The city’s population as of July 1, 2016, has been estimated to be 91,722, according to UVA’S Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
UVA’s School of Nursing thinks part of the problem is our discomfort with death – an insistence that hospitals do everything possible to keep loved ones alive.
About a decade ago, UVA physics professor Louis Bloomfield put those fears to rest by happily getting pelted with pennies from high above. Bloomfield hosted his experiment in a park in Charlottesville.
Chris Williams, who starred for Pete Gillen’s UVA basketball teams from 1999 to 2002, has died at the age of 36. According to sources, Williams had suffered from blood clots after retiring from international basketball in 2016. He was the only player in Virginia history to rank in the program’s top 10 list in career points, rebounds, blocked shots and steals.
Since the early 1970s, according to UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, rates of religious attendance have fallen more than twice as much among whites without a college degree as among those who graduated college.
James Donovan, a longtime Goldman banking and investment management executive, has been named to be the deputy to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. In addition to his job at Goldman, Mr. Donovan, who lives with his wife and four children in Virginia, teaches corporate strategy and business ethics at the University of Virginia’s law school.
President Trump on Tuesday said he planned to nominate Goldman Sachs managing director James Donovan to serve as deputy treasury secretary. Donovan is also an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and teaches corporate strategy and leadership, according to UVA.
UVA chemical engineer Steven Caliari and Jennifer Munson, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, talk about their work in 3-D cell culture, from hydrogels to organs-on-a-chip.
A 2015 study by Michelle M. Duguid of Cornell University and Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt of the University of Virginia demonstrates the peril of normalizing bad behavior. They found that telling participants that many people hold stereotypes made them more likely to exhibit bias.
UVA students spent part of their day discussing one of the most heated and polarizing topics in our country. Dozens attended a lecture to listen to an author talk about why he believes the country needs fewer guns.
Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the death of James McConnell, the UVA alumnus-turned-World War I pilot memorialized with a statue on Grounds. The university will honor McConnell in a ceremony Thursday.
Eight business schools at Virginia universities are listed in the 2018 national rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report. The publication ranked the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business at No. 14 among full-time MBA programs. The College of William & Mary’s Mason School of Business ranked 57th.
In the original complaint, attorneys from the Legal Aid Justice Center and UVA’s School of Law attacked a state law that they say “unfairly punishes the poor” by mandating the suspension of an individual’s driver’s license if he or she is unable to pay off outstanding court costs, thus making it difficult to get or maintain a job.
UVA President Teresa Sullivan reminded representatives of the city and county that the University has obligations to the state to keep adding at least 100 new undergrads every year.
Jim Donovan, a Goldman Sachs partner chosen to serve as deputy secretary, is expected to play a critical role in helping manage the sprawling Treasury Department and push through major legislative goals. For the past eight years, Donovan has served as a professor of corporate strategy at the UVA School of Law, where he became a student favorite, according to the school’s former dean, Paul Mahoney.
Defensive responsibilities are toughest part of learning curve at UVA for Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome.
Virginia is the best state for higher education in the United States, according to a ranking by Smartasset, a financial website. Last year, Virginia ranked second, behind California.
Jerry Stenger, director of the state climatology office at the University of Virginia, said he believes the Shenandoah Valley snowfall will be on the high end of the range, meaning it could be 6 inches or more. If there is a silver lining to the storm, it is that the precipitation is badly needed. Stenger said February was a dry and warm month, and said there are a lot of concerns about the lack of rainfall as the growing season starts.
Christiana Brenin, a UVA oncologist who specializes in breast and colorectal cancer, would not readily recommend recreational therapy to her patients. “The short answer is no,” she says. During treatments, she works closely with a team of clinical psychologists who help her patients address the anxiety and fear that can accompany a diagnosis. Additional layers of therapy could be unnecessary, if not harmful, for patients already dealing with time-consuming and exhausting treatments, she says.
Republicans control 52 seats in the Senate, so they can afford just three defections and still pass the bill through the budget reconciliation process, assuming all Democrats oppose it. But at least 12 Republican senators have already objected to portions of the bill or called on the House to revise it. “If they’re losing someone like David Perdue, that really suggests the bill is in a lot of trouble,” says Geoffrey Skelley, a congressional analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.