The University of Virginia is ranked as the No. 1 best value public college in the nation in the Princeton Review's 2013 Best Value Colleges.
Experienced entrepreneurs have a much easier time dealing with the stress of uncertainty, in part because they think and act in ways that virtually negate it. "The expert entrepreneurs think in terms of control, not in terms of uncertainty," says Saras Sarasvathy, associate professor at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, who studies how entrepreneurs cope with uncertainty.
Repairing the University of Virginia's iconic Rotunda is rising on the list of recommended projects to receive state funds. The House Appropriations Committee put the Rotunda project on its list of capital projects approved for state support in its budget rollout on Sunday.
The 2013 Quadruplicity Women's Conference (don't worry, they allow men, too) will be Feb. 11 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville. The 2013 Chamber’s Annual Quadruplicity Conference, sponsored by the University of Virginia Health System, is a transformative business event that gives women & men invaluable insight and applicable knowledge needed to take charge of what is most important to them.
The Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce and LPSS imported national block scheduling author and adviser Robert Canady last week to speak on the innovative ways states like North Carolina and Virginia have used block scheduling.
The University of Virginia is among seven winners of AIDS United grants to help HIV-positive people stay in care.
People who move around to lots of different contexts are likelier to have "duty-free" friendships, ones which come with no obligations, according to the research of Shigehiro Oishi with the University of Virginia and others.
In advance of this month’s Air Charter Safety Foundation Safety Symposium, one of the event’s speakers, Robert Carraway, wrote about the difficulty of developing a working safety culture in any industry. “Every corporate aviation department or fractional ownership company or any other player in this industry believes it has a safety culture,” said Carraway, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. “I suspect most, if being truthful, are skeptical that they could be more safety conscious than...
Virginia is seeking to boost its profile as a state for bioscience research with the creation of a tax-exempt corporation. Designed to foster collaborative scientific research innovation by providing a new program for public/private partnerships with Virginia universities, the Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corp. will be funded at $5 million for 2013-14 from the state’s general fund. Five schools, including the University of Virginia, will put in a $50,000 cash contribution in each of the first and second years.
U.S . Sen. Mark Warner, D-Alexandria, is scheduled to speak on the national debt at noon Monday at the University of Virginia's Newcomb Ballroom . The event is part of a nationwide campaign called Up to Us seeking to engage students and policymakers to take action on the debt.
“It has been a hallmark of populism on both the right and left,” says Sophia Rosenfeld, a historian at the University of Virginia and author of “Common Sense: A Political History.” “It was used to argue for abolition and also for slavery, for women’s suffrage and against women’s suffrage.”
Even a quick conversation can help you better handle pain, according to a study at the University of Virginia.
A new semester kicked off Monday for students who are a bit older, and wiser, than average. More than 80 people gathered at the Senior Center for the first day of the course, "Isn't it Romantic.” The film class is part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, offered through the University of Virginia.
Despite poor investment returns for college endowments nationally, the University of Virginia’s endowment grew slightly last year, according to a new report.
University of Virginia law professor Darryl Brown said judges typically follow a jury's sentencing recommendation. He said it is not uncommon for manslaughter charges to receive "well below" the 10-year maximum.
The extent to which the Google deal brings revenue to the media in France remains to be seen. It is also not certain whether it will act as a precedent elsewhere. But Google cannot solve all the problems of the newspaper industry, according to Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of “The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)” – a professor of media studies in the University of Virginia.
The former Martha Jefferson Hospital campus stands to get another shot in the arm in the coming weeks. HemoShear, a Charlottesville biotech company that helps drug manufacturers more accurately simulate human environments, said Jan. 22 it plans to become the site’s next tenant. The company was founded in 2008 to bring to market an invention by U.Va. professors Brett Blackman and Brian Wamhoff: a man-made vascular system that recreates conditions in the human body, offering a proving ground for drugs and other medical technologies.
The Princeton Review Tuesday is announcing its 2013 Best Value Colleges. The University of Virginia leads among public schools, and William & Mary makes the top four.
A University of Virginia economics professor is reacting to several alarming trends. Ed Burton has found a growing list of states where the employee retirement systems have been underfunded.
(Guest post by Darden School Professor Robert Carraway) In a previous posting, I discussed the relationship between Big Data and Small Bets (Experiments). In this posting, I will dig more into this first challenge; Jeanne Liedtka, my colleague at U.Va.’s Darden School of Business, will join me in a subsequent posting to consider in more detail the second. Again, my advice appears counterintuitive.