Students who graduate from UVA in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 will have a special feature on their graduation gowns. As part of the celebration marking UVA's bicentennial, each gown will have a commemorative zipper pull down featuring the bicentennial mark.
UVA professor Larry Sabato is honoring a former executive vice president and chief operating officer of the University with a scholarship fund. It's recognition of Leonard W. Sandridge and his wife Jerry's more than four decades of dedication to the University. Sabato, the founder and director of the UVA Center for Politics, has donated $100,000 to launch the Leonard and Jerry Sandridge Bicentennial Scholars Fund.
The Leonard and Jerry Sandridge Bicentennial Scholars Fund will provide need-based scholarships to out-of-state students. Larry J. Sabato, a professor of politics and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, provided the founding $100,000 donation.
The impulse to consider a business leader for the University of Virginia presidency is not exactly wrong. But neither is it fully right. This cannot be an either/or decision. The university needs a leader who is both a talented business strategist and a knowledgeable champion of higher education.
Brian Boland, who led UVA to three NCAA tennis titles in the past four years, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down as head coach at the end of the season to become USTA Player Development’s head of men’s tennis.
UVA Facilities Management is offering apprenticeships for carpenters, electricians, plumbers and heating and air conditioning technicians. The apprenticeships are full-time, paid positions with UVA benefits.
A UVA law professor is representing a prison inmate in his fight to receive medical treatment for a life-threatening disease. George Rutherglen filed a federal lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Corrections and Buckingham Correctional Center on behalf of Elmo Reid.
(By UVA law student Erich Reimer) Colleges remain bound by the Constitution, despite often being nowadays oases away from the world at large. Even more so, colleges ought to be a place where all stakeholders on campus engage in dialogue and learn from one another. If colleges – and especially taxpayer-funded and publicly owned institutions – turn from forges of critical minds to mere assembly-line factories, then we have truly strayed far from the values of the Founders and of past generations of Americans. Colleges ought to be places where minds are opened, not closed.
UVA head football coach Bronco Mendenhall will be the keynote speaker at the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s annual luncheon April 18.
Dr. Rachel Moon, a SIDS researcher at UVA and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' SIDS Task Force, cautions that cardboard boxes are not bassinets, which have firm frames with legs or other supports. "The box companies want to do the right thing and want to make sure their products are safe," Moon says "But we're not quite there yet."
The Yamuna River runs through the heart of Delhi – India’s second-largest city, with a population of 11 million people. Sadly, pollution is so bad that nothing can live in the Yamuna, and the city has essentially turned its back on the waterway. Now, however, officials hope to change that. And University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan says UVA – with its strong urban planning program – will help. UVA architecture professor Inaki Alday is spearheading the Yamuna River Project.
It is not unusual for a president to suffer a defeat in Congress. But some experts said his presidency is off to a bad start since very few lose on their first major bill. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said, “It’s early in his presidency, and there are plenty of days and ways to recover from this. But Trump’s administration has started out worse than any in my lifetime.”
Douglas Laycock, a professor at UVA’s School of Law and a leading authority on religious liberty, said that, in general, the Presbyterian church makes clear that “individual people or whole congregations can leave, but they don’t get to take the whole property with them.”
Researchers say they have found a hormone that may help people fight off a severe form of bacterial pneumonia. According to a release, UVA School of Medicine researchers say the hormone, called hepcidin, controls iron metabolism in the body, which could help prevent the spread of the pneumonia bacteria.
With his first live town hall just days away, Rep. Tom Garrett, R-5th, already has made a name for himself, both locally and nationally, for his legislative actions and for interactions with constituents and local organizations. The town hall is set for Friday evening at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
UVA’s next president will need to have stamina, a gift for communicating and a willingness to learn about all aspects of the university, according to two experienced advisers who addressed the university’s Presidential Search Committee. UVA President Teresa Sullivan and former president John Casteen spoke candidly with the committee in separate meetings about their experiences in the university’s top office.
UVA law students have a new opportunity to gain experience in civil rights litigation. The Jesse Ball DuPont Fund recently awarded $80,000 to the Civil Rights Litigation Pro Bono Clinic, the latest clinic to sprout from a partnership between the Law School and the Charlottesville-based Legal Aid Justice Center.
Thomas Bateman, a UVA professor of management specializing in organizational behavior, conducts research on leadership, problem-solving, motivation, decision-making, personality, stress, and managerial goals. Current research projects focus on behavior and decision-making in the domain of climate change. He discusses how to talk climate change across the aisle.
It’s an important mission for an institute in the faraway U.S., the University of Virginia. It involves reviving a river we hold sacred, but one which we have been choking to death through pollution – the Yamuna.
Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston spoke to hundreds of people Sunday at John Paul Jones Arena for the third annual University of Virginia President’s Speaker Series for the Arts.