Catherine E. Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, believes Title IX has great potential to show colleges how they can improve the way they deal with sexual misconduct. The message Ms. Lhamon and her office send to colleges is alternately collaborative and tough. In February, at a gathering of about 250 college presidents, Title IX coordinators, and student-affairs leaders at the University of Virginia, she urged them to act quickly to update their policies on sexual assault and improve the climate for victims. "I know we can do that together,&q...
America is the spiritual home of the MBA. Indeed, US schools dominate our global ranking of full-time MBA programmes. (The Darden School of Business is ranked #4 in the nation, and globally, by the Economist.) ... In our survey, students give stellar marks to the faculties at many of the big American schools, including Chicago, Tuck and Virginia. ... American schools also boast the best careers services. Chicago, Tuck, Virginia and Columbia all rank in our global top-five schools when it comes to opening new career opportunities.
The freelance cartoonist will receive the award and accompanying $15,000 prize from journalist Bob Woodward.
“He was perfectly within his rights to make that determination,” said University of Virginia law professor David A. Martin, a specialist on immigration and constitutional law. “He is certainly making pretty ambitious use of the powers of the office, generally, and he’s quick with the press release on it,” Martin said. “But this decision seems like a pretty solid part of what attorneys general are supposed to do.” “I think it’s a sea change,” said University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard, who played a leading role in draft...
For affected students, securing an in-state discount would remove a financial hurdle that is insurmountable for many moderate-income families. At the University of Virginia, undergraduate tuition and fees in the coming school year for Virginia residents will total $12,998. For those from out of state, the charge will be $42,184.
At ultra-selective Harvard University, federal data show that the yield tops 80 percent. The University of Virginia’s yield is more than 40 percent. At William and Mary and the University of Maryland at College Park, it’s about 33 percent.
The University of Virginia on Wednesday named a new dean for the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Ian Baucom, a longtime English professor at Duke University, will head the college starting July 1. He replaces Meredith Jung-En Woo, a professor of international political economy who has served as dean for the past six years.
An interesting fact about flow: golfers who get into flow in their regular life have a better chance of getting into flow on the golf course. In business, we find more of the same. For example, in a study of more than 300 professionals at three companies—a strategy consulting firm, a petrochemical company and a government agency—University of Virginia business school professor Rob Cross and IBM Institute for Knowledge-Based Organization researcher Andrew Parker found that the highest performers were those folks who had the most flow.
Within a decade, we could be using much more energy-efficient refrigerators than what we have today as researchers have now identified a new "universal" property of metamagnets, unleashing its potential applications for several items of everyday use.
Researchers at the University of Virginia found that kids who had the confidence to stand up to their parents and argue their point of view were more likely to resist peer pressure. Even when it seems that your child isn’t listening, keep calm and stay focused on the issue at hand rather than getting distracted by attitude.
The crime-mapping technology, which uses Twitter to predict possible future crime, was developed by Dr. Matthew Greber, a researcher at the University of Virginia. The system relies on contextual understanding of where crimes are likely to occur. “We might observe people talking about going out, getting drunk, going to bars, sporting events, and so on — we know that these sort of events correlate with crime, and that’s what the models are picking up on,” Dr. Greber told Motherboard.
Up to half of heart failure (HF) patients do not respond to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), and new research from the University of Virginia (UVA) Health System explains why HR patients either do or do not respond. Furthermore, the research identified which patients would benefit from CRT, allowing physicians to create a map of a patient’s heart to guide the installation of a CRT pacemaker-defibrillator for the best outcome. UVA researchers, led by Kenneth C. Bilchick, MD, said many of the patients in whom CRT fails have cardiac dysfunction from previous heart attacks.
Glen Bull, a professor of STEM Education at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, agreed that while the urge to create endures, the tools available to students have changed. He said that the current maker movement "is buttressed by accessible technology, both in terms of cost and ease of use. You can go all the way back to the 1950s and find that they had numerically controlled milling machines, but they were expensive. Now you can get reasonably priced 3D printers and computers."
Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist from the University of Virginia, said he diagnosed Robinson with malingering, which he described as “the fabrication of symptoms either to obtain pleasure or avoid pain.”
Graham’s race is so far not as competitive as some had predicted, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “For years, the tea party and others have been vowing to take down Sen. Graham,” Sabato said.