14. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA: The bachelor’s in chemical engineering emphasizes professional opportunities awaiting its graduates by offering three separate curricula: the broad curriculum, the biotechnology and biochemical engineering curriculum for learners wanting to specialize, and the pre-med curriculum for learners aiming for medical school. Learners may choose to work with specific professors on extensive research projects across their four-year stay at UVA.
The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business has announced the launch of a new, Washington DC-area part-time MBA program. The new program, which will be operated out of Arlington, Virginia, will be delivered in a part-time format and is designed for working professionals. The program duration can vary, depending on each student's needs and time availability. The length can range from 28 to 48 months, and the school says the most common path will likely take 33 months.
The federal Drug Free Schools and Communities Act was passed in 1989 and prohibits marijuana use or possession anywhere on public college campuses, regardless of state laws. Other commonwealth institutions including the University of Virginia, Radford University and Virginia Commonwealth University will continue to similarly ban on-campus marijuana use. Students may possess or use marijuana off-campus as long as they are in compliance with state law.
Federal agencies are working to root out extremists in their ranks without encroaching on civil liberties, Biden administration officials said Wednesday during a University of Virginia event while discussing a new national plan for combating domestic terrorism.
Despite the understandable attention paid to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, “lone actors,” not large groups, pose more of a domestic violent extremism risk and are more likely than foreign terrorists to act on their own, aides to President Biden said yesterday at an event hosted by the University of Virginia’s newly announced Karsh Institute of Democracy.
UVA baseball players walked through a small crowd of fans from their hotel out to their team buses Tuesday, many making sure to stop to greet one of their biggest fans before boarding the bus. Parker Staples, a 12-year-old who signed with the UVA baseball program in 2018 soon after a bout with cancer, was in Omaha to support his favorite team. “Unbelievable that I got to go,” Parker said. “It was like a dream.”
A Virginia attorney and law professor filed a federal lawsuit against the government of Louisiana's capital city Wednesday, saying police there sought a court order that could land him in jail him for releasing video of a questionable arrest and the warrantless home search. UVA law professor Thomas Frampton's lawsuit says Baton Rouge police sought a contempt of juvenile court ruling against him, even though there was no juvenile court case involved, and the video at issue had been part of a public court record for months.
The University of Virginia’s community radio station has received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to create an online jazz history curriculum aimed at high school and early college students. WTJU in Charlottesville will develop the curriculum using content from “Jazz at 100,” a jazz history show that the station aired from 2017 to 2019.
(Commentary by Molly Harry, Ph.D. candidate studying higher education with a focus on intercollegiate athletics) Being a college sports fan while also studying college sports is a difficult space to navigate. College sports has some issues.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said the fact that Sinema is “not as liberal as the rest of the Democratic caucus” may help her in the future. But it is unclear how many times she can vote against her own party without it having long-term consequences.
(Commentary) This would seem a curious time for Catholic bishops to start harassing the U.S. president. Mr. Biden is only the second Catholic in the White House, and the first, John F. Kennedy, helped the church gain wider cultural acceptance. “Prejudice against Catholics declined and millions were exposed to church rituals,” tweeted Larry Sabato, the University of Virginia political scientist. “Church leaders welcomed the ‘JFK effect.’ Now at last there is a 2nd Catholic @POTUS, and what do some in the hierarchy do? Ruin it.”
Kennedy, of course, championed the separation of church and state before winning the presidency in 1960. As University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato noted yesterday, the church "benefited enormously" from the JFK presidency -- prejudice against Catholics declined -- and church leaders welcomed the "JFK effect."
Professor Paul G. Mahoney at the University of Virginia wrote that “ESG disclosure mandates risk eroding the Commission's reputation as an effective and respected nonpartisan regulator” and that such public policy focused mandates “appear to prioritize the social and political views of the largest Wall Street asset management firms over the financial wellbeing of the households whose savings they manage.”
Almost three years to the day since he broke into the offices of the Capital Gazette’s Maryland newsroom and fatally shot five journalists, jury selection began Wednesday in Jarrod Ramos’ murder trial. A psychiatrist and professor at the University of Virginia, Dr. Gregory Saathoff will testify at some point during the trial that he has determined Ramos is criminally responsibility after viewing his jail cell and speaking with Anne Arundel County Detention Center personnel about his behavior.
Selena Cozart and Frank Dukes, mediators with the University of Virginia’s Institute for Engagement & Negotiation, congratulated the board, the committee and the National Trust on their historic partnership. “We hope that the brave conversations that nurtured new relationships and that led to this truly momentous agreement will inspire other organizations to action,” Cozart and Dukes said.
Some experts argue that divorce should be hard, so that spouses try to reconcile. “Marriage is an important factor in fostering better social, emotional, and economic outcomes for our kids, adults, and communities,” says W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “For those kinds of reasons, I think we should be concerned about the erosion of civil marriage in the United States since the 1970s, when no-fault divorce took off.” He supports a universal three-month waiting period for a divorce, and an advantage in the division of assets and ch...
A global minimum corporate tax would eliminate, or at least reduce, incentives for companies based in one country to move parts of their operations to other countries with lower tax rates. According to an estimate, about 40% of the profits earned in 2017 by multinational companies around the world was funnelled into tax havens. A global minimum corporate tax would aim to change that. “The idea is, if you have to pay 15% no matter where you declare your income, there’s no reason to put your income in a zero-tax jurisdiction,” Ruth Mason, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said. “If ...
(Video) Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at UVA Health, discusses the rest of the coronavirus headlines of the day.
(Commentary co-written by Fiona Greenland, assistant professor of sociology) After a year of hibernation, the art market is making up for lost time. But dealers, collectors, and artists are reemerging into a changed landscape after the NFT upstart Beeple sold his opus “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days” at Christie’s in March for $69.3 million—the third highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist at auction.