The University of Virginia announced on Sunday that there is to be an endowment of a permanent position in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences of the Julian Bond Professorship of Civil Rights and Social Justice, to honor the legendary contribution made by the late University of Virginia Professor of History who died Saturday in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, at the age of 75, following a brief illness.
When civil rights icon Julian Bond died Saturday in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., at the age of 75, America lost a man of towering stature and achievements during one of the most consequential eras in modern American history. A founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Chairman of the NAACP for more than a decade. A founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the height of the civil rights struggle in the 1960s. A state legislator in Georgia for 20 years, beginning in 1985. And, most recently, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, where he taught for 20 ...
Julian Bond, an icon of the civil rights movement, also was a preserver of its history. Bond, who had helped start the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, among his many achievements, was a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. He had written and lectured extensively on the civil rights movement and on a wide range of associated topics, such as housing, voting and poverty.
“In light of recent events, I think it is wise for the college to sponsor an event that can present a meaningful discussion on the history of the Confederate flag, how it has been used by various groups, and what it means to different people,” said UVa-Wise history professor Brian McKnight. “We feel it is important to say that this is an academic program without political consideration.”
In a breakthrough discovery, researchers at the University of Virginia's Center for Global Health have developed ‘The Drinkable Book,’ which is a nanotechnology-based method to purify drinking water and can eliminate water-borne bacteria.
One page from this ‘drinkable book’ can potentially filter up to 100 litres of drinking water and may provide a cheap, sustainable solution for communities suffering from severe sanitation problems. Theresa Dankovich from Carnegie Mellon University used the idea to launch the concept of a book that could both encourage proper sanitation practices and purify water. Following a postdoctoral stint at the University of Virginia (UVA), she was also able to dope the paper with relatively inexpensive copper nanoparticles.
Alice Bowman, a U.Va. alumna, is NASA missions operator working on the New Horizons project to Pluto.
Low-wage earners would work 50 percent more, and middle earners 18 percent more, according to a 2000 study by Leora Friedberg, an economist at the University of Virginia.
Joshua Choi of the University of Virginia was one of eight scientists to receive a NASA grant of $200,000 for up to three years for his concept, “Lightweight and Flexible Metal Halide Perovskite Thin Films for High Temperature Solar Cells.”
Larry Sabato, the longtime pundit and University of Virginia politics professor, said the Supreme Court switch is “all the evidence anyone could need that partisanship is at a fever pitch in Richmond.”
Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk won his seat by less than 2 percentage points in 2010, during the Republican wave election. His likely Democratic opponent will be the popular Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth – a pro-choice, highly decorated Iraq war veteran and double-amputee. The University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato now has Kirk’s race listed as a likely win for Democrats in his “Crystal Ball” political predictions.
By Arthur I. Schulman, associate professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Virginia.The frontispiece of “Visions and Jewels,” an autobiography published by Henry Holt in 1926, is a photograph of a bust of the author, Moysheh Oyved (1885-1958), created by his friend Jacob Epstein, the great 20th-century sculptor. Oyved, unlike Epstein, has been almost completely forgotten, but his story and his works deserve to be lifted out of the darkness.
A new study published by a professor (sociologist Brad Wilcox) at the University of Virginia reveals a significant difference in how Democrats, independents and Republicans view their marriages.
For each school’s grand total, TheDC just added up each raw score. The University of Virginia is once again the best school in the land, blowing away the competition.
Now, the last time a national publication wrote a story about rape and a subject named “Jackie,” things didn’t turn out so well, although it was that Rolling Stone magazine fiasco about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia that helped inspire Jackie Fuchs to come forward.
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors met Sunday to discuss the school's finances and future.
The University of Virginia’s computer network was restored Sunday afternoon, two days after officials shut it down in response to cybersecurity threats.