UVA students walked the lawn one last time Saturday before going off into the working world. More than 6,000 graduates received diplomas from the University over the weekend.
“It’s a wrap” for the 2016-’17 academic year at the University of Virginia. By Sunday afternoon, UVA was able to add more than 6000 new names to its ranks of alumni.
John P. “Jack” Ackerly III, one of Virginia’s foremost Civil War preservationists, died Thursday at his Richmond home. He was 82. An attorney who served as rector of the University of Virginia from 1998 to 2003, Ackerly loved Virginia history – especially its role in the Civil War – and devoted years to trying to save the state’s battlefields from development.
The "summer melt" is a phenomenon based on the statistic that 10 to 40 percent of incoming first-year college students don't actually report for classes in the fall. At the top end of those numbers are lower-income students. Texting has been a part of a years-long strategy on the part of many school systems to combat the melt. Two UVA professors wrote about this "low-touch intervention" in a frequently cited 2014 study that built on years of previous work on the subject.
LaVahn Hoh, a retired UVA drama professor who long taught the nation’s only course on circus history, said he vividly remembers waking at dawn as a boy and seeing the arriving circus train’s headlights break through the fog in his hometown of Appleton, Wis. These days, he wonders, “Maybe the word ‘circus’ has to change to something else. Maybe the whole definition has to change.”
UVA students and graduates who are leaving the Charlottesville area are helping the community by giving away some of their belongings.
UVA awarded degrees to almost 6,700 graduates this weekend during Final Exercises. None of UVA’s graduates could be called “typical,” but three outstanding students break the stereotypes associated with UVA students.
Calhoun’s older brother, Benton, was named Innovator of the Year for his work with PsiKick, a Charlottesville company developing low-power wireless sensors to enhance the internet of things. Benton Calhoun is also an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia.
Now, with the eyes of the world upon him, the president will embark on his big trip carrying the baggage of dire troubles at home. "There has never been a president taking his first international trip being dogged by scandal like this," said Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics.
How the U.S. Could Prosecute the Turkish Guards Who Beat Protesters in Washington as Erdogan Watched
According to Ashley Deeks, a UVA associate professor of law and a former assistant legal adviser at the State Department who wrote in The Washington Post about the catch-22 of enforcing diplomatic immunity, the U.S. could also be looking into declaring the officials involved in the brawl “persona non grata,” or suing the Turkish Embassy guards.
In comparison to the UK, where the situation facing local and regional publishers looks increasingly dire, local papers in the U.S. are faring relatively well compared to their metro counterparts – at least for now. Local papers, which University of Virginia assistant professor Christopher Ali defines as any paper with a circulation of under 50,000 per day/week, account for 97 percent of all newspapers in the U.S. His research has found a sense of "guarded optimism" among local newspapers, in part because they've managed to transition to service provision in a way that most large-scale pu...
(Commentary by Geoffrey Skelley, the associate editor at UVA’s Center for Politics ) On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) moved to end debate on the nomination of Gov. Terry Branstad (R-IA) as the next U.S. ambassador to China. Upon becoming ambassador, Branstad will resign the Hawkeye State governorship and hand the reins over to Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), who will become Iowa’s first woman governor. Once she takes office, Reynolds is expected to run for a full term in 2018 as a gubernatorial incumbent, albeit a “successor incumbent” rather than an elected one.
UVA researchers have made a discovery that may help premature babies and people in need of blood platelets. They have identified what they call a "master switch" they may be able to manipulate to overcome obstacles doctors have faced in the past in producing large quantities of platelets outside of the body.
But there was a wrinkle in the good news: kids continue to feel that bullying is a problem. Just under half believed that in 2005; just over half believe that now. “While they are reducing the actual behavior, it’s hard to change perceptions,” said Catherine Bradshaw, an education professor and associate dean at the University of Virginia, and one of the authors of the study. “We have this assumption that things are worse,” but we have to look at the data, she said.
Patients undergoing a positron emission tomography (PET) scan in today's bulky, donut-shaped machines must lie completely still. Because of this, scientists cannot use the scanners to unearth links between movement and brain activity. What goes on up there when we nod in agreement or shake hands? How are the brains of people struggling to walk after a stroke different from those who can? To tackle questions like these, Julie Brefczynski-Lewis, a neuroscientist at West Virginia University, has partnered with Stan Majewski, a physicist at WVU and now at the University of Virginia, to develop a m...
According to a new study in the journal Pediatrics, bullying rates are down, and that’s something anyone who has fought to create safe spaces should feel proud of. “Occasionally, there is some good news out there,” says Catherine Bradshaw, a professor and associate dean at the University of Virginia and one of the study authors. “There are some things that are improving.”
Local residents are advised to avoid the area around the University of Virginia this weekend, as the university’s 188th Final Exercises are expected to bring more than 30,000 people to Charlottesville, according to official estimates.
The University of Virginia is planning a huge celebration of its bicentennial anniversary next year. The celebration kicks off in October with a launch weekend including a football game, concert and huge celebration on the Lawn.
It has been a busy two weeks in political news from the United States. Things are happening so fast that it is difficult to keep up. “Everyone I know in the political system, on all sides and in all professions, is exhausted,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “There's never a break.”
Benjamin Rous has been selected as the new music director of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia. He also will join the UVA faculty as an associate professor of music.