Many colleges have boards and initiatives that focus on town-gown relations and research – say, a public-service graduation requirement or a commitment to purchase and hire from neighborhoods around the campus. But few community members actually play roles in leading or shaping those projects, according to a new report. That needs to change, argues the “Field Guide for Urban University-Community Partnerships,” published on Wednesday by the University of Virginia’s Thriving Cities Lab.
As March Madness rages on, here’s a look at the schools that made the Sweet 16 and how each ranks, per U.S. News data.
The author of "Hidden Figures," Margot Lee Shetterly, spoke to UVA students on Tuesday as part of the McIntire School of Commerce’s Centennial Speaker Series. Shetterly, a UVA graduate, talked about what it was like to tell the story of the African-American women who broke barriers at NASA.
The UVA Student Council and Center for Politics hosted Charlottesville leaders Tuesday to discuss how and why students should be more involved in the community.
(Commentary) Neither government seems to have a coherent strategy for dealing with the other. What exactly do they envision their future relationship to be? “That is the question,” said UVA professor John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence under President George W. Bush.
A team of UVA neurosurgeons is preparing to operate on a 14-year-old Kenyan girl whose eyesight is threatened by a growing tumor. "It's a difficult tumor in a difficult location," said neurovascular surgeon Yashar Kalani, one of the doctors who will perform the surgery on Mercy Nderitu on Wednesday.
Holocaust survivor and retired attorney Allan Hall spoke at the UVA Law School Monday night with a warning and a call to action. Hall was 4 when Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. His powerful story of survival brought people to tears, but Hall wanted his story to open people's eyes to today's political climate.
According to UVA’s Office of Admission, the numbers offer a snapshot of increased efforts to offer spots to diverse students.
The skinny kid on the other court caught the eye of Ron Sanchez, then an assistant coach at Virginia. He told Virginia coach Tony Bennett to take a look at the kid who just kept making baskets. The skinny kid is Kyle Guy, who wound up as Mr. Basketball in Indiana. He’s now Virginia’s 6-foot-2 guard, a fierce competitor, one of the best 3-point shooters in the country, plus an outstanding sportsman and a constantly lighthearted individual.
The Cavaliers had a sweet performance against the Sooners. From the near perfect rotations on defense to the smoothly executed pick-and-rolls, one coming when the shot clock was in single digits, Virginia was a smooth sailing ship against Oklahoma.
After the University of Virginia's slow start against Gardner-Webb University Friday in the NCAA Tournament, UVA alum and NFL defensive end has taken to Twitter to express his frustrations in a joking way.
As the 2020 Democratic presidential field grows, the fight over “authenticity” is becoming difficult to ignore — and a clear gender divide is forming. “We have seen many, many men run over time who have different personalities,” Jen Lawless, a UVA political scientist with an expertise in women in politics, said. “We are accustomed to different presentations of men that we see as authentic.”
LGBTQ+ individuals in Charlottesville and Albemarle County are getting the help they need to make their legal documents match the gender with which they identify. On Sunday, UVA law students teamed with the Virginia Equality Bar Association to host a Trans and Gender Expansive Legal Clinic.
Matt Villiott has held a lot of roles at radio station WTJU during his four years as a UVA student: sound engineer, sound technician and late-night DJ. On Saturday, however, he and 81 other audiophiles added new titles to their radio resumes: Guinness World Record challengers.
The University of Virginia ROTC is holding its annual blood drive. All donated blood will go directly to military personnel.
At the height of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis became a very paranoid man. He suspected a mole somewhere in his government, leaking information. He was right – and wrong. There was, indeed, a mole. But it was a servant at the Confederate White House – a freed slave with a photographic memory who slipped the North valuable secrets from Davis' desk. "This is a humdinger of a tale," said UVA historian Elizabeth Varon, who detailed Mary Bowser's life and spy capers in her 2003 book, "Southern Lady, Yankee Spy."
The technology, a century ago, had disadvantages. Though it’s possible that there might have been some experiments with electric scooters, most ran on gas with noisy engines. “It was a really different experience riding an Autoped [one brand] compared to, say, a Bird dockless scooter,” says Peter Norton, a UVA historian of engineering and society.
The first event of its kind at UVA, the three-day Presidential Ideas Festival: Democracy in Dialogue will feature a swath of political figures, scholars and journalists speaking on a variety of aspects involving the American presidency.
Taped on the wall above Kyle Guy’s bed is a reminder of defeat. In the photo, snapped last March, Guy is deflated, hunched and with tears welling in his eyes. In the background, UMBC’s players are joyous. They are hugging and screaming. Two players are preparing to chest bump, meeting for mid-air ecstasy, after the Retrievers became the first No. 16 seed in men’s NCAA Tournament history to knock off a No. 1 seed.The photo captures the magic of the NCAA Tournament in a frame. The underdog knocking off the top dog. The unrealistic made real. For Virginia, however, the photo came to define failur...