The value in having a four-year degree in sales lies less in acquiring technical skills necessary for a specific job and more in demonstrating soft skills that can push sales reps to generate commissions, explains James H. Wyckoff, director of the Center on Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
Discussions of the Emancipation Proclamation on the national and state level will be held Sept. 17 and 21 as the document's 150th anniversary nears. A program sponsored by the National Endowment of the Humanities. Ed Ayers, president of the University of Richmond, will moderate the session at the Smithsonian American History Museum. Christy Coleman, president of the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, will be on the panel with history professors Eric Foner of Columbia University, Thavolia Glymph of Duke University and Gary Gallagher of the University of Virginia.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has appointed art historian Melissa Jordan Love as the museums first full-time academic curator following a national search.
But is the crowd up to the task? Some raise concerns, including Edward G. Lengel, editor in chief of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia, who calls crowdsourcing "an unproven concept."
Five pairs of masterworks concerts presented by the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra and music director Kate Tamarkin will explore rhythms of dance from around the world.
“I was in Alderman Library when we came up with the name Reddit,” a mashup of “read it” and “edit,” said co-founder Alexis Ohanian, a 2005 graduate of UVA. The former pre-law student had recently walked out of an LSAT prep course after realizing he wanted to go after bigger things. (Or maybe he was just craving waffles, but that’s another story.)
Seconds after Clint Eastwood finished his speech, at the Republican National Convention, the Twittersphere was buzzing with response -- including from Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
A study published just a few years ago out of the University of Virginia — "Effect of Exercise Training Intensity on Abdominal Visceral Fat and Body Composition” — showed that those who exercised at the highest intensities (of course that is relative, depending on your current fitness level) had the greatest loss in belly fat!
Audio September is back for a fifth annual month of sound at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiatives. There will be more than two dozen guest artists to share music, radio, poetry, storytelling and other disciplines. The Mushroom Walk, which begins at noon Wednesday, marks composer John Cage’s centennial by leading participants in one of Cage’s favorite hobbies — hunting for mushrooms. Composer Chris Peck and Manuel Lerdau of the University of Virginia’s Department of Environmental Sciences will lead the free event.
Debate continues on line between property rights and freedom of information. It is “the property maximalists versus the Utopians,” says Christopher Sprigman, a professor of intellectual property and antitrust law at the University of Virginia. And, he adds, “It’s an unproductive battle.”
Preliminary results show effectiveness of focused ultrasound technology. ... In April came the most recent evidence of its potential uses. The University of Virginia Medical Center conducted a yearlong study using focused ultrasound to treat Essential Tremor, a movement disorder that affects about 10 million people in the U.S. Preliminary results from the study showed that focused ultrasound pulses delivered to a targeted spot in the brain — without anesthesia — reduced measurable symptoms by 92 percent.
RICHMOND, Va. - This holiday weekend usually signals the end of summer, but the threat of tick-borne illnesses in Virginia will continue well into the fall - and experts say it's important to be vigilant. ... A study of this tick-related meat allergy is in progress at the University of Virginia.
Seasoned biopharmaceutical professional Silvia Taylor has taken on IR, PR and corporate communications. Taylor graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in international relations and business, and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Several of college football's most fabled programs have suffered self-inflicted wounds in recent years. The list of the fallen includes Penn State, Ohio State and Southern California. The University of Virginia and Virginia Tech earn places among the admirable powerhouses. Diehard Cavalier fans would not dispute Tech's higher power rating. For both schools, the grid of shame offers reason for pride.
On Saturday, September 1, WTJU will host a rock concert at the UVA Amphitheater, a welcome for new and returning University students. The goal is to increase student awareness and listenership, as well as to inform the student body that it has the opportunity to get involved with the station.
Today is the finale of the Republican National Convention, and had the weather cooperated, today would have been the start of the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, which was to have been held in New Orleans.
Dean of Nursing Dorrie Fontaine, president of the Virginia Association of Colleges of Nursing, comments on Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's announcement of an agreement between Virginia’s community colleges and Western Governors’ University.
A new study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests that BPA, a chemical found in plastic bottles and the lining of cans, effects the behavior of laboratory mice exposed during gestation and the effects persist three generations later.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. The crowds may be smaller and the candidate grayer, but college towns are still proving to be President Barack Obama's best shot at enthusiastic audiences.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan is calling for measures aimed at improving faculty and changes in curriculum, including peer review and merit-based raises.