UVA’s ROTC programs are hosting a blood drive for military medical centers. Though all three UVA ROTC units are contributing, the Army cadets are the organizers and hosts of the drive for the fourth year.
UVA’s Curry School of Education continued to rise in graduate school rankings, and three other UVA graduate programs maintained their status in the top 20. The Curry School has seen a steady rise in rankings among other education graduate programs, from No. 21 in 2017 to a spot tied for 18 last year to this year’s No. 16 placement.
The Men's Leadership Project is bringing UVA students together with middle school boys to build character and community. On Sunday, the pairs spent the day building dog houses for Houses of Wood and Straw, a group that provides shelter to outdoor pets in Central Virginia.
The Men's Leadership Project is bringing UVA students together with middle school boys to build character and community. On Sunday, the pairs spent the day building dog houses for Houses of Wood and Straw, a group that provides shelter to outdoor pets in Central Virginia.
U.S. Senate Republican primary candidates have been invited to participate in a debate at UVA on Tuesday. The debate is being co-hosted by UVA’s Center for Effective Lawmaking, College Republicans and the Frank Batten School for Leadership and Public Policy. Batten Dean Allan Stam and professor Andy Pennock will moderate.
An interview with legal scholar Risa Goluboff about how “Miranda vs. Arizona” fits into a series of cases, decided by the Warren court, that aimed to reform the criminal justice system.
(Commentary co-written by Thomas C. Katsouleas, UVA’s executive vice president and provost) Recently UVA and Virginia Tech convened a meeting of our fellow provosts and chief academic officers at public higher education institutions across the commonwealth. We gathered to explore integrated education, research and workforce initiatives with the potential to stimulate economic development that we could not launch separately, but could pursue together. The meeting was remarkable in a number of ways.
"It influences how more than 2 billion around the world people see, think and feel. I can't think of an institution that has close to that power, with the possible exception of Google," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA media studies professor and author of a forthcoming book on Facebook's impact on democracy. "For Mark Zuckerberg to deny that," he added, "is insulting."
The Virginia Film Festival will host UVA alumna Katie Couric April 4. The award-winning journalist will have an episode screening and discussion of her new television series, "America Inside Out with Katie Couric."
UVA alumna Katie Couric will present two new preview screenings on April 4 to give Charlottesville audiences a peek at her new National Geographic series, “America Inside Out with Katie Couric.”
Author Andrew Revkin showed people that science is fun to read and write, too, at the Virginia Festival of the Book on Thursday. Revkin talked to a UVA class about his experience as an environmental journalist.
The U.S. Census Bureau has recorded a steady population increase for the city every year since 2012, according to an email from Public Affairs Specialist Amy Newcomb. This was also the first time the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that Suffolk’s population crossed the 90,000 threshold. UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, however, estimated that Suffolk crossed that mark in 2015.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has partnered with the Boston Consulting Group to create a four-week online course on digital transformation. The course is slated to begin on March 26, and this launch follows last year’s successful collaboration on the Pricing Strategy Optimization Specialization.
The country is undercounting opioid-related overdoses by 20 to 35 percent, according to a UVA study published in February in the journal Addiction.
Both the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law and the Virginia Attorney General's office are asking the Virginia Court of Appeals to grant Bush a writ of actual innocence. "I think it raises really profound questions about the nature of punishment," said Richard Bonnie, professor of medicine and law at UVA and director of UVA's Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy.
UVA students and staff from Virginia Humanities watch as a stencil with a quote is placed on the sidewalk near a busy downtown bus stop, mere feet from the pedestrian mall and the federal courthouse. The quote reads: “You can’t tiptoe towards justice.”
Traveling with security staff even on official business is “incredibly expensive,” although the actual cost would depend on the nature of the trip and which department supplied the detail, said Chris Lu, a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center who was a White House Cabinet administrator during the Obama administration.
The U.S. does not currently collect basic gun ownership data, said Dewey Cornell, a UVA forensic clinical psychologist who studies how to prevent youth violence and bullying. What the country needs for guns is “something like we have to register and track motor vehicles,” he said via email.
Dayna Bowen Matthew, a UVA law professor who focuses on equity in health care, says the president's opioid plan is timely with a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control that counts a record number of opioid overdose deaths in 2016.
A 2015 study by Caroline Hoxby and Sarah Turner, professors of economics at Stanford University and UVA, respectively, found that low-income, academically talented students weren’t applying to liberal arts institutions because they didn’t know what they were, or identified themselves as “not liberal.”