UVA had a whopping 35 UVA student-athletes make the All-ACC Academic teams, including a record 10 football players and three Scholar-Athletes of the Year.
Sophia Kedzierski’s painting of Julian Bond will be the first new portrait for President Jim Ryan’s initiative to update and contextualize the University’s historic landscape with commemorative markers, portraits and photographs.
Offers were made to 5,219 students, including 586 first-generation students; women make up 56% of the group. The notifications set off a flurry of activity on social media with the hashtag “#UVA24.”
The institute’s fifth director is a veteran Virginia political and legal adviser who has earned praise for working across the partisan aisle.
The launch of Disney Plus has created a larger conversation about the values expressed in older films such as “The Jungle Book, “Peter Pan” and “Lady and the Tramp.” Assistant media studies professor Shilpa Davé weighs in.
The inaugural Research Achievement Awards featured University leaders handing out 13 honors to UVA’s most outstanding researchers working on projects ranging “from education policy to precision medicine to police-community relations.”
The University will install a series of portraits and markers, along with new digital tours, to recognize men and women who have broken barriers in UVA’s history and provide additional historical context.
Kimberly Whitler, an assistant professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, says successful Super Bowl commercials usually have these five characteristics in common.