Psychologist Dan Willingham’s new book was written primarily for those who are concerned about the best way to educate children. But it is also filled with fascinating theories (for separating the fluff from the good stuff ) that you just might be able to use in everyday life.
The University of Virginia's student-run journal of public policy is hosting a national conference for similar journals from universities around the country.
Independent experts feel that the kind of progressive goals for which Obama is aiming could be very hard to accomplish. “With divided government, the president runs a risk of becoming an early lame duck if he can’t push at least some of his new proposals through Congress,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is one of 10 colleges across the country creating campaigns to educate the younger generation about the nation's fiscal debate. UVA students are leading the "Up to Us" initiative.
A University of Virginia professor says the lessons from the holocaust must live on. "The importance of studying history in general is to remember regularly what the sources of our values are and often the sources of our values are events that scared us so much," Peter Ochs, a UVA professor, said. "We begin to remember what values we have to respond to that. For most of us who have studied modern history, the Holocaust -symbolized by Auschwitz -is the most frightening event in human history."
Though she insists she has not made up her mind whether to make another run for the presidency, the high-profile presidential send-off will stoke rumors about her political future. “Alliances come and go,” said Prof. Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. “This one is built on a forged partnership that has served both well.”
“This is highly likely to end up at the Supreme Court,” said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia and one of the country’s top scholars on church-state conflicts. “There are so many cases, and we are already getting strong disagreements among the circuit courts.”
You mention weight training, too, which is also valuable. Sturdy leg muscles, particularly those at the front and back of the thighs, stabilize the knee, says Joseph Hart, an assistant professor of kinesiology and certified athletic trainer at the University of Virginia, who often works with patients with knee pain.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media-studies professor at the University of Virginia who has written about the future of universities, called the program a "worthy experiment" but warned that school officials "need to make sure degree plans are not watered down."
Virginia’s research universities increasingly are working with the biotechnology industry to come up with ways to shepherd young biotech companies across the so-called “valley of death” — the gap between the development of a new technology and its successful commercialization.
Each Thursday, we offer a window into life “beyond the MBA classroom” at a top business school. A long-standing tradition at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, First Coffee is a time for students, faculty and administrators to relax and chat in an informal setting.
Anne Coughlin, a University of Virginia law professor who helped form a group that inspired a lawsuit against Panetta last year, opposing the ban, said that she saw no merit in any of the arguments for the ban. Arguments about unit cohesion, she said, rely on a stereotype — that men and women will get up to “mischief” in close quarters. She said that she applauded strict fitness requirements, physical and psychological, and that there was no reason to expect that the military would endanger troops by lowering them.
The article notes that U.Va.'s Emily Couric Cancer Center has secured a LEED Gold rating for sustainability.
Males with an extra "girly" sex chromosome seem to have an insatiable sex drive -- at least in mice, according to a study by U.Va. graduate student Paul Bonthuis.
“The fact is that women have had a combat role and that they have stepped up and done the job just as valiantly and as bravely as men,” said Anne Coughlin, a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Richard Bonnie, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who was an adviser to the Virginia Tech Review Panel following that 2007 shooting, warned that legislation and regulatory changes can be affected by emotions. "Tragedy can compromise thoughtful policy making," he said via video connection from Virginia.
Law professor Anne Coughlin was scheduled to be a guest on today's show to discuss the end of the ban on women in combat.
It was a storm that few saw coming earlier in the week. Jerry Stenger, director of the University of Virginia's Climatology Office, expected a bit of precipitation as of late Wednesday. “The amounts were pretty low,” said Stenger, who noted that a high of 4.5 inches of snow was reported in northern Albemarle County. “There were exceptions in higher elevations, where the amounts could have been significantly more.”
According to Alan Abramowitz, a columnist for Larry Sabato’s “Crystal Ball” blog, Obama’s electoral vote margin would have been slashed from 332-206 to 271-267 if the congressional-district format had been used in six battleground states: Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, called the Senate bill “an outrageous effort to rig the system and undermine the democratic foundations of our republic."
Opponents of University of Virginia Rector Helen Dragas encountered pushback Thursday from lawmakers during a hearing by a House panel that endorsed her reappointment.