The University of Virginia launched one of its largest interdisciplinary degree programs to date in August. The new entrepreneurship minor is open to all undergraduate students and represents a strategic collaboration between multiple schools.
When it comes to risk of injury, football ranks as one of the most dangerous among mainstream sports. For the past several years, a pair of biomechanical engineers at the University of Virginia have been seeking the best and most innovative ways to prevent injuries through the design of safety equipment.
Franklin Kipps Birckhead, a former member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors who was active in local civic and professional organizations, died suddenly at home on Sunday. He was 61. A lifelong area resident, Birckhead graduated from Albemarle High School in 1972 and from UVa in 1976.
The Young Women's Leaders Program at the University of Virginia helped fight hunger in central Virginia by holding their annual food drive at the Kroger at Rio Hill Sunday. The students collected non-perishable food items to donate to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
A recent discovery at the University of Virginia revealed a “chemical hearth,” part of a science classroom built in Thomas Jefferson’s era. It had been sealed in one of the lower-floor walls of the Rotunda since the 1850s.
Susan Svrluga’s Washington Post article: Designed by Thomas Jefferson, the Rotunda at the University of Virginia is one of the most studied buildings in America. But it can still hold a few surprises.
A group of engineering students from the University of Virginia paired up with the Rivanna Flying Club to help families learn what it takes to fly. Families spent a day of building and flying drones, model rockets and R.C. planes during “A.E.R.O. Day” at Milton Field.
The Economist has named the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business No. 2 in the world in its annual ranking of the top 100 full-time international MBA programs.
The findings add an intriguing new layer to the link between the immune system and the brain. They suggest that conditions characterized by social deficits, such as autism, could stem in part from a faulty immune system, says lead researcher Jonathan Kipnis, professor of neuroscience at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Bob Gibson is executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia. In civics classes, Americans are taught that it is up to Congress to declare war. In reality, the president as commander-in-chief decides when, and where, and how, and how much the nation goes to war. … A bipartisan commission sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has proposed ways that Congress should reinstate its authority to engage the president in formal consultations.
According to Deborah Lawrence, an environmental sciences researcher at the University of Virginia, it is important that global efforts be diverted into protecting forests, for without a healthy forest, the world is exposed and vulnerable to the extreme effects posed by El Nino.
Brandon Garrett, a corporate crime expert at the University of Virginia School of Law, said federal prosecution guidelines would call for the U.S. Justice Department to seek tougher penalties if numerous senior executives were found to have been involved in the cheating. “The more higher-ups that are involved, the more the company is considered blameworthy and deserving of more serious punishment,” said Garrett.
In theory, Addyi might work, says Anita Clayton, a University of Virginia psychiatrist who is an expert in antidepressant-induced sexual dysfunction, because it inhibits the sex-dampening effects of serotonin.
A study by a University of Virginia School of Law professor released today shows a dramatic decline in the number of death sentences imposed in Virginia which he credits in large part to better defense lawyers.
John Witeck was only a second-year student at the University of Virginia when civil rights protesters clashed with police officers in Selma, Alabama. Brian Jenkins is working on a documentary detailing Witeck’s firsthand experience.
(By Allen C. Lynch, professor of politics at the University of Virginia) Putin is convinced the “moderates” in Syria are weak and cannot win; the collapse of the Assad government would thus yield to a radical Islamist regime of one stripe or another. Under those circumstances, Russia — with a Muslim population at 15 percent and growing rapidly — would face a much greater security challenge along it southern periphery and within Russia itself.
If it were a World Wrestling Entertainment bout, it’d surely be pay-per-view. The nation’s youngest consumer protection agency fired a direct shot at one America’s oldest institutions last week — banking. The stated goal of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s latest proposal is to make it easier for consumers to sue a bank if it misbehaves. “It comes down simply to whether the (bureau) can now make rules that run directly counter to clear Supreme Court findings,” said Matt Adler, a law professor at the University of Virginia ...
Born in the US, but a fluent French speaker. Raised in Alaska, but based for 24 years in Brussels. Of British ancestry, but with dual French-US nationality. It is a biography that would be rare for any business school dean, but is perhaps particularly so for one in the US. It also probably explains why Scott Beardsley, former senior partner at McKinsey, who became dean of the Darden school at the University of Virginia in August, frequently refers to himself as a “European dean."
Along with the free publicity, the attacks from his Republican counterparts let Bernie Sanders say “look how serious they’re taking me.” But does this signal that Republicans see Sanders as a general election threat, as they do Clinton? Kyle Kondik, the managing editor or Sabato’s Crystal Ball out of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, says no.
As U.S. House Republicans remain fractured over the selection of the next Speaker, Rep. Dave Brat, R-Richmond, continues to be vocal about the conservative principles to which he feels the next speaker should adhere. Few want the job, however, due to the GOP dissonance. The House Freedom Caucus was established at the beginning of the 114th Congress with the general goal of moving the House GOP to the right, said Geoffrey Skelley with the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “There are actually about 40 members in the group, nearly one-sixth of the GOP members in Congress’ lo...