It’s no secret that MBAs who land jobs in private equity, venture capital or hedge funds are among the most highly paid graduates of business school. But those lucrative positions often prove elusive to both women and underrepresented minorities. To address those shortfalls, the University of Virginia’s Darden School Foundation is launching a new scholarship fund and career program to encourage and promote diverse leadership in those fields. The Breakthrough Scholars Program will target an annual cohort of up to a dozen students who apply to either Darden’s full-time MBA or Executive MBA progr...
New Darden Scholarship Initiative Aimed At Attracting Diverse Candidates To PE, VC & Hedge Fund Jobs
The University of Virginia School of Law is launching a new criminal justice reform project. Project for Informed Reform is set to begin in the spring. Students will work with experts to research and investigate criminal justice issues and make data and policy recommendations.
University of Virginia Department of Medicine Chair Dr. Mitch Rosner is adding a new bobblehead to his collection. UVA President Jim Ryan and Provost Liz Magill presented Rosner with a bobblehead based on his likeness. UVA Infectious Disease Expert Doctor Costi Sifri also got one. The bobbleheads are the university’s way of thanking Rosner and Sifri for their work during the coronavirus pandemic.
The leading site on the east coast for the study of Mormonism is now in Charlottesville. The University of Virginia Library Collections recently received a donation of more than 10,000 materials covering Mormonism’s entire history. “It’s an extraordinarily large library of 10 to 11,000 volumes, many of which are unique in collection. You see the evolution of their belief system and this is truly a rare aspect of this collection,” Kathleen Flake, Richard Lyman Bushman Professor of Mormon Studies, said.
The University of Virginia, founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, has a library rather than a chapel placed in its center—a radical idea at the time, as “universities were structured around the church,” the school’s website reads. Today, the UVA has 12 libraries and is adding a new donation to the UVA Library collections: more than 10,000 books and other print materials on the study of “Mormonism.” This study includes materials not only pertaining to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but other groups that broke away from the Church.
Many know that Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, but fewer may know that Jefferson’s participation in the founding of the University of Virginia was among the accomplishments for which he wanted most to be remembered. He participated heavily in the design of the buildings and campus including the unique choice to put a library, rather than the customary chapel, at its center. The University has since built many more libraries and among the newest additions to its collection is a unique donation of 10,000 books and print materials related to “Mormonis...
In the heat of the summer, he dons a pressed-wool tricorn hat, a white, billowy-sleeved shirt, a red waistcoat, a white-silk neckerchief, white breeches that reach just below the knee, gray stockings and straight last shoes. Grasping a brass handbell and a cloth scroll spooled on wooden handles, he booms, “Oyez, oyez, oyez!” And crowds snap to attention. [UVA Ph.D. graduate] Benjamin Fiore-Walker, 52, is Alexandria’s town crier, who for 10 years has welcomed visitors, led parades, opened events and introduced officials in his hometown.
(Commentary) Michelle Obama can read you her “Becoming,” just as Simon Callow will dazzle with Roald Dahl’s “The Twits” – the author’s voice as rich as the actor’s craft. But is either the equal of reading? Researchers say no, or not quite. Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of psychology, reports how words arrayed on the page are vital for formative readers to comprehend narrative, absorbing spatial cues to reinforce story and boost memory.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has struggled to convey his message, according to former law enforcement officials, watching as his agenda was repeatedly subsumed by headlines about politically fraught matters left over from the Trump administration. “The question for Garland is whether righting the ship of the department is mutually exclusive from moving on from Trump,” said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center.
Mike Vasil isn’t used to this. It’s only been a couple of weeks, but he usually doesn’t get the luxury of spending an elongated period of time during the summer at his home in Wellesley. Fresh off his junior season at the University of Virginia, the highly-touted, hard-throwing right-hander expects his summers to take place elsewhere in the future. The exact location is unknown at the moment, but Vasil will gain clarity on his next destination when the three-day MLB draft commences on Sunday.
In Virginia, Andrew Abbott is considered to be the best baseball player available. Abbott, a left-handed pitcher who played at the University of Virginia, has a fastball that sits in the low-90s and throws a 12-to-6 curveball that might be better than his fastball. Abbott struck out 162 in 106 2/3 innings this spring, third-best in Division I baseball.
If you enter Roots Natural Kitchen at 939 W. Grace St. on any given day, chances are it’s bustling with people, from college students in line creating their own salads to delivery drivers grabbing brown paper bags filled with grain bowls. Located in the heart of the Virginia Commonwealth University area, the fast-casual concept with its own ordering app made its Richmond debut three summers ago and has since garnered a faithful following. Originally launched in Charlottesville, Roots was the vision of young business-savvy UVA graduates Alberto Namnum and co-founder Alvaro Anspach.
(Book review by Rory McAlevy, who is studying archaeology and history and is currently an intern at the Naval Historical Foundation) How do you explore the last 150 years of British seafaring history in just one book? One shipwreck at a time, according to the author of “Breaking Seas, Broken Ships: People, Shipwrecks & Britain, 1854-2007.” Ian Friel followed “Britain and the Ocean Road,” a deft and historically sound coverage of the history of British maritime history from the Middle Ages to the Victorian period, with this work which carries the narrative into recent years.
J. Miles Coleman, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said he thinks it’s strategically wise for Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe not to speak out too much on GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin‘s invocation of critical race theory and other cultural issues. “I think that if you acknowledge it and try to kind of level with his critics on it, I don’t think a lot of his Democratic base voters would really like that,” Coleman said. “If I were him, I would just sidestep that issue and keep talking, OK well, here’s what I want to do for the rural areas or to help broadband. I think the be...
(Video) Section 230 is a provision in the United States Communications Decency Act that provides immunity for website platforms from third-party content. The major problem with 230 however, is that online platforms do not have any incentive to curb illicit and toxic content, and those harmed have no recourse in court. This panel is a part of a series examining various facets of Section 230. Panelists included professor Danielle Citron (University of Virginia Law School).
UVA associate professor of public policy Dr. Brian Williams, who organized this discussion, says bridging the gap starts with police training. "How can we be proactive in a co-active way instead of being reactive? We've constantly reacted to situations without trying to be intentional in terms of engagement with one another to address these problems," Williams said.
The lack of job security, or availability of only lower-wage jobs with limited benefits, is heavily tied to health, said Dr. Fern Hauck, a University of Virginia professor who founded Charlottesville’s refugee clinic in 2002. Her patients have reported headaches, backaches and dizziness as a result of doing work they’re not used to – which then leads to mental distress.
(Video) The U.S. has vaccinated 40% of its population against the coronavirus. The major strides in the nation’s recovery come just in time for a holiday weekend. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at the University of Virginia, joins CBSN’s Lana Zak to discuss the latest.
(Video) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at the University of Virginia, joined Yahoo Finance Live to break down the long-term and short-term impact of the delta COVID variant being in the U.S.
With the threat of the Delta variant growing daily – now surpassing 50% of all new reported cases in the U.S. – experts are increasingly sounding the alarm on the need to boost the vaccination rate. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician at University of Virginia Health, joined Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the variant and the possibility of mandating vaccines in offices and higher education facilities.