When driving in the mountains, have you ever noticed a discrepancy between the slope described on the yellow road sign and your sense that the incline is actually much steeper? Psychologist Dennis R. Proffitt of the University of Virginia and his then graduate student Jessica Witt did. Being scientists and not philosophers, they designed an experiment to find out why.
Ashley Deeks, who worked in the Legal Adviser's Office at the State Department for a decade, wrote on the Lawfare blog that the U.S. "might believe that a Syrian use of chemical weapons is likely to affect neighboring (and friendly) states such as Turkey and Jordan," depending on where they were used.
Normally, nations may not use military force against other nations except in self-defense or when acting at the behest of the U.N. Security Council. "Neither of those options is obviously in play here," said Ashley Deeks, a former State Department lawyer who teaches at the University of Virginia. She said the administration was looking at the 1999 intervention in Kosovo for legal precedent.
(Audio) U.Va. media scholar Aniko Bodroghkozy talks about the television news coverage of the March on Washington, and how television played into the Civil Rights Movement more generally.
Big data is going to college. This semester, a handful of university programs specializing in data mining are starting up. This week, the University of Virginia launched a new research center called the Big Data Institute.
(Letter to the editor by U.Va. psychologist Daniel Willingham) There is no scientific evidence that these learning-style categories are meaningful. None. They have no bearing on how students learn nor on how they should be taught. Several reviews of the scientific literature have made this point. This is at best a waste of time for teachers and administrators.
Residents of Fluvanna have a brand new, state-of-the-art option for their medical care in the new UVA Medical Park Zion Crossroads.
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine offers possible insight on how HIV viruses act in the body.
Watching nine minutes of fast-paced cartoons is all it takes to reduce children’s attention, working memory, and problem-solving skills, warn researchers from the University of Virginia. In contrast, they found that kids who spend time drawing or watching educational programs perform better on cognitive and behavioral tasks.
Your brain is hardwired to feel empathy for those close to you, according to a new study. Empathy is the ability to understand another person's feelings. "With familiarity, other people become part of ourselves," study author James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, said.
Political commentator Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said, “perhaps the best way for the Republicans to keep the [winning] streak going would be for Corbett to step aside.”
The university is replacing all but two freshman dorms on Alderman Road. This summer, UVa completed three new buildings – Lile-Maupin, Tuttle-Dunnington and Shannon House. The school also is preparing the site for another building to replace the Dunnington building, demolished earlier this year. That project should be completed by 2015, officials said. Three more buildings – Courtenay, Dunglison and Fitzhugh – will remain until 2020 but eventually will be replaced.
Hurt says the Affordable Health Care Act has already had a negative effect on the people who live in his district. He says increased health care costs affect not just employers, but trickle down to employees. According to Hurt, problems with this new coverage aren't limited to the private sector. "The University of Virginia, like these colleges and localities, are no different than the private sector. It's a matter of dollars and cents and that is a true cost of the president's health care law that, unfortunately, is being paid for or suffered by the families," said ...
A lack of solid financial acumen can stymie your career and make it difficult for you to lead others successfully. You can't wing it. It might seem like a point of failure to ask for help. But, without it, you won't get far. The first step is to brush up on the basics, said Yiorgos Allayannis, professor of business administration and associate dean for the global executive MBA program at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. For some managers, that means learning how to read balance sheets and developing an understanding of how to compare profits versus cash flow.
The fall semester is underway at UVa. with all the basic classes. But, there's one unique class that is quite popular. It's called Technosonics. You've probably never head of technosonics because Matthew Burtner, UVa. Professor of Music, Director of Interactive Media Research Group, and Associate Director of the VCCM, coined the term. It describes any music that uses technological tools as musical instruments.
According to study by the University of Virginia, agriculture was responsible for $1.2 billion and more than 7,000 jobs in the Dan River Region in 2011.
Four University of Virginia Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Midshipmen returned to America Aug. 12 to begin a new school year at UVA. The Midshipmen had the opportunity to spend time in Tajikistan - an interesting port of call because the country is landlocked. The trip to the former Soviet Central Asian Republic was the idea of Midshipman 1st Class Margaret Tarmann, 21, Arlington, Va., who applied for and received a $30,000 Grant from the university's Jefferson Public Citizens Program. Tarmann then asked Midshipman 1st Class Margaret Taylor, 22, of Arlington, and Midshipmen 2nd Clas...
Five months before he stood atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial culminating the March on Washington, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on integration before hundreds of students at the University of Virginia’s Old Cabell Hall in March 1963. At UVa on Wednesday, students asked their peers to take up the torch the previous generation passed to them. Marking the 50th anniversary of King’s legendary “I Have a Dream” speech, about 40 people gathered in the Dome Room of the Rotunda to hear students, chosen from classes taught by African-American studies professor Claud...