Two University of Virginia faculty members claim that truly great leadership requires solving the biggest problems near seamlessly, too. To prove their point, Thomas S. Bateman, a chaired professor and director of a multidisciplinary leadership minor at the McIntire School of Commerce, and Mary Summers Whittle, a business writer and staff at the McIntire School of Commerce, used examples of brilliantly effective NASA leaders known for their first-rate authoritative skills.
By Carolyn Engelhard, director of the Health Policy Program in the School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences.... As it turns out, politics aside, folks in nongroup plans rarely keep their coverage for more than a year or two. A January 2014 Kaiser Family Foundation Data Note reported that over a two-year period (2010 to 2011), about a third of those enrolled in nongroup plans exited within six months. ... it is unclear whether the ACA on its own can fundamentally eliminate all the vagaries of insurance markets, particularly in the nongroup segment, which is rife with enroll...
By Larry J. Sabato, university professor of politics and director of the U.Va. Center for PoliticsIn 36 states, the same party controls the entire statehouse—the governorship and both houses of the legislature. Most observers would agree that Washington’s toxic level of nastiness and inability to compromise has not yet fully poisoned most state capitols. ... So far at least, the parties are on par: Democrats and Republicans each have three truly vulnerable statehouses.
There's evidence that human activities have been driving up greenhouse gas levels for some seven thousand years. The concept was first posited over a decade ago by Dr. Bill Ruddiman, professor emeritus at University of Virginia. ... Carbon dioxide levels started rising between seven and eight thousand years ago, around the same time that the spread of agriculture would have led to pervasive deforestation. Methane didn't start rising until about five thousand years ago; that corresponds to the period when rice farmers in China, and then the rest of Asia, began irrigating rice paddies, c...
Police should treat juveniles differently during interrogations, according to a study released Monday and conducted by University of Virginia researcher Todd Warner. Warner found that only about 20 percent of police at a recent national training seminar said they’ve received specialized training on adolescent development. But there are key differences in juveniles that make them more likely to give false confessions, the study said.
The University of Virginia is taking a look at law and order for juveniles. A new psychology study is raising concerns about how juveniles are interrogated. Researchers are urging police departments across the country to change the way they interview juveniles, saying changes would make the criminal justice system more credible.
In his monumental new book, one of the greatest writers on the relationship of religion to the civil rights movement, Charles Marsh, unequivocally confirms that Dietrich Bonhoeffer was gay. Marsh–Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia–may or may not have intended the title of his epic, glorious and definitive biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Strange Glory, to echo “Strange Fruit,” the song performed by Billie Holiday, but the connection is serendipitous. The song exposed American racism and the lynching of African Americans. Intended ...
A new app from researchers at MIT, Adobe Systems, and the University of Virginia, has the potential to seriously step up the "style transfer" game--especially when it comes to pictures of faces. As MIT PhD student YiChang Shih and team discovered, it's possible to create a filter that responds to faces in ways more akin to how a professional photographer would light a subject in a studio.
The University of Virginia baseball team beat Maryland 11-2 to advance to the College World Series for the third time in the last six years.
Joel Kovarsky is the author of a new book called The True Geography of Our Country: Jefferson’s Cartographic Vision. He was surprised to learn that the sage of Monticello owned more than 300 books on geography. “Jefferson had one of the finest libraries of American geography certainly of the United States and probably of the world.” Kovarsky points out that as a lawyer, statesman and university founder, Jefferson relied on maps. ... Jefferson was also tied to two and half decades of the development of Washington, DC.
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello is just south of the city of Charlottesville. I went there on Monday morning to try to learn more about the life and times of the author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States. On the surface, there may not have been much overlap between Jefferson’s life and the #RoadToOmaha experience. But as the tour guide spoke about his life and I looked around his old home, I couldn’t help but think about what this whole road trip project by NCAA.com means, and how it all relates to Jefferson.
The State Council of Higher Education has just approved a new Master of Science in Data Science program at the University of Virginia. When you use your credit card, or visit a website or text on your smart phone - somebody, or something, knows about it, but that’s not always a bad thing. With super sensors and super computers, big business or big government can read and track license plates from space, spy on would-be terrorists, tell you where you where you spent your weekend, or what you bought at Home Depot yesterday. UVA’s New Masters program will require students to tak...
Wallops Island and Accomack County had a big day Monday with the launch of two initiatives intended to carve out new operational and research roles in aviation, aerospace and climate change. In the morning, Gov. Terry McAuliffe helped break ground on Wallops Research Park, proposed as a base of operations for private enterprises involved in drone research and medium-lift rocket launches. Then, in the afternoon, government officials and scientists signed on to a multi-state partnership to form the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Resiliency Institute, or MACRI. Both events took place at NASA Wallops Flight...
The University of Virginia honored some of its employees with a walk down the red carpet Monday night. People celebrating service anniversaries anywhere from 25 to 56 years had a chance to walk down the carpet at John Paul Jones Arena, as lots of other employees cheered them on.
“If you’re against a blood sport, if you’re against killing, I don’t know how you can accept it,” says Carrie Douglass, a University of Virginia anthropology professor who has written extensively about bullfighting and how it shapes a cohesive, national identity in a country composed of 17 autonomous regions.
Los Angeles has created a gold standard policy for dealing with informants in the wake of a grand jury investigation that revealed hundreds of wrongful convictions. The city now has a “snitch registry” that tracks informants and a panel that reviews informants’ testimony before it can be used in court. But while states have explored similar rules, Virginia isn’t one of them, said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor and author of “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong.”
The University of Virginia legal scholar Micah Schwartzman made that argument in a fall 2012 article in the University of Chicago Law Review, "What If Religion Isn’t Special?" that is still generating reactions and ripostes. The founders created a "morally defective" amendment, Schwartzman wrote, by singling out for protection religious expression, as opposed to general freedom of conscience…. "Basically, if you’re going to grant exemptions, then you should grant them both to religious believers and nonbelievers who have comparable ethical or philoso...
So you will perhaps excuse me if I have no sympathy for the efforts of gay-rights activists to smear and intimidate Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia, perhaps our most prominent scholar of law and religion, for the sin of speaking his mind.
Others say the proposed emissions cuts are precisely what’s needed to boost carbon capturing. “There has never really been a financial incentive to develop carbon-capture-and-storage technology because facilities could just pollute for free,” said Michael Livermore, an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. “Why spend a billion dollars developing a new technology to cut pollution that you don’t have to pay for? It doesn’t make any financial sense.”
Bob Beard talks with Professor Michael Livermore about the recent announcement from the White House on tough new regulations to cut carbon dioxide emissions.