“Trump’s constituency has been shown to be both deeply angry and disproportionately non-college-educated,” said UVA’s Larry Sabato. “Trump gives voice to their frustrations, and they don’t particularly care about his constant stream of insults and outrageous bragging.”
University of Virginia fourth-year student Russell Bogue is one of 32 Americans to receive the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship this year. The scholarship covers two years of study at Oxford University in England. Bogue made it through a demanding application process that included a personal statement, eight letters of recommendation and multiple in-person interviews to be selected.
Logan Dandridge, a 21-year-old Patrick Henry High School graduate, is using his photography passion and skills to make a difference on the University of Virginia’s campus. Dandridge created a semi-permanent digital installment called Beyond Skin Deep: The UVA Experience, which features a 50-inch TV screen that shows portraits of the university’s community members and their responses to a few questions. He said he hopes it will encourage students, faculty, and others who may have been affected by racial and social issues to engage in conversation to “foster change” that ...
A simple PVC eraser has helped an international team of scientists led by bioarchaeologists at the University of York to resolve the mystery surrounding the tissue-thin parchment used by medieval scribes to produce the first pocket Bibles.Bruce Holsinger, Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Virginia and the initial humanities collaborator on the project, said: "The research team includes scholars and collaborators from over a dozen disciplines across the laboratory sciences, the humanities, the library and museum sciences—even a parchment maker. In additio...
An economics professor at the University of Virginia is making sure students have a home during the Thanksgiving holiday. Ken Elzinga is opening his doors to students who want to join his family for a feast. Elzinga says any student who wants to attend can but he finds that international students are really the ones who need a home during the holidays.
As she grabbed her car keys and sprinted out of her office, Kimberly Almarode struggled to control the terror that surged through her body. Her son’s preschool teacher had just called to say that Almarode’s 4-year-old son, Bentley, had fallen asleep in a classroom playhouse and teachers were having trouble rousing him. During the previous two weeks, Almarode had grown increasingly worried about her previously healthy middle child. Bentley complained of frequent headaches that had worsened from bothersome to debilitating. But Almarode’s insistence that something serious was wr...
Tysons Corner is a model for what urban planners call an Edge City – located outside Washington, D.C., it’s the commercial center for Fairfax County, with two major shopping malls and countless corporate headquarters. This year, the Metro arrived there, sparking new residential development and the prospect of much more pedestrian traffic – people walking to and from the train. That prompted a team from the University of Virginia to launch a walking study of the place – hoping to document just how hard it is to get around Tysons on foot or bicycle, and to exp...
On Nov. 26, the 330-plus members of the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Marching Band will take part in a tradition almost as iconic as the Thanksgiving turkey — the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
University of Virginia School of Law has named legal historian Risa Goluboff as its new dean to succeed Paul Mahoney, who will be returning to the law school's faculty next summer. She will be the first woman to hold the position.
Scaffolding on the south and west sides of the Rotunda will come down on grounds at the University of Virginia. The iconic building was recently outfitted with a new roof and a completed installment of new capitals. Planners said the architectural upgraded are just one piece of the larger restoration project.
A fourth-year student at the University of Virginia has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar. Russell Bogue of Guilford, Connecticut is one of 32 Americans who get to study in Oxford next year.
Four students from New England are among 32 Americans named as Rhodes scholars for the 2016 academic year. The New England winners include Harvard seniors Grace Huckins of Weston, Massachusetts, and Garrett Lam of Wellesley, Massachusetts; University of Virginia senior Russell Bogue of Guilford, Connecticut and Hannah Schneider of Hamden, Connecticut, who graduated from Georgetown University this year.
As Bethany Teachman , a professor in the University of Virginia's Department of Psychology, puts it, awkward situations can be boiled down to "an incongruence" between what's happening and what you think should happen, or between what two people think should happen. "The awkwardness is likely fueled in part by your perception of how it's supposed to go and what's actually happening, rather than [an actual] problem," she says.
Virginia was the first state in the nation to require that kids entering the sixth grade be vaccinated against human papilloma -- a virus that causes cervical, oral, throat and other cancers. Parents can opt out of that requirement, and many of them do. Virginia ranks 44th in the nation when it comes to HPV vaccination. A team of nurses at the University of Virginia is looking at that problem and making recommendations. Some parents think it’s unnecessary, since HPV is sexually transmitted, but Assistant Nursing Professors Emma Mitchell and Jessica Keim-Malpass sa...
Most of us have days at work when we walk around with a spring in our step and perform our tasks with gusto — and other days when our feet drag and we just can’t seem to get motivated. A new study encourages employees to look more closely at the people around them as one reason for that disparity. A team of researchers that included Gretchen Spreitzer, a management professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, found that some employees are “de-energizers” who spread their dispiriting attitude to others. In nonacademic parlance, these people are known ...
A legal historian specializing in civil rights has been selected as the 12th dean and the first woman to lead the School of Law at the University of Virginia. Risa L. Goluboff's appointment, which is effective July 1, was announced Friday.
A legal historian specializing in civil rights has been selected as the 12th dean of the School of Law at the University of Virginia. Risa L. Goluboff’s appointment, which is effective July 1, was announced Friday. She will be the first woman to lead the School of Law.
On behalf of the University of Virginia, President Teresa A. Sullivan accepted a prestigious award from Association of International Educators, for the University’s efforts to globalize its curriculum and research. The 2015 Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization was presented last week, at a ceremony in Washington, DC.
The softball field at Jack Jouett Middle School in Albemarle County has a whole new look thanks to University of Virginia baseball players and coaches. The team worked with the Carson Raymond Foundation to spruce up the field Sunday.