(Commentary by business administration professor R. Edward Freeman) There are many reasons for the ascendency of stakeholder-thinking in business. Some have even argued that “stakeholder capitalism” is the new narrative that better describes how businesses can be successful. While there has also been a great deal of skepticism around this proposed change in narrative, it is worth a more careful look at why the ideas of Milton Friedman seem to fall short in today’s world, on this occasion of the 50th anniversary of his essay “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits,” pu...
People of color have been hammered by the coronavirus, but achieving racial equity in the vaccine rollout may be easier said than done. An anesthesiologist and critical care physician at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Hilton, 38, was notified she'd be among the first in the nation to get a new, federally approved emergency vaccine to protect her against COVID-19. Soon after she received the notice, Hilton, who is Black, posted a video about it on YouTube, practically radiating optimism.
Daniel Cox, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and internal medicine is testing a new, wearable device that tracks blood sugar levels in real time as someone eats or is physically active.
Traveling south just past Charlottesville is the home of our third president, Thomas Jefferson. Located on top of a mountain is Monticello, which means little mountain in Italian, the centerpiece of the plantation. During his retirement, he became increasingly obsessed with higher learning institutions. Specifically, he was interested a place free of church influences where students could specialize in many new areas not offered at other universities. The realization of Jefferson’s dream was the University of Virginia that started admitting students in 1825.
A study by the University of Virginia School of Medicine found that the loss of lactobacillus caused by stress is directly related to early symptoms of depression. Increasing your yoghurt intake could help counteract these effects.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have published a study showing a promising approach to using drug repurposing to treat genetic diseases. Mingna Liu and Xiaorong Liu of the University of Virginia are among the paper’s authors.
In 2017, Dr. Brian Smith and the University of Virginia’s Engineering Department leadership team did something that would signify a radical shift from decades of long-accepted academic practices, and in doing so invite students to view their careers in an unprecedented light. They brought civil engineering and systems engineering together into one comprehensive department that is focused on advancing the complex engineering systems that support the quality of life for people and communities.
The Pro-Art Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael McNulty to the position of Executive Director beginning January 1, 2021. Michael McNulty, current chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, will continue to teach and direct in a limited role within the UVA Wise theater department while becoming only the fourth leader in the nonprofit’s 44-year history.
Don Green, Chief Executive Officer of The Napoleon Hill Foundation, has authored a new book, available for pre-order on Amazon and at other fine book retailers. Green served as president of his county’s Chamber of Commerce and president of the Foundation Board of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise—a position in which he still holds. Green is also a board member of the UVA/Wise Board of Trustees.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar District Cup Collegiate Design Competition has announced that the University of Virginia is among the collegiate institutions competing as finalists in the Class of 2021 program.
The University of St. Andrews was founded in the year 1413 and is now among the top-ranked universities in the UK and the world. Students can amass educational and cultural experience by participating in any of its exchange programs which it conducts in partnership with myriad universities such as the University of Toronto, the University of Virginia, and Georgetown University.
Laura Ingraham has signed a multi-year deal to remain at Fox News Channel, where she will continue to host the popular prime-time show "The Ingraham Angle," the network announced on Wednesday. Ingraham is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia School of Law.
“Tech companies often believe that because they are innovative they operate outside existing rules, but just like Uber has to grapple with taxi and labor laws from a different era, Robinhood has to navigate the rules that apply to brokers,” said Quinn Curtis, who teaches securities and venture capital at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Claudrena Harold, a professor of African American History at the University of Virginia, counts the victory of Davis-Younger as part of recent trend of Black women being elected to powerful positions in different levels of government. “Without question, she stands on the shoulders of millions of African-American women who have worked to deepen the wells of democracy,” she said. “Her election underscores the changing demographics of not just Northern Virginia [which just four years ago was GOP-dominated] but the larger nation.”
Addressing the persistence of cueing is a challenge that goes beyond curricula, said Emily Solari, a professor of reading education at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development. “We have generations of teachers who haven’t been provided adequate training on how to teach reading, through no fault of their own,” she said. “There are multiple things you have to push on—and just changing one curriculum, even a widely purchased and used curriculum, it’s not a silver bullet.”
“In my opinion, the most intriguing part of this study is the detection of an object in the ‘mass gap,’ which is a sort of no-man’s-land between the heaviest neutron star and lightest black hole masses we’ve measured,” Thankful Cromartie, an astrophysicist at the University of Virginia and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory who wasn’t involved with the new study, wrote in an email to Gizmodo. “Unfortunately, it’s impossible to say which it is, partially because the ‘tidal deformation,’ or neutron star stretching, that’s usually detectable in neutron star mergers is drowned out by this me...
Early this year, The New York Times reviewed more than 10,000 published decisions and dissents during the first three years of the Trump administration. It found that the president’s picks for the appeals courts were more likely than past Republican appointees to disagree with peers selected by Democrats, and more likely to agree with their Republican colleagues, suggesting they were more consistently conservative. An updated analysis of more than 1,700 opinions published over the first six months of the year shows that the trend has intensified as the judges have established a larger body of ...
“Investing resources and building partnerships between Black and Brown communities and corporations that are not exploitative, but are truly generative, that’s lasting change,” Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts, author of “Race, Work and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience” and a business professor at the University of Virginia, said. “It’s helping to build businesses and business owners who are from the community, and will continue to serve that community and extend beyond that community,” Roberts explained.
One of these posts makes a series of misleading claims to craft an intricate theory of how Trump could still win the election despite losing both the electoral and popular votes. Multiple legal experts and academics told us that the post is not based in fact. It’s "somewhere between fantasy and hogwash," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
(Video transcript) University of Virginia Associate Professor of Surgery, Dr. Michael D. Williams, joined Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the rollout for the new COVID-19 vaccine and the importance of its accessibility to the public.