Chuck Berry, who died Saturday at age 90, helped create both rock 'n' roll and modern youth culture, becoming one of the first African-American stars to win a wide white audience. Berry managed to capture "the rebelliousness, the playfulness, the irrepressibility" of a generation, said Jack Hamilton, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia and author of "Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination."
(By Bob Gibson, senior researcher at the Academy for Civic Renewal in UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service.) Relatively large numbers of Virginians in both major political parties are expected to vote June 13 in dueling party primaries for statewide, House of Delegates and local offices. June 13 promises to be the first big test of how much new political activism is being aroused in the era of Donald Trump’s presidency.
According to a 2013 economic impact study conducted by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, agriculture and forestry are two of Virginia’s largest industries with a combined economic impact of $70 billion annually.
Here’s another: A study from the UVA Health System found that men between the ages of 71 and 93 who walked more than a quarter of a mile per day had half the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, compared to those who walked less.
When law librarians at several universities and government offices began getting questions about Neil Gorsuch from their patrons, UVA’s law school decided to create a website called the “Neil Gorsuch Project.”
UVA engineering students are creating their own ground station to track spacecraft.
The University of Virginia has taken a step forward in a larger push to curb student drinking with the opening of a no-alcohol student lounge on the Corner, a commercial strip opposite the school.
This year for South by Southwest’s annual trade show, the University of Virginia’s W.L. Lyon Brown III Innovation Laboratory (i.Lab for short) brought three startups down to Austin.
The University of Virginia wrapped up the first day of its “The Global History of Black Girlhood” conference with a panel discussion on activism. The panel on Friday evening featured four political organizers who stressed the importance of building permanent, structured movements that go beyond electoral politics.
Women from all over the world are teaming up in Charlottesville to break stereotypes and analyze what it's like to grow up as a black girl. The University of Virginia hosted the two-day "Global History of Black Girlhood Conference". Organizers say they wanted to have an open conversation on the issues black girls are facing today.
Longtime CBS News correspondent and UVA grad-turned-professor Wyatt Andrews took the floor at CitySpace on Sunday to speak about President Donald Trump’s at-times-precarious relationship with the truth and the fracturing of an industry Andrews has been a part of for decades.
More than 100 aspiring UVA entrepreneurs recently celebrated the opening of a new space to meet, make plans and find ways to change the world.
Virginia’s colleges and universities do extraordinary work. They teach our children. They fuel the economy all over Virginia. They deserve the support of our people and their political representatives. Are the colleges and universities more expensive than they once were? Yes, and the numbers show why.
Virginia guard London Perrantes was practically begging to get back into Thursday’s game against UNC Wilmington. He left with just more than five minutes remaining after being shaken up in a scrum for a loose ball. This could’ve easily been Perrantes’ final college game, so he sacrificed his body whenever he could – including in this moment, when he clutched his elbow a few times before getting the green light to go back in. By the time Perrantes returned, he wouldn’t be denied in a 76-71 win over the feisty Seahawks in a first-round NCAA East Region game.
Five diabetes experts I spoke with for this story do not think the trend is dangerous. Though a CGM is attached to the wearer's body, it's considered a minimally invasive device. “I don’t think there’s any risk,” says Boris Kovatchev, director of the UVA Center for Diabetes Technology. “Unless people get too fixated.”
Next week, the UVA School of Architecture will host a symposium – “Race and Public Space: Commemorative Practices in the American South” – to discuss how race, memory and commemoration intersect.
Last year, UVA paid $8.73 million for 2.63 acres between King Street and the railroad tracks. University spokesman Anthony P. de Bruyn said there are “no plans to redevelop the UVA-purchased properties at this time.”
(By David A. Martin, professor emeritus at the UVA School of Law) President Trump’s new travel ban displays operational sophistication and careful lawyering – qualities missing from his Jan. 27 executive order, which judges quickly enjoined. The newly careful drafting may be enough to bring eventual government victory in court. But in striving so obviously to avoid footholds for judicial review, the new order unwittingly exposes the policy hollowness and, it should be said, the foundational dishonesty of the blanket travel bans.
(By former UVA President Robert M. O’Neil, founder of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression) Earlier this month, Middlebury College was beset by what could fairly be termed the Academic Perfect Storm.
Donna Spruijt-Metz, director of the mHealth Collaboratory at the USC Center for Economic and Social Research, and her team are testing an innovative approach to address obesity: devices that measure mood and eating behaviors rather than focusing on dietary intake. In 2015, Spruijt-Metz, along with her colleagues John Stankovic and John Lach at the University of Virginia, and Kayla de la Haye at USC, received a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study obesity and eating habits within families through wearable, mobile health devices.