At No. 38 on the list is the University of Virginia.
Kelsey Johnson is a mother, astrophysicist and UVA professor of astronomy. She says she is “distraught” about the sorry state of science literacy in this country and believes that it is undermining American democracy and society. And for Johnson, that’s where Santa Claus comes in.
Fourth-year engineering students at the University of Virginia, Ryan French and TJ Sample, organized a Christmas light show at IX Art Park throughout the month of December to raise money for Computers4Kids.
The Children’s Choir of Central Virginia performed at the Crozet United Methodist Church to benefit the UVA Children's Hospital.
By using the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the speed of the galaxies relative to one another, UVA astronomer Nitya Kallivayalil and her colleagues calculated the accurate 3-D velocities of the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud.
Female graduates of the most competitive schools earn 14 percent more than women with comparable entrance-exam scores who went to less selective colleges, researchers at the University of Virginia and Tulane University found.
The study, “Elite Schools and Opting-In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes,” was conducted by three economics professors, Suqin Ge at Virginia Tech, Amalia Miller at the University of Virginia and Elliot Isaac at Tulane University, and is being circulated as a white paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Women who were key in Thomas Jefferson’s retirement will be the subject of a free public lecture on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Dome Room of UVA’s Rotunda. Leslie Greene Bowman, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, will present “Women in Jefferson’s Retirement: Martha Jefferson Randolph and her Aunt, Sally Hemings” during the lecture. Sponsored by the UVA Colonnade Club, the presentation is a part of the Bicentennial Lecture Series, created in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the university’s founding.
Smart families have figured out they can save significantly by placing their child in a good community college for a year or two, then transferring them to a traditional four-year school. Thomas Nelson Community College has transfer arrangements with a variety of great universities including Virginia Tech, The College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia.
In Charlottesville, however, Bird and Lime have secured necessary approvals with city officials, allowing operations within city limits and parts of the University of Virginia. … Some parts of town — including the bricked area of the Downtown Mall, the Corner and much of UVA — are off-limits within a geofence, or virtual barrier.
Children and their families received tips like how to create their own pine-cone bird feeders during the Bird Count and Family Festival held Sunday afternoon at the arboretum, part of the Blandy Experimental Farm operated by the University of Virginia in Clarke County.
(Subscription required) At UVA, questions of race are at the front of people’s minds. After the deadly white-supremacist rallies last year in Charlottesville, Dorrie K. Fontaine, dean of the School of Nursing, recalled standing in front of a faculty group and saying, “This is not who we are. This is not Charlottesville.” Some of her African-American faculty members pushed back: “Well, actually, that is the way it is here.” Three groups from across the University went through the course this fall.
“When the U.S. and Canada begin specific actions such as detaining the CFO of Huawei, I am afraid we will expect retaliations from China that will increase the risk of doing business in China,” said Dennis Yang, business professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
The challenge, said Ila Berman, dean of the UVA School of Architecture (and one of just a few female deans in the field), is to “change a culture that will only be changed through representation, when 50 percent of the people in the room are women.” The – tentative – good news is that it’s happening.
Four U.S. teachers have been named in the Top 50 shortlist for the prestigious $1 million Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2019, including James Linville, a University of Virginia graduate, now Headmaster at the New England Association of Schools and Colleges-accredited Abaarso School of Science and Technology in Somaliland. He has led his American-style boarding school from start-up to an institution that is among the most respected and successful secondary schools in Africa.
UVA alumna Sarah White has been making and releasing music since the ’90s, her hard to categorize sound straddling indie rock, folk and even pop. But from the bent-note blast that kicks off the first cut in her newly released album, listeners are clearly in the world of exceptional twang.
First prize of $1,000 went to Amy Fan, a pediatrician who graduated in 2015 from the University of Virginia Medical School and whose idea is to practice “telemedicine” from her home in Cambridge. Her business, called Kinder, is “an online pediatric clinic,” she said, “without a brick-and-mortar office.” She plans to launch in March 2019, she said, and to serve families who don’t have easy access to pediatric care.
Dr. Kelli Armstrong, currently vice president for planning and assessment at Boston College, has been named president of Salve Regina University, effective June 2019. Armstrong will be the first female president of the university. Armstrong earned a master’s in English from the University of Virginia.
A bill that would honor fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan by renaming a Charlottesville post office has passed the Senate by unanimous consent.
Khan, a graduate of the University of Virginia, was killed on June 8, 2004 during Operation Iraqi Freedom when a taxicab packed with an improvised explosive device exploded outside of his base in Baqubah, Iraq.