds. The annual vigil was originally scheduled to last 24 hours but was suspended for several hours overnight due to rain.