A UVA group charged with identifying ways to improve the school’s town-gown relationship has opened a survey to help rank the area’s most pressing issues.
She started at the University of Florida, then transferred to the University of Virginia. Collins won two N.C.A.A. singles titles while earning a degree in media studies and making lifelong friends, many of them non-athletes.
Roots Natural Kitchen has opened at 3610 Forbes Ave. in Oakland, serving signature rice bowls and salads, as well as build-your-own options. Roots Natural Kitchen was founded by University of Virginia grads Alvaro Anspach and Alberto Namnum, who opened the first location near their alma mater in Charlottesville in 2015.
The reason she is finding success relatively late on is simple: education. Rather than turn pro as a teenager, Collins attended the University of Virginia and graduated in 2016 with an undergraduate degree in media and a masters in business.
The opinion is “an open invitation to squarely present the question” of whether to uphold a key precedent that allows employers to curtail employees’ religious practices in certain instances, Douglas Laycock, a professor at the UVA Law School, wrote in an email to a legal listserv that he shared with The 74.
The bid to make Virginia the 38th and final state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment was stopped short Tuesday in the state House of Delegates. A House subcommittee killed the amendment, but it still has a chance to be resurrected. "I think many Americans think that an Equal Rights Amendment already exists, but it, in fact, does not," said University of Virginia Assistant Professor of History Sarah Milov.
The UVA Medical Center is among 38 hospitals that sued HHS on Friday over a new rule that cuts Medicare payments for some services provided at off-campus hospital sites.
A discovery about the role of the brain's cleaning system has been recognized by the National Institutes of Health. The discovery by the University of Virginia School of Medicine has been named one of 2018's most promising medical advances.
The Appalachian College of Pharmacy has signed its second dual-degree agreement with a regional school this month. UVA’s College at Wise agreed to the plan with the Oakwood-based facility, allowing students to complete a bachelor's degree in three years and complete a doctor of pharmacy degree in three additional years, according to a report from both institutions.
The Miller Center hosted a discussion Tuesday revolving around the 10-year anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. A central conversation revolved around how things have or haven't changed for people of color in the United States.
A bill that would allow UVA’s College at Wise to offer reduced tuition rates to any students from the Appalachian region passed the House of Delegates on Tuesday.
UVA economist Christopher Ruhm has spent the past two decades investigating the links between economic downturns and health. When he started his research, he wasn’t aware of the early-20th-century literature. That work had been generally forgotten, he says, because it “didn’t fit the obvious narrative.”
(Commentary by Craig Volden, professor of public policy and politics at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) A record number of women are serving in the 116th Congress. Political scientists offer mixed findings on whether women are more effective lawmakers than men. Here’s what we know and what it might mean for the current Congress.
The nation needs 700,000 data scientists and similar experts – and needs them quickly? The University of Virginia has just received a $120 million donation – its largest ever – to start a School of Data Science? These numbers are astonishing. But, then again, it’s no surprise that big numbers go with Big Data.
The 25-year-old from St. Petersburg, Fla., is a two-time NCAA champion who graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in media studies in 2016.
At 25 years old, you might wonder why world No. 35 Collins has only now made her breakthrough at a Grand Slam. The right-hander turned professional in 2016 after graduating from the University of Virginia at 22 with a degree in media studies and a master's degree in business. Collins took the viewpoint that if tennis didn't work out, she needed a backup plan.
A two-time NCAA champion at Virginia, Collins turned pro just two years ago, after graduating with a degree in media studies and a master's degree in business, and began steadily climbing the WTA rankings. Last season, she broke into the top 50 on the back of strong runs at Indian Wells and Miami and scored upsets against several top-20 players along the way.
She will face a fierce battle for the Democratic nomination. U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have both this month announced exploratory committees for a White House run. UVA political analyst Larry Sabato argued that a record of being tough on crime “still sells in a lot of places” and could work to Harris’ advantage. In her ABC interview, Harris stressed her record as a prosecutor, saying: “It’s a false choice to suggest that communities don’t want law enforcement.” What they do not want, she added, was excessive police force or racial profiling...
Katherine Basbaum, a registered dietitian with the UVA Health System, agrees that for weight-loss purposes, exercise equivalents can be a helpful ingredient in understanding calories. “It’s not a magic bullet, but I see it as one of several tools to understand weight loss,” Basbaum says.
(Commentary by Tom Bateman, Bank of America Management Professor, McIntire School of Commerce) Executives often say they want to do more about sustainability and climate change, but that it seems impossible. On a personal level, it can feel that way for us all because climate action requires the most complex (and intriguing) of behavioral challenges: to become more proactive; prevent undesired futures; and create better futures.