A UVA student club, led by an engineering professor who’s helped make autonomous car racing an international sport, will be among the first to compete with a self-driving race car at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The University launched the one-time 2020 UVA Bridge Scholarship to help students whose parents or caregivers suffered pay cuts, furloughs or even job loss because of the pandemic.
The idea came out of last month’s “White Coats for Black Lives” rally, as attendees asked how they could help local children at risk of falling behind on STEM education during the pandemic.
For generations, it’s been an honor to live in one of UVA’s historic Lawn rooms for most fourth-year students. Now students with special needs will get to share in that honor, too.
UVA’s Democracy Initiative has launched an op-ed series bringing its research to the nation’s newspapers, from the Washington Post to the Dallas Morning News; The New York Times to the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
One in an occasional series about the findings of the president’s commissions on Slavery and on the University in the Age of Segregation. This installment examines the false narratives of statues, including the George Rogers Clark statue.