At the close of the weekend, Keaton Wadzinski was one of about 30 students offered the Jefferson Scholarship. As an out-of-state Jefferson Scholar, Keaton’s award is valued at more than $220,000 for his four-year college degree, including study abroad opportunities.
Why do intelligent, accomplished people make colossal mistakes, such as firing a respected leader without a meeting of the board, without first giving the leader a clear message that she was in trouble, without providing stakeholders and the public with a credible rationale? Why would an experienced leader like Helen Dragas attempt to micromanage the president of an institution that continues to be one of the jewels of public higher education? There are many theories floating around to explain these mysteries, but I believe the UVA fiasco was primarily about a leader who has no understanding o...
University of Virginia board members expressed doubts Wednesday about the administration’s tuition proposal, which pairs plans for relatively low yearly tuition increases over the next four years with a new fee for upperclassmen.
"The frustration for governors or executives who go into the Senate is suddenly you're 94th in seniority and you're in a basement office with no windows and nobody's exactly waiting for you to make the final decision about anything," Democratic Sen. Timothy Kaine told students Wednesday in Larry Sabato's Introduction to American Politics class at the University of Virginia.
Jefferson’s mountaintop home, Monticello, lures approximately half a million visitors every year, and along with the University of Virginia, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
... For a summary of the research in this area, see Why Marriage Matters: Thirty Conclusions from the Social Sciences, which was written by a team of 18 scholars and chaired by W. Bradford Wilcox, associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.
Diabetes is a dangerous disease that can lead to blindness, but some people don’t know they have it, and others refuse to make changes needed to prevent complications. Now, an eye doctor at the University of Virginia has come up with a relatively cheap and easy way to diagnose eye damage and to motivate patients.
Darden’s Saras Saravathy wrote her dissertation at Carnegie Mellon on entrepreneurial expertise and has parlayed that into a specialization in the area of “effectuation,” which examines the creation and growth of new organizations and markets.
Albemarle County Supervisor Dennis S. Rooker announced Wednesday he will retire after three terms representing the Jack Jouett District. Moments later, Rooker endorsed a successor, Diantha McKeel, who is serving in her fourth term as the Jack Jouett representative on the Albemarle County School Board. She has worked for the U.Va. Health System since 1976.
For the third straight year, UVa. Health System dialysis clinics have garnered a top patient safety honors. The recognition comes from the Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition, a nonprofit working to improve care for patients with end-stage kidney disease in Virginia and other states.
Wilcox talks about a new University of Virginia study that finds more adults are postponing marriage.
There is an interesting report from the University of Virginia looking at more than 170 young adults, from age 13 to 23, to study the long-term effects of teenage behaviors. What they learned is that those who developed self-confidence and a positive approach to making friends and learning from mistakes fared much better as adults.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, widely considered the dean of Southern political pundits, said Sanford’s return means more to late-night comedians than it does on the national stage. “Maybe the people of South Carolina’s 1st District are willing to send him back to Congress,” Sabato said, “but he’s considered a punch line in most of the rest of the country.”
… The Copper Kings endowed the Los Angles Symphony Orchestra, built the library at Stanford University, built the University of Virginia law school in Charlottesville, and provided funds to establish the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. But the only thing I could find that directly benefited the people of Montana was William Clark’ s contribution of $20,000 to build a theater inside the walls of the state prison.
Effective homework assignments can give students opportunities to practice and apply skills introduced in class, says University of Virginia professor Robert Tai, co-author of a 2012 study, “When Is Homework Worth the Time?”
Also in March, the University of Virginia psychologist Brian Nosek launched the Center for Open Science (centerforopenscience.org). The Center plans to develop software tools that will make it easier for researchers to archive and share their work, bringing greater transparency to science.
Culpeper Medical Associates, a network of six primary care practices serving patients in Central Virginia, officially joined the University of Virginia Health System on Monday.
Study co-author Sarah Turner explained that a group of high-achieving, low-income students received paperwork-free application-fee waivers and information packets that detailed the admissions standards and financial-aid policies of top schools. Students who received the packets were far more likely to apply and enroll at colleges that matched their academic qualifications.