UVA will create 20 new Research Professorships in Democracy and Equity to examine underlying causes that fueled the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017.
UVA is expected to move forward with a Brandon Avenue residence hall and two utilities buildings after the board’s Building & Grounds Committee backed the projects. The Brandon Avenue project, which will add about 300 beds for upperclassmen, will be built on land previously bought and handled by the UVA Foundation.
Before Georgia O’Keeffe became famous for her abstract paintings of bones, flowers and desert landscapes, she went through an evolution. Part of that evolution took place in Charlottesville during the summers of 1912-1916. A new exhibit at UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art highlights this unexplored period of her life.
A new state report suggesting ways to curb the soaring cost of health care for Virginia’s prison inmates offers ideas worth considering – and even expanding. Another suggestion is to work more closely with state health systems at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia.
What could research more aligned with industry priorities look like? For one idea, look to UVA. During the Amazon search, the university proposed a $31 million computational-modeling and simulation initiative that would virtually test designs and experiments, according to a proposal to Virginia’s economic-development group.
State Del. David Toscano has held his 57th District seat for more than a decade, but now a UVA professor has announced her candidacy to challenge him. On Wednesday, Sally Hudson hosted her campaign launch party at Champion Brewing Company in Charlottesville and says she’s running to bring a fresh take and more progressive values to Virginia's 57th District.
An economist at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center in May said that the economic benefit of the health sciences campus alone would grow from $214 million today to $462.2 million within eight years, and that the second building would create 828 new jobs by 2026.
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with U.S. peers at UVA, the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University, have made a breakthrough in cell mechanics that may help scientists understand better how cells perform their biological duties in vivo.
In the winter of 2013, Chris Long wanted to do something different. On a whim, he went to Tanzania with teammate James Hall and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. What Long saw became the basis for Waterboys, the signature initiative through The Chris Long Foundation dedicated to providing clean water to impoverished East African communities.
The benefits of an active and healthy sex life go far beyond simple stress relief, and those additional benefits will help continually support your mental health, according to UVA psychology professor James Coan. He told NBC News, “Being in an intimate relationship correlates to healing faster, getting sick less often and living longer."
Hager attended St. Christopher’s School in Richmond. After high school, he enrolled at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, where he earned his MBA. He went on to work for Constellation Energy before joining the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts firm in 2011. He is currently a director at KKR.
In this week's Political Tuesday, Barbara Perry from UVA’s Miller Center spoke about how perceptions of President George H.W. Bush have changed since he left the presidency in 1992.
A UVA professor is planning to challenge Del. David J. Toscano, D-Charlottesville, in the 2019 Democratic primary. Sally Hudson, an assistant professor of public policy, education and economics, made the announcement Tuesday night on Twitter.
In the last decade, biologists have had remarkable success extracting single cells from tissues and analyzing the genetic material in these individual cells. But chemist Joshua Edel and his collaborators wanted to go one step further. They wanted to extract the mini-structures within cells known as organelles without also extracting cellular fluid or destroying a cell in the process. In a study published this week, they have shown that they can do just this. The method described in the study is an “engineering feat,” says Nathan Swami, a bioengineer at the University of Virginia.
“George H.W. Bush knew Congress. He was a congressman. He did congressional briefings as the CIA director. Bush was the rare combination of politician and statesman,” said Barbara Perry, who studies the U.S. presidency at the University of Virginia. Washington outsiders, including the sitting president, have come to the Oval Office after declaring, “I’m not going to get dragged into the muck,” Perry said, and “they quickly learn they don’t know what they’re doing.”
You can fill a room with studies on leadership that hail the importance of being a likable, honest, caring, and modest boss. In the work world, however, that’s not what people want most. When people have a chance to choose whom to work with, and their own success depends in part on those people, a new study finds that cold competence becomes more important and likability less so. “It should be obvious, but it’s not,” says Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, who coauthored the study with Peter Belmi at University of Virgi...
There is a story about a pair of anthropologists in the Amazon living with a diminishing tribe, learning their dying language and creating a phonetic notation, lexicon, and grammar to record its existence beyond its spoken survival. The anthropologists led the people through the signs and sounds. Upon hearing themselves say aloud the spelled name of the tribe and terrified that their spirit had been captured by this alchemy, they jumped up and went running. I worry that we are just as uncomprehending of what we are looking at in the world; I don’t know what the consequences are of our computat...
A Charlottesville woman says she wants to run against Democratic State Del. David Toscano for his seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. Sally Hudson, an assistant professor of public policy, education and economics at UVA, tweeted about her campaign for the Democratic nomination for the 57th District on Tuesday.
For this week’s dose of historical context, we talked to Peter Norton, an engineering and society historian at UVA, about the largest industrial retooling in the history of the world. It began in 1940, when then-President Franklin Roosevelt called up GM’s CEO, Bill Knudsen, to talk about converting the auto industry into one big war factory.
A surge in the number of people going to state hospitals under temporary detention orders for evaluations has added to the strain. Although the number of orders issued by courts and magistrates has declined in the past two years, the number of people going to state hospitals under such orders has increased from 3,498 in fiscal year 2016 to 5,356 in fiscal year 2018. One big reason is that private psychiatric hospitals are taking more patients who are admitted willingly, UVA law professor Richard Bonnie told the panel.