Forbes is working with schools across the U.S with strengths in different areas, including UVA, to ensure that a diverse set of high-achieving students from many universities engages in the program.
UVA’s Darden School of Business could expand into two upper floors of a Rosslyn office building. Under plans before the Arlington County Board for its Saturday meeting, building owner Monday Properties wants to convert existing office space at 1100 Wilson Blvd on the 30th and 31st floors to educational use.
UVA 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. UVA came in at No. 25 on this year’s list, down from No. 24 a year ago, but still in the coveted top 50. The Charlottesville school was also named the third-best public university in the U.S.
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Georgetown University in D.C. and the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, remain the top three universities in the wider D.C. area, according to new rankings from U.S. News & World Report.
The University of Virginia ranks No. 3 under Public National Universities.
Building the skill levels of current employees requires expanding in-house training beyond the traditional one-day, off-site approach. UVA business professor Ed Hess foresees corporate human resources being transformed into human development. “HR has to become ‘HD’ because the education system can’t produce what companies need.”
While the wealth gap between married couples and single people is large here, the phenomenon isn’t unique to Seattle. “What we’ve seen since the 1980s is that marriage is increasingly the preserve of the more educated and affluent Americans,” said W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
The report confirms that Albemarle County (the University of Virginia’s principal location, and the region’s leading jobs engine) serves as the dominant location of the region’s job growth, with 5,676 net added jobs.
While the disease appears unlikely to throw those snakes back on the threatened or endangered species list, it certainly has to potential to sicken them and slow down their progress. Sarah Bailey, a UVA graduate, said she has seen several cases of Lake Erie water snakes with white opaque cloudiness of the eyes, including one she examined while the group of visiting journalists was there. “A lot [of the impacted Lake Erie water snakes] go blind,” Bailey said.
As Hurricane Irma threatens Florida, UVA students from the Sunshine State are safe here, but far from their families during a time of disaster back home. NBC29 spoke with fourth-year student Dax Leiter about what it's like to be far away from his family right now.
A small galaxy in the constellation Lynx that only recently started making stars has the lowest level of oxygen ever seen in a star-forming galaxy. That makes it the best place yet to probe the chemical elements cooked up by the big bang. “They are very rare,” says Trinh Thuan at the University of Virginia. That’s because star-forming galaxies have massive stars that explode soon after birth, raising the oxygen level.
“There’s still a big question about whether [President Trump] has a political strategy that matches his willingness to bash his own party,” said William J. Antholis, director of UVA’s Miller Center. “There’s clearly a genius about Donald Trump. The question is whether it translates into political wins. If he continues to do this, would he get the Republican nomination? Would he run as an independent?”
A week ago, Jerry Stenger and other weather experts watched an ominous, albeit still early, forecast for how Hurricane Irma might affect Virginia. "A few days ago, it was looking like a Category 3 or 4 storm right up through the middle of Virginia,'' said Stenger, director of the state climatology office at UVA.
“[Trump] has pretty much failed to be an able leader of pushing the Republican agenda for all these reasons, whether it’s an unfamiliarity with a lot of the policy debates or a lack of support for some of the policy objectives ... That’s not a good place if you are thinking about the electoral prospects for the GOP in 2018,” UVA political analyst Geoffrey Skelley said.
Ohio is one of only a handful of states that has never elected a female senator or governor, noted Kyle Kondik, with the UVA’s Center for Politics. “I do think it’s reasonable to wonder, given that and Hillary Clinton’s historically poor performance in the state (in 2016), how comfortable Ohio is electing a woman statewide, to a big statewide office,” Kondik said.
On a Sunday panel show, a Russian politician said U.S. “intelligence missed it when Russian intelligence stole the president of the United States.” The focus of the episode was the decline of U.S. power in the world. In that context, said UVA professor Allen Lynch via email, Nikonov was less stating the extent of Russia's involvement in the 2016 election as mocking the resulting chaos as emblematic of U.S. weakness.
In 2006, UVA researchers turned on the lights in the cages of lab mice six hours earlier than normal once a week for eight weeks, preventing them from resetting their clocks. In terms of light-cue changes, it was as if they’d flown from New York to Paris once a week. The result: Younger rodents got sick and displayed mentally unstable behavior; 53 percent of the older mice just dropped dead.
Dr. Cornel West, a civil rights activist, returned to Charlottesville on Friday after the violence on Aug. 12. This time, he spoke in front of a large crowd at the University of Virginia to talk about race relations.
Besieged by a barrage of hate incidents and propaganda efforts by white supremacists, colleges and universities must lead authentic discussions about troubling aspects of the nation’s racial past in order to secure a better future. Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, listed a series of steps her institution has taken to acknowledge the fact that it was “built by the hands of enslaved labor.”
It’s been said that Hillary Clinton lost the election due to sexism and an FBI director’s comments. In a new book, veteran reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes point the finger at the candidate and her failure to connect with fans of Bernie Sanders. The two spoke last week at UVA’s Miller Center; the book is called “Shattered.”