According to the UVA student body president, a recent survey of 400 students showed that 84 percent of students were against carrying guns on Grounds.
Examples from Olivier Zunz’s history, “Philanthropy in America,” are useful context after last week’s discussion and debate about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for his fortune. Zunz is a historian at the University of Virginia.
At the University of Virginia, scientists are fine-tuning what could be the cheapest method for delaying or preventing the onset of diabetes.
Brigham Young’s Bronco Mendenhall was late to a scheduled team meeting Friday in Provo, Utah. He had spent the previous three hours considering the terms of a contract Virginia had sent him earlier that afternoon. The paperwork concerned becoming the new coach of the Cavaliers, and, in the end, he decided that growth comes from change. He signed the contract — a five-year deal worth $16.25 million — and will make the move with his family from Utah to Charlottesville to take over the Cavaliers football program.
With glaciers melting, sea levels rising and 2015 about to break last year’s record as the hottest year in the world since modern measurements began in 1880, California Gov. Jerry Brown arrived Saturday at the international climate summit in Paris, bringing with him business executives, political leaders and huge hopes that the trip will make a major difference. “Jerry Brown was never elected president, but he sure wanted to be,” said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. “In this sense, I guess he’s playing president. Nobody s...
Larry Sabato, a politics professor at the University of Virginia, says Trump’s supporters are disproportionately blue collar and non-college educated and, with an estimated 10 per cent of the general electorate, he is by no means representative of US public opinion. “Naturally, Trump’s style attracts certain types of voters who see no subtlety in the complicated issues the world faces and just want a strong man to ‘fix’ all the problems,” he said.
UVA historians Brian Balogh and Peter Onuf, co-hosts of the public radio show BackStory, weigh the former president’s complex history.
A group of biomechanics at the University of Virginia is honoring the commitment of soldiers by discovering more ways to keep them safe on the battlefield.
If Bronco Mendenhall isn’t the most accomplished coach ever hired by the University of Virginia, he needs to be mentioned prominently in the discussion.
Thursday night marked the 15th anniversary of the Lighting of the Lawn at the University of Virginia. Thousands of people were greeted with a variety of musical and dance performances culminating in a traditional light show at the end of the night. According to the university, more than 12,000 low-energy LED lights are being used this year.
This week, two shooters opened fire on a workplace holiday party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding at least 21. Not much is known about the shooters yet, other than the fact that all four of their weapons were legally purchased, according to the New York Times. What we do know is that the events in San Bernardino are far from unique: Statistics show that there’s a mass shooting, defined as one in in which at least four people died, almost every day in America. To most people watching, this frequency suggests that, with Congress gridlocked, mass shootings ...
A group of UVA inventors has already won tens of thousands of dollars for an idea for pets that may have implications as a human male contraceptive.
Women account for 34 percent of the Darden School of Business' students and that number is growing as more women are getting into the school from around the world.
Scientific discoveries are often the product of painstaking research over years, but once in a while laboratories get lucky. Such was the case at the UVA Immunology Center, where an effort to better understand the immune system led to a finding that could help treat anemia.
Bronco Mendenhall, the head coach at Brigham Young University for the last 11 years, is the new head football coach at the University of Virginia, director of athletics Craig Littlepage announced today, Friday, Dec. 4.
Thursday night marked the 15th anniversary of the Lighting of the Lawn at the University of Virginia. Thousands of people were greeted with a variety of musical and dance performances culminating in a traditional light show at the end of the night. According to the university, more than 12,000 low-energy LED lights are being used this year.
As world leaders meet in Paris for the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference, a University of Virginia student and two alumnae also are at the talks, pushing for change.
Was the pressure to publish tempting authors to improperly tweak their findings in order to create more cohesive stories? If researchers could report just the one finding they felt comfortable with, Rajendran mused, perhaps “there would be no need to be dishonest.” Those ponderings eventually spurred the creation of Matters. Launched on 5 November, the open-access online journal aims to boost integrity and speed the communication of science by allowing researchers to publish discrete observations rather than complete stories. Because good stories are more satisfying than ones with ...
Donald Trump has a big beef with Big Media over the presidential debates. The GOP presidential front-runner says the TV networks have been using the prime-time presidential debates to make millions of dollars. Advertising Age, the industry bible, agrees. We asked University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato, one of the country’s leading political thinkers, to join us in helping the rookie presidential candidate think bigger. Trump should use his speech tonight in Prince William County to go bigger and better. Sabato told us there is “No question the networks are making b...
Consumers today can get food and rides and tubes of toothpaste on demand at any hour of the day. They can order used cars, up for sale, to be brought to their doorstep for a test drive in mere hours. Startups—clamoring to cater to consumers’ desire for all things white-glove and personalized—have encouraged new users to outsource their laundry, their driving, their parking, their shopping, and more. But even the business leaders who are helping to revolutionize today’s consumer lifestyle disagree about whether this is a golden age that can last—or one built on gre...