When we reach the age of retirement, typically in our sixties, we are expected to, for the rest of our lives, wisely shepherd and manage our assets so that we don't run out of money. As research from Dr. Timothy Salthouse from the University of Virginia's Department of Psychology shows, we are planning on making these critical investment and financial planning decisions just when our cognitive capacities decline.
Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business held the top spot in Bloomberg Businessweek’s ranking of undergraduate business schools for a fourth year, as students lauded its curriculum, liberal arts bent and focus on ethics. The school in South Bend, Indiana, was followed by the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce in second place and Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management in third.
"McAuliffe's game plan is entirely trying to cast Cuccinelli as an extremist ideologue while trying to portray himself as mainstream," said Geoff Skelley with the UVA Center for Politics.
A recent survey of the University of Virginia Health System found the UVA Medical Center isn't following some of its own policies. Wednesday, the Virginia Department of Health returned to UVA for another survey. This time, the hospital had proper documentation and earned a clean bill of health, according to a verbal report of the findings.
College tuition in Virginia jumped by 10 percent during Gov. Bob McDonnell's first two years in office, but the average tuition hike last year was about half that, 4.5 percent, the smallest increase in a decade.
Many of Virginia's NCAA Division I basketball programs reported six- and seven-figure financial losses in 2012, according to state audits. Only the College of William and Mary, Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia had profitable men's hoops teams before factoring in student athletic fees.
No. 1 seed Virginia (22-11) will host No. 5 seed St. John's (17-15) in the second round of the NIT on Sunday, March 24. Tipoff at John Paul Jones Arena is set for 11 a.m. ET.
Remembering to take medication can be a real pain, especially for people living with a chronic disease. Now there's an app for that. Doctors at the UVA Health System are developing an app to help people with HIV, and it could one day be used for other ailments as well.
(Commentary) If “30’s the new 20” (as rapper Jay-Z puts it), unmarried 20-somethings are the new teen moms, write the authors of a new report cleverly titled, “Knot Yet: The Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America,” a book encouraged by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. Women in their 20s are driving America’s all-time-high level of childbearing outside of marriage, which stands now at 41 percent of all births.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - The University of Virginia School of Law will host a conference on genetics law and ethics this spring.
The conference will be held May 22-23.
Two career couples must constantly negotiate who does what.
WISE, Va. –– A love of words and learning and an obvious passion for helping others led Neva Bryan to a new position helping college students figure out their futures.
If you are like most people, you probably answered 'yes'. With the help of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, researchers from the University of Virginia (UVA) are working to see who is right.
... "The problem is they're off to a bad start," said campaign handicapper Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "These are places where it's not inconceivable a Republican could win ... but I don't see 'em ... I haven't seen the expansion of the map take place yet. Maybe it will."
... "I have never heard of that and the court may say it has no authority to order that," said Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia Law School professor. "If the house, in fact, lost value, and if the owners are entitled to recover for that, that value can be awarded in damages without transferring ownership of the house. "Selling the house to the offender might be a sensible part of a settlement, but it would be odd as a court-ordered remedy."
"Family" is undergoing some major shifts, including a decline in marriage and an increase in unwed 20-something motherhood. The authors of the new report on marriage think the big question is not why young women are having babies, but why they are not getting married.
... Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for politics, is a life-long Virginian who has intensely followed every gubernatorial election since the 1960s. When he looks at this one, he scratches his head. “This,” he says, “is the most unusual matchup I have ever seen.”
MBAs are taking on more and more student debt, so much so that graduates of at least six business schools last year borrowed more than $100,000 on average to finance their degrees. ... Darden School graduates had the fifth highest average debt.
“It took me two years to find the stones for this project,” says Dennis Bracale, a landscape architect based on Mount Desert Island, Maine, while giving a lecture at his alma mater, the University of Virginia.
“If there are changes to how we define diversity,” said University of Virginia dean of admissions Greg Roberts, “then I expect schools will really work hard at identifying low-income students.”