In a keynote address last night at the Federalist Society’s annual student symposium, hosted this year at the University of Virginia, Republican governor Glenn Youngkin focused his remarks on the value and importance of federalism and state government.
(Editorial) Our best-known universities are awash in students. The University of Virginia received a record 51,000 applications from high school seniors this year; Virginia Tech has received 45,000, also a record; and the College of William & Mary’s enrollment is up 4% since 2017. The trend mostly is going in the opposite direction at our less-well-known schools.
The University of Virginia is extending President Jim Ryan’s contract. The UVA Board of Visitors voted unanimously Friday to extend Ryan’s contract through July 31, 2028. This adds three years to his agreement with the University.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia this week awarded $535,000 in funding to the University of Virginia, Old Dominion University and Marymount University for the Innovative Internship Fund and Program, also known as the Virginia Talent+ Opportunity Partnership. UVA and ODU will each receive $250,000 to connect employers with students and increase the number of paid internships and other work-based learning opportunities.
The University of Virginia terminated women's basketball coach Tina Thompson's contract with one year remaining, the school announced Thursday. Thompson, a WNBA legend, was named head coach in April 2018; the search for a new coach will begin immediately.
Raleigh internet personalities Kim and Penn Holderness won Season 33 of CBS’s “The Amazing Race,” crossing the finish line first in Wednesday night’s season finale, and walking away with $1 million. Penn went to the University of Virginia.
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1939: Kitty O'Brien Joyner is NASA's first woman engineer
Kitty O’Brien Joyner broke ground twice in 1939. After suing to be admitted into the University of Virginia’s engineering program, she was the first woman to graduate from the program that year. The electrical engineering knowledge she gained let her blaze a new trail several months later when NACA, the predecessor to NASA, hired her. She worked there for decades, eventually becoming branch head, before retiring in 1971.
The memories of Katie Couric, who went on to be the first woman solo anchor of “CBS Evening News” and later had her own talk show, have come to light due to her recent memoir, “Going There.” Although she only scantly mentions her time attending UVA, there is one line in the book that hints of her possible friendship with some Chattanoogans. Their views of her are not that much different from those of America, who found her outgoing and usually smiling manner appealing overall.
(Commentary by Esther Eriksson von Allmen, a third year student at the University of Virginia, studying political philosophy, policy and law, and a writing fellow for the Nation.) Since the 1990s, the nonprofit sector has ballooned into a massive industry, now representing the third-largest employer in the US economy. For students and college graduates hoping to “do some good” while also getting paid and gaining important career skills, the allure of the nonprofit world is potent–especially today, when young Americans face unprecedented levels of debt and high living costs.
Darden students ask for it. They aren’t under any delusions when they signed up. Dissecting 500 or more case studies? Bring it on. Intense class preparation followed by withering Socratic questioning? They wouldn’t have it any other way. That’s because Darden MBAs want to become leaders.
At watch parties on her University of Virginia campus, and at those hosted by her parents in Burke, the excitement level ran high, encouraged by Megan Sullivan’s quarter-final win. By making it from the quarter to the semi-final round, she raised her prize money from $10,000 to $20,000. Although she didn’t make it to the finals, Sullivan said, “I was proud because I think I played much better in the semi finals, especially coming so close to unseating the champion in the whole tournament [Singh].”
According to education theorist E.D. Hirsch, there are some questions that all of us should know the answer to. Hirsch’s 1987 book “Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know” sets out the case for a knowledge-rich curriculum. “Facts are what you need to read properly, and to learn more, and to communicate,” the professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia has said.
Christopher Ali, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia, says “the major reason why this spending has not solved the digital divide is that we’ve had a policy system that has favored the larger incumbent providers. We’ve trusted the largest telecommunications companies to connect the country and they’ve failed miserably.”
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America has warned, “DO NOT put hydrogen peroxide into your nebulizer and breathe it in. This is dangerous. It is not a way to prevent nor treat COVID-19.” The group warned “hydrogen peroxide can be toxic if ingested.” Other medical professionals have issued similar warnings about the technique. Dr. Taison Bell, Director of the University of Virginia Health’s medical intensive care unit said, “This is not sound medical advice and I’m surprised someone in the medical profession is recommending it. Hydrogen peroxide is harmful to your body.”
Researchers at the University of Virginia have identified a potential way to battle the health effects of obesity and type two diabetes in women. “We wanted to see if we could treat obese the mouse with this small drug which could potentially help the female mice at least to reduce their fat mass and increase their metabolic phenotypes,” PhD with UVA’s Center for Public Health Genomics Qianyi Yang said.
On a sunny Thursday afternoon, descendants of people enslaved in Charlottesville sang, danced and celebrated the liberation of their ancestors at the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers on the University of Virginia Grounds. The event was hosted by Descendants of Enslaved Communities at UVa, an organization of people who have ancestors who were enslaved at the university. The descendants were joined by friends and supporters eager to celebrate the day.
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The Virginia legislature has passed a bill guaranteeing college athletes the ability to sign name, image and likeness deals, putting the General Assembly’s stamp of approval on an enterprise that took shape last summer. The bill, passed 96-4 by the House on Wednesday, requires colleges to allow NIL deals and sets guardrails on the types of contracts athletes can sign.
Clint Sintim was at Dulles International Airport, about to board a flight to visit a recruit, when he learned – through a Zoom meeting – that his boss, Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall, was resigning at the end of the 2021 season. “I just froze,” Sintim said. “I wasn’t sure what to do.” Eventually, UVA hired Tony Elliott and Tech brought in Brent Pry. Those coaches had the chance to observe the former staffs work with the team during bowl preparations and keep the program steady during the transition.
As a junior writer and strategist at marketing agency Compadre, Alisha Kohli’s expertise now includes strategic ideation, creative development, and copywriting, not to mention her experience as an intern in analytics and artist management. The young creative double-majored in media studies and economics at the University of Virginia, which she says was a ‘formative experience’ due to the people she met.
For months before the bombs started falling, Hayden Bassett watched over the cultural riches of Ukraine – the cathedrals of Kyiv, the historic buildings of Lviv, museums across the country and the ancient burial sites that dot its steppes. Using satellite imagery, Bassett, 32, [a University of Virginia alumnus] an archaeologist and director of the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, has monitored and mapped much of the country’s national heritage as part of a civilian effort to mark the sites that could be devastated by war.