Hollywood headliners and rising film stars alike will converge on Charlottesville during UVA's 28th annual Virginia Film Festival.
Around 200 companies met with students who want to land a summer internship, or a permanent job.
Before adopting the budget recommendations, SCHEV heard from University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan on U.Va’s new “affordable excellence” tuition model that caps loans for in-state students. Students from low-income families can accrue no more than $4,000 in loans in four years; for other Virginia students the loan cap is $18,000. That’s down from $14,000 and $28,000, respectively, under the previous financial aid model.
U.Va’s McIntire School of Commerce has partnered with ESADE School of Business in Barcelona and Lingnan (University) College at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China to offer a new dual master’s degree in global commerce and global strategic management with a certificate in international management.
The University of Virginia’s provost, Tom Katsouleas, once told me that less than one percent, by his estimates, of basic research is commercialized and that there may be as few as one near-term commercialization for every $10 million invested in fundamental research.
Barbrow questions Olsen’s judgment in high-profile cases such as the one involving Edgar Coker, a young man who continued to be imprisoned for a sex offense after the victim admitted she had lied. The Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law eventually secured Coker’s release.
A public-benefit company with a global health mission that was inspired by a 2012 project at the University of Virginia has opened a small production facility in Charlottesville. MadiDrop PBC will produce ceramic water disinfection tablets called MadiDrops for people in developing countries who have poor access to clean drinking water.
Research engineers at the University of Virginia have developed upgrades to existing polymer membranes which they said may make desalination simpler and less expensive. Assistant professor in the university's engineering department, Geoffrey M Geise, said the membranes can also be used to help create and store clean energy.
Before loosening the boundaries, Claudia Allen, a child psychologist at the University of Virginia Family Stress Clinic, said it’s important for parents to know their child, know their environment and prepare their child.
“This straightforward exchange of ads for some valuable content often has an obligatory feel to it,” said Matthew Crawford, a research fellow at the University of Virginia and author of the recently published book, “The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction.” “Intrusive advertising is just the tip of a much larger cultural iceberg,” Crawford said. “We’re living through a crisis of attention and, it’s fair to say, a widespread sense of mental fragmentation. Often it feels that our attention isn’t ou...
In traditional curriculums, these topics tend to be covered in separate, three-credit classes. It’s a system that, according to Ryan Nelson, a professor and associate dean for the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, doesn’t prepare students adequately. “It doesn’t really represent reality, what really happens in businesses is cross-functional in nature,” says Ryan Nelson, a professor and associate dean for the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, one of the handful of other business schools teaching the i...
People who pay restitution early in the process may be trying to show an acceptance of responsibility for their actions, says Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. “The hope, I think, is to obtain leniency in sentencing,” he tells PEOPLE.
Commentary by University of Virginia student, Jake Lighter. You can read more from Jake on Baseball Essential. [Ironically, Chris Marinak helped lead the project to design MLB’s state-of-the-art, instant-replay system, which after a little more than a year of implementation, feedback (positive and negative) and adjustments, will back up calls for a second World Series beginning Tuesday.
A Charlottesville man has made it his mission to help war veterans adjust to civilian life and now he has gained national attention. This month, Sean Gobin was named a 2015 Top 10 CNN Hero. The veteran Marine and University of Virginia Darden School graduate returned home from three combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2012 and used long distance hiking as a way to process his war experiences.
The retired Marine and University of Virginia Darden School grad started a program called Warrior Hike. Gobin takes men and women to "walk off the war" on the Appalachian Trail.
Several of the babies, all who, before turning 1-year-old, had heart surgery at UVA with Dr. Gangemi, came together to celebrate baby Finn’s homecoming.
Shige Oishi, psychology professor at UVA and the study’s lead author, says the findings likely reveal that the problems cities face might outweigh the benefits afforded by walking.
A small, start-up company in Charlottesville is set to tackle the problem of contaminated water worldwide, with a small, silver-infused ceramic pill – the MadiDrop.
The University of Virginia will host its annual “Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn” for families on Oct. 30 from 4 to 6 p.m. The event takes place a day earlier than normal in order to alleviate visitor parking concerns and other conflicts that would have been inevitable with Saturday’s home football game.
With Dr. Carrie M. Rochman, a radiologist with the University of Virginia Breast Care Program. In general, average-risk women should begin screening between ages 40 and 45 and continue screening every year as long as they are in good health.