In the next decade, UVA plans to expand financial aid, house half its student body on Grounds and expand adult education opportunities across the state, according to a 10-point draft of its new strategic plan. The 2030 Plan grew out of hundreds of outreach events and aims to put UVA on a path to be the No. 1 public university in the country.
(Commentary) With only a few championships left to be handed out in the academic calendar, including the College World Series, it’s fair to argue that the Wahoos’ accomplishments might have given them the best collective year in college sports.
This was a great year for student athletes at the University of Virginia – basketball and lacrosse players who headed home as national collegiate champions, but they’re not the only ones who have reason to celebrate. At the Law School, graduates claim a life-changing win for one of their clients – a teenager locked up for something he recorded and posted to YouTube.
University of Virginia head football coach Bronco Mendenhall has agreed to a two-year contract extension through the 2024 football season, director of athletics Carla Williams announced on May 30.
Lars Tiffany opened his postgame remarks after Monday's NCAA championship win by once again referencing a familiar name. "First of all, I'm very grateful to Dom Starsia," Virginia's third-year men's lacrosse coach said. Starsia won 274 games and four national titles in 24 seasons as UVA men's lacrosse coach. But it was three years ago last week that Starsia was fired by the school after missing the NCAA Tournament twice in a four-year span, including a 7-8 season in 2016.
Ten years ago, researchers led by Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills at the University of Virginia were just starting to learn that bites from Lone Star ticks were somehow causing a mysterious and potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat. They’d been trying to explain why certain cancer patients were reacting poorly to a drug known as cetuximab. At the same lab, they’d been working to figure out what was causing a strange allergic reaction to red meat, which had been observed in a number of patients.
Republican politicians and other conservatives, from President Donald Trump to Fox News personalities, have been trumpeting the charge that Facebook is biased against conservatives. That's a "false narrative," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship. But as a result, he said, "any effort to clean up Facebook now would spark tremendous fury."
Virginia and football coach Bronco Mendenhall have agreed to a two-year contract extension that runs through the 2024 season, the school announced Thursday morning.
Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall has agreed to a two-year contract extension through the 2024 season, athletic director Carla Williams announced Thursday.
Likewise, the University of Virginia is launching an interdisciplinary school in data science with the help of a $120 million donation, the largest private gift in its history.
Mamadi Diakite, the forward who hit the miracle buzzer-beater to force overtime against Purdue and help keep Virginia’s run to the national championship going, gave Cavaliers’ fans another happy deadline moment Wednesday night, announcing he would withdraw his name from the upcoming NBA draft hours before the midnight deadline.
“There is an impulse to want to put things in capital letters, in formal definitions, just to make them look like they’re nicely organized so you can put them on a shelf and they’ll behave,” said Bill Ruddiman, a UVA professor emeritus who has written papers arguing against the stratigraphic definition of the Anthropocene on the grounds that any single start date would be meaningless since humans have been gradually shaping the planet for at least 50,000 years.
On Friday, UVA football coach Bronco Mendenhall, his staff and players will host the first Virginia Football Women’s Clinic since he arrived on Grounds in 2016.
Every public college in Virginia is freezing tuition for the next school year for the first time in almost 20 years. Lawmakers included $57.5 million in this year's state budget for colleges that agreed to freeze their tuition to share. Every school took them up on the offer.
More than simply staying out of trouble and earning a paycheck, summer jobs allow young adults to learn valuable job skills that can be useful later on in their careers. A study released by my organization from economists Dr. Christopher Ruhm and Dr. Charles Baum from the University of Virginia and Middle Tennessee State University found teenagers who had part-time jobs as teenagers had annual earnings that were roughly seven times higher compared to their classmates who did not have jobs.
The latest study supports a separate paper published last week by researchers from Stanford University and the University of Virginia in the peer-reviewed Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes. “Individuals with relatively high social class are more overconfident,” they concluded. The result? “Advantages beget advantages.”
Former President Bill Clinton gives the closing keynote address at the Presidential Ideas Festival held last week at the University of Virginia. He was asked to reflect on the role of the presidency through history and look to the future.
Autumn Routt, a senior at Lusher Charter School, has been awarded one of the most highly selective merit scholarships in the nation. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia selected Routt as one of 38 recipients of the Jefferson Scholarship. She will commence her studies in the fall at the University of Virginia.
“Medical groups do tend to see what they are used to seeing,” UVA applied ethics professor Deborah Johnson said. “It’s why it is best to hear from a lot of disciplines in an investigation.”
The UVA Health System is joining a coalition of health care organizations seeking to improve vaccination rates for human papillomavirus, or HPV, in western Virginia.