William & Mary and the University of Virginia School of Law provide assistance to law students who take low-paying public service legal jobs after graduation. Through the UVA School of Law Loan Forgiveness Program, qualified applicants may be eligible to receive benefits equal to 100% of loan repayment obligations for their law school loans.
At the University of Virginia, undergrads contemplate the big questions that drove Tolstoy and other Russian writers by working with young inmates in a maximum-security prison. That course illustrates the power of learning by teaching -- not by lecturing but by designing an experience in which other people are likely to learn deeply.
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the University of Virginia have announced this year’s recipient of one of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals. This year’s recipient of the Architecture award is Francis Kéré, who is known for his communal approach to design and commitment to sustainability.
Contemporary architect Francis Kéré, known for using sustainable materials and construction methods while incorporating a sense of locality and community in his designs, has been named the winner of the 2021 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced that Francis Kéré is the recipient of the 2021 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced that Francis Kéré is the recipient of the 2021 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
Scientists and doctors from around the country answered questions about the coronavirus vaccine as a part of a COVID-19 Vaccine Education Town Hall series hosted by the American Society for Virology. On Tuesday night, two UVA doctors got a chance to share their expertise.
When the COVID-19 crisis began in early 2020, [UVA alumnus] Dr. Danny Avula was the joint director of the Henrico County and Richmond health departments, a big job placing him in charge of public health for more than 560,000 residents. However, in early January, the scope of Avula’s responsibilities widened considerably after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam tapped him to become the state’s vaccine coordinator.
The roots of the Division of Perceptual Studies stretch back to the 1920s, when Dr. Ian Stevenson was growing up in Canada. … His academic career flourished in the U.S. and he was named chair of UVA’s Department of Psychiatry in 1957, while still in his 30s. Around that time, he revived his childhood interest in the paranormal.
Harrison “Chief” Nesbit II passed away on February 24, 2021, at home. Chief graduated from the Greenbriar Military Academy and then attended the University of Virginia. As a co-captain of UVa’s football team, assistant coach, and long-time president of the Virginia Student Aid Foundation (now the Virginia Athletics Foundation), Chief loved UVA, especially its football and basketball programs.
D.C.-based software engineer Taylor Poindexter has worked in tech for eight years, starting out as an IT consultant and working her way to different roles before coming to a crossroads that’s experienced by many Black women — and many Black people who enter tech: Is the juice worth the squeeze? Is this career in tech worth all the hurdles and setbacks that only seem to happen to them? Fresh out of the University of Virginia in 2013, Poindexter got a job at an IT consultancy as an automation engineer. It was the job nobody wanted to do. For Poindexter, that meant it was the job she was gunning ...
The Philadelphia Phillies on Monday made an important roster decision in advance of Opening Day as they sent veteran outfielder Odubel Herrera to the alternate site. In turn, that means [UVA alumnus] Adam Haseley and Roman Quinn will make the active roster to start the season, and they’ll likely form a platoon in center field.
On a bright sunny day, Mary Johnston can catch a glimmer of light. [The UVA alumna] is very matter of fact about the fact she is blind, as it is a process that has been taking place since she was very young. She feels blessed, particularly when she thinks about others who have the same set of circumstances she does but don’t have the finances to take their lives to a higher level of comfort, or education. Most sighted people truly don’t know how expensive books and computers for the blind are, or that having those things makes all the difference in the world. That is why Mary and her husband D...
The most successful spies will always be a mystery to people, especially those they interact with daily. They keep their head down, do their jobs well, but not fantastically. And they never show their hands. Ana Montes knew this well. Montes (a 1977 UVA graduate) worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency as an analyst. She rose in the ranks and proved to be the agency’s most senior Cuban researcher. But she had a secret: She was spying for the Cubans.
“What the heck did you do to my kid?” Cynthia Warmbier’s anguish erupted at a hearing in December 2018 as she testified about her reaction to seeing her comatose son, Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, when he returned to the U.S. from North Korea in June 2017.
The future of the historic Corner at the University of Virginia could be car free, according to one student. He claims it would be good for students, the school, and the community. Right now, the Corner is split off from the Rotunda and other UVA buildings by University Avenue. In an op-ed in UVA’s student-run paper The Cavalier Daily, third-year student Noah Strike argues that in the future, traffic could be routed around it, letting walkers and bikers fill the space.
For the first time ever a transgender Asian American candidate has won an election to become the student president at a major east coast university. Abel Liu made his hometown of San Anselmo in Marin County proud as he won with 80% of the vote to become the University of Virginia student council President.
When we acknowledge things as they are, especially in difficult situations, our resistance to them can lessen, says Dr. John Schorling, the director of the Mindfulness Center at the University of Virginia. We tend to expend a lot of energy worrying about life’s challenges, which can sometimes cause more suffering than the challenge itself.
A volunteer-led phone bank has been helping the Blue Ridge Health District get people 65 or older registered for vaccines. The phone bank, which kicked off this month, was organized Kelsey Cowger, with Kathryn Laughon from the University of Virginia School of Nursing and Dr. Paige Perriello, with the goal of doing proactive outreach that health district staff didn’t have the time to do.
Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia who has followed state politics for 50 years, said such large fields for governor and lieutenant governor are unprecedented in modern times.