UVA students and middle-schoolers came together to build doghouses Sunday, but what they hope to build is much more than that. The Men's Leadership Project at UVA helps get young boys on the right path by pairing them with students for support and advice.
UVA students and middle-schoolers came together to build doghouses Sunday, but what they hope to build is much more than that. The Men's Leadership Project at UVA helps get young boys on the right path by pairing them with students for support and advice.
At age 25, Haley Alvarez has already been to the postseason with the University of Virginia Cavaliers and major league baseball’s Oakland A’s. A couple weeks after a 97-win season, Oakland’s scouting coordinator is already looking at 2019.
All thanks to a Tweet, President Jim Ryan is now leading a morning run every week.
Virginia is amidst a launch of a fundraising camp for a new football facility, something that’s been long overdue for the UVA football program, which has fallen way behind its ACC counterparts in the facilities arms race. The estimated cost of the project is currently targeted at $180 million.
“We don’t have all of the numbers yet, but this democratic House fundraising is just off the charts,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Summit Public Schools, which over the past four years has led the creation of the “Summit Learning Program” currently used by more than 380 schools around the U.S., said today that it will spin out that program into an independent nonprofit as of the 2019-20 school year. Other board members will include Priscilla Chan, who heads the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Peggy Alford, CZI’s chief financial officer and head of operations, and Alex Hernandez, formerly a partner at the Charter School Growth Fund and now Dean of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at the University of Virginia.
The Face of Fake News also features Elizabeth Losh and Jaime Settle from the College of William and Mary, and Siva Vaidhyanathan from the University of Virginia.
Virginia announced a partnership with Ting to bring WiFi to Scott Stadium for fans, starting Saturday night when the Wahoos host the Miami Hurricanes.
The University of Virginia ranks No. 85 in Reuters’ list of 100 most innovative universities in the world.
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato discussed Republicans struggling in states Trump won in 2016. Sabato said Trump is in trouble in the Midwest, a part of the country where he did well in 2016, and it "seems to be flipping" in the midterm year.
UVA football coach Bronco Mendenhall was blunt with reporters earlier this week when asked about the impact the Cavaliers’ athletic facilities have on recruiting. “The easy answer is yes, certainly our facilities have cost us,” he said.
You might not expect a professor of engineering to report advances in medicine, but at UVA, that’s what’s happening. Daniel Quinn might revolutionize care for people with asthma.
“The accusations against Sinema are part of a larger line of attack that Martha McSally and Republicans are making against Sinema, which is simply that she is not credible,” says the UVA Center for Politics’s Kyle Kondik. “For instance, a major theme of the advertising being used against Sinema has been to argue that she is more left-wing than she lets on. The message, basically, is that Sinema is not the moderate that she has presented herself as — again, from the GOP perspective.”
Since that climate is one of extreme polarization, the question of how political museums should get is becoming increasingly urgent. And they carry extra weight in a place like Charlottesville, where right-wing demonstrators last year rallied around a statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and attacked counter-protesters, killing one, Heather Heyer. “The 21st-century museum is a place for dialogue, and it can be perhaps a place where, mediated through art, some of the tensions around that dialogue might fall away more easily,” says Matthew McLendon, the director of UVA’s Fralin Museum...
“Why do we care about safety?” says Peter Norton, a transportation historian at the University of Virginia. “Because we care about human health.” Norton warns that the autonomous future will result in less walking, more sprawl, and—without dedication to electric propulsion—a huge spike in pollution. “When your car drives itself and you can spend the commute doing whatever you want, who cares if a trip that used to take 20 minutes now takes an hour?” he says.
The president has intensified his attacks as the midterm elections for control of Congress draw nearer and as the fight over the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has grown increasingly fraught. With his ridiculing of a woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault and references to a left-wing "mob," Trump has provided a template for congressional candidates to follow. "My fear is that the Rubicon has been crossed," said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. "Others will see that this is the way to power and will use this model a...
A two-time Academy Award-winning actor will be a special guest at the upcoming Virginia Film Festival. Christoph Waltz will attend the festival in November. Waltz will appear with Academy Award-winning producer Mark Johnson for "A Tribute to Christoph Waltz" on Nov. 3, which will combine an onstage interview with clips of scenes from Waltz's career.
Seven Virginia coastal localities are participating in The RAFT project, an initiative designed to help improve resilience to flooding and other coastal storm hazards while remaining economically and socially viable. The RAFT project was created by an academic interdisciplinary collaborative Core Team led by UVA’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation, the Virginia Coastal Policy Center at William & Mary Law School, and Old Dominion University, Virginia Sea Grant.
How should professors handle recommendations for students who want to pursue studies or causes the instructors disagree with, and how should colleges respond? “It’s a delicate process, and one that has to be handled with utmost professional and personal care,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies. “The thing is, nobody tells us this when we start the tenure track.”