On a recent Wednesday evening, as rock music poured through the manicured gardens of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art here, a line of young people waited to see the artist Anne Patterson’s “Pathless Woods,” an installation that allows visitors to wander through a sea of brightly colored hanging ribbons. “It took around 24 miles of ribbon to hang the piece,” recalled Matthew McLendon, the former Ringling curator of modern art, who worked with the artist to involve students in the project. He was recently named director at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia.
Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, spoke at UVA Thursday morning to a group that included young professionals from the Middle East and North Africa, who are here through the UVA Center for Politics’ Leaders on Democracy Fellowship.
When he was a UVA law student, Edwin Fountain rarely gave any thought to the odd statue between Clemons and Alderman libraries. It’s a tribute to James McConnell, the former student who volunteered as a fighter pilot for the French Air Service during World War I. Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of McConnell’s death.
UVA students now have a new space to relax. The 1515 Student Center officially opened Thursday. Its name comes from the building's address, 1515 University Ave., right on The Corner.
At UVA, the conversation connecting slavery’s past to present-day issues is quickly developing. As co-chair of the President’s Commission on Slavery and the University, Professor Kirk Von Von Daake has been charged with spearheading the University’s recognition of slavery and transforming mere acknowledgement into continuous integrated education.
The 30-year-old comic started doing improv comedy in college at the University of Virginia as a founding member of the campus group Amuse Bouche before moving to New York City, where she performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade.
Mamadi Diakite was born in Conakry, Guinea and is a forward at University of Virginia.
London Perrantes sat in front of his locker in the Virginia locker room Wednesday afternoon with a wry smile on his face. He is the Cavaliers’ leader – their captain, their point guard, their top scorer – the guy his teammates look to when things get difficult.
Brooks Pate, a UVA professor of physical chemistry, has won the university’s top prize for faculty entrepreneurship, annual Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year Award from the University’s Licensing and Ventures Group.
The impact of unconscious bias on health and wellness in America is the focus of a two-day symposium that kicked off Wednesday UVA. The symposium is addressing solutions for unconscious bias, which often negatively affects how a patient receives medical treatment.
The Washington, D.C. based non-profit Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has awarded the University of Virginia a $1.9 million grant to study the effectiveness of two programs. Researchers will study the programs by implementing them in Danville, though the programs will serve people in Pittsylvania County and in Caswell County, North Carolina as well.
UVA professor Jennifer Doleac and Cornell University professor Nicholas Sanders studied the impact of daylight on crime, specifically robberies, after the 2007 change that extended daylight saving time for one week in the fall and three weeks in the spring.
More than 20 leaders from countries in the Middle East and North Africa are finding common ground among their diverse cultures. UVA’s Center for Politics is hosting them for a monthlong leadership program.
The city’s population as of July 1, 2016, has been estimated to be 91,722, according to UVA’S Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
UVA’s School of Nursing thinks part of the problem is our discomfort with death – an insistence that hospitals do everything possible to keep loved ones alive.
About a decade ago, UVA physics professor Louis Bloomfield put those fears to rest by happily getting pelted with pennies from high above. Bloomfield hosted his experiment in a park in Charlottesville.
Chris Williams, who starred for Pete Gillen’s UVA basketball teams from 1999 to 2002, has died at the age of 36. According to sources, Williams had suffered from blood clots after retiring from international basketball in 2016. He was the only player in Virginia history to rank in the program’s top 10 list in career points, rebounds, blocked shots and steals.
Since the early 1970s, according to UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, rates of religious attendance have fallen more than twice as much among whites without a college degree as among those who graduated college.
James Donovan, a longtime Goldman banking and investment management executive, has been named to be the deputy to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. In addition to his job at Goldman, Mr. Donovan, who lives with his wife and four children in Virginia, teaches corporate strategy and business ethics at the University of Virginia’s law school.
President Trump on Tuesday said he planned to nominate Goldman Sachs managing director James Donovan to serve as deputy treasury secretary. Donovan is also an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and teaches corporate strategy and leadership, according to UVA.