Two weeks ahead of planned nationwide school walkouts to protest gun violence, school systems and universities are struggling to address questions about their protest policies. The National School Walkout on March 14 will mark one month since 14 students and three staff members were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The University of Virginia’s Student Council is hosting a walkout in solidarity, but area K-12 schools say they are still trying to determine guidelines for student participation.
The Compassionate Schools Project is a collaboration between the University of Virginia and Jefferson County Public Schools. Like the name suggests, it focuses on kindness, mindfulness, and compassion for self and others.
The Cavaliers received 48 first place votes in this week's Associated Press poll, up six from a week ago. UVA also landed the No. 1 spot in the USA TODAY Sports men's basketball coaches poll for the first time ever, receiving 17 out of 32 first-place votes.
Gregory Orr, who has published a dozen books of poems and has taught for more than 40 years at the University of Virginia, guides readers through classic poems and writing exercises he has used with his own students.
The assets include strengths and attributes of the communities, local industries and businesses, resident talent and skills, nearby community colleges and other institutions. Mapping those assets compiles — on a community or ecosystem basis — what Dr. Saras Sarasvathy, Professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, calls the “Bird in Hand Principle” for entrepreneurs. Those entrepreneurs must start with their means, which can be grouped into three categories: Who I am – my traits, tastes, and abilities; What I know – my education, training, expertise, and experi...
High stress can trigger pain and eventually injury, says Angelo Dacus, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Virginia, who specializes in hand and other upper extremity disorders. "People walk on their feet, not on their hands," says Dacus. "So when we load the wrists, it's important that we allow for a certain adjustment period."
Thomas Jefferson was never a trained architect. In the American Colonies in the 1760s, there were none to study under. But, with pen and ink and newly invented graph paper, Jefferson sketched and designed houses, universities and public buildings that would form the foundation of the new Republic. His architectural legacy is profiled in a new exhibit, “From the Grounds Up: Thomas Jefferson’s Architecture & Design,” at the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art.
A pair of Charlottesville entrepreneurs just won $10,000 from Dominion Energy to help their budding business. The duo's winning business aims to provide all homes with the means of quickly and efficiently growing their own produce. Babylon Micro-Farms, based out of the University of Virginia's startup i-Lab, plans to put the funds toward bringing a product to peoples' homes within the next year.
For 22 straight years, Virginia always showed more people moving into the state than moving out. That was a trend as seemingly permanent and reliable as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. Then in 2013, things changed — Virginia suddenly had more people moving out than in. Then it happened again in 2014. And again in 2015. Gov. Ralph Northam — and every other member of state government, be they Democrats or Republicans — ought to be asking why. They won’t have to look far for the answer. The demographers at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service al...
A new discovery about the immune system may allow doctors to treat harmful inflammation that damages the brain in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. It might also let doctors save patients from the potentially deadly inflammation of sepsis, a full-body infection that kills a quarter-million Americans every year. The finding “opens up a whole new research area to look at neuroinflammation in the context of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s,” said lead researcher Bimal Desai, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Experts from various fields met on UVA grounds to discuss disability on the spectrum of human diversity. The disabilities studies symposium started years ago because a group of people were interested in raising awareness about disability on grounds. The event focused on a number of issues relating to disability in terms of ethnicity, sexuality, and how designs of products affect people with disabilities.
Experts from various fields met on UVA grounds to discuss disability on the spectrum of human diversity. The disabilities studies symposium started years ago because a group of people were interested in raising awareness about disability on grounds. The event focused on a number of issues relating to disability in terms of ethnicity, sexuality, and how designs of products affect people with disabilities.
A new list ranks the best value colleges in the country for 2018 and 12 of those colleges are right here in Virginia, with one university ranked in the top 10. The University of Virginia ranks at 52, with the average debt at graduation: $24,598.
More than 120,000 people from Mexico and Latin America live here in Virginia without legal documents. That makes it hard for them to get affordable healthcare. Medical students and faculty at the University of Virginia are stepping up to help.
First, as high school students lead the charge for more gun control, many high school districts promised to suspend all students who join walkouts to protest gun laws. Now, the country’s top colleges are promising that if high school students get suspended while protesting, it won’t hurt their admission chances. Those institutions include Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, MIT, the University of Virginia, and Northeastern, just to name a few.
Though he didn’t know it at the time, Swanson was about to make history by both defending his right to attend the University of Virginia School of Law and becoming the college’s first-ever African-American student.
Virginia might help straighten out its future by just getting straight on its past. Virginia was the only state in the nation during that recession that declined to raise revenue to cover existing commitments.
"The question this makes very vivid is, is Xi Jinping's personal power overriding the power of institutions and the constitution?" says University of Virginia Political Scientist Brantly Womack.
Eric Herbst, Commonwealth Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy and director of the Cosmic Origins Project at the University of Virginia, talks about the program with Les Sinclair.
The Alzheimer's Association is awarding John Lukens, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Research, Neuroscience, at the University of Virginia School of Medicine a 2018 Research Grant Award. The grant award provides Dr. Lukens $149,820 over three years to study Lymphatic dysfunction and inflammasomes as drivers of Alzheimer’s disease pathology, according to NBC 29 in Charlottesville.