(By Kimberly A. Whitler, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia) As a former CMO, I’ve worked both in the U.S. and overseas for a variety of companies, such as P&G, PetSmart, and David’s Bridal. After nearly 20 years in industry, I obtained a Ph.D. and am currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, conducting research that addresses contemporary CMO challenges. As part of my CMO Insights Series, I recently interviewed Barry Westrum, EVP for Marketing at International Dairy Queen. It’...
The University of Virginia is starting the new school year with new safety initiatives. UVA says stopping sexual violence is its biggest priority. Student council is working to create a new Saferide App that encourages students to take university transportation home instead of walking home alone. These initiatives are part of several steps taken at UVA to keep students safer.
The start of a new school year is an exciting time, but also the most dangerous time for students. The first few weeks of the new academic year at any college or university are called "The Red Zone," according to University of Virginia Dean of Students Allen Groves. It's when students are most at risk for sexual assault.
A sexual assault prevention program at the University of Virginia is getting new support from beyond the University. Members of the Charlottesville community took part in an open house Saturday for the Green Dot Program to learn more about bystander intervention and stopping violence before it happens.
A report by University of Virginia Law Professor Brandon L. Garrett describes the effects of false confessions in cases in which DNA evidence later led to an exoneration. Garrett reports that half of the 20 death row inmates who were exonerated by DNA testing had falsely confessed to the crime.
Carly Fiorina supporters are criticizing CNN's debate criteria that could prevent the former Hewlett-Packard CEO from grabbing a spot on the main stage at the second debate despite her surging poll numbers. It's a similar argument that Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, has made. He said that CNN's methodology isn't just hurting Fiorina -- but also other candidates who weren't on the main stage at the first debate.
(By Shira Lurie, a doctoral student at the University of Virginia researching early American political history) Watch any comedian's commencement address and you'll learn that improv rules also make for great life advice. In fact, Tina Fey devoted an entire chapter to the subject in her autobiography, Bossypants. The unique demands of grad school make it unlike almost any other job or course of study. And so, as a grad student, I often feel as though I am literally making it up as I go along. So what better way to hack the new school year than with a few principles of im...
Oftentimes, it’s tough for Mark Jacob to get out of bed in the morning and get motivated to go to the gym. But after his 45-minute workout, he feels better, he says. And so, at 95, it’s worth the effort. Mark Jacob is the oldest living graduate of the University of Virginia School of Engineering, class of 1942, Mary Jacob said.
Big dreams and Henry Ford’s brilliant mind and work ethic spawned a behemoth that has grown to more than 224K employees working in 90 plants around the world, and producing $135.8B in revenue (2014). Few understand this better than David Leitch, Ford Motor Company’s group vice president and general counsel. And, with his distinguished past – graduated #1 in his class at University of Virginia School of Law and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist – few are as equipped to handle those complexities.
Flowers floated down the Rivanna River as friends, University of Virginia faculty and community members gathered to remember civil rights leader Julian Bond on Saturday. Bond, a member of the Corcoran Department of History who retired from UVa in 2012, died Aug. 15 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. He was 75.
(By Siva Vaidhyanathan is the author of The Googlization of Everything) As we strive to make sense of the announcement that Sesame Street will debut its next five years of new episodes on the expensive cable network HBO, we should step back from the particulars and look at what this shift shows us about the current state of American life.
Last month, researchers from the University of Virginia reported the identification of lymphatic vessels in the central nervous system. They demonstrated that the lymphatic system extends into the dura mater, the thickest and outer-most of the three meningeal membranes that envelope the brain and spinal cord. These vessels run parallel to the major veins and arteries, and split to send branches deep into the brain’s crevices. The researchers believe that they could be linked to the glymphatic system, and may be the second stage of the disposal mechanism, which would transport ...
Faculty members at the University of Virginia are weighing in on a style of speaking that has been described by one professor as “the single worst, most tenacious problem I’ve seen in my 40-plus-year teaching career.” The “problem” is known as “vocal fry,” a low vocal register that is produced when a person loosely closes their vocal folds while speaking, resulting in a rattling, creaky-sounding voice.
Faculty members at the University of Virginia are weighing in on a style of speaking that has been described by one professor as “the single worst, most tenacious problem I’ve seen in my 40-plus-year teaching career.” The “problem” is known as “vocal fry,” a low vocal register that is produced when a person loosely closes their vocal folds while speaking, resulting in a rattling, creaky-sounding voice.
Move In weekend for the University of Virginia has come and gone, and now businesses on the corner are getting ready for the massive amounts of students to fill their stores. "It's really exciting to have a lot of the students back," said Nina Montecalvo, a shift manager at The Virginian, "they bring us a ton of business with their friends, and their family."
The Berkeley course isn’t the first class on Game of Thrones by any stretch. The Daily Mail did a story on a similar class at the University of Virginia, which covers both the book series and the show.
While it may seem like a relic of the past, there's still a certain gravitas to signing your name on the dotted line. It's faster and more efficient to mimic the process through the use of an "e-signature." "While many common e-signatures objectively perform the same function as signing by hand, they do not exert the same symbolic weight in subsequent decision-making," writes Eileen Chou, assistant professor of public policy at the University of Virginia. "Seven studies consistently demonstrate these e-signatures' ineffectiveness for curbing indiv...
Vice President Joe Biden's reported focus on South Carolina as key to his potential presidential bid has early-state operatives and officials — and even some of Biden's supporters — alarmed and incredulous. Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, called the prospect of sitting out an early primary state "ridiculous, utterly ridiculous." "Joe Biden is the incumbent two-term vice president of the United States. You don't get to skip states if you are the incumbent vice president and you're serious," he s...
Another expert, sociologist Steven Nock of the University of Virginia, who claims to be agnostic on the question of same-sex marriage and the like, has also analysed the literature on homosexual parenting. He came up with these conclusions: “1) all of the studies I reviewed contained at least one flaw of design or execution; and 2) not a single one of those studies was conducted according to general accepted standards of scientific research.”