A new list ranks the best value colleges in the country for 2018 and 12 of those colleges are right here in Virginia, with one university ranked in the top 10. The University of Virginia ranks at 52, with the average debt at graduation: $24,598.
More than 120,000 people from Mexico and Latin America live here in Virginia without legal documents. That makes it hard for them to get affordable healthcare. Medical students and faculty at the University of Virginia are stepping up to help.
First, as high school students lead the charge for more gun control, many high school districts promised to suspend all students who join walkouts to protest gun laws. Now, the country’s top colleges are promising that if high school students get suspended while protesting, it won’t hurt their admission chances. Those institutions include Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, MIT, the University of Virginia, and Northeastern, just to name a few.
Though he didn’t know it at the time, Swanson was about to make history by both defending his right to attend the University of Virginia School of Law and becoming the college’s first-ever African-American student.
Virginia might help straighten out its future by just getting straight on its past. Virginia was the only state in the nation during that recession that declined to raise revenue to cover existing commitments.
"The question this makes very vivid is, is Xi Jinping's personal power overriding the power of institutions and the constitution?" says University of Virginia Political Scientist Brantly Womack.
Eric Herbst, Commonwealth Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy and director of the Cosmic Origins Project at the University of Virginia, talks about the program with Les Sinclair.
The Alzheimer's Association is awarding John Lukens, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Research, Neuroscience, at the University of Virginia School of Medicine a 2018 Research Grant Award. The grant award provides Dr. Lukens $149,820 over three years to study Lymphatic dysfunction and inflammasomes as drivers of Alzheimer’s disease pathology, according to NBC 29 in Charlottesville.
Seven books published in 2017 by the country’s most prominent historians have been named finalists for the George Washington Prize. The annual award recognizes the past year’s best-written works on the nation’s founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of early American history. The 2018 prize finalists include S. Max Edelson, associate professor of history at the University of Virginia.
"I think because you have more senior students, more seasoned students in the room, the conversation is a little bit different in our executive format classes versus our full-time classes – just because people have more life experience and work experience to draw on and to talk about these business cases," says Brett Twitty, director of admissions for the executive MBA program at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where the EMBA is about one-third online.
A new study finds that different salaries bring day-to-day happiness versus overall satisfaction with your life–but anything extra doesn’t do much at all for your emotional well-being. The results, which come from Purdue University and the University of Virginia, align with a well-known 2010 study from psychologist Daniel Kahneman and the economist Angus Deaton.
On Feb. 19, 2018, Smithfield Bioscience, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods focused on pharmaceutical benefits of porcine bioproducts, and the University of Virginia School (UVA) of Engineering & Applied Science announced a research partnership to advance regenerative medicine using porcine bioproducts.
The University of Virginia on Thursday unveiled a brand new 17,000 square foot research lab aimed at connecting the cyber world with the physical. It’s known as CPS, or cyber physical systems. The new $4.8 million space at UVA’s engineering school, known as the Link Lab, will be home to more than 30 teachers and 100 graduate students who are for the first time, all under one roof.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer is slated to speak next week at the University of Virginia School of Law.
The university says the goal of the Link Lab is to bring all engineering students and professors together in a collaborative environment that’s unlike any other throughout the country.
The winner of the $10,000 prize was Babylon Micro-Farms Inc., which makes automated hydroponic systems for growing herbs, fruits, vegetables and salad greens in homes or restaurants. The business started as an undergraduate student project at the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission plans to hold 12 public roundtables across the state, including one in Charlottesville, as part of research into King’s visits to Virginia and to honor the 50th anniversary of his death.
Ms. Brennan, who grew up in Danbury, Conn., studied foreign affairs and the Middle East at the University of Virginia and spent time in Jordan, where she learned to read and speak Arabic. Her first job in journalism was an internship at CNN in Atlanta.
Smithfield Foods Inc. and the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Engineering & Applied Science announced Feb. 20 a research partnership to explore and advance regenerative medicine technologies leveraging porcine bioproducts.
The Rotunda at the University of Virginia received LEED Silver certification in 2017 after a significant restoration of the almost 200-year-old structure, originally designed by Thomas Jefferson. This project is one of only three LEED-certified buildings at a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The other two are also located at the university—Pavilion IX and Pavilion X.