As part of University of Virginia’s efforts to reconcile its controversial past, Wednesday, it formally dedicated Pinn Hall in honor of Dr. Vivian Pinn.
The first time Dr. Vivian Pinn walked through the doors of the University Hospital was to visit her grandfather. He was sick, and he was in a segregated ward. “Who would have thought then that I would return to a building with my name on it?” Pinn asked at a Wednesday event to dedicate a UVA School of Medicine building in her honor.
Virginia historians and political analysts say the off-off-year election schedule has worked to the benefit of incumbent politicians and political machines who have been resistant to change in the commonwealth. “The off-year election certainly helped maintain control of things for the Byrd machine and the machine that operated prior,” says Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Virginia historians and political analysts say the off-off-year election schedule has worked to the benefit of incumbent politicians and political machines who have been resistant to change in the commonwealth. “The off-year election certainly helped maintain control of things for the Byrd machine and the machine that operated prior,” says Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Deborah Hellman, a UVA law professor who specializes in bioethics, says that from an ethical standpoint there are two ways to think about this.
UVA will repay a 1921 pledge from the Klu Klux Klan, university President Teresa A. Sullivan announced Thursday morning. The University will donate an inflation-adjusted amount of $12,500 to the Charlottesville Patient Support Fund to help with medical expenses of those injured during the Aug. 11 and 12 white supremacist rallies.
Until a new AD is hired, Littlepage will run the office, and he already has an idea of the qualities his successor should possess. Asked to describe the ideal candidate for his job, Littlepage didn’t flinch. “I would say the most important thing is that it would require a person that is a listener, a person that is a relationship-builder,” he said. “To me, the most important thing is for the new person to come in here and develop the relationships and the respect among the coaches, to understand the culture that has been built.”
Scott Beardsley first heard the term “nontraditional leader” several years ago when he tried to make the jump from being director of a management consulting firm to president of an Ivy League college. “I was told that you’re a nontraditional leader and that’s complicated,” Beardsley recalled being told by an executive search firm as tried to become president of Dartmouth College back in 2012 and 2013. “I said, ‘What’s that mean? What’s that word you’re calling me?’” recounted Beardsley, who is now dean and Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration at UVA’s Darden School of Busines...
Dewey Cornell, professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education who has studied school safety for decades, said gunshot detection systems are not practical or cost-effective because school shootings are extremely rare. "School budgets are tight, and funds need to be allocated where they’re going to be most effective," he said. "The average school has a fatal shooting every 6,000 years."
“Gillespie is a political pro, but he’s being squeezed by Corey Stewart and Trump on one side, and on the other by voters who don’t want anything to do with Trump or Corey Stewart,” says Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “He’s got a very narrow path to victory.”
UVA professor Allen Lynch told The Hill that Nikonov's comments were not meant as a confession that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, but were intended to mock the U.S. "His point in making the remark was that if the U.S. can’t protect the integrity of its own electoral system, then how powerful can it really be?" Lynch told The Hill.
Vyacheslav Nikonov, a member of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, appeared Sunday night on a show hosted by presenter Vladimir Solovyov that focused on whether U.S. global influence was in decline. UVA professor Allen Lynch, an expert on Russian foreign policy, told the Hill that Nikonov was not so much explaining Russia's influence during the U.S. election as discussing how the chaos of the fallout was emblematic of U.S. decline.
Rachel Narr wasn't popular in high school. She was no wears-pink-on-Wednesdays "Mean Girl." She wasn't the cheerleader who dated the quarterback. But she said that she had strong friendships, and one exceptionally close comrade meant a lot to Narr during her teen years. When it comes to that friend, "I suppose in many ways she is the inspiration for a lot of my work on teen friendships," said Narr, now a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia.
As insurer after insurer has dropped out of the individual market, more than 66,000 residents in 58 Virginia cities and counties could be left with no coverage and no options next year. "Really, the big problem was when Anthem pulled out, because Anthem had 200,000 enrollees," said Carolyn Engelhard, director of the health policy program in the department of public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine.
The University of Virginia is still one of the top 25 colleges in the U.S., according to the 2018 U.S. News & World Report National University ranking, released Tuesday.
The only sector where a majority of colleges and universities reported meeting their goals was public doctoral institutions, of which 59 percent said that they had met their target by May 1. Public research universities include institutions, including the University of Virginia, that are among the most competitive in admissions in the country. They have a strong base within their state and popularity out of state, including with international students who are increasingly important to the enrollment strategies of many American colleges.
A landmark clinical trial that followed more than 27,000 subjects for roughly 18 years has offered some conclusive evidence that neither the hype nor the grim warnings about hormone-replacement therapy were warranted. “This study is just one more piece of reassuring data in line with our findings,” said Dr. JoAnn V. Pinkerton, a UVA professor of obstetrics and gynecology and chair of the panel that drafted that position statement.
As Hurricane Harvey hammered the Houston area and its flood-stricken residents, athletics officials at the University of Houston issued calls for help to their counterparts around the country. UVA is among those answering.
UVA professor Allen Lynch, an expert on Russian foreign policy, told the Hill that Nikonov was not so much explaining Russia's influence during the U.S. election as discussing how the chaos of the fallout was emblematic of U.S. decline. “His point in making the remark was that if the U.S. can’t protect the integrity of its own electoral system, then how powerful can it really be?” wrote Lynch in an email.
The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, and the College of William & Mary consistently rank among the best public universities in the country, and the state is home to six of the top 90 “value schools” as ranked by Kiplinger. Similarly, Money magazine ranked 19 schools in Virginia as among the “best colleges for your money.”