Caroline Hoxby and Sarah Turner, who teaches economics at the University of Virginia, mailed packages to 40,000 students whose SAT scores and high school grades suggested they were smart but lived in poor neighborhoods, based on census data. They provided individually tailored lists of institutions whose track records indicated they’d be good matches for given students, and information about the college application process, including admissions deadlines and the actual net tuition charged. Once the data were collected, the cost of the experiment came to $6 per student. And the return on ...
The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business is still accepting nominations for its fourth annual statewide competition for small businesses. The Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards recognize Virginia enterprises thriving in areas of high unemployment and high poverty. The deadline to apply to the competition is July 31.
For states that don't recognize same-sex unions, the high court's decision raised a significant legal question, said University of Virginia law professor and constitutional law expert Deborah Hellman. Instead of ending legal battles, the court might have set the stage for them, Hellman said. Questions still remain about eligibility for marriage benefits for gay couples who legally wed elsewhere but live in states banning same-sex unions.
The European Space Agency is set to develop a new, Earth-observing satellite that will map and monitor global forests. University of Virginia's Hank Shugart, a professor of environmental science, has been a key player in convincing the Agency to fund and develop the $525 million satellite and will be testing instruments in the forests of Gabon, West Africa. Shugart talks with correspondent Charles Fishburne in this WCVE Science Matters report.
Dominic Inglot was working for Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch (BAC) two years ago when he took a chance that brought him back on the grass tennis courts of Wimbledon, this time as a ranked player, not a stand-in for a movie actor.
In a surprise move, University of California President Mark Yudof has approved a controversial proposal by UCLA’s Anderson School of Management to forgo state funding for its full-time MBA program and become self-supporting. Anderson will be one of a small handful of North American business schools that have decided to forgo state funding. The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business became self-sufficient in 2002, using tuition, executive education revenue, and endowment earnings to pay the bills.
Orange County Parks and Recreation, in conjunction with Rapidan River Kayak Company, held an outdoors day for kids with autism Saturday, June 22. There were local volunteers as well as graduate students from Liberty University, James Madison University, and the University of Virginia.
Political commentator Professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia advised Republicans to support the decisions. He tweeted, "If Rs are smart, they will accept #SCOTUS #DOMA decision. Anti-gay rights is a TOTAL loser for GOP, sending young to Ds."
(Commentary The author recalls working with U.Va. alumnus and former law professor Mortimer Caplin on a tax reform proposal for then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
The ruling presents both opportunities and potential pitfalls to candidates in the Virginia governor’s race, said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Even though Gerald K. Haines long has been associated with the Central Intelligence Agency, his visit to the Democracy Vineyards in Nelson County on Saturday is no secret. Retired as a CIA officer and now a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, Haines continues to write the agency’s history.
“The most important issue is the economy. It’s recovering, and that’s going to help Kasich,” said Larry J. Sabato, a national political scientist with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “I think he will win re-election. But do these provisions hand an issue to the eventual Democratic nominee? Absolutely, yes.”
“Run, don’t walk, to buy this book for the Nikola Tesla cultist in your life,” writes the author of this review of “Tesla: Inventor Of The Electrical Age, by U.Va.’s W. Bernard Carlson. “The University of Virginia’s Bernard Carlson … is the first trained academic historian of technology to approach this topic, and he snaps the intense, romantic Serb back into his proper context.”
Tina Fey will return to her alma mater, the University of Virginia, to kick off a speaker series highlighting the positive impact of arts on society. The university announced Wednesday that the “30 Rock” and “Saturday Night Live” star will give the opening address on Sept. 14.
In a discussion paper for the Hamilton Project, part of the Brookings Institution, the researchers, Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University and Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia, renewed a call from their earlier work for sending high-achieving poor students information about their college options in a partnership with the College Board or ACT.
“This is not like Roe vs. Wade, where the right to abortion is protected by the Constitution,” said A.E. Dick Howard, professor of law at the University of Virginia. “Kennedy clearly believes that marriage is a state prerogative, and he also does not say that a state law which has the same purpose as DOMA is unconstitutional,” he said.
U.Va. student Sarah Sisson recalls her experiences in running the Boston marathon this year and how it has affected her since.
Ausar Walcott hoped his road to redemption at the University of Virginia would lead to a playing career in the NFL. Instead, he hit a dead end at a club in northern New Jersey. Signed earlier this year as a free agent by the Cleveland Browns, Walcott, 23,faces a first-degree attempted murder charge in the beating of a New York City man outside The Palace Gentlemen's Club in Passaic, N.J.
Another trend evident from night clubs to the the runway are corset tops. Corsets that suck in the torso to create an hourglass shape have been around for more than 500 years. While today’s designs aren’t as tight as they used to be, they can still pose health risks, including constricted breathing, fainting, heartburn, headaches, blurred vision and abdominal pain, according to a study by the University of Virginia Health System.