An illegal immigrant activism organization is hosting a week of events to train “allies,” using the experience of Palestinians in Israel as a backdrop. The student group DREAMers On Grounds at the University of Virginia are hosting DREAM Week from March 27 to April 2.
David Mick, a marketing professor at UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, teaches a “Wisdom and Well-Being” course that equips business students with philosophical concepts and mindfulness practices that can improve their professional and personal lives.
Many international students are stepping up their efforts to bring attention to international students' rights and needs. Richard Tanson, senior international student and scholar adviser in UVA’s International Studies Office, says the school "is an institution known for promoting student self-governance, so student groups play a decisive role in the life of the University supporting our international community."
Cathy Byrd sought help along the way from a UVA professor Dr. Jim B. Tucker, author of “Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives.”
Florida seems to have emerged as postseason nemesis No. 1 for a Virginia basketball team that seldom has looked as vulnerable as it did Saturday night. “I probably made some mistakes in this game,” Bennett said. “I’ve got to go back to the drawing board and figure out where we can tighten things up and be better.”
There is no easy explanation. Part is the randomness of sport. One day you’re striping it down the middle, the next you can’t find the fairway with a GPS and a guide dog. Part is the opponent. Florida, Miami, Duke and North Carolina have the size and skill to disrupt perimeter shooters. But there’s more to this, as Virginia coach Tony Bennett and his staff well know.
While doctors and patients using direct primary care might praise the model – it was hard to get anybody to suggest a group, geographic or otherwise, that they thought wouldn’t benefit from it – not everyone is sold just yet. Carolyn Long Engelhard, a public health expert and professor at UVA School of Medicine, broke down the main concerns with direct primary care.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, says Perriello's surprise entry in the contest earlier this year – Northam originally expected no serious competition in the June 13 Democratic primary – made it a race to the left.
A former network news correspondent spoke about the threat of fake news with the League of Women Voters in Charlottesville Sunday. Former CBS news correspondent Wyatt Andrews is now a professor at the University of Virginia.
Chuck Berry, who died Saturday at age 90, helped create both rock 'n' roll and modern youth culture, becoming one of the first African-American stars to win a wide white audience. Berry managed to capture "the rebelliousness, the playfulness, the irrepressibility" of a generation, said Jack Hamilton, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia and author of "Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination."
(By Bob Gibson, senior researcher at the Academy for Civic Renewal in UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service.) Relatively large numbers of Virginians in both major political parties are expected to vote June 13 in dueling party primaries for statewide, House of Delegates and local offices. June 13 promises to be the first big test of how much new political activism is being aroused in the era of Donald Trump’s presidency.
According to a 2013 economic impact study conducted by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, agriculture and forestry are two of Virginia’s largest industries with a combined economic impact of $70 billion annually.
Here’s another: A study from the UVA Health System found that men between the ages of 71 and 93 who walked more than a quarter of a mile per day had half the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, compared to those who walked less.
When law librarians at several universities and government offices began getting questions about Neil Gorsuch from their patrons, UVA’s law school decided to create a website called the “Neil Gorsuch Project.”
UVA engineering students are creating their own ground station to track spacecraft.
The University of Virginia has taken a step forward in a larger push to curb student drinking with the opening of a no-alcohol student lounge on the Corner, a commercial strip opposite the school.
This year for South by Southwest’s annual trade show, the University of Virginia’s W.L. Lyon Brown III Innovation Laboratory (i.Lab for short) brought three startups down to Austin.
The University of Virginia wrapped up the first day of its “The Global History of Black Girlhood” conference with a panel discussion on activism. The panel on Friday evening featured four political organizers who stressed the importance of building permanent, structured movements that go beyond electoral politics.
Women from all over the world are teaming up in Charlottesville to break stereotypes and analyze what it's like to grow up as a black girl. The University of Virginia hosted the two-day "Global History of Black Girlhood Conference". Organizers say they wanted to have an open conversation on the issues black girls are facing today.
Longtime CBS News correspondent and UVA grad-turned-professor Wyatt Andrews took the floor at CitySpace on Sunday to speak about President Donald Trump’s at-times-precarious relationship with the truth and the fracturing of an industry Andrews has been a part of for decades.