With an ever-increasing focus on job readiness in college classrooms, author Mark Edmundson sometimes seems like higher education’s firebrand moral preacher – goading faculty and administrators to repent and embrace their traditional values. But his latest book, “Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education,” is a distinctly practical argument for what is often thought of as an idealist, impractical approach to education.
Evan Tucker is a rising second-year student at the University of Virginia, and he said he’s surprised to hear the company is hiring. He spent seven weeks at Amazon’s Dinwiddie Fulfillment Center, which opened in 2012. “So with the amount of people that were there to work, there wasn’t a lot of work for it to be spread around to everyone, and so they would send people home,” said Tucker.
The University of Virginia Law School received donations from more alumni than ever last year, the school said Monday.
“Loophole is not a neutral word. It implies someone has done something wrong,” said Mary Margaret Frank, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. “However, there is no definition of a tax loophole. Everybody creates their own definition depending on their point of view. … It’s very subjective.”
According to a new study from researchers at the University of Virginia, infants who spent at least one night a week apart from their mothers formed less secure attachments to them, compared to babies who had fewer overnights away from home or stayed with their father only during the day.
Not only does Paul gain a powerful ally, the alliance also shows Paul's ability to work with others, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. That's important in a presidential race. "Most people realize they are never going to find a candidate they agree with 100%," Sabato said. "Some of his backers are displeased, no question, but they likely agree with Paul on 90% of everything else."
A bridge at the University of Virginia that's been closed to all traffic for months is back up and running Monday.
A yet-to-be released study by Ian Ayers, William K. Townsend professor at Yale Law School, and Quinn Curtis, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia, is creating a firestorm of opposition among retirement planning executives.
The guests include Robert M. Grainger, W.L. Lyons Brown Professor of Biology and co-organizer of the Aniridia and Beyond Conference, to be held July 31- Aug. 4; and Dr. Peter A. Netland, chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, Dupont Guerry III Professor of Medicine and member of the board of directors of Aniridia Foundation International.
Last summer I read Daniel Willingham’s fascinating book ‘Why Don’t Students Like School?’ and immediately put it on my list to blog about. Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, applies the principles of cognitive psychology to the world of education. Essentially, his goal is explain to teachers how their students’ brains work.
"So far there are only a handful of gene mutations that are found in the human autism population. For the majority of patients we know something else is going on, and that might be epigenetic changes," said Emilie Rissman, professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
“The cases say pretty clearly that you have to consider the views of the kids separate and apart from the views of the parents,” said Andrew Block, director of the Child Advocacy Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, who thinks the statute is “incredibly problematic. “It permits the lawful denial of all education for exempt children. And it simultaneously puts school boards in the impossible situation of having to serve as arbiters of parents’ religious beliefs or intruders into the parent-child relationship.” he said. The law “really put...
Q&A with Ida Yu, a fourth-year student, about her food life.
People in Fluvanna and Louisa counties can soon get medical services by University of Virginia doctors closer to home. The UVA Health System is putting the finishing touches on a medical park in Zion Crossroads.
“When Vietnam feels insecure, who is it going to feel insecure about? Laos? Cambodia? Thailand? The United States is too far away … so China,” said University of Virginia political scientist Brantly Womack, a long-time watcher of U.S-.China-Vietnam relations.
(By Erika Hayes James, senior associate dean for executive education at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business) In the corporate world, companies invest heavily in developing talent. Many firms have their own in-house corporate universities, and those that do not, outsource leadership development to executive education programs at top business schools or pay for employees to have one-on-one coaching. The typical focus of these programs is to improve shaky skills. But there is one glaring problem with the approach. Knowledge, skills and behaviors that are categorized as weak...
“I don’t think Weiner can win now,” says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “I’ll even be mildly surprised if he makes the runoff. There’s just too much sleaze in the headlines, and even in this age of remarkable public tolerance for sins of the flesh, there are limits. Weiner’s reached them.”
A new book in the works by a University of Virginia political analyst could shed new light on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. "The Kennedy Half Century" takes a look at the presidency, assassination and lasting legacy of the president. Author Larry Sabato says he and his team spent five years investigating and interviewing people connected to the assassination and administration.
“On the one hand, we want to be responsive to veterans' needs," said Thomas Hafemeister, a law professor at the University of Virginia who has written about the use of post-traumatic stress disorder in criminal defenses. "On the other hand, we don’t want to absolve them of responsibility for their crimes.”
Hales Parcells stands at the front of the line, placing paper pirate hats on kids and taking family photos as people board the Lost Pearl for the evening cruise with Capt. Jack’s Pirate Ship Adventures. “On the count of three, give me a big ARRGH!” Hales says as she snaps photos next to a skeleton pirate statue. Once everyone is aboard, Hales really gets into character.