The University of Virginia has announced that it is creating an endowed professorship to honor the late Julian Bond. Professor Bond, who was a civil rights pioneer and led the NAACP for 12 years, taught at the University for 20 years.
The article profiles a virtual driving simulator experience offered by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles in partnership with the UVA Health System’s Virginia Driving Safety Laboratory.
Supermassive black holes are usually hidden away at the center of galaxies. But researchers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have discovered a black hole surrounded by relatively little galactic material. It's nearly naked, they say. "We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes, with one offset from the center of a galaxy, as telltale evidence of a previous galaxy merger," James Condon, a scientist at NRAO and UVA astronomy professor, said in a news release.
For more details of the China-Hollywood Film summit and recent development of Chinese movie industry, CCTV America’s Mike Walter spoke with Aynne Kokas, assistant professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies.
International Business Times called this week the managing editor at "Sabato's Crystal Ball," the UVA Center for Politics' non-partisan campaign newsletter that predicts election results. Kyle Kondik tried to help make sense of the election and the last-minute push from the candidates to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
Former presidents have generally endorsed their party's nominee, but there are instances of some dragging their feet or distancing themselves, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
If she is elected, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s distinction as the first female president will almost certainly be accompanied by an asterisk noting she is also the first presidential candidate ever to assume office while under federal criminal investigation. “You will have no honeymoon,” UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash said. “You will have people who think that a criminal got into the White House again.”
Donald Trump has closed the gap with Hillary Clinton in many national polls, but he faces a far tougher challenge in the Electoral College, analysts said Wednesday. “We still see Clinton winning. You can reasonably argue about the size of the victory – and there are many contrary indications – but she’s still the clear favorite,” said Professor Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Co-written by Aditya Bamzai, a UVA associate professor of law) Is the FBI director independent of the White House? Successful directors are not tools of the president, and they understand that the FBI functions best when it maintains its distance from politics. In the end, though, the FBI director serves at the president’s pleasure.
The 29th annual Virginia Film Festival begins Thursday with more than 120 films to be shown over four days. Festival Director Jody Kielbasa said the event boasts a particularly strong lineup this year.
UVA and the Inova Health System announced a major partnership Wednesday that will include a $112 million research institute and a regional U. Va. School of Medicine campus at Inova.
Inova Health System and the University of Virginia Wednesday announced plans for a new research partnership and plans to bring a regional campus of the university’s medical school to Northern Virginia.
“There is a whole lot of healing that needs to be done after the election,” he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, shortly before he spoke at the University of Virginia, his son’s alma mater. “All this division that has been created needs to be dealt with so we can all recover as a nation, come together and move forward.”
A new UVA report shows about 10 percent of students in this state’s public schools are absent for three weeks or more each year, and in three large districts the rates were even higher.
U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. focused on the importance of both quality and access to preschool learning in the nation during the 12th annual Walter N. Ridley lecture at UVA’s Alumni Hall on Wednesday.
Virginia’s public colleges and universities will share the pain of closing a $654 million budget shortfall in the next fiscal year.
Megyn Kelly had Republican strategist Karl Rove and UVA poll prognosticator Larry Sabato on Tuesday's “Kelly File” to assess the state of the presidential race. In the Real Clear Politics average of polls four years ago, Mitt Romney was up 0.8 points and Obama won by 4 points, Sabato said. "So while I use polling averages, I also admit that they can be off, too. Nothing's perfect."
A clinical study performed by UVA researchers discovered that switching baby formulas is safe and well-tolerated by infants.
Inova Health System is nearing a $112 million deal with the UVA School of Medicine to bolster its effort to become a national leader in genomics and cancer research.
Hundreds came to hear Khizr Khan speak Tuesday evening at UVA’s Old Cabell Hall. Three months ago Khan rose to international renown following his appearance at the Democratic National Convention, where he famously offered to lend Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump his pocket-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution.