Sweet Briar has announced that former NASA astronaut Kathryn Thornton will deliver the keynote address during the College’s 108th commencement exercises on May 13. Thornton, now director of the aerospace engineering program and a professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at the University of Virginia, made four space flights between 1989 and 1995.
The list includes the Academical Village and the Rotunda at the University of Virginia.
Lise Dobrin is associate professor of anthropology and linguistics program director at the University of Virginia.
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will participate in a panel discussion on race. The event is co-sponsored by UVA’s Miller Center as part of its First Year Project, a three-year initiative to develop bipartisan insight and recommendations for the first year of the new administration.
Although we like to tell friends about unique things we have experienced, new research from a team including UVA psychologist Timothy D. Wilson suggests that listeners would enjoy listening to familiar stories, as they can better appreciate and understand the content.
To watch the sideline during a Virginia men’s lacrosse game is to watch energy in motion. Go ahead: Try to keep track of Coach Lars Tiffany.
"I would not expect it to occur immediately, but I do see a couple of ways it might arise," said George Yin, a UVA law professor who formerly served as chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation. "When you talk about integrity, about government transparency, those are issues of bipartisan concern. Indeed you can find many, many statements by both Democrats and Republicans supporting the basic principle of eliminating and avoiding conflicts of interest."
“The worst part is that Flynn’s vulnerability – his coziness with Putin and Russia – was well known to Trump before his appointment,” said Larry Sabato, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia. “So it’s a self-inflicted wound that underlines again the suspicions about Russia’s influence in Trump’s election and administration.”
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, believes the program has become a bonfire for viewers upset or agitated over the chaotic and polarizing opening weeks of the Trump presidency. “People who hate Trump need to gather together and sometimes it’s in the streets and sometimes it’s watching a show like ‘Saturday Night Live,’” he said.
The judge wrote that Virginia has produced evidence that the president’s executive order has been disruptive to the operation of its public colleges and universities, affecting international travel of at least 350 students attending Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Tech, George Mason University, the University of Virginia or the College of William & Mary.
FutureLearn, a MOOC platform owned by the UK’s Open University, has announced that five U.S. universities – including UVA’s Darden School of Business – will be offering courses through its system, marking the first time it has partnered with educational institutions in the U.S.
Population estimates from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service show that Virginia continued to add residents in 2016, but at declining levels, a backslide that began in the 1980s. The data also accentuates the growth disparity between communities in the state’s metropolitan and rural areas.
According to new research out of the University of Virginia, cancer incidence has declined in much of the country since 1969 – but not in rural Appalachia.
The GO Virginia Region 9 Council met Monday at the University of Virginia Research Park to discuss the council’s makeup, purpose and governing documents. The 23-member council includes government officials and businesspeople from Central Virginia, as well as UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan.
Five ACC teams – North Carolina, Florida State, Louisville, Virginia and Duke – were among the 16 preliminary tournament seeds the panel revealed during a made-for-television bracket preview. Virginia was the 10th overall seed and placed in the West Region.
“There’s a moral panic in America that free speech is under assault at universities, but it’s absolutely not true,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of modern media studies at the University of Virginia.
The supersmart, know-it-all entrepreneur. They say they know what the market wants, what the market is, who is the customer, what she wants, and how much she will pay for it. All this, when they haven’t yet got one paying customer – and many a time, the product is nonexistent. In predicting the future, these entrepreneurs are nailing the first, fat nail into their startups’ coffins. Darden School Professor Saras Sarasvathy is sitting on enough data to tell me this.
Charlottesville police are looking for a masked man who attempted – but failed – to rob someone at about 9 p.m. Sunday, in the 2400 block of Arlington Boulevard.
Patrice Grimes, an associate professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education, lent her expertise and understanding of education for African-American students in the country prior to Brown v. Board of Education to a new documentary film project.
Senior Goldman Sachs banker Jim Donovan is under strong consideration for deputy Treasury secretary and could serve as Mnuchin’s No. 2 if confirmed by the Senate, people familiar with the matter said. For the last eight years, Donovan has also served as a professor of corporate strategy at the University of Virginia law school.