John Kerry used his first major speech as secretary of state to make that case that failing to confront climate change means missing big economic opportunities – and worse.
Other scientists questioned how the study, which used questionable methodology such as changing the procedure partway through the experiment, got published; the journal editors expressed skepticism about the effect, but said the study followed established rules for doing good research. That made people wonder, "Maybe there's something wrong with the rules," said University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek.
And in the broader category of ultra-high-net-worth individuals, which Wealth-X defines as those worth $30 million or more, "there are smaller clusters of successful graduates who have drawn in other alumni," Friedman noted. The University of Virginia, for instance, has many fewer billionaires, but outdid Harvard for the highest percentage of self-made wealthy, at 79 percent.
“Any 3-year-old in the District is guaranteed a spot to be at a full-day preschool program. That’s basically unheard-of,” said Daphna Bassok, an assistant professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.
“To the extent there’s a First Amendment issue they’re talking about, it is not about sexual abuse as a First Amendment right. It is about the church deciding for itself how to respond to claims of misconduct among its members,” said Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor who specializes in the law of religious liberty.
Secretary of State John Kerry gave his first major foreign policy speech Wednesday at the University of Virginia. His comments come days before he leaves on his first trip as America's top diplomat.
Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said Mr. Rubio and Mr. Paul are “smart to head to Israel early in this presidential cycle.” “Any Republican candidate wants to plant his flag in Israel, not just in Iowa and New Hampshire,” he said, alluding to the states that open the GOP primary process.
(With video) Newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will make his first public speech Wednesday in Charlottsville, Va. at the University of Virginia, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson in the early 19th century.
(Commentary) In 2011, University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter, in his provocative “To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World,” urged his fellow Christians to abandon the notion that we can “change the world” through politics.
(Guest Post by Gosia Glinska, Senior Researcher at the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business) Imagine you’re in prison. Your release date is quickly approaching. But you’re a high-school dropout with few job skills. Even if you took classes on the inside and learned how to weld or hang drywall—you are an ex-con. Who will hire you? How are you going to survive in the worst economy in decades?
“A lot of people are directing their office email to Gmail,” says Raj Venkatesan, a marketing professor at University of Virginia. He says Gmail has benefitted from the fact that people want to merge their work and personal lives into their email habits. Now, Microsoft is trying to tap into that trend too, and take advantage of how popular Outlook already is in the workplace.
Social connection may be particularly important under stress because stress naturally leads to a sense of vulnerability and loss of control. A study by Benjamin Converse and colleagues at the University of Virginia found that feeling out of control (through a reminder of one’s mortality) leads to greater generosity and helpfulness.
The University of Virginia is preparing for international attention as Secretary of State John Kerry makes his first foreign policy speech to the world from Old Cabell Hall on Wednesday.
Kerry is expected to outline his overall vision for the trip and for American foreign policy in general during a speech he is slated to deliver Wednesday at the University of Virginia. State Department officials have suggested the speech will present a broad-stroke argument for why Washington must continue financing foreign-policy initiatives despite looming budget fights related to the nation’s deficit.
“Gun control is Bloomberg’s longstanding cause, and part of the reason he can get involved in so many races is he’s got so much money. It’s his privilege to do it,” says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
A statement released by UVa's President Teresa Sullivan reads in part, "These cuts would affect our research funding and our financial aid programs in significant ways. One analysis indicates that there would be cuts of $2.3 billion for the National Institutes of Health and $456 million for the National Science Foundation, with similar cuts at other agencies that support U.Va. research."
Research firm Wealth-X compiled a list of the global universities with the largest number of living alumni worth $30 million or more, or ultra high net worth individuals, as they are called. U.Va. ranked 11th overall, and was the top-ranked public university.
A University of Virginia professor has sued the school seeking $100,000 in damages over a campus police investigation into allegations he used his position to steer $1 million worth of business to his personal consulting firm, according to court records.
(Commentary) A remarkable new study from the University of Virginia, which includes extensive polling on people’s views about family, religion and morality, splits Americans into four different “belief categories.”
University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett is an advocate of videotaping interrogations. His book “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong” examines 250 cases of exonerations by DNA evidence. Forty of those involved false confessions.