(By Saras Sarasvathy, Isidore Horween Research Professor, Darden School of Business) Just as writers sometimes get blocked waiting for a story idea, entrepreneurs can also get blocked waiting for a good venture idea. It seems logical. First, you have a good idea, then you start to implement it. So it's even more logical to ask: where do great ideas come from? But a close look at the data reveals three interesting facts.
Scott and Jack Voigt are going all out to help families of patients receiving cancer treatment. In the most grueling way imaginable: running, swimming and biking as far as they can. The brothers from Darien are putting themselves through the paces and training hard for a Half Ironman event, taking place on Sept. 21 in Princeton, N.J.
Harrison Wilson III, star tight end Winslow’s training camp roommate in that summer of 1980, graduated from Dartmouth College. The elder Wilson followed that Ivy League degree by going to the University of Virginia School of Law, founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson. Only after that did Wilson’s dad briefly try out among eventual Pro Football Hall of Famers Fouts, Joiner and Winslow with that “Air Coryell” offense that electrified the relatively staid NFL 35 years ago.
Chris Long's ankle injury has created the opportunity for Matt Conrath to rejoin the active roster for the St. Louis Rams.
But a new study by Michael Gilbert of the University of Virginia Law School suggests that both sides are probably asking the wrong question. What if, he asks, voter ID laws in fact increase the risk of vote fraud? In a forthcoming paper to be published in the Columbia Law Review, Gilbert argues that ID laws can actually worsen the problem of voter fraud.
(Book review) Mark Edmundson transformed himself from a large but pudgy teenager into a gamer, if not a starter, as a guard and linebacker on his suburban, working-class Boston high school team. He had been a poor student, without a vision of his future. But that experience of working tirelessly at a difficult task, he contends, made all the difference. He's now an honored teacher and distinguished professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Thomas Talhelm from the University of Virginia offered a “rice theory,” which divides China based on how crops were historically grown. Rice farming, prevalent in the south, needs a great deal of work, planning and cooperation. But traditional wheat farming from the north requires less of all three. The upshot is that southerners tend to be more collectivistic in their thinking, whereas northerners may be more independent.
Several local residents are having to say “good-bye” to steak, bacon and burgers after contracting galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose or alpha-gal, an antibody chain reaction originally caused by a tick bite. Alpha-gal is contracted from the lone-star tick. According to research done by doctors at the University of Virginia, when these ticks bite certain people, the bite appears to set off a chain of reactions in the body.
The University of Virginia is preparing to make budget cuts to help the state make up a $2.4 billion shortfall in the current biennium. Administrators presented the university’s Board of Visitors with their plan to meet Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s mandate to cut 5 percent of the current fiscal year budget and discussed the possibility of a 7 percent cut next year.
Anne Holton, Virginia's Secretary of Education, spoke with leaders at the University of Virginia about improving education throughout the commonwealth. Some topics included encouraging students to complete their education in no more than four years, be smart about targeting students toward a job market, and working with students to relieve future debt by attending a community college.
A patriotic display at the University of Virginia paid tribute to lives lost on 9/11. UVA students planted flags on the south end of the Lawn Thursday. Young Americans for Freedom and the Burke Society organized the flagging. The tradition began in 2009 to honor Americans killed in the 9/11 attacks.
Students and the community gathered for the secnd annual 9/11 Never Forget Ceremony at the University of Virginia Thursday night. Students heard firsthand accounts of the 9/11 attacks from a witness and then silently marched to the south Lawn for a moment of silence.
Four Virginia schools are among the biggest contributors to Teach for America, a national program that helps school systems find temporary teachers for hard-to-staff positions. The University of Virginia, with 41 participants, placed 14th among schools with 10,000 or more students.
The University of Virginia has some M-16s on hand too, but decided to convert the 12 they obtained through the 1033 program to patrol rifles – guns that cannot be fired automatically. Choosing to take the safe route, UVa officers that are issued patrol rifles must receive three levels of training that cover marksmanship, safety, threat identification and decision making. What's more, the police department at UVa is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. So breathe easy, kids, these officials know what they're doing.
Among private institutions, the largest gift on The Washington Post’s list is $350 million to Johns Hopkins University. In the public sector, the largest is $100 million to the University of Virginia.
The district is getting some free help from a University of Virginia program that specializes in improving academic performance for struggling schools. The Virginia turnaround program will focus on bringing up achievement at Kemper, Mesa and Manaugh. The unique program pairs business and education experts with school systems to institute new practices that lead to increased student success.
...Much of the critique of the commercialisation of higher education focuses on the poisonous effect it has on academic life.In the opening pages of their new book, Aspiring Adults Adrift, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, sociologists at New York University and the University of Virginia, respectively, set the scene with this narrative, which they say has undermined the “belief in a community of scholars and not a confederacy of self-seekers; the idea of openness and not ownership; the professor as a pursuer of truth, and not an entrepreneur”.The authors, who won wide acclaim for the...
Mr. Sheffler and his student at the University of Virginia have announced their completion of The Razor, a 3D-printed drone that looks more like a military stealth fighter than the kind of cute GoPro-laden quadcopter Martha Stewart uses to take photos of her farm. The drone uses an Android phone as a brain, is powered by a tiny jet and is “fully autonomous,” which presumably means that the drone can stay aloft for extended periods of time without a human pilot. [Includes original U.Va. video]
New research suggests the way students are bullied changes as students’ age with verbal and physical bullying decreasing and cyberbullying increasing.Investigators also discovered non-native English speakers are not bullied more often than native English speakers and bullying increases as students transition from elementary to middle school.Those are among the findings of a wide-ranging paper recently published in the journal School Psychology Quarterly.Drs. Cixin Wang, an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside, Ji Hoon Ryoo, an assistant professor at the Universi...