Former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will headline this year's Tom Tom Summit & Festival in Charlottesville. The event, moderated by Melody Barnes, co-chair of UVA’s Democracy Initiative, will discuss how women have reshaped politics, policy and power in 21st-century America – and what’s next for women as voters, candidates, and party leaders.
A UVA Health advancement is now part of a bracket challenge.An artificial pancreas system developed by the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology is among the nominees for 2019′s best medical research. It’s now part of what could be considered the scientific version of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
Treatment for cancer can be tough, and even after a doctor says the disease is in remission, patients can be depressed, worried and confused. They may live far from their health care team, but the University of Virginia is testing a way to provide reassurance and care.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, an economic consultant and a lecturer at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business)The Federal Reserve’s decision to lower the federal funds rate by 50 basis points on Tuesday is the latest indication that it is becoming an unwitting agent of the U.S. stock market.
Rooms on the historic lawn at UVA are small, and to reach the bathrooms you have to go outside, but competition for these digs – part of Mr. Jefferson’s original Academical Village – is fierce.
Ryan Zimmerman is ready for his 16th season with the Washington Nationals. The former University of Virginia star re-signed with the team this offseason to a one-year, $2 million contract (which could increase to $5 million with performance bonuses.)
J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said that a Sanders nomination would likely change how his organization rates various Senate races. “At least the initial assessment of Bernie as the nominee is that he would probably hurt in some of these competitive races like Arizona and North Carolina,” Coleman said.
Unlike many industrialized countries, U.S. workers aren’t guaranteed pay when they take off from work due to an illness. Economists and labor experts say that poses challenges for workers and employers in situations where sick pay isn’t offered, or when workers are penalized for extended work absences. “For many individuals, they can’t afford not to go to work,” said Christopher Ruhm, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia students brewed up a special partnership with a popular Charlottesville brewery to give them an inside look at the beer industry.Three Notch’d Brewing teamed up with Darden’s “School of Brew” to give UVA students an opportunity to learn how to brew beer. The brewery provides the club with the financial resources and space to create. After a month of hard work, the students release their craft beer to be sold.
Dr. David S. Wilkes of Charlottesville, Va., 63, dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, on his 1972 De Tomaso Pantera, as told to A.J. Baime. Ten years ago, I was away on business. I came home and there was this car, sitting in my garage—a complete surprise. It was my dream car. It was one of those surreal moments. I cannot explain the feeling, even today.
At UVA, Engineering Professor Osman Ozbulut has spent 15 years studying a new building material that could protect structures in the event of a quake. It’s known as memory metal, muscle wire or shape memory alloys.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan spent his Monday morning reading to kids at the UVA Children's Hospital. The reading is part of a week-long celebration for Dr. Seuss's 116th birthday.
In their new book “Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Actions,” University of Virginia professor John B. Holbein and Duke University professor D. Sunshine Hillygus examine both the reasons for low youth turnout and the changes that may make them more likely to vote.
UVA has warned students who plan to travel abroad about the virus and has “strongly recommended” that students not travel to locations with CDC or State Department high alerts. “While we have not cancelled any current or existing study abroad programs, the university will cancel any such programs, even if already under way, at any location for which the CDC sets a warning level 3, or the State Department sets a warning level 3 or 4,” Allen W. Groves, the university’s dean of students, said in a statement.
Among the recipients of this year’s ADL SHIELD Award were the local, state and federal agencies, and individuals, that investigated, prosecuted and assisted in the prosecution of James Fields Jr. The ADL recognized contributions from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia, the Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Virginia State Police, the Charlottesville City Police Department, the Albemarle County Police Department, the City of Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, and the University of Virginia ...
UVA’s Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center hosted a Black Womanhood in College Workshop on Saturday, where more than a dozen girls from Charlottesville area high schools heard from a variety of speakers and got a tour of the University’s Grounds.
Individuals and family foundations spread the wealth in 2019, giving record amounts to Virginia universities, but also assisting cancer patients, museums and out-of-work coal miners. In October, the University of Virginia announced a $100 million gift from David and Jane Walentas to help fund a new scholarship program for first-generation students.
Professor Henry J. Abraham died Feb. 26 at the age of 98 in Charlottesville. In 1972, Henry and his family left Penn and Philadelphia for Charlottesville, where he became a chaired professor at the University of Virginia in government and foreign affairs, retiring in 1997. He continued to teach in a program for 55-plus-year-old adults in courses on his specialty, the United States Supreme Court.
The Anti-Defamation League recognized contributions from a host of local, state and federal agencies, including the UVA Police Department.
The decision to tap engineers for top campus roles underscores a trend that has been unfolding for about a decade. Universities have spent the last several years broadening their engineering curriculums to emphasize skills outside of the discipline, including communication and leadership. “People thought of engineers as the pocket-protector people who couldn’t be social,” said Craig H. Benson, dean of UVA’s engineering school. “That’s really changed.”