Following the retirement of longtime University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III, Teresa A. Sullivan became the eighth — and first woman — president of the state’s flagship university on Aug. 1.
Landscape architecture professor Kristina Hill discusses how Virginia lags far behind in planning for climate change, while losing coastline to sea level rise faster than any other state besides Louisiana.
... In a paper published in the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Staelin and Kathryn Sharpe at the University of Virginia showed what happens to consumers' eating behaviors when they are presented with bundled and á la carte options from fast-food menus. They found that most diners don't realize they end up eating larger amounts of unhealthy food when they order combination menu items.
Cutting-edge technology could prevent male infertility, testicular cancer and pregnancy, explain U.Va. professors Kodi S. Ravichandran and Jeffrey J. Lysiak.
By Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor and author of "Why Don’t Students Like School?"
... Neuroscience can contribute to education—it has already done so, especially in our understanding of reading and why some students have difficulty learning to read. ...But most of what you see advertised as educational advice rooted in neuroscience is bunkum.
By Bernard Frischer, a professor of archaeology and classics, is the director of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory at the University of VirginiaThis year saw the end of the five-year-long trial here of Marion True, a former antiquities curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The case against her – for the purchase of art allegedly looted from Italy – petered out inconclusively when the Italian statute of limitations expired.The Getty is hardly the only American institution to be accused of buying art of dubious origin. In recent years, the Metropolitan Mus...
When Ray Scheppach steps down after 30 years as executive director of the National Governors Association to become a Batten School professor of practice, "the capital will have lost one of its most knowledgeable and valuable public servants."
"Keeping people in the dark about how much we like them will increase how much they think about us and will pique their interest," concludes new research co-authored by U.Va. psychologists Erin Witchurch and Timothy Wilson.
A long-term study conducted by U.Va. scientists shows that Virginia’s trout streams are rebounding from acidification, though not as fast or as thoroughly as waters in some other parts of the country. The results were derived from a series of extensive surveys of water quality, conducted in 1987, 2000 and 2010.
After a year that tested both the physical virtuosity and emotional solidarity of the UVA lacrosse program, men's coach Dom Starsia was named NCAA Men's Coach of the Year by FieldTurf, a sports surface manufacturer. Starsia last received the award in 2008.
David Germano
Associate professor of religious studies
Utah native, Tibetan book collector Smith dies
Ellis Gene Smith, the son of a Mormon family from Ogden, Utah, who is believed to have compiled the largest collection of Tibetan books outside of Tibet, has died in New York at age 74. ...Tibetan is one of four great languages in which the Buddhist canon was preserved, David Germano, a professor of Tibetan studies at the University of Virginia, said last week.
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Edward Lengel
Editor-in-chief of the Papers of George Washington
Virginia History 101: The Yorktown Camp...
Edwin Burton, an economics professor at the University of Virginia and a trustee of the state employee pension fund, criticized cuts to the fund. "The fund is underfunded. Borrowing from it just made it more seriously underfunded," he said.
Retirement, said Hemingway, is "the ugliest word in the language." For former UVA President John Casteen, one of the most pleasant phrases in the language might be "board appointment."
Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced Casteen as an intended appointee to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Board of Trustees. And judging by the other board members—including "medical thriller" author Robin Cook and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—it looks like a heck of a time!
“I certainly would never recommend them to a young student over a community college,” David Breneman, a professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and former dean of its school of education, who has studied the University of Phoenix, said in an e-mail. “For older adults with jobs, I think they provide a valuable option. For younger students without prior college experience or a job, I think they provide little value added.”
... Findings contained in the 2010 update of the landmark "The State of Our Unions" report on marriage show that more and more, intact first marriages are becoming the social domain of the well educated. ... report editor W. Bradford Wilcox, who teaches sociology at the University of Virginia, reports that many in the middle class are abandoning marriage for cohabitation.
Estimates vary about how many Virginians will be eligible and will sign up for Medicaid. The University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center estimates that 464,000 will be eligible, and between 240,000 and 339,000 will enroll in the first few years.
... What combination of factors impels one person to think of another as potential mate material? Newly published research suggests one potent element in the mix is mystery.
“Keeping people in the dark about how much we like them will increase how much they think about us and will pique their interest,” a research team reports in the journal Psychological Science. University of Virginia psychologists Erin Witchurch and Timothy Wilson, and Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert provide evidence for this thesis in the form of a cleverly designed experiment.
Newly published research about romantic attraction confirms what mothers have been saying for generations: don't give it all away. “Keeping people in the dark about how much we like them will increase how much they think about us and will pique their interest,” claims a new report in the journal Psychological Science. A research team made up of Erin Witchurch and Timothy Wilson, two University of Virginia psychologists, and Daniel Gilbert, a psychologist at Harvard (and the author of the very good "Stumbling on Happiness"), conducted an experiment on 47 female undergradua...
Landscape architecture professor Kristina Hill discusses how Virginia lags far behind in planning for climate change, while losing coastline to sea level rise faster than any other state besides Louisiana. She offers several potential solution examples.
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Jan. 11: The University of Virginia picks its first female president. Her first six months will not be easy.