Ashli Rianna Sterling – who moved to the U.S. from Jamaica as a child – said she’s most excited to be able to vote. Sterling, a rising second-year student at the University of Virginia, said she is going to take more of an interest in politics at the local level now that she’s an eligible participant.
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato says the discord of the past few years is not a rip in the national fabric, just the ugly and soon-to-be-over death throes of the Baby Boomer generation as it collectively shuffles off center stage and, soon, the entire mortal coil.http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article159529204.html
The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia reprinted “Books as a Way of Life,” reflections on collecting and textual scholarship by Gordon N. Ray, one of the major book and manuscript collectors of the mid-20th century.
A.D. Carson just scored, arguably, the dopest job in academia. Last month, Carson moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, to take on the role of assistant professor of hip-hop and the global south at the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music.
(By R. Edward Freeman, University Professor, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor, academic director of the Institute for Business in Society, and senior fellow of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at UVA’s Darden School of Business, and Tina R. Opie of Babson College) This piece focuses on one other common way people express their authentic selves – their outward appearance – from two perspectives to see how this plays out.
One of the most oft-cited studies questioning the efficacy of Medicaid is a 2010 study of surgical outcomes from the University of Virginia. The researchers found that in-hospital mortality for Medicaid patients was worse than for uninsured or privately insured patients, though lower than Medicare patients. Despite all that, it turned out that Medicaid patients actually did better than some other patients in such surgeries as lung resections, pancreatectomies, and aortic aneurysm operations, and had fewer complications in some categories. A blanket conclusion that Medicaid patients did worse s...
UVA researchers think they can improve outcomes for lung transplant patients. The university recently received more than $8.6 million in federal grants for a series of projects meant to take on the problem on multiple fronts.
Virginia’s population could surpass 10 million by 2040 if current trends continue.That’s the finding of a population projection report from the University of Virginia. The commonwealth contracted the university’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service to analyze population trends. The center is sharing that information with public agencies so they can plan for the future.
At the same time Charlottesville has faced controversy over its decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the University of Virginia has approved a memorial – with nary a peep of protest – to the enslaved workers who built and maintained the school. “I don’t think it’s coincidental,” says Frank Dukes, a member of the design team, co-founder of University and Community Action for Racial Equity and past director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation in the School of Architecture. He notes that the UVA plan has been in the works since around 2008. “It’s the same impe...
Two UVA researchers, doctoral student Hannah Li and professor of computer science David Evans, have developed a new password manager prototype that works quite differently from existing password manager clients. The research team describes their password manager – which they named Horcrux – as "a password manager for paranoids," due to its security and privacy-focused features and a unique design used for handling user passwords, both while in transit and at rest.
In August of 1818, President James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and 18 other prominent Virginians met at the Mountain Top Inn to decide the final location for the University of Virginia.
Using a series of complex equations – based on an assumption of a maximum rate of six exams marked an hour – Manel Baucells, associate professor of business administration at UVA, and Lin Zhao, assistant professor in mathematics and systems science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, found academics who take regular breaks from assessment will get more done than those who toil away for 10 hours straight.
“When we moved to America, my parents thought that we were going to go back,” said Tina Chai. But they were impressed by the quality of the education Chai was getting at school. Instead of having to study either science or the humanities, Chai could study both. At UVA, she’s preparing for a career in medicine by studying biochemistry as well as English, “because I like to say that English really feeds the soul.”
Standing in the $12.4 million McArthur Squash Center, in front of Virginia’s flashy center court, complete with a V-logo, the Cavaliers coach said Friday’s announcement that the school is elevating its club squash team to varsity status shouldn’t come as a major shock. Men’s and women’s squash will become U.Va.’s 26th and 27th varsity sports this year, and will be only the third program in the nation to offer scholarships, joining Drexel and George Washington, Allen said.
The second article covers various topics, from the 2016-17 sports year to the Cavaliers’ planned football support complex.
In this third and final installment of our interview, no subject engaged UVAs longest-tenured athletic director quite like Tony Bennett’s basketball program. Littlepage also addressed the Virginia Athletic Foundation’s campaign to fund increasing scholarship costs, plans to tear down University Hall, the Cavaliers’ preparation for the ACC Network, and the state of women’s basketball program under seventh-year coach Joanne Boyle.
Austin Levi Burdick, age 25, passed away suddenly on June 26 at home in Flint Hill, VA. Burdick was an entrepreneur, artist, and professional polo player. He was homeschooled by his parents, achieved a 2nd degree black belt in tae kwan do, earned his Eagle Scout with three palms, graduated from the University of Virginia, and was well respected for his strength of character, good nature, and sense of humor.
He lived in Pearl Harbor and Virginia Beach while serving five years in the Navy, then went to law school at the University of Virginia. He clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Adams clerked in 2006 and 2007 for Justice Clarence Thomas, whose son had attended VMI with Adams. From there, he worked as an associate counsel in the White House of President George W. Bush in 2007 and 2008 before moving back to Richmond near the end of the Bush administration to become an assistant U.S. attorney.
After 17 years in the Virginia General Assembly, Rep. Donald McEachin was elected in November to represent the 4th Congressional District, a sprawling turf that takes in the southern portions of Chesapeake and Suffolk but is more concentrated in the Richmond area. McEachin iis a UVA law school graduate who went back to college in his mid-40s to earn a master’s degree in divinity.
Founded by UVA graduates Josh Rogers, Derek Sieg, and Ben Pfinsgraff, Common House sits on the site of what had been Mentor Lodge, a club built in 1913. Opened on May 17 in Charlottesville, the members-based enclave is for erudite locals looking to foster a communal sense of creativity amidst a backdrop of cocktails, fine cuisine and a host of hotel-like amenities.