Research in psychology and behavioral economics, however, suggest that it’s better to skip the tour. The reason shows that such tours are counter-intuitive: They may hinder students’ ability to pick a college that will further their interests and goals. It boils down to the inability of our present selves making good decisions for our future selves. The current self, which is making the decision on where to attend college, believes we are good at making decisions for the self experiencing the outcome of this decision in the future. But researchers from Harvard and the University of Virginia ar...
One of Dr. Ashlee Hurff’s patients is a refugee who enjoys reading, but has a tough time finding books in Charlottesville written in Arabic. So Hurff and other doctors at the UVA Medical Center’s International Family Medicine Clinic decided to create the Little Free Library in the Family Medicine Clinic’s waiting room.
“Republicans are far less likely to believe in group rights or identity politics,” says Jennifer Lawless, a UVA political science professor. “Structurally, the biggest challenge that needs to be met is to provide incentives to the Republican Party.” One of the biggest incentives to Republicans, Lawless notes, is the risk the party faces in losing independent women, a major voter demographic.
Rita Dove, professor of English, a former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and the magazine’s former poetry editor, wrote about the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., a center of the civil rights movement.
An urgent new report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published last week in Geneva, Switzerland, highlights “what has been true all along,” Deborah Lawrence, an environmental-sciences professor and tropical-ecosystem expert at the University of Virginia, said. “We cannot make our climate goals without stopping deforestation and better managing agriculture.”
An urgent new report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published last week in Geneva, Switzerland, highlights “what has been true all along,” Deborah Lawrence, an environmental-sciences professor and tropical-ecosystem expert at the University of Virginia, said. “We cannot make our climate goals without stopping deforestation and better managing agriculture.”
An excerpt from Orr’s memoir, “The Blessing,” first published in 2002 and being reissued this month by Milkwood Editions. “The real task of a trauma victim – the task that makes life worth living again – is to reconnect the self to the world,” Orr wrote.
One recent study by UVA’s Benjamin L. Castleman and another colleague included nearly 5,000 low-income students. The researchers found that 70% to 72% of students who received a nudge intervention – whether from a peer mentor or via a text message – successfully enrolled in college, compared with 68% to 70% of students who did not.
(Video) The UVA School of Nursing is using the anniversary of the white supremacist events to create a more inclusive place. Students, faculty and staff gathered Monday for a Crane-Folding Luncheon. People wrote their intentions to make the community a more respectful place for all onto colorful pieces of paper and then folded them into birds.
“Why do we study African American history? You can’t understand what’s operating white supremacy without understanding the black people they’re responding to,” Claudrena Harold, a professor of African American and African studies and history, said Monday during a panel about the history of black Charlottesville and how African Americans have responded to the 2017 white supremacist rallies.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s strategy of slow-walking moves to impeach President Donald Trump depends on fighting first in the courts to see how much more evidence Democrats can get. The reality, though, is that litigation may take months or even years to play out, and pressure to act is building as time goes on. “They want to get this testimony and whatever documents they can get as soon as possible,” Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said of House Democrats. “But the courts do not necessarily act on the same timetable that the parties want them to.”
After a national scandal revealed that parents had paid off coaches at some prestigious colleges to manufacture a spot for their child, the University of Virginia decided to audit its own practices in a confidential review, which was made public on Friday. The inquiry, which looked at the hundreds of students considered and admitted by the Office of Admissions in the past four years, led to a set of new procedures, the university announced in a news release, which it says will strengthen the admission process for the admission of student-athletes.
The University of Virginia will no longer solicit or accept contributions from prospective athletes or their families. That policy change was announced Friday after the university conducted a review of the admission of athletes in the wake of the scandal involving people who pretended to be athletes at the University of Southern California and other institutions. Timothy Heaphy, who serves as university counsel and is a former U.S. attorney, conducted the review of the last four years of admissions.
Studies show a growing number of health systems have used clinical guidelines to better manage imaging services. The UVA Health System found that unnecessary testing fell by between 5% and 11% after implementing such recommendations.
“Institutions of higher education have a legal, as well as moral, obligation to make sure students have equal access to educational materials. It’s a civil rights issue,” said John Unsworth, UVA’s dean of libraries.
In celebration of college football's 150th anniversary, we've rounded up the 10 best college towns across the U.S. At No. 10 is Charlottesville.
Studies show a growing number of health systems have used clinical guidelines to better manage imaging services. The UVA Health System found that unnecessary testing fell by between 5% and 11% after implementing such recommendations.
All of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise’s Class of 2019 nursing graduates passed their national licensure exam, the school announced Wednesday. This 100% pass rate “is rare for any entire cohort nationally to accomplish on the first try,” UVA-Wise stated in its news release.
For years, experts have warned that we have to stop burning natural gas, coal, gasoline and other oil-based fuels if we want to slow the warming of our planet and prevent disaster, but there’s something else we can do, according to a new report. Deborah Lawrence, a professor of environmental studies at UVA, notes that people control nearly 75% of all the land on earth.
Laura Roberts, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, has studied the career paths of black female executives and found that many talk about the importance of white male champions. Still, she said, people with similar backgrounds and experiences can help each other navigate the workplace.