Summertime is budget-setting season for many marketers, and a study in the current issue of the Journal of Advertising Research adds a new twist to this annual exercise. Landing on an advertising budget should not simply be a number-crunching experience, contend Douglas West (King's College London), John B. Ford (Old Dominion University) and Paul W. Farris (University of Virginia Darden School of Business).
A new psychological study led by the University of Virginia found that most people would rather be doing something than just sitting alone with their thoughts. Researchers discovered participants were even willing to perform an unpleasant activity – like shocking themselves – when given the option.
Many more nominees are career Foreign Service officers, who have spent decades in far-flung posts representing U.S. interests, and received the honor of being nominated based on merit. They are individuals such as Thomas Daughton, Mr. Obama’s nominee for Namibia. A graduate of Amherst College and the University of Virginia Law School, Daughton has been in the Foreign Service since 1989. He has served this nation in embassies and consulates in Jamaica, the Philippines, Lebanon, Morocco, Malaysia, Algeria, Gabon, among other countries. Mr. Obama nominated him on June 30, 2013, nearly 380 d...
Anderson capped a dominating Friday with a 4 and 3 victory over future University of Virginia teammate Lauren Coughlin, 21, of Charlottesville in the scheduled 18-hole final of the 89th Virginia State Golf Association Women’s Amateur Championship.Anderson’s title was her first in the VSGA Women’s Amateur. She also has a VSGA Women’s Stroke Play championship to her credit. It also denied Coughlin, who won this year’s VSGA Women’s Stroke Play title, her third straight VSGA Women’s Amateur crown.
The community is invited to attend Monday’s meeting at Germanna Community College’s Daniel Technology Center where representatives from the University of Virginia Health System will discuss its plans to become majority owner of Culpeper Regional Hospital.
By Walter F. Heinecke, former president and current member of the executive committee of the UVa Chapter of the American Association of University ProfessorsIn weathering the 2012 crisis, UVa revealed a great strength — shared governance — when the Faculty Senate and the General Faculty Council courageously asked the BOV to explain its actions and led faculty, staff, students and alumni, as they demonstrated what a vital community we are. ... The faculty, through their elected representatives in the Faculty Senate and the General Faculty Council, have recommended steps to strengthe...
It was a far cry from the moment in 1989 when 49 of the country’s 50 governors met at the University of Virginia with President George Bush and began developing a set of national educational goals. But rising partisanship and a broader lack of consensus has increasingly become the rule with the governors.
The problem was one readily recognized by decision makers in the Rotunda: A public Ivy battling to balance affordability with increased costs, decreased state funding and a push to recruit and retain top faculty. At the College of William & Mary, the answer was “The Promise.” ... That model is one of several the University of Virginia is considering. Other ideas include sliding scales based on family income and adjustments to ensure net costs to the student remain the same even after changes in financial aid.
It’s not the size of the penalty, it’s the principle behind it, but that principle depends on which side you’re on. The state Supreme Court has ordered the nonprofit Energy & Environment Legal Institute to pay $250 in damages to former University of Virginia professor Michael Mann and the school following the institute’s failed legal bid to obtain Mann’s emails regarding climate change research.
The top rating, Aaa, was bestowed on 23 schools, including Amherst College and the University of Virginia. Half of the Ivy League is rated Aaa (Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities).
A tide of debt has swamped the school on the high seas.Open records requests have unveiled new details surrounding the University of Virginia’s announcement last month that the school would end its academic sponsorship of the Semester at Sea study-abroad program. The Institute for Shipboard Education, the Albemarle County-based nonprofit that runs the 50-year-old program, has signed an agreement with a German bank to hold creditors at bay following missed payments on the interest and fees of an $83.5 million loan for the program’s cruise ship.
"What's been going on in Texas is, I think, the hottest and most clear version of a battle that's been happening across the country," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a longtime academic who earned his doctorate at UT and has taught for seven years at the University of Virginia, where a similar clash drew national attention in 2012.
Two studies are notable because they control for patient characteristics and other factors that contribute to poorer health outcomes independently of the impact of Medicaid. A University of Virginia analysis of 893,658 patients undergoing major surgical operations adjusted for the effects of patient, hospital, and other factors on outcomes. It found that Medicaid patients needing surgery were 13 percent more likely to die than the uninsured and 97 percent more likely to die than those with private insurance.
Of the 31 states that have held their primaries, 48 incumbents out of 273 will be unopposed, according to the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Of the 31 states that have held their primaries, 48 incumbents out of 273 will be unopposed, according to the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Writing in “Sabato’s Crystal Ball,”Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics says 273 of the 275 House incumbents who sought re-election were renominated for their seats — as were all 18 Senate incumbents.
Infections due to carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are on the rise globally. On the CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog, Dr. Kyle Enfield, assistant hospital epidemiologist and medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Virginia Health System, describes how his team implemented infection control interventions to assess the prevalence of CRE and extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in the unit. This set of interventions became recommended practice in the CDC’s 2012 Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae Toolkit.As a result, the CRE in...
The latest example, published in the journal Science, was undertaken by researchers at the University of Virginia and Harvard University. In various studies, they had college students, and then a wider range of people, spend some time just thinking, without gadgetry or books or paper and pencil.