Several recent studies have made the peculiar claim that cute imagery enhances mental focus. The first, published in 2009, came out of the University of Virginia's psychology department and showed that viewing "very cute images" of puppies and kittens enhanced fine motor skills.
The divide between pay in the financial services sector and almost everyone else began in the late 1980s. A research report four years ago by Thomas Philippon, an economist at New York Stern School of Business, and Ariell Reshef of the University of Virginia, charted the rise of the U.S. finance sector in the past few decades. In that time, bankers’ pay relative to non-banking professional salaries swelled from almost parity to 1.7 times by 2007.
In previous years, new policies might have originated in either Democratic or Republican states, but they tended to spread eventually pretty much everywhere, regardless of partisan leanings, says Ray Scheppach, former executive director of the National Governors Association who now teaches at the University of Virginia. Now, though, states are following almost entirely separate and distinct tracks. "It's a new phenomenon, and I don't think it's a particularly good one," he says. "It makes all politicians much more ideological, which means not negotiating our differen...
The concept of "Lean In Circles" takes up where Sandberg's new book "Lean In" leaves off -- guiding gatherings of women to study and discuss issues such as professional risk-taking, assertiveness, networking and how to find a good balance between work and life. The circles project is built upon the prestigious "Voice & Influence" curriculum of Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and features 20-minute videos from leading academics including Darden School professor Melissa Thomas-Hunt, who discusses team dynamics.
A Sound Lounge at the School of Architecture is creating rooms without walls, thanks to what are known as sound puddles.
A recent U.Va. study of 100 experts found their opinions were often swayed based on whether they believed they were working for the defense or the prosecution, said professor Daniel Murrie, director of psychology at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy.
U.Va. astronomers Ed Murphy, Kelsey Johnson and Remy Indebetouw, and local colleagues at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory are quoted in a story about ALMA—the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array—the most powerful telescope on earth, a 20-year project that just went into service.
New research co-authored by Curry School professor Sarah E. Turner finds that basic information about colleges — their admissions standards, graduation rates and financial aid policies — can substantially increase the number of low-income students who apply to, attend and graduate from top colleges.
As part of her PhD dissertation in economics at the University of Virginia, Ruwei Wang built a model of disability insurance and tested the effects of a $2-for-$1 reform. She found that it would reduce the number of people on DI by about 8 percent.
Working with the drawings has enabled art history students not only to examine original artworks, but also to gain an understanding of the role drawing plays in the creative process.
The Darden School of Business was #4 in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings of Full-Time Management MBA Programs.
The grant comes from Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a non-profit provider of STEM programs to over 4,700 schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In a 2012 study by Dr. Robert Tai, associate professor at the University of Virginia, PLTW was found to have a positive impact on students and their future education and career. Tai found that PLTW can help raise a student’s motivation and achievement in science and engineering.
By Mike Lenox, Darden professor and executive director of the Batten Institute...I predict that we will see a bifurcation in the higher education market. A cost leader (or leaders) will emerge catering to the mass market. They will leverage technology to provide an effective and efficient education. They will cater to the population who may not have had access to higher education thirty years ago. The emergence of the cost leader position will be bad news for the many for-profit online universities that have arisen in recent years and for numerous non-selective resident...
“American Atheists and the Freedom from Religion Foundation make a lot of bad law by exercising so little judgment about what claims they file,” said Douglas Laycock, a professor of law and religious studies at the University of Virginia.
The Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic at the University of Virginia is now enrolling patients into the largest autism study of its kind. Researchers are using a drug given to Alzheimer's patients to try to improve core symptoms of autism.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine is working on a way to reduce the side effects of anti-viral drugs for people battling AIDS. Researchers have found the protein that is causing those side effects, said UVa Research Associate Edward Pryor.
Ed Hess, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, offers these employee loyalty suggestions: ...
He sent the last name to a librarian at the University of Virginia, the daughter of another police captain, and hoped she could dig out answers from archives. ... Police Capt. Patrick Gallagher looked over the newspaper articles sent to him by the U.Va. librarian. There wasn't much, but it was enough to piece together a basic account of Little's death.