Venturing into New York makes sense for other Republicans to woo Manhattan donors and "capitalize where they think Christie has goofed," said Larry Sabato, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia.
(Audio) Megan Juelfs-Swanson is on to go over her research into how many of us are really "underemployed."
Could Virginia’s taxpayer-backed employee pension fund have been too clever, depressing its returns during an historic bull market? It’s a question pressed by Ed Burton, a former overseer and chairman whose 17 years at the Virginia Retirement System were characterized by Neill-like contrarianism. Burton, who left the VRS board of trustees earlier this year, estimates the nation’s 22nd largest retirement program left more than $6 billion on the table.
From visiting a remote central Haiti village with United Nations head Ban Ki-moon to stumping at a Haitian diaspora town hall in North Miami, Lamothe last week was everywhere a candidate needs to be — although the start of the 2015 Haitian presidential race is more than a year away. “That is how prime ministers run,” said Robert Fatton, a University of Virginia politics professor and Haiti expert. “That is not a Haitian thing. This is politics.”
Heritage Theatre Festival’s production of “One Man, Two Guvnors,” which continues tonight through Aug. 2 in the University of Virginia’s Culbreth Theatre, is “non-stop silliness,” said Robert Chapel, Heritage’s producing artistic director.
(Commentary) University of Virginia, Charlottesville's Dr. Kenan Yount and others' investigation of academic cardiothoracic surgical centers finds that "running simultaneous operating rooms can be efficient and does not appear to negatively affect patient outcomes." In their 2014 report, resident involvement was disclosed. Nonetheless, are good outcomes the litmus test of moral justifiability?
Many people apparently hate that idea. Just before I left Baltimore I happened to read about a new study by psychologists at the University of Virginia and Harvard, which found that people were so adverse to being alone in a room for a little while (six to fifteen minutes) with nothing to do but think or daydream that some would rather give themselves painful electrical shocks than do nothing for that time.
Researchers like University of Virginia's Tish Jennings are getting closer to finding out whether students benefit when teachers bring mindfulness-related practices into the classroom. She's currently running a randomized controlled trial with 224 teachers, who as a group, oversee thousands of students across 36 New York City public elementary schools.
The high overall degree of dissatisfaction with compensation calls for further research to determine whether CMOs are actually underpaid relative to key benchmarks for other C-level executives -- and if not, why CMOs believe they're underpaid, says Kimberly A. Whitler, assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, who analyzed the data and authored the report.
University of Virginia marketing professor Kimberly Whitler recently spoke with the CMO of a multi-billion dollar company who told her he reported to someone who reported to the CIO. The episode points up two of the key findings of a new compensation report that Whitler authored for the CMO Council: 1) CMOs can still be disrespected even at sophisticated enterprises; and 2) executives in charge of digital strategy can and do receive greater respect.
At best, half of Central Virginians who need public mental health care might not get it, according to a study by a University of Virginia economics professor. At worst, nearly nine in 10 might not get care. UVa’s Steven Stern estimates that 9,634 to 38,022 people in the region annually fall beyond the reach of the Region Ten Community Services Board, which served an average of 4,813 people a year from 2008 to 2010.
University of Virginia medical researchers announced they have a new drug that could prove to be a breakthrough for thousands of people who have Crohn's disease. Crohn's disease is a gastro-intestinal condition, like colitis or irritable bowel syndrome. The new drug is called Amixicile and even though it is still in clinical animal trials, researchers and doctors at UVA say its ability to fight infections in the gut could forever change the way antibiotics are developed.
The construction fence surrounding the University of Virginia’s Rotunda restoration project is expanding outward. Crews are setting up more fencing on the northwest side of the Rotunda out toward University Avenue and over by the chapel. The university says it needs to enclose the area to install a new storm water line.
Using the New York Times’ new language search tool, a Chronicle editor traced the first mention of “adjunct professor” to an 1855 article profiling the University of Virginia. (Amng the writer’s observations: “For all we know, we doubt if, as a College, [UVa] is not the superior of Harvard and Yale. It makes a worse show upon paper; it has a shorter list of instructors; it has no such endowments, and fewer volumes in its Library, and is further from Boston; but as to what it actually accomplishes as an educational institution, we doubt if any College in the Union ...
LCPS Superintendent Stan Rounds said Booker T. Washington has a high number of students transferring in and out of the school, as well as 100 percent low-income students and one-third English language learners. It is one of a dozen LCPS schools participating in the University of Virginia Turnaround program, aimed at reforming struggling schools.
Four local law schools across D.C. and Virginia are among the top 10 law schools that received the most full-time applications for fall 2013. Georgetown University was most popular when it came to full-time applications in fall 2013, acquiring interest form 7,257 aspiring lawyers. The University of Virginia and George Washington University weren't fall behind, attracting 6,048 and 6,005 applicants, respectively.