The new president of the University of Virginia has promised free tuition for students in families earning less than $80,000 a year. President James Ryan made the pledge Friday during his inauguration.
(Press release) The Science Policy Initiative at UVA and the non-profit Cville Comm-UNI-ty ask that 5th District candidates learn more about the key local scientific issues. Science is interwoven with almost all aspects of our lives and scientific evidence should be considered when making policy.
The Department of Energy says the U.S. is one of the fastest-growing markets for wind power in the world, but that's mostly been on land. Eric Loth is a UVA engineer who's part of a team building the next generation of offshore wind turbines, inspired by a palm tree.
While universal screening for Lynch syndrome is currently only recommended for patients with colorectal and endometrial cancers, a new study recently published in The American Journal of Surgical Pathology suggests this for patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma, too. “Although clinical criteria such as family or personal history of cancer can be helpful in narrowing down patients who might be at risk for colon or uterine cancer in Lynch syndrome, our study and others have found this less helpful in upper tract urothelial cancer,” study co-author Helen Cathro, head of the University of...
"Sexual dysfunction is one of the most common and bothersome side effects patients with depression struggle with when prescribed an SSRI," said lead study investigator, Dr. Anita Clayton, chair, Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine. "We designed the study to specifically look at these troublesome side effects. Changing to a medication with potentially fewer sexual side effects, while not losing progress in treating depression, provides an important option for patients with depression."
A summit last year at UVA on teacher retention resulted in legislation that lowered barriers for entry into the profession. State and local leaders said at a follow-up summit at UVA on Tuesday that expectations and school conditions must improve to keep those teachers in classrooms.
“The Trump Administration is banking on the fact that a large percentage of the American population is still ignorant or uncomfortable with transgender identity,” says Kim Forde-Mazrui, a UVA law professor whose expertise includes sexual orientation equal protection.
As Jennifer L. Lawless, a UVA professor who has written extensively about women in politics, put it, “It will be the ‘Year of the Woman’ when we’re not talking about it.”
House Democrats are “this close” to winning control of the chamber, but the latest UVA analysis of the race shows that they haven’t locked it down and may be a few seats short. “A race-by-race analysis of Democratic House targets shows the party is close to winning the majority, but they do not have it put away, in our judgment, with Election Day less than three weeks away,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, in his new post.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) For all the talk of the House generic ballot, President Trump’s approval rating, and other big-picture factors that point to the overall direction of the fight for the House, the battle for the majority comes down to a district-by-district slog.
Just one day before his inauguration, UVA President Jim Ryan announced a new working group that aims to improve relationships within the community.
A basketball star and a team owner and philanthropist will join forces to lead the University of Virginia’s campaign to garner $5 billion in donations during the school’s latest fundraising effort. The campaign will help pay for future expansion in all departments, as well as funding to assist faculty and students. Former UVA basketball standout Malcolm Brogdon will join UVA School of Law graduate and co-manager of the Karsh Family Foundation Martha Karsh in serving as co-chairs with Peter Grant II.
The University of Virginia has created a presidential working group to determine how to focus on improving the relationship between town and gown. UVA President Jim Ryan has asked the group to identify the most pressing issues for the community and to explore the best long-term structure for developing solutions, possibly through the establishment of a council or board. A report from the group will be delivered to Ryan by February. The feedback is part of one of Ryan’s larger goals of using community engagement and feedback to shape UVA’s strategic plan.
Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall has been vocal about the program’s need for improved facilities. On Thursday, he put his money where his mouth is. Mendenhall and his wife, Holly, have donated $500,000 to the construction of a new football operations center as part of the athletic department’s $180 million master plan. The gift is the largest of its kind made by a head coach in UVA history.
Bronco Mendenhall took a big risk when he left BYU to take over Virginia’s football program three years ago. The Cougars had posted 11 straight winning seasons under Mendenhall. The Cavaliers had put up just one in the last eight years. The announcement Thursday of a $500,000 gift pledged by Mendenhall and his wife, Holly, for a new football facility is a clear sign he believes he made the right move and plans to be at Virginia for the long haul.
Some students in UVA’s Darden School of Business are getting ready for a weekend full of hard work to help nonprofits in the Charlottesville community. The Building Goodness in April Foundation will do a fall build day Saturday. More than 70 student volunteers will partner with skilled Building Goodness Foundation volunteers and contractors to transform spaces inside of Computers4Kids and Foothills Child Advocacy Center.
(Commentary co-written by UVA professor Charles Marsh, director of the Project on Lived Theology) Our country claims to “hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Chief among these rights is life, but these days we are asking a lot of questions about life: What are lives really worth? And whose lives matter?
Essentially you go to a Virginia community college, you get your two-year associate's degree, and you check a number of boxes. This is an actual contract between the Virginia community colleges and the Virginia university system. So you look at this contract for UVA and you take X number of courses. You get a 3.4. You are guaranteed admission to UVA. That's amazing.
Former Virginia first lady Dorothy McAuliffe was honored Thursday for her work to end childhood hunger at the launch of the First Lady’s Food Lab, a new program and facility at UVA’s Morven Farm.