Charlottesville was one of the communities discussed at this year's symposium, just weeks after city councilors voted to remove the Robert E. Lee statue from Lee Park. "Charlottesville is now, in my opinion, the center of this controversy nationally," University of Virginia professor Ervin Jordan said.
“This isn’t strictly a partisan issue,” said George Yin, a UVA law professor who worked on the Senate Finance Committee staff and served as chief of staff of the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. “A number of Trump’s supporters want the kind of information that has been traditionally provided by presidents. This is simply about good government.”
A new research project at University of Virginia is putting people behind the wheel to find ways to help drivers with autism. UVA is pairing with Virginia Tech on the project. Both are searching for drivers with less than a year of experience behind the wheel to take part, 10 with autism and 10 without.
UVA Health System researchers are recruiting participants for a new study dealing with new drivers with autism.
UVA is listed among the colleges from the Washington region sending large numbers of Peace Corps volunteers abroad.
Project planners at the University of Virginia have narrowed down the ideas for a memorial honoring the university's history of enslaved laborers.
Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy has bagged the 2017 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal for Global Innovation for his contributions in the area of information technology. The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation announced the awards in the categories of law, citizen leadership, global innovation and architecture.
The University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present the 2017 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in Law, Citizen Leadership, Global Innovation and Architecture on April 13.
“The fact is, most speechwriters hate the thing,” explains Russell Riley of the UVA Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History program.
Proponents of HPV self-testing say its biggest appeal is in expanding the reach of cancer screenings. A trial underway now looks to test that idea in a woefully underserved region of the U.S.: Appalachia. “Cervical cancer really is such a cancer of disparities,” said UVA assistant nursing professor Emma McKim Mitchell, the trial’s lead investigator.
Ed Hess, professor of business administration and executive-in-residence at UVA’s Darden School of Business, discusses how the American job will change in the coming years because of artificial intelligence and how we can be the best humans possible.
A new study published Monday in Nature Plants breaks down the environmental cost of producing a loaf of bread, from wheat field to bakery. The study is "very interesting, very complete," says James Galloway, an expert on nitrogen cycles at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the new study. "This is exactly the kind of thing that should be done with other food commodities."
The shift to digital has an impact across sectors whether it is news media, retail, finance or telecom. Professor Rajkumar Venkatesan of UVA’s Darden Business School discusses the importance of subscription models and why businesses should focus on customer lifetime value, and integrated online and offline strategies to drive growth.
The University of Virginia estimates that it spends $20 million a year complying with unfunded federal mandates, just for its academic division, reports Karin Kapsidelis with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The estimates come in response to a Congressional request for information as part of a review of federal review of unfunded mandates.
Planners have narrowed down ideas for a memorial to enslaved laborers at the University of Virginia and expect to have a proposal for university officials by the summer. Members of the design team met Monday at the School of Architecture to talk with students and faculty about three proposals – all of them involving displays on or near the Lawn, at the heart of UVA Grounds – being batted around in the final stretch of the planning process.
"The Supreme Court left it a little unclear where the line is," said Leslie Kendrick, a professor at UVA’s School of Law. "The law has to take into account the speaker's state of mind. But what state of mind does that have to be? We don't know."
UVA media studies professor Aynne Kokas, author of the new book "Hollywood: Made in China," breaks down how the movie market in China is exploding.
UVA’s Rotunda stands as Jefferson’s masterpiece and may be the greatest building in the United States. The recent renovations have restored the building’s centrality. The reopened place represents the University in the intellect as well as on postcards.
On the occasion of the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture last September, the museum created greater visibility for these narratives and formed new discourses on race. The Architect’s Newspaper sat down with Mabel O. Wilson, an architect, associate professor at Columbia and an alum of the University of Virginia, to discuss her new book, “Beginning with the Past,” which details the hard-fought process of realizing the museum.
There’s a difference between those who harshly criticized Obama because they saw the Affordable Care Act as government overreach and those who cast him as un-American and a tyrant based on false allegations about his race or religion, notes Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.