At the Charlottesville School Board’s final meeting before the 2020-21 school year begins, policies were finalized and committees were formed to keep students safe and prepared for the future of learning. The board also discussed how it will determine plans for the second quarter of the school year. A committee of parents, students, teachers, two board members, and representatives from the schools and the University of Virginia gets that responsibility.
The project is called “On These Grounds” and its first phase is being supported by a two-year, $550,000 grant the Mellon Foundation gave to three schools. Teams from the University of Virginia, Georgetown University and Michigan State University will be working together to develop an online model to help expand researchers’ understanding of the lives and experiences of the enslaved.
Marking the beginning of an unusual – and controversial – semester, University of Virginia students and their families were in good spirits Thursday as first-years started moving into dormitories. The students are moving in at staggered dates and times in a bid by the University to reduce human contact and the potential spread of COVID-19.
The schools that top Money’s rankings boast “outstanding results at an affordable price.” The top 25 schools on the list include a handful of East Coast institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Duke University, University of Virginia, Yale University, Washington and Lee University, Harvard University, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology.
The Jefferson Madison Regional Library has teamed up with UVA to make more books available to the public. UVA Library’s entire circulation collection will be available to check out through JMRL at no extra charge.
On Friday, UVA officially announced that it will have reduced seating capacity for home sporting events due to regulations brought on by COVID-19. The decision follows guidelines provided by state officials.
would pay his dues at a software company and only later try to find a job that combined computer science and theater, his twin passions. But by the end of the month, the pandemic forced performing arts venues across the country to shutter. “I saw the writing on the wall that this was my chance to jump in and do it now,” he said.
Republicans pulled out all the stops at their convention to convince female voters that President Donald Trump cares about their interests, even pledging to put a woman on the moon with polls showing he has lost ground with women as their concerns about him intensify. But the argument that Trump will keep women and their families safer than Biden may fail to resonate because women recognize that Trump is the nation’s leader now, said Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia.
P&G, one of the top advertising spenders in the United States, is racing against Clorox and Lysol maker Reckitt to plug home cleaning brands at restaurants and other businesses. “The reason why P&G wants to do this is because … it can produce free publicity,” said Kimberly Whitler, an associate professor of business at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a former P&G marketing executive. “It’s a new outlet where consumers are not necessarily thinking about P&G products, and suddenly they’re seeing them there.”
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball Thursday shifted Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden’s re-election bid to its “leans Democratic” category, indicating that Republicans are less likely to win it. Sabato, a professor at the University of Virginia, is among a handful of experts widely recognized as an expert in predicting the outcome of political races nationally.
New Jersey remain unchanged in new ratings for House races published this morning by Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. The Sabato/UVA group is one of the top non-partisan handicappers of elections in the U.S. – think of them as the Standard & Poor’s of political campaign ratings.
When UVA students return to campus this week, they’ll find something new – a circular stone monument, 8 feet tall and 80 feet in diameter – designed and built to honor the enslaved people who built the university.
The 38th annual Charlottesville Women's Four Miler will be held Friday through Monday. It will be held as a four-day race with four different causes and the first time a running race for people has been held at Foxfield since 1987. The race will raise money for the UVA Breast Care Center, the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and Foxfield.
The University of Virginia will provide COVID-19 testing for its asymptomatic employees, officials said this week. According to a news release, voluntary asymptomatic testing will be offered on a limited, first-come, first-served basis and is not mandatory.
Across Virginia, the extent of coronavirus outbreaks has varied at college campuses. Some schools have seen numbers climb quickly, though none as high as at James Madison: The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Virginia Commonwealth University have between 100 and 200 cases.
During the Great Recession of 2008-9, the job situation was just as miserable and prospects for many MBAs appeared so dim that some openly questioned their decision to borrow money to get the degree. Robert Bruner, then dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business, found himself having to defend the value of the MBA. He rose to the challenge, and his points then made much sense now.
On a Northern Virginia street corner, a white professor and his Black son offer a lesson about humanity. “It’s a modest act, being on the corner there, holding up a sign,” said Robert Trent Vinson, who teaches African American and African studies at UVA and is friends with both men. But what they are doing, in their low-key way, is expanding who gets to shape history, Vinson said.
“It’s good to have a plan out for hospitals and health care systems to prepare” for a potential rollout, said Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA pulmonary and critical care physician. But Bell said that he was concerned that the timeline outlined in the documents “is incredibly ambitious and makes me worry that the administration will prioritize this arbitrary deadline rather than maintaining diligence with following the science.”
Malcolm Brogdon was the Pacers’ signature acquisition in their busy offseason last summer, acquired from Milwaukee in a sign-and-trade deal in exchange for a first-round pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. Off the court, Brogdon has made his impact felt in Indiana and across the globe. In a little over a year since joining the Pacers, the University of Virginia graduate has traveled to Africa for Basketball Without Borders, hosted monthly candid conversations with at-risk middle schoolers in Indianapolis, and helped lead the charge as NBA and WNBA players have stood at th...