Republicans enjoy nearly total dominance of the Midwest. The GOP holds every governor's office in the region, save for Minnesota, as well as every legislature except Illinois. That looks likely to change soon. "The Midwest has arguably been the most competitive region in America for a very long time," says Kyle Kondik, an elections analyst at the University of Virginia. "It may be that the Midwest is swinging again."
Our responsiveness to seeing others in distress accounts for variability in helping behavior from early in development, according to a study published Tuesday in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Tobias Grossmann of the University of Virginia and colleagues.
Chris Shumway is donating $25 million to his alma mater to train bioscientists in the art of business. The gift from his foundation will support faculty and new programs at UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, from which Shumway graduated in 1988. It will also fund a new building on campus to be situated between McIntire and the medical school.
The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library wants home videos for a unique history project it is working on. The library is collaborating with the University of Virginia to digitize people’s home movies for a film on the greater Charlottesville area.
A new initiative from the University of Virginia is helping teachers across the country learn how to be better prepared to talk about diversity in the classroom.
With Election Day only weeks away, the bipartisan group NextGen America on Tuesday helped register dozens of UVA students ahead of the Oct. 15 deadline.
A $25 million gift to the University of Virginia will help merge business with medical science and health care, school officials announced Tuesday. The gift from the Chris and Carrie Shumway Foundation will be combined with $3.5 million from UVA’s strategic investment fund to create a bioscience business program. The program will be a partnership of the McIntire School of Commerce and the School of Medicine, said UVA President Jim Ryan.
A group of people who think Virginia's Eastern Shore would be a great spot to locate a four-year university is taking steps to make the dream a reality. The recently created nonprofit University of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Foundation is one step in that direction, according to Terry Malarkey, foundation president. "There are about two dozen colleges in small towns in Virginia. Then I happened upon the University of Virginia's College at Wise," Malarkey said.
A man killed Sunday in a car crash in Culpeper County was Rouzbeh Rastgarkafshgarkolaei, 27, a UVA graduate student from Iran who was researching thermo-electronics, according to UVA officials.
The discovery surprised even the longtime cold researchers who made it, including Dr. Ronald B. Turner of the UVA School of Medicine.
Headliners for the 25th annual Virginia Festival of the Book were announced Tuesday, and tickets for some of the event’s most popular programs will go on sale Thursday.
Headliners for the 25th annual Virginia Festival of the Book were announced Tuesday, and tickets for some of the event’s most popular programs will go on sale Thursday.
Official Washington is full of impasses; we are truly fortunate when we have the means to avoid them in our personal lives. One of the many rewards of living in the Charlottesville area is a luncheon date with others who share a strong interest in things nuclear. We’ve been meeting one a month or so for eight years. We are a diverse bunch. There’s Houston Wood, born and raised in Mississippi, who is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia and a renowned expert on centrifuges. He expressed deep skepticism about the U.S. intelligence community’s complian...
The University of Virginia is addressing the roles of social media in this new cyber age by carrying out research, education, and hosting a series of speakers. The series is all part of UVA's Cyber Innovation and Society Institute.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce is welcoming its new president with a reception on Monday evening. Elizabeth Cromwell will take over the position on Oct. 1. Cromwell is coming from the Chamber of Commerce in Frederick, Maryland.The University of Virginia is hosting the reception for business and community leaders to meet Cromwell at the Jefferson School African-American Heritage Center.
Harvard University, the wealthiest school in the nation, has added nearly $10 billion to its coffers through a record-breaking capital campaign. The previous record for a college capital campaign was held by Stanford University, which wrapped up a five-year fund drive in 2012 to the tune of $6.2 billion. Major capital campaigns underway include a $5 billion effort at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by Nicholas Jacobs, Ph.D. candidate) As Barack Obama has begun campaigning for Democrats in the 2018 midterms, we’ve seen a predictable partisan reaction. Former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen charged that Obama was “breaking presidential norms with his self-serving foray into partisan demagoguery.” My research, however, suggests that Obama is following a well-worn path.
In 2017, UVA renamed Jordan Hall, which had honored the prominent and influential eugenicist Harvey E. Jordan. The building is now named for Vivian Pinn, the only African-American in her 1967 class at the university’s School of Medicine and the first director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health.