Fathers often talk the talk about sharing parenting duties with mothers when it comes to a newborn. But a new study finds that couples who profess to believe in equally shared parenting rarely do so in practice. ... The study, in the January issue of the Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, was conducted by Steven Rhoads, a political scientist at the University of Virginia and his son, Christopher Rhoads, an assistant professor of education at the University of Connecticut.
Hash and Weakley were 15 and 16, respectively, at the time of the murder and were charged as juveniles. Weakley is now represented by the University of Virginia School of Law’s Innocence Project.
Fans of Italian art may want to visit the University of Virginia Art Museum Friday. An exhibit featuring The Adoration of the Magi by Bartolo di Fredi will open to the public for viewing. The altarpiece from Siena, Italy was completed around 1385. However, at the turn of the 19th century it was dismantled and divided into at least four portions. Three of the sections are now on display at the art museum.
Pieces of historic art have been reunited for the first time in hundreds of years, and you can see them at the University of Virginia Art Museum. ... Now, for a short time, three of the four pieces will be on display together in the "The Adoration of the Magi" exhibit, which opens Friday and runs through May 27. "It's a great opportunity for us to learn about altarpieces and why our particular panel fits into this larger work of art," said Bruce Boucher, director of the UVa Art Museum.
Calling their hunger strike a success, living-wage protesters at the University of Virginia announced Thursday that they’re breaking their fast as the school moves into its spring break. ... Thursday, the president and chief executive of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce weighed in on the issue with a letter to Sullivan. "In reading … media accounts of those university [student] and faculty 'demands' … I am struck by the lack of understanding of the complexities of employment policy the demonstrators demonstrate," wrote Timothy Hulbert. He added tha...
The president of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce weighed in this morning on the ongoing debate over entry level pay at the University of Virginia. Chamber President Tim Hulbert, in a letter to UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan, complimented UVa’s approach to handling demands from a group that wants UVa to raise the minimum pay of its employees and contract employees to $13 an hour, among other things. "The university's various compensation packages — at all levels of skill and experience — are excellent," Hulbert wrote. "Allegations that the uni...
A study co-authored by U.Va. economist Amalia Miller and Northwestern finance and management professor David Matsa found that female leadership in business shows that companies where women were given a strong voice in decision-making were less likely to react to short-term dips in profits by shedding employees. It seems a world run by women may indeed be kinder and gentler, though also one with lower profits, at least in the short run. Matsa and Miller's research traced the effects of the large-scale social experiment engineered by the Norwegian government in 2006.
In May 2011, the New York Times ran a front-page story on the education work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, noting the concerns of some about "assertive philanthropy . . . squelching independent thought." It painted a picture of a large-scale effort to undermine schools, teachers, and students. Such concerns fit right in with the story Olivier Zunz tells in his excellent new history, Philanthropy in America. Zunz, a history professor at the University of Virginia, explores the dynamic between philanthropy and politics, charting the "succession of experiments in govern...
By Allen C. Lynch, a professor of politics at the Center for Russian and East European Studies and author of a new book, "Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft."
The foiled plot to assassinate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin just days before the presidential election is certain to strengthen his margin of victory at the polls on Sunday. Not surprisingly, the timing of the revelation -- three weeks elapsed between the key arrest in the case and its public announcement -- has fueled speculation that the whole affair was cooked up by the Putin camp as an 11th-hour surprise in orde...
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Director of U.Va.'s Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Institute
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Verdict tossed in 1996 Culpeper slaying
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Director of the Center for Politics
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By Law School professor and guest columnist Brandon Garrett
Garrett says that enlarging DNA databanks with samples taken from all individuals arrested for felonies may increase the risk of wrongful convictions, while diverting attention away from more fruitful routes for improving the criminal justice system.
Such surgical catastrophes can have significant and lasting effects on anesthesiologists and other professionals, who could benefit from time and support to recover from the incident, according to the new research, led by Dr Farnaz M. Gazoni of University of Virginia Health System.
According to a study published in the April/May issue of High School Journal, students who had block scheduling in high school performed no better in college science courses than peers who had traditional schedules. "The students who had block scheduling fared slightly worse in many cases," said University of Virginia professor Robert Tai, who co-authored the study. "It may actually be exacerbated at the middle school level."
If you want a preschooler to get the point, point. That\'s a lesson that can be drawn from a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. As part of their investigation of how small children know what other people know, the authors, Carolyn Palmquist and Vikram K. Jaswal of the University of Virginia, found they were able to mislead preschoolers with the simple introduction of a pointing gesture.
The William Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project includes firsthand accounts given by scores of attorneys and scholars who were active in the civil rights movement.
Long before Thomas Jefferson was born, an Italian painter created a colorful work for a church in Sienna. When it closed nearly 500 years later, the artwork was cut into pieces and sold to collectors. Today, two of those pieces are reunited in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia Art Museum after a long and complicated trip.