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.
“When [President Trump] says he does not want to be impeached, I think that’s utterly counterfactual to what he really wants,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
Loud cheers for UVA’s announcement that it’s forming a new Institute of Democracy. If ever we needed fresh attention to the institution of democracy, and renewed commitment to the fulfillment of its ideals, that time is now.
“The polling strength of Joe Biden (and Bernie Sanders, to a much lesser extent) may be based on residual name ID,” said Kyle Kondik, an elections watcher at UVA’s Center for Politics. “They haven’t been tested yet, but they will be, and it may be that some of the desires of the Democratic electorate are not being expressed through the candidates leading the polls as of yet.”
Sandip Sukhtankar is associate professor, department of economics, University of Virginia. He has authored a critically acclaimed paper “Sweetening the Deal? Political Connections and Sugar Mills in India.” He spoke to Down To Earth.
The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business announced the largest gift in its history Thursday, a $68 million donation from investor and alumnus Frank M. Sands Sr.
Frank M. Sands Sr., the founder of Sands Capital Management, is giving $68 million to the graduate business school. Sands received an MBA degree from Darden in 1963.
An iconic building at the University of Virginia will be demolished this Saturday. University Hall, or "U-Hall," is a 1960s sports arena, a building that some have described as a "squeezed lemon" or a "pregnant clam." But others see it as a futuristic structure that helped UVA recruit talent.