As science increasingly becomes disputed, Dr. James Zimring, professor of pathology at the University of Virginia, explores in his new book how much people should trust what they read, learn and observe in our natural world.
The University of Virginia has 1,650 ultra high net worth alumni, with 84% deemed “self-made.” This percentage ties UVA with the University of Chicago as the institution with the highest percentage of self-made alumni.
“The idea is to hold schools accountable, but give them more control… so they can influence the policies you’re holding them accountable for,” said Beth Schueler, a UVA professor who has studied similar efforts in Massachusetts.
A study from the University of Virginia sheds light on women who obsess about a man. The study suggests that the obsession itself may actually fuel their fire. The study was published in Psychology Science and is based on an experiment conducted with female undergraduates. The researchers of this study, Erin R. Whitchurch, Timothy D. Wilson, and Daniel T. Gilbert, state that women find men more appealing if the men might like them, rather than men who definitely do. However, the women had to feel like there was some interest in the guy keeping them on pins and needles.
General Assembly, a company that teaches tech skills, is teaming up with an online-program-management company called Noodle Partners to develop boot camps with college partners. Their first deal is with UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Boulder’s Columbine Elementary and Lafayette’s Alicia Sanchez Elementary are putting in place strategies to improve achievement that were developed with an outside consultant. The principals at the two schools, along with district leaders, are working with UVA’s Partnership for Leaders in Education program.
Boulder’s Columbine Elementary and Lafayette’s Alicia Sanchez Elementary are putting in place strategies to improve achievement that were developed with an outside consultant. The principals at the two schools, along with district leaders, are working with UVA’s Partnership for Leaders in Education program.
Diverse workplaces are valuable in all manner of ways, so it’s perhaps no surprise that MIT research finds that the more diverse a workplace is, the more profitable it is. A second study, from UVA’s Darden School of Business, reminds us that this diversity should go beyond the traditional measures of gender, race and religion, and also take account of class diversity.
Americans increasingly see people with schizophrenia or major depression as a threat not only to themselves, but to others, new research reveals. The results, compiled by sociologists from Indiana University and Vanderbilt University and a psychologist from the University of Virginia, were published this week in the journal Health Affairs.
The committee was created a few months prior to the Fair Pay to Play Act, but the bill is forcing the NCAA and other states to take an expedited look at the rights of players. “I’d be lying if I [said I] had a great handle on it,” Virginia coach Tony Bennett said. “I think it needs to be investigated further. I’m all for the student-athletes having more opportunities to receive funding, whether it’s through the name and likeness, if it can be fairly equitable and doesn’t affect the game and other sports and all that in a bad way.”
The UVA Cavaliers will have a whole new look this season. Virginia kicks off the season at Syracuse on Nov. 6, the Hoos first-ever ACC game to start a season.
“Through evapotranspiration, forests recycle water into the atmosphere, so that agricultural areas downwind of large tracts of continuous forest get more rainfall than areas downwind of deforested patches,” says Deborah Lawrence, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. “Deforestation in the Amazon is likely to affect agriculture elsewhere in the Americas. Massive amounts of carbon would be lost to the atmosphere as trees succumb to drought and fire – all CO2 stored over centuries or millennia would go up in smoke.”
The model uses a “train the trainer” approach, so every year schools select teams to attend sessions on RULER. Those teams then go back and teach other educators at their school. While many social-emotional learning programs exist, the majority focus on the “social” side rather than the “emotional” one, said Sara Rimm-Kaufman, a professor at the University of Virginia who studies SEL programs. But RULER, she said, is one of the exceptions, with a strong focus on emotions.
(Video) Young patients at the UVA Children's Hospital have something new to take their minds off their treatments. Carter Myers Automotive Valley Dealership representatives dropped off a truckload of toys and activities on Tuesday. The donation is the result of September’s Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
The University of Virginia studied the state’s threat assessment program in the 2014-15 school year, and found the vast majority of cases were not determined to be serious.
The Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust, known as CHEST, is now a National Science Foundation research center. Around 15 undergraduate and Ph.D. students are leading the center’s work. The students work with industry and government partners to understand which devices are at risk of cyberattacks.
Dennis Yang, professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, said he has spoken with Chinese business executives who are bracing for a lengthy battle. "The business community has been prepared for more of a long-term fight," Yang said.
(Commentary by Peter Norton, associate professor in UVA’s Department of Engineering and Society) Among advocates of safe, sustainable, and bike-friendly mobility, the Netherlands has long been the success story to point to. But in English-speaking countries – especially the car-dominated United States – how useful is the Netherlands as an example to emulate?
Flu researchers jokingly say, "If you've seen one flu season, you've seen one flu season." The point being, of course, no two flu seasons are alike. "It's a difficult disease to provide very long-term predictions on, which is why it is an active area of research," UVA professor Dr. Bryan Lewis wrote.
(Commentary by Saikrishna Prakash, a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law) We have seen this movie before, and I am fairly certain how it will end. Barring some potential massive revelation, President Trump will not be leaving the White House prior to January 2020.