Several foundations associated with the University of Virginia are standing with the George Mason University Foundation’s effort to keep past donor contracts private.
University of Virginia officials may ask the state for permission to shift the school’s enrollment cap, a change that could mean anything from a rise in the number of out-of-state students to a rise in students for a particular major.
UVA’s Board of Visitors voted unanimously in favor of creating a School of Data Science. It will be the 12th school to be established in UVA’s 200-year history. The UVA Faculty Senate agreed unanimously with the concept last month.
Light projection as a means to protest has been on the rise over the past decade as the technology has become more affordable. It appeals to activists who want to convey a big message quickly, effectively and cheaply. As the trend has taken off, so has debate over whether light projection constitutes a new form of property trespass. The legal gap needs plugging one way or another, said UVA associate law professor Maureen E. Brady.
A new Iowa poll shows Joe Biden is still leading the pack of 2020 Democratic candidates, though support has slipped three percentage points since March – and eight since December. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, explains why the poll should be a “warning flare” to the Biden campaign.
Across UVA’s Grounds, you may spot what looks like a very tall birdhouse, but don't get too close: it's likely filled with bats. They might creep some people out, but UVA Facilities Management said they're actually a big help.
Summer smog and air pollution in central Virginia increase health risks for people with heart or pulmonary diseases. This time of year, the University of Virginia Pulmonary Clinic sees 50% more patients than usual.
In other business, the school board approved spending a total of $20,000 for college guides for Bassett and Magna Vista high schools through a partnership with the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia moved forward with several building projects on Thursday, including the School of Data Science and a new residence hall expected to ease the need for upperclassmen housing.
The UVA Board of Visitors’ academic and student life committee had a frank discussion with young Wahoos about mental health and the stresses of getting into UVA, and succeeding here.
University Hall, an arena that hosted countless University of Virginia sporting events between its opening in 1965 and closure in 2015, was imploded May 25. The video includes multiple angles of the implosion.
The female inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, almost all black, did hard labor too, as well as cooking and sewing. A few of them worked as domestic servants at the homes of prison administrators and state officials, including the governor, according to UVA historian T. Dionne Bailey. “To be a black woman incarcerated at Parchman meant that the prison had access to you – their access to you was boundless,” Bailey said.
(Commentary by Eric Loth, chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering) A network of 56,000 turbines, which are producing nearly 100,000 megawatts nationwide, has propelled the wind industry to new heights. The next potential for tremendous growth will be along our coasts, where the energy resources are even higher since the wind is faster and more consistent.
The president’s re-election could hinge on Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, said Kyle Kondik at UVA’s Center for Politics. Trump never visited Michigan to stump for James in 2018 – Vice President Mike Pence did – but James earned the president’s endorsement before the Republican primary.
Lead author Julia Lee of the University of Michigan said the research was inspired by the prevalence and high cost of employee fraud. Estimates put the cost at up to $3.7 trillion worldwide of dishonest behavior by employees. Lee and her co-authors Madeline Ong of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Bidhan Parmar of the University of Virginia and Elinor Amit of Brown University and Tel Aviv University, conducted three studies to measure whether thinking honesty takes effort could predict subsequent dishonest behavior because it helps people justify their behaviors.
States manage and oversee 529 savings plans and collect fees to do it. UVA law professor Quinn Curtis argues that since states use some of those management fees for other programs, they have little incentive to keep costs down. But the subsidies at both the state and federal level are having an impact. Between 2010 and 2017, the number of 529 accounts grew 30% to 13.6 million. The accounts now hold 30% of all college savings—with plan assets in 2017 totaling $294 billion.
On Tuesday, the UVA Health System sent an alert about a confirmed severe case of adenovirus “within the university community.” Pamela Sutton-Wallace, the CEO of the health system, said she notified readers in an abundance of caution.
In a blog post last June, UVA cognitive scientist Dan Willingham pointed out that, contrary to the emerging “failure to replicate” claim attached to the 30-million-word gap, “the conceptual idea that socioeconomic status and volume of caregiver-to-child speech has been replicated” numerous times.
In many ways, rural parts of Virginia are thriving. Median household income in rural Virginia is rising faster than in urban parts of the state. And poverty in rural Virginia is falling faster than in metro Virginia. “Rural areas are aging faster. They’re losing a lot of their adults who are retiring, and they’ve also lost a lot of young adults who are moving out," says Hamilton Lombard, a researcher at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
When Bronco Mendenhall and wife Holly stepped up and made the first contribution to a new Virginia football facility, the reaction ranged from surprise to disbelief to astonishment.