“This CNN ‘draft’ feels like something akin to the NBA draft lottery or the release of the NCAA tournament bracket,” says Kyle Kondik, who serves as managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. Which makes a kind of sense, he says: “Both politics and sports have long seasons, voluminous statistics, and, most importantly, quantifiable winners and losers.”
The University of Virginia community is mourning the loss of a long-time law professor and prominent benefactor. Mortimer Caplin passed away last week at the age of 103 at his home in Maryland.
The City of Charlottesville has completed another step in its commitment to addressing climate change by formally submitting its newly adopted greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal as part of 2019 reporting cycle on its Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy commitment. The city, Albemarle County, and UVA are each making new commitments on climate action concurrently through 2019.
Big UVA fan? Now you can broadcast it on your license plate. A limited-edition Virginia license plate is being offered to celebrate the University of Virginia men's basketball team's 2019 national championship win.
Five Virginia universities, including UVA, have teamed with Virginia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Development Services to support prevention and treatment programs and collect and analyze data related to the crisis.
Elizabeth Tikoyan said when she was diagnosed with Lyme disease, she learned how lonely having a medical condition can be. Which is why she founded the Riley App and formed a team through UVA’s i.Lab to make it come to life.
Steve Swanson will begin his 20th season in charge of the UVA women’s soccer program next month. He spent this summer as an assistant coach for the U.S. women’s team during its run to a second straight Women’s World Cup title.
Mortimer Caplin, an eminence of tax law who propelled an often-low-profile bureaucratic position into the national spotlight while serving as President John F. Kennedy’s hard-driving and charismatic commissioner of internal revenue, died July 15 at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He was 103. He spent 33 years on the faculty of the UVA School of Law and jokingly credited his Internal Revenue Service appointment in 1961 to his “good judgment – the good judgment to have both Bobby and Teddy Kennedy as students at the University of Virginia and to pass them both.”
Back in 2017 when Donald Trump reneged on our national commitment to fight climate change by pulling out of the Paris Agreement, a bunch of U.S. states formed a coalition to push back. But the states that decided not to join are the ones that need it the most. A new analysis of existing data sets, released Tuesday by data scientists at the University of Virginia and their software partner, Brightest, found that the states absent from the alliance – such as Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina – will be the ones most negatively impacted by climate change.
A 2018 report published by Purdue and University of Virginia researchers found that people are satisfied at $95,000 (R1,375,894) – but also that emotional well-being was satiated at between $60,000 (R869,000) and $75,000 (R1,086,232).
The U.S. Department of Energy is recognizing the University of Virginia for its efforts to make energy-efficient upgrades.
Behind green fencing along University Avenue, construction on UVA’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers is well underway. On Tuesday, the school offered a tour of the site and a chance to learn more about efforts to recognize the critical role of enslaved workers in the construction, design and operation of UVA in its first 50 years.
Now 50 years later, even college students are building their own spacecraft to be launched into orbit. UVA is one of three Virginia universities that will be monitoring student-built nano-satellites, called CubeSats, released into space in early July by astronauts at the International Space Station.
Charlottesville’s list of memorials is popularly dominated by two statues of Confederate generals, but in the next five years, local officials hope three new monuments will reshape the landscape. Words etched in granite, on display during a tour Tuesday, will form the focal point of the University of Virginia’s Memorial for Enslaved Laborers.
"As we age, our brain becomes different, but it doesn't stop. The brain is still working," said Dr. Laurie Archbald-Pannone, UVA associate professor of geriatric medicine and medical director of the geriatric clinic at the Jefferson Area Board for Aging. "Aging is not a disease. It's part of the normal process of life," she added.
The University of Virginia is ranked among the 50 colleges providing students the highest average salaries for their tuition dollars.
It was the tale of two things that had never been done before. A year ago, the Virginia Cavaliers became the first No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed. That loss to UMBC set in motion one of the greatest redemption stories in sports in recent memory, and maybe ever.
The Cumberland Forest Project has acquired a total quarter-million acres of working forest land in the central Appalachian coalfields of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, The Nature Conservancy announced in a Monday morning press release. Also, the release states, The Nature Conservancy is working with the University of Virginia’s College at Wise “to assess opportunities to support local businesses and community development projects that are sustainable and nature-based, including but not limited to outdoor recreation and tourism, forestry and the reclamation of abandoned mined lands.”
It will be a monument to honor the memory of enslaved laborers who worked mightily for decades to execute Jefferson’s vision for his Academical Village.
Officials at the University of Virginia say that while the college overshot its target first-year enrollments, its facilities are ready for the additional students. The Daily Progress reports UVA was expecting to enroll 3,924 students for the Class of 2023, slightly higher than its target of 3,750.