Far from just being a place of education, the University of Virginia has a rich and fascinating history that has led it to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. At its center lies The Rotunda, a stunning 19th-century property modeled after the Pantheon in Rome.
(Co-written by Kevin Driscoll, assistant professor of media studies) A prestigious, private school in Pretoria, South Africa, recently became a site of protest. Black learners and parents accused Cornwall Hill College of rejecting calls to make its whites-only board more representative of its diverse learner body.
(Written by Helena Zeweri, assistant professor of global studies) U.S. intervention was never going to be the antidote to the Taliban.
Doctors at the University of Virginia are seeing an uptick in child respiratory cases. Researchers at the university noticed conditions like RSV and pneumonia in higher volumes earlier than usual at this time of year.
UVA moved up one spot to 25th nationally, tied with Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. William & Mary ascended one spot to 38th. It’s the second year in a row the two universities have made small gains. Last year, UVA rose two spots, and William & Mary rose one.
Cholesterol doesn’t just clog hearts and arteries. University of Virginia researchers say it also can gum up the brain, sparking a chain of events that lead to Alzheimer’s disease.
University of Virginia Cancer Center has been awarded a Comprehensive Cancer Center designation by the National Cancer Institute. The NCI is the largest funder of cancer research in the world.
United Way Worldwide today has selected Angela F. Williams to serve as its next president and CEO, effective Oct. 15. Williams is a native of Anderson, South Carolina and earned her bachelor of arts degree in American government from the University of Virginia.
Moving from metal to metaphor, recent monuments reveal a shift in how we confront past trauma. At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, a tribute to enslaved Black people who lived and worked there opened in 2020. Yoon’s architectural firm collaborated on the design of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. The low granite ring symbolizes a broken shackle. The stone is engraved with 577 names and 4,000 “memory marks,” wound-like slashes representing enslaved people whose identities remain unknown.
The University of Virginia was full of red, white and blue all day on September 11. The Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) placed 2,977 flags in the UVA amphitheater. This number is to reflect and help us remember and honor the lives lost twenty years ago.
People who received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had “slightly higher” antibody levels than those who received the Pfizer — now formally called Comirnaty — shot, according to a new small study. While both vaccines insert molecules called mRNA that teach our bodies how to produce coronavirus antibodies, the Moderna shot uses more than three times the amount of mRNA than the Pfizer vaccine. This, University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers say, could explain their findings.
University of Virginia students and university President Jim Ryan laced up their running shoes on Thursday, September 9. They ran four miles together starting and finishing at Madison Hall.
"What's happened to the public landscape of Washington is more than the architecture of bollards and the immediate choreography of security and risk adjacent to public buildings,” said UVA architecture professor Elizabeth Meyer. "It's the total change of flow and accessibility that everyday citizens used to have to seats of power."
(Podcast) Jim Detert, John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business, discusses how to build your courage to stand out and influence.
“The Piedmont Scholarship Program allows students from our region to be able to access UVA. Students that might not be able to access it otherwise,” said Andrew Renshaw, PVCC’s dean of student services.
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, Presidential Studies director and Gerald L. Baliles Professor at the Miller Center) Americans typically support newly elected presidents and those who have left office. It’s incumbents they often dislike. George W. Bush is no exception. Although he lost the popular vote in 2000 by a half-million ballots but achieved an Electoral College victory over Vice President Al Gore by the barest of margins (after a Supreme Court decision in Bush’s favor), his initial approval rating was 57 percent, 10 points above the percentage of votes he garnered from the electorate. ...
The University of Virginia Medical Center is lightning up its south tower in support of Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month. The tower is using gold lights to honor the children who are diagnosed with cancer.
(Commentary by Russell Riley, co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) It is hard to think of Joe Biden as a novice. After arriving in Washington as the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history in 1973, Biden remained there for almost five decades, becoming the oldest president ever elected in 2020. The time in between included eight consequential years as the ultimate under-study: vice president to Barack Obama. These metrics demonstrate that few people have risen to the presidency better prepared than Biden. And yet, when he took the oath of o...
Kidney specialists with UVA Health have started to see patients out of a Lynchburg clinic as part of a partnership with Centra Health.
(Commentary by Muhammad Tayyab Safdar, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Politics and UVA’s East Asia Center, and Max C. Barte, research assistant at UVA’s East Asia Center) Pakistan and China’s “all-weather friendship” has come under increasing stress in recent months. The two countries have been strong diplomatic partners for 70 years, at first as a geostrategic counterweight to the ties between India and the Soviet Union, but increasingly because of China’s enormous investments in Pakistan. Today, Pakistan is one of China’s few close allies, with officials on both sides frequent...