Show up. It’s crunch time for recruiting, and finals mean another helping of stress. But a big—some say the biggest—part of business school is building relationships, and you can’t do that at home in your sweatpants. Even if you stop by for only a little while, that’s better than nothing, says Genie Ko, a vice president of the student association at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
With the 2013 election over, next year's election seems far away but not for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Friday the American Democracy Conference started looking ahead.
A team of three U.S. business school professors studied the differences between how North Americans and Asians settle conflict and negotiate--and if you plan to expand globally you may want to listen. Jeanne Brett, professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Kristin Behfar, an associate professor at the Darden School of Business at University of Virginia, and Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, a professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, say that both Westerners and Easterners need be aware of their inherent differences in business communication.
Two sisters are working to make this time of year special for kids who don't get to spend the holidays at home. Alyssa and Amanda Connor spent Friday evening making teddy bears to deliver to the kids at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital.
A candlelight vigil and private screening of the new Nelson Mandela film organized by University of Virginia students will be held Friday, Dec 6th. UVa. is one of only 10 colleges across the country to win the honor of hosting a private, pre-release screening of the new film, MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM and in light of President Mandela's passing, the college students will be holding a candlelight vigil to honor his legacy immediately following the film outside the theater.
A climatologist at the University of Virginia spoke with NBC29 to break down the process of predicting a storm, which can be challenging in this part of the country. With 60-degree temperatures earlier this week, it's hard to believe central Virginia may see snow on Sunday. Climatologist and professor in UVA's environmental science department Robert Davis says things can change from one minute to the next, especially in this area.
Colleges and universities need to train a whole new generation of faculty leaders, University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan told a University of Georgia audience on Friday.
As University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham recently observed, “Just as body temperature is a reliable, partial indicator of certain types of disease, a test score is a reliable, partial indicator of certain types of school outcomes.”
Wahoo Nation lost one of its greatest legends late Wednesday night with the passing of Joe Palumbo.
If you take a trip to the mail corridor of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, it won’t take long to find David Davis’ office. A few signs on the outside will tell you he’s a fan of NASCAR and Jeff Gordon. Then you open his door, and you realize he REALLY likes Jeff Gordon.
Dorothy Sandridge Gloor clearly recalls the day that changed American history. The Albemarle County resident was working at the University of Virginia hospital 72 years ago on Dec. 7, 1941. “I was working in the delivery room when I heard that they had bombed Pearl Harbor,” Gloor said. “I just knew instinctively that my life had changed forever.”
There’s a new guy in Frisco and he’s developing an impact in a big little way. Nathan Glassman is but 25 years old and just built his first multi-residential development — and it’s already sold out.
(By Dr. Mike Mangrum, an electrophysiologist at the U.Va. Heart and Vascular Center) During the holidays, the spirits flow freely, the treats are always within reach and the to-do lists are endless. Perhaps more than any other time of year, this is the season we tend to overdo and overindulge. For some, all of this excess can lead to more than just a headache and indigestion. It can result in a condition called Holiday Heart Syndrome.
Legislators from Central Virginia will discuss issues facing the 2014 General Assembly session during a forum this month at the University of Virginia. U.Va. says the annual legislative forum is set for Dec. 18 at noon in the Rotunda Dome Room.
Implementing the University of Virginia’s five-year strategic plan could cost more than a half-billion dollars, much of the money going to faculty, according to school estimates.
Student volunteers of the Madison House at the University of Virginia hosted their annual holiday sharing event. Volunteers gathered a list of more than 110 families in need in the Charlottesville community. They then donated boxes of food and presents for this holiday season.
There are also "content hubs," institutions that generally have more than 250,000 unique records to add to the collective pool. ARTstor, the Internet Archive, the New York Public Library, and the libraries of Harvard University and the University of Virginia are among the content hubs. So is HathiTrust, the digital repository based at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor that encompasses millions of digitized volumes from more than 80 partner institutions.
Some cultural thinkers believe it’s almost impossible these days to rebel or to find music that’s secretive enough to be subversive: The Internet makes culture both ubiquitous and fragmented. “Nothing is ever lost now. No one is isolated, and kids have no time to feel alienated or bored,” says Grace Elizabeth Hale, a University of Virginia history professor who is writing a book about the rise of the music scene in Athens, Ga. – the fabled college town of R.E.M. fame.
University of Virginia student Katherine Ripley is not shooting for a comparison to Ebenezer Scrooge. She simply hates the holiday season.