Despite the controversy over the University of Virginia’s revisions to its right-to-assemble policies, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has awarded the university its highest free speech rating.
When she is sworn in on Thursday, Ms. Omar will take her place in the history books as one of the first two Muslim women in Congress — and the first to wear a hijab, or head covering, on the House floor. “She’s the epitome of the so-called American dream, but for much of white Christian America, she’s an American nightmare,” said Larycia Hawkins, who teaches politics and religion at the University of Virginia, and lost her job at an evangelical college after wearing a hijab in solidarity with Muslim women.
Valerie Gregory, an associate dean of admission, has worked for nearly 20 years to open the doors of the University of Virginia for underserved and underrepresented students.
UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash says the Equal Rights Amendment could affect any policy favoring one sex over the other. Currently, it’s legally easier to justify affirmative action based on gender than race, he notes.
Warren will have plenty of competition from women driving the Democratic Party's resurgence as well as liberals and progressives, UVA professor Larry Sabato said. He said that despite her 80 percent name recognition, that did not necessarily translate into actual support. "Some Democrats swear by her and love her blunt style, while others are put off by her and fear she'd lose to Trump. Warren has a lot of convincing to do," Sabato said, adding the same is true of many other Democratic contenders.
This year, we asked a number of writers, technologists, politicians, activists and comedians to answer two questions: What do you predict Mark Zuckerberg’s 2019 personal challenge will be? And What do you think Mark Zuckerberg’s 2019 personal challenge should be? UVA professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, weighs in.
NASA made history early this morning during a close encounter with a tiny and enigmatic ‘minor planet’ lurking at the frozen far reaches of our solar system. Its New Horizons probe sped past a strange object called Ultima Thule at about 5:30 a.m., snapping pictures as it zoomed by at high speed. The first of these images have now been published and are expected to solve a key question about the far-off object, which is floating in a cloud of comets, asteroids and dwarf planets called the Kuiper Belt. “An even more bizarre scenario is one in which Ultima is surrounded by many tiny tumbling moon...
Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, says other countries have a lot to learn. Estonia took time to build security and privacy into its model, in contrast with failed efforts by private companies to provide secure online voting systems in the United States, for example.
Many of us see fresh fruit juice as a healthy way to get a mega-dose of vitamins – but is that true? And what does it do to our blood sugar and insulin levels? "There are a lot of nutrients contained in the parts of the fruits, such as in apple skins, that are excluded when you juice them,” says Heather Ferris, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia. “You end up with sugary water with some vitamins." Plus, she adds, it’s not an ideal way to reach the advised ‘five a day’.
The final entry in this year’s most-read list highlights the story of the UVA Health System’s care providers, who began a practice of purposefully pausing their work in silence upon the loss of a patient. The Pause – as they’ve coined the practice, which has reached other health systems – is intended to be paid respects to the life lost, and the best efforts of the care providers in their attempt to save it. It’s also an embodiment of the best stories to highlight health care in 2018: patient-centric, team-oriented and norm-breaking.
The University of Virginia Health System's two endoscopy units are receiving top honors for their quality care. UVA's endoscopy centers at the main hospital and on Monroe Lane are two of the 10 centers in the state to achieve the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy's Quality Star rating.
The UVA Health System and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital are two of the hospitals nationwide that are now required to post their prices online. The goal is to give consumers information and smart options before they choose a care provider.
The University of Virginia School of Nursing recently received a Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, which covers diversity in higher education. This was the first time UVA’s nursing school has been honored and they were among 35 health professions schools nationwide to receive a 2018 HEED Award.
Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia spent much of 2018 trying to move on from the turbulence and tragedy of 2017. In the coming year, UVA will seek to continue raising funds around the bicentennial.
"I think [Gingrich and the Republicans] deeply believed that they were going to show to the country just how deeply they believed they were right by shutting down the government," Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of staff, said in an interview with the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
A new President’s Commission on University of Virginia in the Age of Segregation aims to tackle the 150 years at UVA following Emancipation.
The University of Virginia's College at Wise has a problem. Already a small school, its enrollment has dropped in recent years, a victim of demographic changes in the area and increased recruitment from nearby universities. To combat declining enrollment, the school hopes to offer reduced tuition rates to any student from the Appalachia region, making the cost of attendance equal or near that charged for Virginia residents.
A bill pre-filed in the Virginia General Assembly aims to improve enrollment rates at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. Legislation sponsored by Del. Terry Kilgore, R-Gate City, seeks to change residential requirements for students seeking reduced rate tuition in an effort to boost the student body at the Wise County school by allowing students to attend who reside in one of 13 designated Appalachian region states, extending from New York to Georgia.
The University of Virginia ranked No. 1 for student athletic participation in the state, according to a Watchdog analysis of college sports participation.
David M. O’Brien, a scholar and author who dissected the Supreme Court’s internal machinations and ideological dynamics, treating it as a political institution as much as a legal one, died on Dec. 20 at his home in Charlottesville. He was 67. Dr. O’Brien taught politics at the University of Virginia for almost four decades.