The UVA School of Architecture has appointed Felipe Correa as the Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor and the new chair of Architecture. Currently an associate professor and director of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Correa will assume the role on July 25.
(Commentary by Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor at UVA’s Center for Politics) A year ago, Virginia had one of its liveliest primaries in recent history with contested statewide gubernatorial contests for both parties. This year’s affair has not garnered quite the same level of attention as the 2017 primaries, though Virginia was one of the only states to hold regular elections last year.
"In many ways tech companies are the new conglomerates," said Jenny Zenner, senior director of career services at UVA’s Darden School of Business. "It really is a place where an MBA can go and know that they'll have opportunities within the company or be able to go to plenty of other companies as well." Darden has added classes and degree options to meet growing demand for skills that will prepare students for careers in tech.
Medicaid expansion in Virginia is viewed as a positive move and won’t have a significant financial impact on the UVA Medical Center, according to UVA officials. At the medical center’s Health System Board meeting Wednesday, several leaders praised the change, which was passed by the General Assembly on May 31.
Three UVA students — including one Madison County resident — will spend the summer immersed in foreign cultures and languages, thanks to the Critical Language Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was 14 years old and at his boarding school when his father was shot. He attended UVA for law and worked as an attorney for the nonprofit Hudson Riverkeeper, after working with the organization as part of his sentence for heroin possession. He has asked that investigations into the murders of his father and uncle, JFK, be reopened.
UVA graduate student Jake Turner is developing new techniques to find evidence of exoplanets having magnetic fields as a means of searching for potentially habitable worlds, which likely range from Earth-sized to 2.5 times the size of our planet.
Constitutional expert and UVA law professor Micah Schwartzman talks gay wedding cakes and SCOTUS.
Half a dozen Democrats are locked in a tight battle to take on Rep. Barbara Comstock (Va.), one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the country. But she faces three other well-funded challengers in Army veteran Dan Helmer, anti-human trafficking activist Alison Friedman and Lindsey Davis Stover, who worked as a senior adviser on veterans policy in the Obama administration. Helmer, a Rhodes scholar and veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, has flirted with controversy during the race. He made national headlines when he released an undercover video that showed him buying a semi-automatic r...
A single-minded focus on college completion can create a whole slew of unintended problems. As we have seen in K-12 schooling, simple metrics can yield gamesmanship, corner cutting, or manipulation. That said, there are examples of promising developments that merit careful attention. Thirty-two states currently use performance-based funding policies that award a larger share of public subsidies to colleges that deliver impressive performance metrics. It’s useful to note, as UVA’s Sarah Turner has observed, that incorporating multiple performance measures in an evaluation “lessens incentiv...
Jay Shimshack, a UVA associate professor of public policy and economics and an expert in environmental and health policy, said the problem lies with the way policymakers frame the message when issuing health advisories. “Fish consumption advice is often complex and confusing. Message-framing matters a lot, and real-world constraints like affordability are as important as the true risks and benefits,” he said.
The very thing that sets Howard Schultz apart from many other would-be presidential contenders could also be the thing that would keep him from winning the White House, analysts say. “It will be tempting to look for a Trump of the left,” says UVA analyst Kyle Kondik. “But it’s not clear that Democrats are really looking for a person with a business background to lead their party.”
(Co-written by Douglas Laycock, UVA’s Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law) “We approach Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission from the perspective of supporting same-sex marriage and supporting religious liberty.”
(By Barbara A. Perry, Gerald L. Baliles Professor and director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center) When Robert F. Kennedy died 50 years ago today, the victim of assassination like his brother, President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Edward Kennedy received word of the unfathomable historical repetition while completing a campaign swing through northern California. Just when they had achieved victory in the Golden State’s 1968 Democratic presidential primary, the Kennedys’ world collapsed, as it had on that horrific November day in 1963.
Robert F. Kennedy, the brother of President John F. Kennedy who graduated from the UVA School of Law and mounted a presidential campaign, died 50 years ago Wednesday. He is remembered today as a peace candidate who tried to bridge racial and economic divisions during a troubled decade.
UVA psychology professor Brian Nosek is gearing up for his upcoming talk on "understanding implicit bias,” to be held Monday at 6 p.m. at the MLK Performing Arts Center at Charlottesville High School.
UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash discusses the history of presidential pardons as well as the political nature of impeachment in the context of today's political climate.
A recent call was led by two early-career professionals who focused the conversation on the ways landscape history is taught in landscape architecture schools. In sharing some notes from this conversation with two teaching landscape historians, Elizabeth K. Meyer and Thaïsa Way, I received no disagreement on the points raised, though each of them did cite entrenched realities that limit the academy’s ability to build up non-European perspectives in landscape history courses. Meyer, at the University of Virginia, said she thinks the accreditation standards for landscape architecture degree prog...
Some studies have shown that global temperatures have risen by about two degrees Celsius in the past 100 years, and without intervention (for example, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and conserving the environment) temperatures are expected to rise in the next 15 years with more pronounced negative effects. A study released by the University of Virginia in early May indicated that East Africans will experience heat stress later this century as temperatures hit new highs buoyed by greenhouse gases.
UVA’s College at Wise: The budget earmarks $46.44 million in 2018-19, an increase of about $2.53 million compared to the current-year budget, and $47.95 million in 2019-20. Education and general program funds go up in the second year by almost $1.69 million; that reflects a roughly $2 million increase for instruction and a $200,000-plus decrease in plant operation and maintenance.