Last year, ads that tackled political issues fell flat, like an 84 Lumber ad about immigration. And some thought the recent Grammy Awards’ low ratings were because the show contained too many political moments, such as Hillary Clinton reading from the Trump biography “Fire and Fury.” People are in the mood for “political-free entertainment,” UVA marketing professor Kim Whitler said.
Incoming UVA President Jim Ryan has been added to the Virginia Festival of the Book’s 2018 lineup. On Wednesday, the festival announced that Ryan, who will take the helm at the University over the summer, will speak about life’s important questions March 24 at Paramount Theater with his friend and marathon-running coach, Mark Lorenzoni.
A new psychological study has revealed the negative effect that smartphones can have on human interaction, finding that using the devices can actually cause us to enjoy our time with others less. Carried out by Kostadin Kushlev from the University of Virginia, along with researchers from the University of British Columbia, the team looked at the effect of smartphones on the dining experienced of 304 participants with an average age of 30.
Meanwhile, UVA where white supremacists marched with burning torches the night before the rally, hasn’t seen a drop in applications since August. Undergraduate applications to the University increased 1 percent from last year. UVA formed a working group looking at ways the University could have responded more effectively to the torch-lit march. The University already has taken steps, including increasing safety and security personnel at large public events; hiring outside firms to review its safety and security infrastructure; and prohibiting open flames on campus, or campus facilities, with t...
UVA officials overhauled many aspects of its sexual-assault policies – including the hearing panel. The revised procedures, according to the top civil-rights official at the time, were "exemplary." Today, UVA’s hearing panel looks different and has different responsibilities. It’s held up by many risk-management experts as a model.
New UVA athletic director Carla Williams has named longtime Virginia administrator Nancy Rivers as a senior associate athletic director and chief of staff. Rivers has spent the past 29 years at the university. For the last 12, she was the chief of staff for the president and associate vice president for administration.
(Podcast) On Monday, Jim Kirk was named editor-in-chief of the embattled Los Angeles Times, and he vowed to bring a “fresh start” to the newsroom. But is new leadership what the paper, and the city, needs? Christopher Ali, assistant professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies and a fellow of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, weighs in.
A group of 13 graduate and undergraduate students from UVA’s School of Architecture spent last fall researching and conceptualizing proposals to redesign of Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park.
On Saturday night, current Nationals and former Virginia Cavaliers Ryan Zimmerman and Sean Doolittle were inducted into the inaugural class of the UVA Baseball Hall of Fame.
UVA no longer will consider Lambeth Field as a potential site for a new softball stadium. At a Board of Visitors meeting Wednesday afternoon, the Building and Grounds Committee voted to table the Lambeth option and move forward with three other possible sites.
The NFL’s Engineering Committee, chaired by Dr. Jeff Crandall, the director of the University of Virginia’s biomechanics program, started analyzing videos of all the concussions sustained during the 2015-16 season and plans to do the same for the following seasons.
Six international guests of Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia will be in Charlottesville for a symposium that will explore Indigenous issues in terms of the nature of art, the role of museums – and the future. “Oceans of Exchange: Art, Indigeneity and the 21st-Century Museum” will begin at 10 a.m. Friday in the Harrison/Small Auditorium.
The student-led mission is a Virginia Space Grant Consortium project and joint effort among four member universities: Old Dominion University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Hampton University.
UVA has removed Lambeth Field from a list of possible sites for new softball complex after receiving input from the community. A team from UVA held meetings with students, professors and neighbors from the University Circle and Venable neighborhoods.
College and university athletic directors aren’t among those cheering the tax overhaul. They’re among the biggest losers. Dirk Katstra, executive director of UVA’s Athletic Foundation, says that despite the stereotype that colleges are awash in money, “most Division I schools don’t make money.”
The UVA Board of Visitors will move forward with an ambitious “hospitality plan” to turn the land surrounding the Cavalier Inn into a hotel and conference center, performing arts center and classroom space.
When Thomas Jefferson, recently widowed, was appointed minister to France in 1784, he brought his eldest daughter, 11-year-old Martha, with him. Martha thrived in Paris, where, to her father’s distaste, aristocratic women were well-educated and vocal about their political opinions. Several years later he sent for Martha’s sister Maria, directing his 14-year-old slave Sally Hemings to accompany the younger girl, as her maid, on the long journey across the ocean. Paris would have been revelatory for Hemings, too: According to Jefferson’s records, she received wages for her work, and she likely w...
While hundreds of people marched through the streets of the University of Virginia’s quaint campus in Charlottesville, Va., in August, many of them in support of white supremacy, violently protesting the removal of a nearby Robert E. Lee statue, Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long watched helplessly, appalled at the events unfolding in his hometown. Long wasn’t finished. He put his money where his mouth was in September by pledging six game checks from his $1 million salary for 2017 to fund two scholarships in Charlottesville. Long, a 10-year veteran who played at the University ...
Researchers have learned that a bizarre accumulation of mutated stem cells in bone marrow increases a person's risk of dying within a decade, usually from a heart attack or stroke, by 40 or 50 percent. They named the condition clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential or, more simply, CHIP. "It is beginning to appear that there are only two types of people in the world: those that exhibit clonal haematopoiesis and those that are going to develop clonal haematopoiesis," said Kenneth Walsh, who directs the haematovascular biology center at the UVA School of Medicine.
Presidential historians at UVA’s Miller Center say President Donald Trump has an opportunity to show the country he's fit for his role at his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Presidential Studies Director Barbara Perry expects to hear plenty of positive superlatives from Trump to describe the state of the union, despite deep partisan divisions in the country. She says, however, that he has the ability to be presidential when it’s needed.