Many students like the ones at the University of Virginia were unable to have a summer job or internship last year due to the pandemic. According to GlassDoor, the number of summer internships hiring in May of last year was cut almost in half. With uncertainty still high for this year, the university is working to make sure it doesn’t happen again, by launching the Hoos Internship Accelerator.
Bright lights are shining on University of Virginia Grounds at the University Chapel. Friday night was the first night of the “Brighter Together” show series. Throughout the year, various UVA landmarks will be lit with the projection show. The projections play on a loop for hours, and will next move to the Rotunda.
Washington University administrator Robyn S. Hadley will be heading east this summer to take a position at the University of Virginia. An associate vice chancellor and dean for scholar programs at the school, Hadley will become UVA’s vice president and chief student affairs officer.
(Photo essay) Students embraced at a vigil for the victims of the Atlanta shootings at the University of Virginia.
This is the moment the Virginia swimmers have been looking forward to for the past two years. For the school and the ACC, the wait has been quite a bit longer. Virginia’s youth movement has tipped the balance of power in swimming to the ACC for the first time as the Cavaliers are the first NCAA champions ever from the conference.
Paige Madden won three individual events to help Virginia clinch the NCAA women's swimming and diving national championship on Saturday, the first title for the Cavaliers and the ACC. The senior, who was named MVP of the event, won the 500-yard free, 200 free and 1650 free along with one relay title, as the Cavaliers took the crown convincingly with 491 points, 137 points ahead of second-place NC State.
For the first time ever, an ACC team brought home the NCAA Championship trophy in swimming and diving as the Virginia women absolutely dominated the competition. The Cavaliers finished with 491 points, 137 points ahead of their closest competition.
(Commentary by Joy Pugh, executive director of the Virginia College Advising Corps at UVA) If you’ve thrown up your hands attempting to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, you’re not alone. FAFSA completion rates are down almost 10% in Virginia as compared to the same date last year. That statistic by itself would be disconcerting, but it only tells part of the story.
Thanks to efforts from a UVA law clinic, people accused of crimes soon will be able to present evidence of their mental state at the time of an alleged offense, which proponents argue will add much-needed context to court proceedings.
UVA doctors on the front lines of patient treatment and research say the success of current COVID-19 vaccines, added to the effectiveness of viral self-defense measures such as mask wearing, could drastically reduce the impacts of respiratory viruses in the future.
Omran Sharaf, who earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 2005 and his post-graduate in science and technology policy from the Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, in 2013, had always dreamt in his formative years to work on a project or a mission that was related to space.
Gas prices are up a whopping 34 cents from last month and local drivers say they don’t like it. "I came here today and I was just like ‘what.’ Pretty sad about it. I’ll try to be a little more hesitate, but I drive home a lot. I live in Northern Virginia and I visit my family a lot, so I’m gonna have to take the 'L' [loss] here," said Ahmed Hassan, a local driver and student at the University of Virginia.
Some graduates continued with their original plans, moving on into higher education. One such student is Livie Nute, who last spring had already committed to attend the University of Virginia in the fall. “Last summer, I went back and forth whether I should apply for a gap year or just go ahead and hope there are some fragments of normalcy,” she says. Livie decided to go ahead with her original plans and is now in her second semester at UVA. “It’s been great and I definitely don’t regret my decision.”
(Commentary) Liberal University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock (in whose class I once sat) has recognized the breathlessly slim religious liberty exemptions that could still be maintained by religious schools post-Equality Act:”Schools would still have the ministerial exception … which should protect them with respect to teachers teaching a religion class, or leading chapel services, but courts have generally held that other teachers are not ministers for purposes of the exception.”
News articles, opinion pieces and Twitter hot takes comparing the two have proliferated in the past week. “#Cuomo is pulling a Northam,” tweeted veteran political analyst Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
The split between corporate PACs and big-money donors and the growing number of grassroots donors "reinforces that the biggest divide in today's Republican Party may be between the elites and the base," J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, told Salon by email. "While some higher-up Republicans — such as Sen. Mitch McConnell — have, at times, hinted that they'd want the party to move beyond Trump, the base seems perfectly comfortable supporting — and donating to — Trumpian candidates."
The astronomers studied the cloud at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths, which demonstrate that the Antlia object is indeed a supernova remnant. In particular, the visible light shows spectral signatures of shock waves, which result when high-speed gas from a supernova slams into gas around it. “The evidence for it being shocks in a supernova remnant seems to be very good,” says Roger Chevalier, an astronomer at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville not involved with the new work. He notes that the team detected red light from sulfur atoms that are missing one electron, a hallmark of ...
Last month, Marlene Daut, a professor of African diaspora studies at the University of Virginia, called out mainstream publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian for including phrases about Haiti being the “poorest country in the Western Hemisphere” in their coverage.
Anhthu Nguyen, a geomonics research specialist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said that in order to move past hate crimes it is important to address the racism that causes it. Different races experience discrimination in differently, she said, but the next step toward overcoming racism and hate crimes is combining power across marginalized groups in America.
“I hope the infrastructure will be of a more fundamental nature than was the case in Obama’s ‘shovel-ready’ investment projects. That is to say, projects need to be carefully thought out to yield high returns over an extended period. These are not ‘stimulus’ measures. Though they stimulate demand to some degree, that is not their primary purpose. Their purpose is to expand the potential of the economy to grow,” Eric Leeper, an economics professor at the University of Virginia, said.