The map on the left shows one very tiny dot for each person living in Baltimore. It was made by the Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
In a pilot advising program at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science, first-year students see their academic advisers at least three times per week, and often more.
Karen J. McGlathery Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Associate Vice President for Research, Sustainability and the Environment, University of Virginia, joins Les Sinclair to discuss the Virginia Sea Grant.
Under waving Union Jack flags and behind doors protected by a pair of royal guards, University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan announced Tuesday morning that Paul McCartney will play the John Paul Jones Arena on June 23.
A man with two degrees from the University of Virginia will succeed Loretta Lynch as a New York-based prosecutor. Kelly Currie is the acting U.S. Attorney for Southern New York.
Catherine Henry of Great Falls, a student at the University of Virginia, has been named a recipient of a research scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
A group of University of Virginia students in partnership with non-profit ParadeRest have raised over $8,900 in order to be able to document the stories that have gone untold.
To sort the presidents, we leaned on the White House’s website presenting biographical sketches of the presidents and separately asked experts from the Institute for Presidential Studies at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, and the Washington, D.C.-based Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress to run the numbers. Barbara Perry, the institute’s director, emailed us its initial sorting of the presidents; the center’s Alice Farrell emailed us its analysis.
“It is conceivable that he could provide the sixth vote for institutional reasons having to do with the court’s legitimacy and making the decision appear more legal and less political,” said Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor who filed a brief backing marriage rights.
William B. Quandt, who joined the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia in 1994, where he holds the Edward R. Stettinius chair, said that the US leaders prefer the political solution in the settlement of the crises in Libya and in Mali.
Ben Castleman, a University of Virginia education professor who has studied Bottom Line, said other research suggests one major advantage of students from affluent households is having parents who are highly involved.
(By Lois Shepherd, Peter A. Wallenborn Jr. and Dolly F. Wallenborn Professor of Biomedical Ethics Professor of Public Health Sciences and Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, plus three other scholars at other universities.)Two reports issued in the last five weeks have exposed serious flaws in the University of Minnesota’s system for protecting human subjects of research.
Last fall The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia invited the public for the first time to vote online on works from the museum’s permanent collection for an upcoming exhibit. Opening Friday and running through Aug. 2, The Fralin’s new crowd-sourced exhibit, “What is a Line?”
They [the parents] met with the specialists at the University of Virginia’s Pediatric Heart Center in Charlottesville. “I felt like a 100 pounds had been lifted off. They regularly perform the series of heart surgeries he would need. They know what to expect.”
For the new study, which was presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in San Diego on Sunday, Mark DeBoer, from University of Virginia, and colleagues looked at the data of over 11,000 kindergarten children particularly information on lifestyle factors that could impact their educational performance such as their television habits and computer usage. The researchers likewise noted the height and weight of the students.
The University of Virginia is creating two new finance committees in an attempt to address student concerns over transparency. The UVA Student Fee and Tuition Advisory Committees will start meeting with the university's chief operating officer in the fall. UVA Student Council says the groups will provide input on big decisions.
The Virginia Sea Grant charter was signed Monday in Richmond by the presidents of George Mason, Old Dominion, Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia and William & Mary.
Amid concerns over childhood obesity and other health threats, interest in alterative vending is growing from schools and colleges, including a contract Vend Natural announced this month with the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors is divided over the future of school President Teresa A. Sullivan as she negotiates her contract following a series of nationally publicized crises.
This June will mark 10 years since he and his University of Virginia roommate Steve Huffman co-founded the social news site Reddit after moving into a two-bedroom apartment in Medford, Massachusetts, where they started coding what would eventually come to be known as “the front page of the internet.” Obama wrote, using the site’s own terminology, about their activism around net neutrality.