The views of the alt-right are widely seen as anti-Semitic and white supremacist. Most of its members are young white men who see themselves first and foremost as champions of their own demographic. However, apart from their allegiance to their "tribe," as they call it, their greatest points of unity lie in what they are against: multiculturalism, immigration, feminism and, above all, political correctness. "They see political correctness really as the greatest threat to their liberty," Nicole Hemmer, University of Virginia professor and author of a forthcoming book “...
(Commentary) Many people, including me, think block scheduling is an attractive but unproductive fad. A 2006 UVA study said students in high school block schedules did somewhat worse in college sciences than those who had regular schedules.
UVA students are working with a nonprofit to increase the national pool of bone marrow donors.
UVA leaders are considering options for reducing tuition costs for students, possibly by dipping into a multibillion-dollar strategic investment fund.
This year, 14 academics and writers – most from the commonwealth – were chosen to receive a quiet, private office in Charlottesville to work away from the usual demands of their lives, according to Jeanne Siler, assistant director of the fellowship program. Each fellow is given a $15,000 stipend to help with the cost of living and they are granted the status of UVA faculty to use the libraries and other resources.
“What they’ve done is, they’ve used these light, stiff structures in a way that makes the whole structure deformable,” says Haydn Wadley, a UVA professor of materials science and engineering who works on deformable, but strong lattices of shape-memory alloys. “This is the kind of thing, you could imagine a wind turbine that changes the shape of an airfoil to determine the amount of energy it sucks out of the wind.”
UVA’s ROTC programs are honoring American service members. The annual vigil march began Monday at the McIntire Amphitheatre.
The UVA community is remembering a trailblazing professor who dedicated more than four decades of his life to the school. Sunday, hundreds of people came together for a memorial service to celebrate the legacy of Ruhi Ramazani.
Other scholars have looked at leader attributes such as age, experience and gender and found that they affect how leaders behave in office. In their book on the subject, Michael Horowitz, Allan Stam and Cali Ellis found that in democracies and mixed regimes, older leaders – particularly those over 70, Trump’s age – are more prone to aggression. Traits such as age may interact with core beliefs to affect how leaders make decisions.
One demographic celebrity endorsements may have impacted: Young people. “I don’t believe there is anyone in Hollywood or the entertainment industry who could produce a large number of votes for either Clinton or Trump,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Now, maybe some celebrities can get more millennials out to vote, since they lag in turnout.”
Now that Election 2016 has come and gone, the politics of Election 2017 are already moving into place. But will Corey Stewart be able to replicate what Trump accomplished in Virginia on Super Tuesday? Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics is skeptical. “Many other people are gong to try to mimic Trump because obviously he’s been successful. But I’m not sure anybody else can actually be Trump. Just because it worked for him doesn’t mean it’s going to work for you."
Twitter likely had a significant impact on the presidential election, and one UVA class has been studying the campaign through social media.
Singer and Trump supporter Pat Boone thinks the Republican’s presidential win is a slap in the face for Hollywood's top stars. And Larry Sabato, director of UVA's Center for Politics, said Trump’s defeat of Clinton proved that Hollywood has no real influence over politics.
(Commentary by Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) Well, what can we say – we blew it.
The 2016 Virginia Film Festival continues to build off the success of previous years and, this year, set yet another record. The festival sold an all-time record high of 32,443 tickets with ticket sales generating $207,076. This year was the seventh consecutive record-breaking year for the event.
Students from all over the country are putting their minds to the test at UVA’s Darden School of Business. Students are in charge of picking a theme, while asking themselves three important questions: What is the company doing? Are they making money? Is it valuable to the marketplace?
The results of Tuesday’s presidential election have some UVA students looking for a safe space. The university’s Student Council has opened the doors of the auditorium in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library to those feeling distraught over the results of the election.
The Accelerated Master’s Program in systems engineering at UVA is a class that runs about a year and helps military veterans and working professionals to learn skills in engineering and business.
A team from UVA won the first-ever Passcode Cup, a digital capture-the-flag challenge co-hosted by Passcode and Cal Poly Pomona. Cyrus Malekpour, Collin Berman, Ellis Tsung and Reid Bixler won the four-hour hacking challenge.
(By Philip Potter, an associate professor of politics and in UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and Tony Lucadamo, lead policy analyst at UVA’s Miller Center) It’s a good moment to note that presidential transitions are precarious moments for U.S. foreign policy.