Student Resources

Resources for UVA Students

Commerce LibGuide: Databases, research tools, and other useful resources related to Commerce, maintained by UVA Library

https://guides.lib.virginia.edu/commerce 

Coursera for UVA: free access to UVA content on Coursera

https://online.virginia.edu/coursera-for-uva 

LinkedIn Learning: free courses covering many topics

https://www.library.virginia.edu/linkedin-learning/ 

New York Times: free subscription with @virginia.edu email address

https://news.library.virginia.edu/2021/10/06/library-offers-free-access-to-new-york-times-digital-resource/ 

Wall Street Journal: free subscription with @virginia.edu email address 

https://www.library.virginia.edu/news/2023/access-wall-street-journal-new-and-new-york-times-through-uva-library 

UVA Career Center

Anxious about Your Career? UVA Has a Center for That

https://career.virginia.edu/ 

UVA Entrepreneurship 

https://entrepreneurship.virginia.edu/ 

UVA Sustainability (classes and opportunities)

https://sustainability.virginia.edu/curriculum 

UVA Writing Center

https://writingrhetoric.as.virginia.edu/welcome-writing-center 

Virginia Alumni Mentoring: networking between students and alumni 

https://alumnimentoring.virginia.edu/v2/ 

How to be a Student 

How to Email your Professor

Careers

80,000 Hours: "80,000 Hours provides research and support to help students and graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems."

https://80000hours.org/ 

Forage: "Bite-sized 5-6 hour virtual work experience programs that give students a genuine career advantage with the world's top companies"

https://www.theforage.com/ 

Managing Family Career Expectations

https://bccareercenter.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/managing-family-career-expectations/ 

Recommended Reading (Books)

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stake are High by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, and Emily Gregory 

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman , Joe Knight, and John Case 

Getting Things Done by David Allen

How to Win at College by Cal Newport 

The Essentials of Contemporary Marketing by Mo Willan 

The Visual MBA by Jason Barron

Recommended Reading (Blogs, Columns, etc.)

Behavioral Scientist 

https://behavioralscientist.org/ 

Big Think - Business 

https://bigthink.com/tag/business/ 

Harvard Working Knowledge - Business Research for Business Leaders

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/ 

How to Build a Life (The Atlantic column) 

https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/how-build-life/ 

The Ethicist (The New York Times column)

https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-ethicist 

Work and Life (Wall Street Journal column)

https://www.wsj.com/news/author/rachel-feintzeig?mod=nav_top_subsection

Work Friend (The New York Times column)

https://www.nytimes.com/column/work-friend 

Recommended Video Resources

Recommended Podcasts

For Parents of College Students