The US Senate has confirmed Nisha Desai Biswal, an accomplished Indian-American administrator, as America's new point person for South Asia making her the first person from the community to hold the top diplomatic position.
Various factors contribute to the problem. Statistical mistakes are widespread. The peer reviewers who evaluate papers before journals commit to publishing them are much worse at spotting mistakes than they or others appreciate. Professional pressure, competition and ambition push scientists to publish more quickly than would be wise. A career structure which lays great stress on publishing copious papers exacerbates all these problems. “There is no cost to getting things wrong,” says Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia who has taken an interest in his discipl...
The inaugual Celebration Night, a benefit for victims of sexual assault, will be held Oct. 24 at the University of Virginia. Fear2Freedom, a global nonprofit organization providing assistance to sexual assault victims, is partnering with the UVa chapter of the International Justice Mission and the student group One Less to lead the event.
Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, agreed that Gansler’s lack of recognition likely isn’t a problem for now. “Maybe 37 percent is a little high, especially among Democrats, but I’m not particularly shocked by that,” he said. People in most states recognize the governor’s name, but “you lose a lot of people after that,” Skelley said.
Nursing students at the University of Virginia are getting a chance to practice what they have been learning in the classroom with some hands-on training. Students are practicing on life-like mannequins in their simulator lab.
Last year, with a gift from a wealthy donor, the University of Virginia opened a Contemplative Sciences Center to highlight the connection between body and mind. To bring attention to the program, it invited Deepak Chopra, who’s written 75 books on spiritual traditions and modern science, and his long-time family friend Arianna Huffington to lead a meditation outside the historic Rotunda.
Did you ever want to say something, but the word or name gets "stuck on the tip of your tongue?" Don't worry. Those lapses may not be a sign of dementia - just age, suggests a new study. Researchers found those tip-of-the-tongue experiences become more common as people age, but are not related to worsening memory overall. "Our major finding is that they seem to be independent," Timothy Salthouse, the study's lead author, told Reuters Health. Salthouse is the Brown-Forman Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
Higher education is in a crisis right now because the general public says that colleges are not providing what they need anymore, while those inside education think they're doing a critical task that needs to be accomplished, said Associate Vice President Mike McPherson from the University of Virginia. But assumptions are not always right. "We can't assume that we have the right answer, that we already know the right answer and everybody else is confused," McPherson said. "If we go in with that position that we have the right answer, we're more likely to end up in co...
The funded status of state employee and teacher pension plans is the lowest since Edward T. Burton III first joined the Virginia Retirement System board of trustees in 1994 – and he’s not happy about it. Burton, an economics professor at the University of Virginia and a VRS trustee for 18 of the past 20 years, ripped state lawmakers Thursday for failing to fully fund state employee and teacher pensions, and chided his fellow trustees for not sounding the alarm.
Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis was at the University of Virginia on Thursday to talk education, civil liberties and government regulation.
As Jeannine C. Lalonde, senior assistant dean of admissions at the University of Virginia, tweeted on Wednesday, “Admissions folks are pretty understanding around deadline time.” As an example, she cited the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, when many colleges gave students affected by the storm more time to submit their applications.
But Larry Sabato, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia who is a seasoned Washington observer, said Booker should take heed of the lower-than-expected margin. "Some voters were sending a message to Cory Booker," Sabato said. "They knew he was going to win but they don’t want him to be such a hot dog."
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control has issued a general order changing policies in the wake of public outcry over the case of a University of Virginia student confronted by a half-dozen undercover agents in a parking lot after a crate of water was mistaken for beer.
Five Virginia businesses, including two in Petersburg, have been named winners of the 2013 Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. The winning companies overcame adversity to grow and create jobs.
Kim Tanzer, current dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, has announced she will step down in June. She will continue teaching at UVa.
"Extrapolating the results to the global scale is problematic. It is possible, if not likely, that the overall importance of nitryl chloride is limited to heavily polluted conditions relatively close to major nitrogen oxide sources, such as those investigated in this study," says Bill Keene, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Virginia.
Today, the Christie-McDonnell narrative has been revised in a way no one could have foreseen as recently as a year ago. Christie appears headed towards an easy re-election on Nov. 5, and he is among the best-known Republicans expected to run for president in 2016. But McDonnell, who under Virginia law cannot succeed himself, will leave office in January stained by a scandal that threatens to derail his 22-year political career. “It’s clear one is moving forward and one is going nowhere,” said Larry Sabato, a longtime political analyst and University of Virginia professor.
“We’re not talking about a lot of money raised by the challengers,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “That would be OK for a (U.S.) House race” but not a U.S. Senate race, Kondik said of the fundraising totals for Bright, Cash and Mace.