Kimberly Diaz, a 2009 graduate of the University of Virginia, is a now a first year in the Darden School of Business. While in school, she also runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. focused on re-imagining how we train our education managers.
Co-written by David Leblang, a professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia and a professor of politics and public policy at the Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy where he directs the Global Policy Center.
Recent research by University of Virginia economist Christopher Ruhm suggests that while joblessness may have created fertile conditions for opioid addiction, the epidemic's spread was fueled more by the availability of prescription drugs.
Virginia will unveil its renovated baseball stadium today when it hosts VMI in its home opener. And when it does, that stadium will have a new name. UVA announced Tuesday that the expanded stadium will be called Davenport Field at Disharoon Park.
Geoffrey Skelley, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, is more skeptical that down-ballot candidates boosted Northam, rather than the other way around. Nonetheless, he credited the candidate surge with making a landslide more feasible. “The lesson from Virginia is that parties should try to run candidates everywhere—ideally strong candidates—and especially if a wave favoring their party is a possibility,” Skelley says.
Sound could be the key to understanding ecological data: in a new study in Heliyon, researchers have turned chemical data that shows salmon migration patterns into sound, helping people hear when they move towards the ocean from one river to another. The authors, from the University of Idaho, Eastern Washington University and University of Virginia in the US, and the University of Tampere in Finland, say turning salmon migration data into sound could help scientists feel less overwhelmed by interpreting big data.
Isabella Gibbons learned to read and write as a slave while working for a University of Virginia physics professor and, after emancipation, taught school to African-American children in and around Charlottesville. The 2018 list includes Rita Dove, a former U.S. and Virginia poet laureate and current UVA Commonwealth Professor of English.
Here is a post about one research effort to look at the educational experience of survivors, which found that enrollment fell and standardized test scores dropped, too. This was written by UVA psychology professor Daniel Willingham.
Douglas Blackmon on Tuesday signed off from his popular public affairs series,” American Forum,” with a plea for the audience to continue the show’s premise of open and honest dialogue about democracy.
Doctors Brooke and Jeff Vergales are like any other married couple; they have two children, enjoy taking trips, and have a lot in common… including where they work: on the pediatric floor of the University of Virginia Medical Center. Many employers – including the University of Virginia Medical Center – have policies addressing potential in-house relationships. The couple met during their residency. Now, 10 years later, they are still working to balance their personal and professional relationship.
Six of Virginia’s four-year public schools turned over their student lists, including James Madison University, Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Tech. Some schools — notably the University of Virginia and George Mason University — said they didn’t have to make the lists available, citing the same Freedom of Information Act, plus certain federal law.
Members of the Democratic district committee first publicly floated the idea of switching the nomination method from a convention to a primary earlier this month — a move that divided and baffled some members of the committee. Committee leaders presented their concerns at a public meeting at the University of Virginia on Monday.
The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business hosts an annual conference on investing, and the most recent gathering was the biggest yet, drawing 400 people. Among them was Larry Kochard who oversaw UVA’s endowment for seven years and is now CEO of a $19 billion investment firm. It was November and he suspected the turnout was a sign of concern.
The Rotunda has received LEED Silver certification following an extensive renovation. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a certification developed by the U.S. Green Building Council to recognize environmentally responsible practices in construction and renovation.
As soon as Elizabeth Alvarez returned to Charlottesville from Patillas, Puerto Rico, she began thinking about a way to offer more help to her family’s hometown.
(By Mark Edmundson, UVA English professor) My students at the University of Virginia are transfixed by identity, much as college students everywhere now seem to be. They want to know who they are, and they spend plenty of their college time trying to figure it out.
Thanks to a $27.5 million grant from the Semiconductor Research Corp., the University of Virginia’s Department of Computer Science is tackling one of the most pressing problems in computer science and engineering — the so-called “memory wall,” reports the Daily Progress.
Kevin Skadron first worked with the Semiconductor Research Corp. — a global consortium of university, industry and government research and design leaders — five years ago. The experience helped him to connect his own research to ongoing industry and academic projects, said Skadron, chairman of the University of Virginia’s Department of Computer Science. But when the corporation’s next call for funding came, Skadron and Mircea Stan, a UVA professor of electrical and computer engineering, thought they now had the chops and team members to tackle one of the most pressing problems in computer scie...
People were paying to taste some macaroni and cheese while helping out local charities on Sunday. Common Grounds at the University of Virginia hosted its second annual Mac and Cheese Off. Eight groups participated, and it was started for the simple reason that everyone loves macaroni and cheese, according to organizers.
Presbyterian campus ministries at the University of Virginia hosted its second annual Mac and Cheese Off at Common House UVA on Sunday, Feb. 18The event connects UVA students with the greater Charlottesville community while raising money for Charlottesville’s homeless population.