Drawing out missing works is what the exhibition’s organizing curators – Austen Barron Bailly, formerly at the Peabody Essex and now chief curator of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and Elizabeth Hutton Turner, a professor at the University of Virginia – had hoped would happen as they worked to reconstitute the dispersed series through many years of research.
Have you ever wondered what the top colleges and universities would look like if they were ranked based on alumni ratings? Thanks to a recent study derived from the largest source of representative surveying of college graduates, we have a sneak peek into what it might look like.
Ruth Kluger, whose unforgiving memoir of growing up Jewish in Nazi-occupied Vienna and escaping death in a concentration camp unsentimentally redefined the conventional mythos of the heroic Holocaust survivor, died on Oct. 5 at her home in Irvine, Calif. She was 88. She taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, the University of Kansas, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Virginia and Princeton.
Ruth Kluger, whose unforgiving memoir of growing up Jewish in Nazi-occupied Vienna and escaping death in a concentration camp unsentimentally redefined the conventional mythos of the heroic Holocaust survivor, died on Oct. 5 at her home in Irvine, Calif. She was 88. She taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, the University of Kansas, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Virginia and Princeton.
Ryan Shores grew up in the Florida Panhandle, attended Huntingdon College in Alabama, and graduated at the top of his class from the University of Virginia School of Law.
As the campaign enters its final two weeks, Florida has again emerged as a critical state, and Pinellas, one of the largest counties in the state, is one of those places likely to track the final outcome. “It shifted further to the right than the state as a whole did,” said political analyst Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) This conversation with Aynne Kokas – associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia; senior faculty fellow, Miller Center for Public Affairs; and author of “Hollywood Made in China” (2017) – is the 243rd in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
(Co-written by Karen McGlathery, environmental sciences professor) A century ago Virginia’s coastal lagoons were a natural paradise. Fishing boats bobbed on the waves as geese flocked overhead. Beneath the surface, miles of seagrass gently swayed in the surf, making the seabed look like a vast underwater prairie.
With the weather beginning to get chillier, UVA Health researchers say a spike in cases is likely on the way, as multiple factors make respiratory illnesses even more dangerous in cold weather.
Scientists see ecosystem-wide results of globe’s largest seagrass restoration. During the past 21 years, scientists at the University of Virginia and other institutions have spread more than 70 million eelgrass seeds in four previously barren seaside lagoons, spurring a propagation of underwater meadows that has so far grown to almost 9,000 acres.
You shouldn’t have to have graduated to start a business. In fact, many students are now exploring starting new business ventures as a side hustle or future career alongside their studies. Reddit, founders: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian; origin: University of Virginia.
The 2020 Virginia Film Festival – all virtual in this pandemic year – kicks off in a very Virginia way with “A Conversation with Vince Gilligan and Mark Johnson” among the Wednesday morning offerings. The conversation is hosted by UVA English professor William Little, who teaches a course on “Breaking Bad.”
The Ivy League school's new Mindfulness Center will conduct and promote research on the impact of mindfulness on mental and physical health. The University of Virginia has a Contemplative Sciences Center .
A review of “Three Rings –A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate,” published by the University of Virginia press. Originally a series of lectures delivered at the University, the book is about – and full of – circles.
The first-person article mentions both the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law and a prison entrepreneurship program offered by Gregory Fairchild, a professor at the Darden School of Business.
(Radio interview) UVA politics professor James Ceaser and other experts joined National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen to discuss the most contentious elections in American history.
Alan S. Boyd, a lawyer and chief executive who helped establish the Transportation Department and served as its first secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson, building a sprawling executive department that brought together more than 30 federal agencies, died Oct. 18 at a retirement home in Seattle. Boyd received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1948.
On Sept. 13, UVA Law alumna Antoinette Bacon was less than two weeks into her job as the region’s top federal prosecutor when 11-year-old Ayshawn Davis was shot to death in Troy. The acting U.S. attorney for the 32-county Northern District of New York, which includes Albany, parts of the Hudson Valley, Binghamton, Syracuse and up to the Canadian border, identified gun violence in the Capital Region as a top priority.
When Jason Clark played basketball for Bayside and Kellam high schools in Virginia Beach, he knew all about the girls program at Salem High. Now, he’ll get a chance to lead the SunDevils. He was announced as the new head coach Monday.
“Totally Under Control” delivers a damning – and essential – report card on the White House’s mismanagement of the pandemic. After an audio clip plays of the president declaring that the U.S. “wasn’t built to be shut down,” Taison Bell, the ICU director of the UVA Medical Center, describes feeling helpless in the face of the disease.