According to a new study at the University of Virginia, unconscious stereotypes about men being better in science may contribute to gender gaps in science and math performance around the world. One of the professors leading the study, Dr. Fred Smyth visited the Newsplex for Thursday's UVa Today segment to talk more about the study. (Video available here.)
In her new book, "The Catalyst: How You Can Become An Extraordinary Growth Leader," [Darden professor Jeanne] Liedtka, presents a series of 54 original case studies of managers who have cracked their corporate codes and beaten the professional doubters at their own game.
Patients who had previously exercised regularly before a stroke occurred were significantly more likely to have milder impairments and, thus, were better able to care for themselves, compared to patients who rarely exercised. … The researchers looked at data collected by scientists at four centers — Mayo Clinic''s campuses in Jacksonville and in Rochester, Minn.; the University of Florida and the University of Virginia — who participated in the Ischemic Stroke Genetics Study.
How well do you know yourself? It's a question many of us struggle with, as we try to figure out how close we are to who we actually want to be. In a new report in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologist Timothy D. Wilson from the University of Virginia describes theories behind self-knowledge (that is, how people form beliefs about themselves), cites challenges psychologists encounter while studying it, and offers ways we can get to know ourselves a little better.
Textbooks are nice, but nothing beats a history lesson that includes original documents, eyewitness accounts and participants, a group of Virginia teachers is finding out this week. The 19 educators from across the state are learning about Massive Resistance -- Virginia's attempt to keep from desegregating schools in the 1950s and 1960s -- as participants in the annual weeklong E. Claiborne Robins Jr. Teachers Institute at the Virginia Historical Society. … Today, the teachers travel to the Capitol to watch part of a daylong symposium on Massive Resistance that is being put on by the Ce...
… At the 2009 National Conference on Social Norms Approach, Dr. James C. Turner, a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia, presented data stating “that negative consequences of alcohol consumption, including injury, fighting, regretting behaviors, losing memories of events and unprotected sex, all declined between 2002 and 2006.”
U.S. News & World Report has ranked three medical specialties at the University of Virginia Health System in the magazine’s 20th annual survey of “America’s Best Hospitals.” Endocrinology, cancer and ear, nose & throat specialties are ranked 12th, 39th and 47th in the country, respectively.
James Driscoll
Pro golfer
Driscoll’s path had sharp turns
Boston Globe / July 16
Tom Marshburn
NASA astronaut who earned a master's in engineering from U.Va.
NC native aboard space shuttle Endeavour
Associated Press / July 16
Richard Morgan
Former Cavalier basketball standout
BC hires former Virginia star Morgan
Bluefield (W.Va.) Daily Telegraph / July 15
Chuck Rosenberg
Law School graduate
US Department of Justice: Chuck Rosenberg Named Interim Chief of Staff
Press release / July 16
Kelly Lersch
Undergraduate student in the College
Revisiting John Calvin's Reformation on 500th Anniversary
CBN News / July 16
Daniel Bluestone
Architectural history professor
Downtown Mall bricks prove not so suitable
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 16
Anita Clayton
Professor of psychiatry
Coping with sexual woes
WTVR-CBS-6 (Richmond) / July 16
Russell Riley
A presidential historian at the Miller Center of Public Affairs
Czarist America
FrontPageMagazine.com / July 16
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Virgil Goode raised $154 for likely 2010 bid
Lynchburg News & Advance / July 16
New research suggests that children who learn to mind their mind their P’s and Q’s may also have an easier time learning their ABC’s and 123’s. In a new study conducted by the University of Virginia’s Claire Cameron Ponitz and Oregon State University’s Megan McClelland, the researchers found that kindergartners who had high levels of “self-regulation” in the fall did better on tests of reading, vocabulary, and math in the spring when compared to children with low levels of self-regulation. What is self-regulation? According to Dr. Ponitz, self-re...
A University of Virginia official confirmed Wednesday that at least seven people contracted the swine flu at a recent UVa summer camp. … UVa officials suspect that a quick response to their camp’s swine flu outbreak — which occurred in late-June and early July — seemingly restrained the problem.
Nationwide, universities, high schools and elementary schools are launching initiatives … testing whether electronic texts that can be viewed on e-book readers or on laptop computers can cut costs and improve learning. This fall, Amazon.com Inc. is sponsoring a pilot program for its large-screen Kindle DX e-reader with hundreds of students across seven colleges, including Princeton University and University of Virginia.
Instead of video games and skateboards this summer, middle school students from three D.C.-area universities — Bowie State, Howard University, and University of Virginia — created their own mind-bending fun at a special event held during a two-week summer science camp adventure on the campus of Howard University. With topics of discovery such as a mission to Mars, robotics, energy and the environment, the free camps are designed to spur the imagination of today’s students and encourage them to pursue careers in math and science.
Competition is so steep to get into Virginia’s top colleges and universities, like the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary, that students with excellent grades and SAT scores, plus many other accomplishments, still have been unable to win acceptance to the schools of their dreams. But those students who really want a degree from a particular Virginia school can control their own fate by first enrolling at Northern Virginia Community College.
.... Tomorrow at the Capitol, the University of Virginia's Center for Politics will convene a conference on [Massive Resistance] and its legacy. Throughout the episode, Richmond Newspapers played a central role -- but not a centering one. The hour was ignoble. Editorials in The News Leader relentlessly championed Massive Resistance and the dubious constitutional arguments justifying its unworthy cause.
Budding lacrosse players who participated in the inaugural Victory Lacrosse Premier Training Camps last week discovered ways to improve their game with help from members of the University of Virginia's men's lacrosse team.
Myron Steele
Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court
Delaware's Art of Judging
Watching the Watchers / July 15
Vern Yip
U.Va. alum and judge on TV's "Design Stars"
'Designer Stars' must prove versatility
The Hub / July 15
Kellen Fowler
Incoming law student
BYU's Kellen Fowler receives MWC's highest honor
Brigham Young University (press release) / July 14
Jeanne Liedtka
Darden professor
Learning From Goldman Sachs's "Catalysts"
Washington Post "On Leadership" blog / July 14