“Fishing With Dynamite” will premiere Sunday at the Virginia Film Festival. Bobby Parmar hopes its message will change the way business is done in Silicon Valley, on Wall Street and beyond.
UVA’s P. Todd Stukenberg has discovered a previously unknown structure inside our cells that helps prevent cancer. This knowledge could improve cancer treatment.
Members of the UVA-Community Working Group will serve on the new council, which will focus on four priorities: jobs and wages, affordable housing, health care and youth education.
This year’s festival will run from Wednesday through Sunday, bringing more than 150 films, plus actors, filmmakers and special guests, to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia.
Members of the UVA community are participating in the second year of “Double Take: Stories That Make You Think Twice.” The event takes place Thursday in the auditorium in Old Cabell Hall. It begins at 4 p.m., is free and open to the public.
The new program represents the first significant, comprehensive changes to the College’s undergraduate curriculum in more than 40 years.
Also in this roundup: Medicine, Nursing schools win diversity honor, former poet laureate and lacrosse coach both earn lifetime achievement awards, and you might meet an Aramark superstar at UVA Dining.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver headlined a Friday forum, discussing the current controversy in China, the NBA’s expansion worldwide and the importance of purpose-driven business.