For the past year, some critics have condemned University of Virginia leadership for failing to acknowledge just how it failed students and staff on Aug. 11, 2017. Their wait is over. New President Jim Ryan offered an apology for officials’ failure to deal adequately with the possibility that white supremacists, in town for the scheduled Unite the Right rally, might also converge on UVA. “I am sorry,” he said, simply. “We are sorry.”
Tonight, the Human Fountains will perform live on “America’s Got Talent” in the quarterfinals. The group, which includes 2016 UVA graduate Elan Leftin, describes themselves as “a comedy group that creates fountain shows like you’ve never seen before.”
At the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, spokesman and political scientist Geoffrey Skelley said the scandal puts Taylor’s team on the defensive. “It could rub voters the wrong way,” Skelley said before explaining Taylor presents himself as a “conservative, but not too conservative member of Congress who is a Navy SEAL, a straight-laced sharp guy. Obviously, if you can take the shine off of that image to some degree because of this, it’s probably good for Elaine Luria,” Skelley said. “If you can get Brown off the ballot, that’s also probably good for Luria.”
There are 15 governorships currently held by Republicans that the University of Virginia Center for Politics rates as either "Lean Republican" or "Toss-up," giving Democrats a vital opportunity to rebuild their strength at the state level. "This year’s midterm is absolutely critical to regaining Democrat strength in governorships and also state legislative seats, where Democrats lost well over 900 during Obama’s two terms as president," Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics, said. "Redistricting is coming up in 2021-22, and most of the people elected this year will be in office...
More young families are opting to remain in Alexandria rather than decamping for suburbs in Prince William or Fairfax counties, driving up the city’s school-age population, said Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
(Audio) A conversation on how white supremacists throughout history and now appropriated the classical world to promote their own ideology. We speak to classicist Sarah Teets, a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia who focuses on the classical world.
Later research also revealed how Americans fell afoul of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s intransigence so far as allowing an independent India. Among these is a little known junior State Department official Robert Crane, whose name was revealed only in 2008, who leaked the devastating memos from then U.S. envoy to India, Ambassador William Phillips, to President Roosevelt, criticizing British policy in India. Professor Emeritus of University of Virginia, Harold Gould, named Crane the “Deep Throat,” who sped up the process for independence by leaking the memos to journalist Drew Pear...
A Virginia Tech associate professor and University of Virginia professor have received funding to fight a type of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Webster Santos, associate professor of chemistry and the Cliff and Agnes Lilly Faculty Fellow in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, and collaborator Professor Kyle Hoehn, in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Virginia, received a $400,000 grant from the Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation, known as Virginia Catalyst, with $800,000 matching funds from Continuum Biosciences, a company they co-founded.
An annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report ranked Sentara Norfolk General Hospital first in Hampton Roads, third in the state and 52nd in the nation. The top two hospitals in Virginia were the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, and Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond.
University of Virginia Medical Center is once again high on a prestigious list of the nation's best. For the third consecutive year, U.S. News and World Report ranked the center No. 1 in Virginia in its "best hospital" guide.
Other regional colleges fared better. At the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, students graduated with the lowest amount of student debt of any college in Virginia and a little more than half, 58 percent, graduated with debt.
A woman who claims innocence in a “shaken baby” case was released from prison Monday into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials for deportation to her native Peru. After completing a 10-year sentence, Trudy Eliana Munoz Rueda, 53, waved to her two daughters, a sister, her brother in-law and two lawyers with the University of Virginia School of Law Innocence Project around 9:30 a.m. as she was escorted to a government van parked at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. The Innocence Project filed a pardon request last year with the governor’s office but had hea...
The following list explores undergraduate degrees offered to high school and transfer students interested in pursuing architecture and its related fields. Here, presented in MONEY's order of ranking, are some of the most affordable and top quality schools that also have architecture programs: University of Virginia (No. 10).
Money Magazine has released its 2018 Best Colleges for Your Money ranking, and the University of Virginia has broken into the top ten.
In his 2015 book “Raising Kids Who Read,” UVA psychology professor Daniel Willingham explains the concept of “virtuous cycle” of reading. Children who read well tend to enjoy reading; because they enjoy reading, they read more; because they read more, they become better readers. But how do you generate literary enthusiasm among kids who are not in the virtuous cycle?
Civil rights activist, author and politician Julian Bond spent the last 20 years of his career teaching at the University of Virginia. The school possesses copies of many of his papers, speeches and other works in its special collections archives. Up until now, those materials have been difficult to access, requiring a visit to the archives. UVA is looking to change that.
James Ryan spent his 14th day as president of the University of Virginia helping new students at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise feel welcome. “You belong here,” Ryan said. “It won’t take long for you to feel at home.” Ryan spoke to the class of 2022 during the fall convocation on Tuesday.
Benjamin Franklin Hurt, who spent three decades as principal of Albemarle High School, died Saturday. He was 99. A Farmville native, he graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and earned a master’s in education from the University of Virginia. Hurt began teaching in Albemarle County Public Schools before being drafted by the Army to fight Nazi Germany in North Africa and Italy in World War II. Hurt returned as a teacher, coach and principal at Greenwood High School before moving to Albemarle High, where he served as principal from 1954 to 1984. Hurt was famous for his dedication to knowing every...
Two young interns are making some serious waves this summer at the Naval Postgraduate School. High school senior Kathryn Yeager and UVA second-year student Colin Cool are spending their summer breaks conducting hydrodynamic experimentation in NPS’ recently restored wave-generating tow tank as part of the school’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics internship program.
The University of Virginia's Larry Sabato has cautioned about the media's use and abuse of political polling data. He has warned that the results of two polls cannot be compared unless their methodologies and demographics are the same. He also warns against making claims as to whether the results of a new poll represent a genuine shift in attitudes if the difference the polls being compared is within the polls' margins of error. In other words, a telephone poll of "likely voters" cannot be compared with an online poll of "adults". And it is not permissible to conclude that there has been a cha...