In the minds of a lot of Texans, the scene in Austin looks something like this: Republican Governor Rick Perry and William Powers Jr., president of the University of Texas at Austin, are standing 10 paces apart, staring each other down, hands by their hips.
Gary Ballinger, an associate professor of commerce at the University of Virginia, has extensively researched interim CEOs, and according to a study of more than 500 interim CEOs that he and a colleague completed, “Once the interim CEO job lasts more than two or three quarters, the damage in terms of [return on assets] relative to firms [with permanent CEOs] gets more and more pronounced.”
Who is speaking where at 2013 commencement ceremonies? Here’s some of the big names and the places they will appear: The University of Virginia has Steven Colbert speaking at the May 18 graduation ceremonies in Charlottesville.
(Editorial) What is it about the principles of leadership and good governance that Helen Dragas, rector of the University of Virginia, just can’t seem to understand?
Kim Innes began taking Kundalini Yoga classes 20 years ago as a way to unwind after long days in the laboratory. Today, she combines her love of yoga with her passion for science. As an assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies at the University of Virginia Health Systems, Innes studies how yoga affects chronic disease.
(Editorial) Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell appointed William H. Goodwin to the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors last year with the expectation that the business leader would bring “wise counsel” to a troubled school.
(Editorial) Waves of student activism have succeeded in modifying the University of Virginia’s legendary honor system. Recently approved was a way to avoid the single sanction: expulsion from the university upon being found guilty by a student jury of lying, cheating or stealing.
(By John Edwin Mason, who teaches African history and the history of photography) In March 1968, Gordon Parks published a portrait of an African-American child with disheveled clothes in Life magazine. His lips were swollen and cracked from eating plaster, in a futile attempt to ward off hunger. His eyes were plaintive and haunting.
The delay displeased backers of the commission, proposed last February by the Dialogue on Race. "I'm tired and it's not because of the lateness of the hour," said University of Virginia professor Walt Heinecke, a vocal commission proponent. "It’s embarrassing as a citizen … We’ve been at this for two years."
The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation announced Tuesday that this year’s recipients of their highest honors, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, will be the director of the FBI, the founder of Teach For America and a renowned landscape architect.
These superbugs are "the biggest threat to patient safety in the hospital that we have," said Costi Sifri, an infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at the University of Virginia Health System. "Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like anything is slowing their spread."
Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne, the late Jerome Brown and LaDainian Tomlinson are on the final ballot for College Football Hall of Fame for the first time. Among the nominees is former University of Virginia defensive back Anthony Poindexter, a two-time First Team All-America selection and 1998 ACC Defensive Player of the Year.
College used to be a great equalizer: No matter their parents' social status, students who came to campus tended to deal with basic life skills on their own—from frying up grilled cheese sandwiches to unclogging toilets and folding laundry. That was before companies made it possible to summon butlers, drivers and gofers with a click or a call. At the same time, surrogate servers also allow helicopter parents to hover a bit too closely. Sue Battani, founder of Cville Concierge LLC in Charlottesville, says some students are chagrined by their parents' delegating.
On March 7, lacrosse-playing students from Harlem will be traveling to University of Virginia with the Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership program for a two-day, horizon-broadening, on-campus stay. The 30 middle school students hail from P.S./M.S. 149 – The Sojourner Truth School, whose new team is coached by Wyatt Melzer, a 2012 U.Va. graduate and a member of the school’s 2011 national championship-winning team.
Sara Neher, assistant dean of MBA admissions at Darden, says the school has seen enrollment increase among Chinese women and notes that “more and more female alumni move back.” The trend “certainly assists with our recruiting efforts,” she says.
Researchers at MD Anderson are collaborating with scientists at the University of Virginia to test a melanoma vaccine that will be made in two formulations — one with IFA and another with an immunostimulatory molecule.
South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson could be retiring, leaving the door for his son to run in his place. Brendan Johnson earned his law degree at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as president of the Student Bar Association.
(By Sunny Peng) After I was admitted as a transfer student by University of Virginia, I went to a send-off party hosted in Beijing by its alumni and the Office of Engagement for incoming undergraduate and graduate students, in order to learn more about my new school.
The field of psychology is going through a period of introspective turmoil. One the one hand, it has never been more popular. Its results lead to attention-grabbing headlines, and fill books that sit happily on bestseller lists. Conversely, some of its own practitioners are starting to ask themselves a difficult question: What proportion of the field’s findings are genuine and reliable insights into the human mind, and what proportion are red herrings produced by questionable research practices and, in rare cases, outright fraud? One of the more calm-headed voices is Brian Nosek&rsq...