University of Virginia Rector William H. Goodwin will not serve another term on the university’s board of visitors. Goodwin’s term as rector expires at the end of this month, but he was eligible for reappointment to the board. Goodwin said he did not seek out reappointment from Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
The old coaches say, never follow a legend. Instead, young coach Andres Pedroso embraces the thought. With an agglomeration of Virginia’s national championship trophies as a backdrop at Boar’s Head Sports Club on Thursday, Pedroso launched his career as the Cavaliers’ new director of tennis and men’s head coach.
Two Danville sisters recently completed one part of a journey to help others achieve their dreams by becoming first-generation college graduates from the University of Virginia. On May 21, Tonyette and Shontell White walked across the Lawn and became UVA graduates.
Mild traumatic brain injury is one of the most common types of neurological disorders, yet one of the least understood. UVA is part of a national effort to map the brain in greater detail – a project that could go a long way in helping the medical community understand, diagnose and treat TBI.
Welcome to “Ask a Professor,” our new series that offers an insider’s view of life in academia. This month we interviewed Lise Dobrin, associate professor and director of the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics at the University of Virginia’s Department of Anthropology.
According to Scott Ransom, an astronomer from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and University of Virginia, who was not part of either research group, both aligned and non-aligned black hole pairs should exist in our universe. However, scientists aren't sure which scenario is more likely to happen yet. This is an important detail that can teach us more about the dynamics of our universe, and so far we can only detect the spins of black holes using the brand new technique of gravitational wave measurements.
Did Jeff Sessions commit perjury? Attorney general faces new scrutiny over Russia ambassador meeting
Attorney General Jeff Sessions came under fire in March when it was revealed that he had talked with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice during the 2016 campaign – despite saying under oath at his confirmation hearing that he had not. But would Sessions' failure to disclose his contacts with Kislyak really constitute perjury? It's hard to say. But Saikrishna Prakash, UVA’s James Monroe distinguished professor of law, says that proving perjury is "extremely difficult." "The difficulty is the mental state," Prakash said. "You have to prove that the person 'willfully' knew that the state...
Heritage Academy in Hagerstown, Maryland holds its senior graduation ceremony this evening, and Maddi Runkles will not be among the students donning cap and gown. As most have heard by now, the Christian school is punishing Runkles, who is pregnant, because she violated the school’s morality code that prohibits premarital sex. Brad Wilcox, a UVA sociologist who directs the National Marriage Project, said the conundrum is the two competing values: “On one hand, the school is seeking to maintain some kind of commitment to what has classically been called chastity – or today might be called ...
Ed Gillespie is the Republican with the best prospects for winning the Virginia governor's race this fall. However, it's anything but a cinch. Gillespie has to win the GOP primary on June 13, and he's heavily favored to do so. Then he would face a Democrat who is certain to portray him as President Trump's alter ego. It's a rough road ahead. And Trump isn't the only problem. "Virginia is a blue-tinged purple state," says political science professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. Democrats think they have the advantage for another reason. The last four Republicans who won the gover...
Republicans and conservatives tend to show higher levels of skepticism about man-made influence on climate change, meaning Trump supporters will certainly be pleased by his move, said Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. But no matter what decision Trump made, this won't be an issue that will dominate the 2018 midterms, he said.
“It’s an area of law in which the rule is easy to state, but the tricky part is in applying it,” said Joshua Wheeler, the director of both UVA’s First Amendment Clinic and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. “And by that I mean, there is a potential for abuse or for judges to exercise this authority in an arbitrary fashion.”
(Commentary By Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor at UVA’s Center for Politics ) In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, many observers understandably focused on the numerous places that swung from Barack Obama to Donald Trump. How many total voters really switched from Obama to Trump in 2016? Different data sources tell a different story, but the answer is certainly in the millions.
Robert F. Kennedy’s meeting, described nearly two decades ago by Timothy Naftali and Aleksandr Fursenko in “One Hell of a Gamble,” a book on the Cuban missile crisis, was ostensibly with a Soviet reporter who was also a K.G.B. officer. Philip D. Zelikow, a UVA historian and a former member of the George W. Bush administration who has worked extensively on the Kennedy era, noted the purpose of the meeting was to “signal hopes for good relations and defer expectations for an immediate summit meeting.”
State-supported schools are a lot less supported than they used to be. According to the American Council on Education, Virginia reduced higher education funding 53.6 percent from 1980 to 2011, and the cuts keep coming. State funding for full-time equivalent students was down 44 percent from 2001 to 2013.
As universities around the country address their former ties with slavery, the University of Virginia recently named a new building after Peyton Skipwith, a former slave of John Hartwell Cocke, one of the university’s early leaders.
We now know the kickoff times for the University of Virginia’s first three home football games of 2017. The Cavaliers will play at 3:30 p.m. on both Saturday, September 2nd and one week later on September 9th. The ‘Hoos begin their season with a pre-Labor Day clash with the College of William and Mary, and their September 9th opponents will be the Indiana Hoosiers. The UVA versus Indiana game will also be Military Appreciation Day at Scott Stadium.
Alexis Ohanian, 33, is a tech entrepreneur and best-selling author from the US. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1983 to an Armenian-American father – whose family fled the genocide – and a German mother. Alexis went to school in Ellicot City, Maryland, before graduating from the University of Virginia in 2005 with degrees in commerce and history.
If President Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord, as he's expected to do, experts warn the spiraling global warming crisis will take its hardest toll on millennials, who will inherit a crippled landscape. "If someone’s 20 years old now, they’re going to be in the prime of their life when these really serious climate chaanges happen and it’s going to be their kids who start bearing the brunt when things really start to go wrong," UVA law professor Michael Livermore tells Bustle. Livermore says the impact will determine "the economy, where they decide to live, and what the world...
“The meaning of covfefe is that every Cabinet member should be closely studying the 25th Amendment,” quipped Larry Sabato, the UVA politics expert, referring to the procedure of succession for a president deemed incapacitated.
State Sen. Mark Obenshain, R–Harrisonburg, in a press release in February, said there were eight localities in which the number of registered voters was higher than the voting-age population. Not so, according to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the state’s official source for population and demographic data. The center asserts that there are zero localities where voter registration outnumbers the voting-age population.