(By Kimberly A. Whittier, Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Professor of Business Administration) Imagine that you have just been promoted to manager at a large food company and will be in charge of a popular candy brand primarily sold in grocery stores. The brand has been declining for some time, and you have to figure out the source of the decline and fix it. What do you do? If you’re like most marketers, you turn to readily available reports and market studies to find the answer. But is this the best approach?
When it comes to preschool education, many parents develop a laundry list of concerns. While some of these queries are valid, one question that may be unnecessary is whether a child is ready for a structured learning environment at age 3 or 4. According to new research from the University of Virginia, even as young as 2 years old can make the transition from home to preschool developmentally and socially with relative ease.
Assistant professor at University of Virginia, Seanna Leath, researched how the expectations of strength placed upon Black girls and women is harmful. In her findings she discovered this demographic of women responds to hardships by concealing trauma. Oftentimes, showing weakness or anger is often frowned upon by family members.
Support for zero-tolerance policies in schools has strong among teachers, but the policies don’t make teachers or students feel safer, according to a new study from the University of Missouri and the University of Virginia. One of the alternative strategies the researchers suggested was “threat assessment” involving addressing issues that lead to threatening behavior. Co-author Dewey Cornell, professor at the University of Virginia, said threat assessment may have made a difference.
As UVA Wise implements its latest strategic plan, Chancellor Donna P. Henry says the college will maintain its seven-decade mission as a liberal arts school. The eight-year Your College for a Lifetime plan sets out a five-pillar approach to student recruitment and retention; faculty recruitment, development and retention; aligning program offerings with student and regional demand; “reimagining” core educational requirements; and updating various systems policies and procedures.
The Jefferson School launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign for the project immediately after City Council’s vote in the early morning hours of Tuesday. As of press time, the campaign had raised $10,000 of its $500,000 goal. The museum estimates the first stages of the project will cost $1.1 million. The University of Virginia Memory Project, Virginia Humanities and the Open Society Foundations have pledged a total of $590,000 for the project.
If you have been trying to catch up on some University of Virginia news, you have probably had some trouble. UVA’s student-run paper, The Cavalier Daily, experienced some technology issues well into Tuesday, December 7. Its website has been down since Saturday. Students on staff say this is because they did not renew the domain for the site. They say they were never notified it was expiring, because a student from years past had the account.
The University of Virginia is still deciding what the spring’s COVID-19 protocol will be with the new Omicron variant. Right now, masks are required indoors and all students and employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or get regular testing. UVA said it has been able to keep cases relatively low throughout the semester, but there are still a lot of unknowns with the new variant, like how contagious it is or if it can evade vaccines. A UVA spokesperson said the University will be looking out for a potential holiday spike in cases.
“The decision seems fitting,” Jalane Schmidt, an activist and tenured religious studies professor at the University of Virginia, who also heads the Memory Project at UVA’s Democracy Initiative, wrote to Charlottesville Tomorrow shortly after the vote. Schmidt also helped create the proposal. “The Jefferson School has been leading our community’s conversations about race and public space for quite a while. So it makes sense to entrust it with this endeavor,” added Schmidt. “The ‘Swords Into Plowshares’ vision has been long in the making. It emerged from conversations in which people (including ...
“I can’t imagine the court taking this case,” adds Anne Coughlin, a UVA professor of law and an expert on criminal law and procedure. Coughlin thinks that’s a shame because she believes the underlying issues in the case, including the possible abuse of prosecutorial discretion, are of “tremendous public interest.”
A 300-page report from one of the country’s top research organizations argues that the U.S. should at least investigate whether ocean-based carbon removal strategies are worthwhile. After all, said UVA marine scientist Scott Doney, who led the report, the toll of climate change is already staggering.
As people die, they’re often visited by deceased loved ones in dreams, visions, hallucinations; whatever you call them, the encounters are well documented and quite real to those who experience them. So is it possible that none of us really dies alone? To answer that question, I’ve driven two hours to Charlottesville to meet researcher and psychiatrist Bruce Greyson, professor emeritus of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies.
John “Yo” Strang’s funeral in 2003 was said to have been the largest ever held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Chattanooga. This was odd because those who knew him best said the late Bible teacher and tennis coach at McCallie School had few close friends. But what Strang did have were legions of admirers. For more than 50 years he lavished young men with encouragement and prodded them with corny jokes at the school on the western slope of Missionary Ridge. John Strang was one of four sons of prominent Chattanooga attorney S. Bartow Strang who served their country during World War II...
Dr. Judith “Judy” Duncan, 82, died in her Cumberland County home on Nov. 23, after a long battle with cancer. Duncan, who held master’s and doctoral degrees from UVA’s School of Education and Human Development, was Virginia’s first female superintendent of schools, frst in Wythe County in 1981 and later in York County.
(Press release) The Orlando Pride has hired Amanda Cromwell as the club’s head coach, it was announced today. Cromwell joins the Pride from collegiate powerhouse University of California, Los Angeles, where she led the Bruins to the 2013 NCAA Championship, three College Cup appearances, seven Sweet 16 appearances, and four Pac-12 team titles, with the most recent conference title in 2021. Cromwell began her coaching career as an assistant at her alma mater, the University of Virginia, in 1992.
Other Fulbrighters who went on to notable careers in diplomacy include Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana (1966 alumni, University of Virginia.
Jefffrey Sprecher has announced that he will exit his position as New York Stock Exchange chairman, to be replaced by [UVA alumna] Sharon Bowen, a former federal securities regulator.
Founding Student Name(s): Dr. C. Malcolm Roberson (MBA ‘21) (With David Agumya, Carson Lunsford and Dr. Ramey Elsarrag) Brief Description of Solution: Ultra EM is a dynamic ultrasound simulator that teaches medical students to accurately capture and interpret FAST exams in a fun, game-like way. The FAST exam is a standard bedside ultrasound exam in which physicians screen blunt trauma patients for blood or abnormalities in the abdomen, pelvis, and chest.
Joseph Williams, an associate professor in the counselor education program at the University of Virginia, said many of his college students who are in counseling internships at K-12 schools are witnessing some of the most severe mental health issues he has seen in his 10 years in education. “Kids are really struggling, and I’m not sure that we’re actually really addressing it,” he said.
Campus Reform looked into these claims by discussing the topic with Patrick Michaels, former director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels was also a research professor of Environmental Science at the University of Virginia and a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.