Today, an increasing number of MBAs are becoming social entrepreneurs, actively engaged in projects that serve a real social need–even when they aim to make a profit. Take, for instance, University of Virginia Darden School MBA Manoj Sinha, who grew up in Bihar, India. Sinha wanted to give back to his community, so he started Husk Power Systems, a nonprofit that uses rice husks to bring energy to large swaths of rural India.
Growing up in Harare, Zimbabwe, during the height of a recession, Veneka Chagwedera was acutely aware of unfairness in the world. As she approached her high school graduation in 2006, Chagwedera watched as thousands of children dropped out of school due to economic and social pressures.
At many research universities, the deep federal budget cuts known as the sequester continue to cloud the future of laboratories and the scientists who staff them. This week university presidents meeting in the nation’s capital denounced the sequester, as they have since before it took effect in March, and urged Congress to roll it back so that federally sponsored research can resume at a normal pace.
The latest Tom Hanks film, “Captain Phillips,” opened last month – taking in $26 million in its first weekend at the box office. Here in Virginia, some people – including former FBI crisis negotiator John Flood, now assistant director of the University of Virginia’s Office of Emergency Preparedness – take a special interest in the tale of a U.S. cargo ship from Norfolk captured by pirates off the Somali Coast in 2009 – its captain held hostage.
Robert Kolker, an adjunct professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, however, noted that in a biography of Kubrick by John Baxter, the IRA may have threatened the director not over "Barry Lyndon" itself, but rather in connection with the continuing fallout from "Clockwork Orange."
A group of University of Virginia students is holding an online auction to benefit the Ronald McDonald house. "Bid for the Kids" was created as part of a project management class in the McIntire School of Business. Twenty-four items are up for grabs, including a wine tour with free tastings and a chance to shoot hoops with UVA basketball player Justin Anderson.
For most college freshmen, the best writing they'll do is a paper for one class or another, but one first-year student at the University of Virginia has now accomplished much more with the publication of his first novel. The book is the first in a new fantasy series for 19-year-old Schuyler Ebersol.
Dr. Scott Commins is an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Virginia. He said there are several theories as to why food allergies are on the rise, including over-cleaning and sanitizing, antibiotics, and vaccines.
A five-year blueprint for bolstering the University of Virginia’s academic reputation, improving the student experience and recruiting top faculty will go before the Board of Visitors this week.
The Wall Street Journal gave generous space to doubters like the omnipresent Professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, who said that de Blasio "could go too far left, because there's a tolerance for moderation, not necessarily for liberalism."
The University of Virginia is updating its computer infrastructure to help improve research capabilities. But the benefits could trickle all the way down to students streaming TV shows in their dorm rooms.
The Virginia Film Festival set another all-time record high at the box office, with $120,156 in sales this year, an 11 percent increase from last year, the event’s organizers said Tuesday. More than 27,000 tickets were issued and 35 screenings were sold out during the festival’s 26th annual run, which ended Sunday.
(Video) For fourth year students at UVa, living on The Lawn is an honor. This year, of the 54 rooms on The Lawn, only two belong to student-athletes. UVa football players Blake Blaze and Matt Fortin gave CBS19 Sports an inside look at this University of Virginia tradition that dates back to the 19th century.
A new book put together by scholars at the University of Virginia raises some tough questions about America's prison system. "The Punitive Turn" is based on UVA's 2009 Conference on Incarceration and Race. Now experts say addressing what has been called an "incarceration crisis" takes a community effort.
When a group of young girls – who tried their hand at boxing and decided it wasn’t for them – approached him and said they wanted to start a step team, Wes Bellamy was stumped. A boxer himself, he could teach punching and footwork all day long, but when it came to dancing and stepping, he had no idea where to begin. But what he did know is that stepping is an aspect of African-American culture that could give the girls lessons in discipline and teamwork that they weren’t getting anywhere else. That’s when he turned to the community and volunteers at UVA for help. ...
“Individuals choose to live in communities with ideologies similar to their own to satisfy their need to belong,” writes a research team led by social psychologist Matt Motyl of the University of Virginia. That deep-seated desire is a major factor driving this migration, he and his colleagues write in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
For David Evans, of the University of Virginia, the online courses he runs have attracted a new generation of students to his specialist subject – cryptography. "Open online classes provide a way to reach an amazing group of students that do not have access to traditional higher education," says Evans, associate professor of computer science.
(Audio) On the second day of the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCordspoke with documentary filmmaker Farihah Zaman who, along with her partner Jeff Reichert, directed Remote Area Medical, a look at the non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to providing free health care in remote areas.
But Douglas Laycock, a leading authority on religious-liberty issues at the University of Virginia School of Law, argued that stronger religious exemptions in same-sex “marriage” laws were important and should be secured. “None of these exemptions has been litigated yet,” Laycock acknowledged, noting the 14-state “marriage equality” laws have various provisions, “but I’m confident they are constitutional. I think religious groups would do much better to stop trying to kill same-sex marriage, which is a lost cause, and fight for exemptions before ...
It's a sure bet DuHaime won't go for the "Florida strategy" again, but he and team Christie will need to decide how hard they want to contest Iowa, said University of Virginia Political Scientist Larry Sabato.