(Subscription required) Luke Merrick, a fourth-year UVA student, sings in the glee club and recently spent a summer in Japan. His latest hobby? High-frequency trading. The 22-year-old engineering student is among the first users of Alpha Trading Labs, a startup looking to bring ultrafast stock trading to the masses.
Joanne Boyle coached the UVA women's basketball team to the NCAA tournament last week. Then she stunned everyone by announcing her retirement at age 54, citing only a "family matter." The real story spilled out to her team in the locker room: She has to take her 6-year-old daughter Ngoty back to Senegal to finalize her adoption, and the U.S. government won't say when they can come back. It could be months. Or years.
UVA’s College at Wise Board has approved an initial step toward creating the college’s first graduate degree program. Meeting March 23, the board approved the creation of a master’s program in teaching.
The Cavaliers have mastered losing with dignity and rededicating themselves a new each season with the same acumen they’ve mastered coach Tony Bennett’s pack-line defense.
Max Rose is on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “Red to Blue” list of Democrats considered to have a chance at flipping a red district. Even so, Roll Call still labels the 11th as “likely Republican.” So does UVA political scientist Larry Sabato.
Larry Sabato and his team at UVA’s Center for Politics are the only pundits who, at this point, envision any sort of competitive congressional race in Western New York. Collins’ race against either Grand Island Supervisor Nate McMurray or Genesee County businessman Nick Stankevich doesn’t make the cut, but Reed's race against one of (it seems) a horde of Democrats does, barely.
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a widely read political analysis website based at UVA’s Center for Politics, switched the 16th District to “leans Republican” from “likely Republican.” “I think the party generally would prefer to have someone who had more experience or more proven experience or proven electoral mettle,” said Kyle Kondik, a UVA political.
UVA psychologist Eric Turkheimer spends his professional time studying how interactions between genes and environments shape human behavior, specifically in regards to identical twins. According to Turkheimer, identical twins start off with similar personalities, “but as time goes by, they slowly drift apart from each other.”
“I think that artistic practice can be a really important way to begin to intervene in the way that dominant memory has really haunted and harmed our city and our university,” says Katelyn Hale Wood, a theater professor at UVA. The free event was hosted by the UVA Center for German Studies. Next week, practitioners from Germany will collaborate with University of Virginia staff and students on projects that use both intellectual and artistic methods to help better understand and contextualize the past.
Angela Davis, 74, spoke at The Paramount Theater as part of UVA’s Excellence Through Diversity Distinguished Learning Series. At the end of Women’s History Month, her wide-ranging talk touched on radical feminism, the prison system, capitalism, gun violence and racism, and she argued that activists should fight together for a transformation of society and not silo their causes.
The Republican candidates for U.S. Senate debated at UVA on Tuesday evening in a forum that eventually delved into the violent white supremacist protests at the college and in Charlottesville last August.
Dozens of people gathered inside UVA’s Garrett Hall Tuesday night to hear three of the U.S. Senate GOP primary candidates debate.
April Hunt grew up in a tightknit family in Chesapeake, Va. She began interning in New York while she was a UVA undergraduate, landing an early position in the media relations department of Epic Records. Along with her partner, Paola Zanzo-Sahl, she owns SparkplugPR, a public relations agency that works with underrepresented artists including women, people of color and gender nonconformists.
Organized by UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and held at Garrett Hall, the debate featured three of the current candidates seeking the nomination – Del. Nick Freitas, R-Culpeper; E.W. Jackson; and Corey Stewart.
Brimming with confidence and stiffened by the experience of playing at, and graduating from, UVA, two-time NCAA singles champion Danielle Collins is unsurprised by her recent emergence.
"When a student makes a threat, that's really a red flag that they're frustrated, upset, something has gone wrong," said UVA professor Dewey Cornell. He's been studying school violence for more than two decades. He believes the standard campus approach to threatening behavior – zero tolerance and expulsion or suspension – is counterproductive.
One UVA professor who’s been studying gun violence for the past 30 years stands by funding more mental health resources, but also adds that schools are actually one of the safest places to send your child. "Anyone who is afraid to send their child to school should be 10 times as afraid to let their child go to a restaurant," says Dewey Cornell, a professor in UVA's Curry School of Education.
A UVA professor said the key to preventing another school shooting is recognizing the warning signs beforehand. Parents and teachers gathered at the Carver Recreation Center on Monday to discuss measures that should be taken to ensure safety in schools. Curry School of Education professor Dewey Cornell said the answer is not arming teachers, but rather recognizing the warning signs of violence.
Applicants for the interim position on the Charlottesville School Board got the chance to speak about their qualifications and goals on Monday. “I'd like to see the achievement gap continue to close,” said Selena Cozart, a UVA professor. “I know the school system has done several things to address that and I'd like to continue to promote those efforts within the system and the community.”
"On the Media" takes a look at what exactly went on with Cambridge Analytica and whether we shouldn't be focusing more on Facebook. Guests included Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, on past regulatory efforts to reign in Facebook.