The University of Virginia’s Faculty Senate on Wednesday approved the skeleton structure of a future School of Data Science. This spring, a Faculty Senate committee has wrestled with the overall format of the proposed school, a step necessary before UVA can send the proposal to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia for approval.
The University of Virginia is rounding out its academic year by appointing Ian Solomon as the next dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, effective Sept. 1.
The city of Charlottesville is taking steps to address climate change and reduce its carbon footprint. Albemarle County and the University of Virginia are also expected to adopt new climate action goals that are in line with Charlottesville’s.
(Commentary by George K. Yin, Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law and Taxation) Congress’ pursuit of President Donald Trump’s tax returns is hardening into a stalemate between the Democratic House and Trump’s Treasury Department.
Barber spent 16 seasons in the NFL, all with Tampa Bay, after being selected by the Buccaneers in the third round of the 1997 draft out of the University of Virginia. Barber was named to the Pro Bowl five times, was a three-time first-team All-Pro and two-time second-team All-Pro.
The annual collegiate tradition of conferring honorary degrees has a long history and its fair share of critics, including Thomas Jefferson, who forbade the University of Virginia, which he founded in 1819, from handing out honorary degrees just to curry favor with bigshot businessmen and politicians.
The tuition program from Virginia529 that allowed families to prepay tuition at Virginia public colleges and universities permanently closed last month. Under the program, families could buy up to 10 semesters of undergraduate in-state tuition and mandatory fees at two- and four-year state schools. Virginia529 closed off the program to new enrollees and will restructure it. Existing Prepaid529 contracts will not be changed.
On the same field where the Cavaliers let last season’s ACC title slip away, Virginia put on one of its most dominant performances of the season against the same team that celebrated with last year’s trophy. Top-seeded Virginia beat No. 3 Notre Dame 10-4 to win its first conference tournament title since 2010.
Textbooks are not the only resource available for teachers. School districts can locally approve additional books for use in the classroom, and teachers can pull in their own materials, said Meg Huebeck, director of instruction at UVA’s Center for Politics. But that requires time and expertise teachers may not have, Huebeck said. Her department at UVA helps teachers by providing some of those resources for free.
Though a Charlottesville Circuit Court judge recently ruled on a major aspect of the 2017 lawsuit over City Council’s votes to remove two Confederate statues, several issues are still unresolved. According to Richard Schragger, a University of Virginia professor of law who focuses on the intersection of constitutional law and local government law, an equal protection defense is fairly straightforward and is intended to prevent the government from racial discrimination.
Traditionally, top White House and congressional officials were reluctant to engage in tactics that could fundamentally change the separation-of-powers playing field. Knowing that majorities in Congress shift and control of the White House changes hands, there was a clear incentive to maintain balance. “That certainly does not seem to be [Sen.] Mitch McConnell (R-KY)’s way of governing,” Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia’s nonpartisan Miller Center, said. “That’s, ‘I will do whatever I can do right now and the future be damned.'”
By 2040, according to a University of Virginia analysis of Census population projections, about half of the country will live in just eight states — which means 16 senators for one half of America and 84 for the other half. Meanwhile, according to Stanford political scientist Jonathan Rodden, partisanship closely correlates with population density — “as you go from the center of cities out through the suburbs and into rural areas, you traverse in a linear fashion from Democratic to Republican places.”
The weekend also included a cancer research symposium at the Salamander Resort & Spa. Joseph Moore, M.D., Medical Director of the Duke Raleigh Cancer Center and Professor of Hematology and Oncology at Duke Cancer Center, hosted the symposium to reinforce the urgency and momentum behind research today. Each of the Virginia Vine mission partners – Inova Schar Cancer Institute, University of Virginia Health System Cancer Center and Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center – will receive a mission grant. The V Foundation will also fund competitive team science research in Virginia...
(Commentary co-written by Sarah Turner, professor of economics and education) To make college affordable, should we create a scholarship program that gives the biggest financial rewards to students from rich families? Put that way, it’s hard to imagine such a program becoming politically popular, particularly on the left. Yet some of the “free college” plans touted by many Democratic presidential contenders would do just that. They generally would provide the largest benefits to those with the greatest capacity to pay.
If you hire top-notch architects for a high-profile project at your university, do you then have some kind of curatorial responsibility to care for it, even as tastes and needs — and presidents and trustees — change? The University of Virginia has just torn down University Hall, a round 1965 basketball arena by Anderson, Beckwith & Haible that had a spectacular ribbed roof and was eligible for both the state and national historic registers.
Games can be a highly effective way to develop, retain, and reward talent. For proof, look no further than another cybersecurity contest, the 2019 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Jake Smith and Daniel Chen, both members of this year’s winning team, interns at Raytheon (a sponsor of the event), and students at the University of Virginia, said the reason they became interested in cybersecurity in the first place was due to CyberPatriot, a similar contest sponsored by the Air Force Association and aimed at high school-level participants.
There’s also evidence e-cig users are more likely to start smoking cigarettes. Robert Klesges, co-director of UVA’s Center for Addiction and Prevention Research, says he’s most concerned with this “gateway property.” Vapers are up to nine times more likely to switch to cigarettes, he explained.
(Video) A Central Virginia woman is helping children at UVA Medical Center find comfort while they receive treatment.
At this time of year, temperatures in Iraq routinely rise into the mid-90s and in summer the record high is 124 degrees. That’s brutal for soldiers who carry heavy packs and wear body armor to protect them from bullets. A UVA team is doing research for the Department of Defense, hoping to provide information that could lead to lighter forms of protection.
(Commentary by Marlene Daut, associate professor of African diaspora studies in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies) The five heavily armed U.S. citizens who were arrested and then transported out of Haiti by the U.S. Embassy last week have been making headlines, but this account distracts from the real story. Instead of focusing on these individuals, the U.S. public should be paying attention to the White House’s highly asymmetrical responses to demonstrations in Haiti and Venezuela.