Most children and teenagers who attend summer camp spend time outside hiking, swimming, canoeing and the like. But many youths will go to the University of Virginia, and other campuses across the United States, this summer to learn about subjects such as computer coding and video game design.
One of the University of Virginia's more prominent efforts to promote entrepreneurship is the i.Lab, a startup incubator based out of the Darden School of Business and supported by collaborators around the university. This incubator accepts applications not just from students in the MBA program, but also take joint projects between students and faculty—and even from people in the community who might have no connection to the school. We've picked out seven of the most eye-catching startups to highlight—check them out to get a feel for the latest UVa-born innovation...
Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda at the University of Virginia is ensnared in a spider's web of scaffolding these days, the focus of a $58.3 million renovation of the World Heritage Site.
A little more than a week after leading the Virginia baseball team to its first national championship, coach Brian O’Connor was selected as the 2015 National Coach of the Year by Baseball America, the publication announced Friday. Baseball America is the fourth organization to honor O’Connor as its National Coach of the Year, joining Collegiate Baseball, D1Baseball and Perfect Game.
UVa is to college tennis what Duke has been to basketball — a juggernaut, a dream destination for any kid wishing to play collegiately in the United States. Virginia hasn’t lost an ACC match in nine years — yes, nine years. Last month in Waco, Texas, Brian Boland led Virginia to an NCAA championship for the second time in the last three years, and UVa player Ryan Shane upset heavily favored Noah Rubin to win the NCAA singles title. So much for law school.
Studying for an MBA is a huge financial commitment, but to alleviate some of the pressure, there are an increasing number of business school scholarships on offer to help ease the bank balance. At the University of Virginia’s Darden school, 111 students from the class of 2016 (34 per cent) will benefit. This will pay for, on average, 60 per cent of the tuition and required fees.
A new study by the University of Virginia found that the number of civil commitments of people in mental distress rose last year, perhaps in response to changes enacted after the fatal encounter between Sen. Creigh Deeds and his mentally ill son.
This month, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly by Pluto, providing scientists with some of the most detailed images of the planet they’ve ever had. Astronomers believe the data collected on the mission could provide them with clues about the formation of our solar system. Two University of Virginia researchers will be part of the historic mission, piecing together some of the data coming into the Johns Hopkins Applied Research Lab from more than 4 billion miles away.
(By Carolyn Engelhard, the director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences) Economists tell us that setting the price of a good or service depends on market forces that balance supply and demand in order to optimize output with minimal waste. This dynamic is one of the marvels of competitive markets, where, with almost magical agility, prices constantly readjust toward an ideal value as consumers gravitate toward purchasing decisions based on desire and ability to pay.
(Co-authored by David Leblang is a professor of politics and public policy at the University of Virginia) A small, peripheral country becomes ground zero for Europe’s economic crisis. Banks are insolvent, the sovereign is pursued by foreign creditors, and political leaders issue a rare call to citizens to approve creditors’ repayment terms—or not—via a national referendum. Greece in 2015? Yes. But, also, Iceland a half-decade earlier.
(Co-authored by Philip B. K. Potter, assistant professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia) Judging by recent headlines, this is not a good moment for democracy. The European Union, long held up as a model of democratic cooperation and consolidation, is threatened by the Greek debt crisis. Ukraine’s fragile democracy is under constant pressure from an increasingly autocratic Russia, and for better or worse the rest of the democratic community has proven reluctant to help. Iraq, the most prominent democratization project of the last decade, teeters...
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia) “No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family,” Justice Anthony Kennedy rightly argued in his majority opinion in the Obergefell v. Hodges case. Even today, when marriage is less likely to guide our lives, relationships and families, it’s still the case that marriage is without peer when it comes to calling forth the best in our relational lives.
Meditative techniques were widespread in northern India by the time that Gautama Buddha was born, around 480 B.C. Ascetics roamed the countryside, wearing rags and begging for their meals, and the Buddha became one of them. He famously achieved enlightenment—his insights about the cause of suffering and the way to end it—while meditating under a pipal tree. The Buddha taught his followers that practicing meditation was crucial to preparing their minds for enlightenment. For most of Buddhism’s history, however, meditation wasn’t actually practiced that much, outside of m...
Channing Tatum has gone from being a stripper in Florida to one of Hollywood’s top earners. What does that do to a person? Joseph Allen, a psychologist at the University of Virginia who was the lead author of the study on popular kids published in Child Development, has a cute term for this: “The high school reunion effect,” in which the beautiful ones return looking diminished, to the quiet glee of rehabilitated nerds in their Audis. Tatum, if he hadn’t stumbled into movie stardom — hardly the career he dreamed of while on the football field at Tampa Cathol...
Communication has always been key to opportunity for the deaf community. But technological advances, which have changed the way everyone communicates, and a growing popularity among college students to learn American Sign Language have removed even more obstacles to the deaf community and the hearing community connecting. "Recent technology advances have been very good to bridge gaps between deaf and hearing people," said Christopher Krentz, an English and ASL professor at the University of Virginia, using video-phone technology to speak.
Former Virginia soccer stars Morgan Brian and Becky Sauerbrunn and current Cavalier coach Steve Swanson are World Cup champions.
Ren You is a 29-year-old with a Harvard MBA and a job at a private equity firm. He is also someone who does not like to be inefficient and does not want to miss out on opportunities. Those two character traits led You to develop a novel way to find love. The Birmingham, Alabama, resident is offering $10,000 to anyone who can find him a girlfriend of six months or more. He is accepting applications now on his website, DateRen.com. The University of Virginia alumni says he received a handful of submission after launching the website earlier this week but now has around 400 potential d...
When 17-year-old Zyrees Oliver collapsed after a high school football practice last August, his friends and family likely did not guess that the cause wasn't the heat and humidity, but actually overhydraton. The medical term for this — drinking too much water — is hyponatremia, a condition that can be fatal in endurance athletes, and as recent incidents have shown, children participating in sports on hot summer days. Mitchell H. Rosner, M.D., a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia and an expert on hydration, told weather.com that young athletes should be taught t...
On the heels of his latest Supreme Court victory, President Barack Obama visited Tennessee Wednesday touting his signature health care plan — a victory lap that signals his focus has shifted to changing the national conversation from repealing the law to ways to improve it "There's very little chance that much will change on the ACA front during President Obama's term. Obama has secured the program for now. As long as a Democrat wins the White House or Democrats win the Senate, Obamacare will continue to be safe," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics a...
Virginia has a new law that allows mothers to breastfeed their babies in many public places and not get hassled. Mothers with young children in baby strollers joined other advocates of breastfeeding (pictured) Wednesday in Charlottesville’s Lee Park. University of Virginia nurse and lactation consultant Valerie Goodman says breastfeeding mothers have been immunes from legal hassles for years in other states.