Area veterans who are looking for help with their benefits can check out a free legal clinic that will be taking place Thursday. The law firm of Goodman Allen Donnelly is putting on the clinic in partnership with the University of Virginia School of Law.
Why was last week’s speech on LGBTQ rights “the most difficult” of LDS apostle Dallin Oaks’s career?
(Commentary) On Friday, Dallin H. Oaks, a counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke before a small crowd in the University of Virginia Rotunda and said that his remarks constituted “the most difficult address I have ever undertaken.”
University of Virginia employees have more time to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The Biden administration revised the deadline. All University employees, including those working remotely, must be fully vaccinated by Jan. 4. The date was initially Dec. 8 of this year.
Charles Raymond Kaut, 95, passed away in his sleep on Nov. 7 in Charlottesville. He overcame deep loss as a youth, grew up fast, joined the Army in World War II, and touched many lives in his family and as an anthropology professor at the University of Virginia, in the Philippines, and on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona.
(Co-written by Aaron S. Evans, professor of astronomy) In approximately 5 billion years, as the sun expands into a red giant star roughly the diameter of Earth’s orbit around it, our galaxy will collide with its nearest large neighbor, Andromeda. As gravity draws the pair toward each other for a close encounter, stars will be ripped from their orbits to make spectacular tails, and gas and dust will be squeezed toward the approaching nuclei, destroying the stately, grand spirals that have existed for almost three-quarters of the age of the universe.
October turned into one of the best months for Charlottesville-area hotels since the pandemic began, according to occupancy data and other revenue information. October had two University of Virginia home football games, where available hotel rooms on Friday and Saturday were more than 95% full. UVA proved to be a boon for area hotels throughout the fall.
(Commentary) Though he is little known today, Gov. William M. Fishback was one of the most recognized and polarizing political leaders in post-Civil War Arkansas. Though his gubernatorial administration was lackluster, Fishback successfully led the movement to repudiate the state’s debt in 1884. Known as “the Great Repudiator,” he ruined Arkansas’ already shaky credit worthiness, then promoted an issue which divided the years. William Meade Fishback was born Nov. 5, 1831, in Culpeper County, Va., the first of nine children born to Frederick and Sophia Yates Fishback. He grew up in a prosperous...
Martha Williams played polo at the University of Virginia. It’s a distinctive sport that, much like the oversight of wildlife and public lands, demands both finesse and the spine to stay in the saddle. The Maryland native then ventured more than 2,000 miles west to attend law school in Montana, and she’s been moving back and forth in state and federal policy circles ever since. Now, at age 54, Williams is back East again, where her experience managing tricky challenges atop the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks helped launch her nomination to head the Fish and Wildlife Service.
A former University of Virginia student was recently pardoned by governor Ralph Northam for a crime he committed while at the school. Now, he’s using his story as an opportunity to uplift youths who may be struggling. “One isolated incident can turn into a whole host of negative consequences and a spiral of negative behavior, “ former UVA student, Jared Brown said.
In 2009, Jared Brown was a first-year student at the University of Virginia and had everything going for him. “I was honored by the NAACP as the most outstanding first-year student,” he said. Named a campus leader, Brown was recognized by his professors for his outstanding work and accomplishments. But everything changed in an instant.
[UVA alumna] Diana Wilson, CEO of Yielding Accomplished African Women, has won the award for Female Innovator of the year at the Africa Tech Festival Awards 2021. The festival is the biggest and most influential tech event on the continent.
Former Capt. Geoffrey Hansen, whose 82nd Airborne Division unit had been assigned to the 34th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade during the missile strike, said some of the troops who served with him during a 90-minute Iranian ballistic missile barrage in Iraq almost two years ago suffered real injuries and deserve more recognition than they received. “These were people who were hurting bad but sucked it up,” Mr. Hansen, now a graduate student at the University of Virginia, told The Washington Times.
Koch said some community members were specifically concerned about neighborhoods at risk of displacement near the University of Virginia. The UVA Student Council weighed in on these displacement pressures in regards to the FLUM, releasing a letter last month that addresses the university’s legacy of gentrification. It was co-signed by 20 student organizations and includes five testimonials from UVA students about their individual struggles finding stable, affordable housing in the city. “Student Council decided to weigh in on the City’s Comprehensive Plan and FLUM because UVA students have his...
The Northside Library will be hosting a special event focused on a major Native American tribe from Virginia. The Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, JMRL and the creators of Cvillepedia will host the two-part event on Tuesday beginning at 5 p.m. The first part will be a presentation by Jeffrey Hantman, a University of Virginia professor of Anthropology and author of “Monacan Millennium: A Collaborative Archaeology and History of a Virginia Indian People.” He will be talking about his book and work on the Monacan Indian Nation.
Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on Sankaran Venkataraman from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
(Commentary) Some commentators, such as professor Megan Stevenson at the UVA School of Law, have opined that the law professors here misused their credentials to “advocate for change.” Stevenson said that academics should not be advocates, except when it comes to areas where there is “certainty and unity.”
(Podcast and transcript) The guests include Erin Putalik, an architectural historian at the University of Virginia whose work revolves around ideas of what wood is or should be, and the history of how forests are used and considered in architectural frameworks.
(Podcast) Also: does knowing your family history affect your identity? Among the guests is Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology.
The diagnosis piqued the curiosity of Dr. Matthew Meyer, a critical care physician at the University of Virginia and a sustainable health care expert. “I am fascinated by the diagnosis of climate change -- it is a powerful statement...” Meyer wrote in an email to MedPage Today. “We do need to ensure that a diagnosis of climate change is always accompanied by other appropriate and more immediately actionable diagnoses. We need to make sure our patients are aware of any individual actions they can take to help their own health. A patient cannot individually manage climate change, and we want to ...
The enormity of that challenge will be apparent on Nov. 17, when the administration will hold a court-ordered offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, said Cale Jaffe, director of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic at the University of Virginia. The book-ending of the U.S. methane pledge and the lease sale on either end of COP26 “provides a perfect example of the challenge of converting the COP26 agreements into meaningful domestic law and policy,” Jaffe said.