Among the biggest winners on this year’s list is UVA’s Darden School of Business. Darden advanced another five places to rank 18th, its highest FT rank, moving the school into the Top 20 in the world. No less important, however, this latest improvement comes on top of a nine-place gain the previous year.
Mahoning County is one of 10 key counties around the nation to watch during the 2020 election, according to Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Dem bounceback needed here for path to victory,” explains Kondik, an Ohio native.
The homeland of about 12,000 aboriginal people in Australia is more than 10,000 miles from Virginia, but this week at five different locations in Charlottesville, more than 200 works by Australia’s top indigenous artists will be on display.
Abby, Abram, Aggy and Amy. Susan, Tucker and William. These are just seven of the names of the 607 enslaved people that Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, owned. “Paradox of Liberty: Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello,” a new traveling exhibit at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, opens with a powerful statement.
Virginia Humanities has given out grants to more than two dozen organizations to support public humanities programs serving communities in the commonwealth, including four in this area.
Several Central Virginia nonprofits are among those getting grant funding for historical projects. Virginia Humanities is doling out a total of $185,650 in grants.
A Charlottesville organization challenged the University of Virginia’s students, faculty and staff to walk in someone else’s shoes as part of UVA’s Community MLK Celebration. Playground of Empathy organizers set up “The Walk in My Shoes Experience,” at Newcomb Hall on Wednesday and Thursday.
By John Favini, Ph.D. candidate in anthropologyScientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology, which might just help liberate our collective imagination in time to better address the climate crisis.
On Jan. 20, for the first time in its history, the University of Virginia School of Law joined most academic, professional and governmental institutions in observing the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. The societal ideals for which MLK stood – equality, justice, and human rights advocacy – are constantly challenged, so taking a holiday on this day interrupts our routine to remind us of these ideals and gives us a chance to recognize the sacrifices that have been made in the pursuit of achieving them.
Fresh off announcing his re-election campaign, U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-5th, attended an event Thursday, hosted by UVA’s College Republicans, to discuss his first term and drum up support.
UVA students are going the extra mile to make sure their fellow Cavaliers stay healthy this winter. The Class of 2022 and the Second-Year Council Safety & Wellness Committee provided wellness kits for students in Newcomb Hall on Thursday.
Gov. Ralph Northam is proposing $12 million over the next two years for a pilot program under which UVA and VCU would take over elements of inmate care with an eye toward more extensive collaboration in the future – something Northam’s administration hopes will address problems with both the quality of care and costs.
Since Tony Bennett’s arrival, UVA has taken a major step forward in the world of college basketball. Bennett’s system and an influx of talent has Virginia slowly turning into an NBA pipeline.
A legal fight between East Lansing and a mid-Michigan orchard owner who says the city barred him from its farmers market over his stance on same-sex marriage sets up what one legal expert called a unique case pitting religious liberties against a community's laws aimed at inclusivity for LGBTQ people. The plaintiff "simply expressed his opinion," said Douglas Laycock, a constitutional law professor at the University of Virginia. "And the city isn't enforcing anyone's right to be served; it is depriving him of a different and totally unrelated benefit. They are treating him as untouchable ...
Professor John C. Harrison of the UVA School of Law has submitted an interesting amicus brief in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the blockbuster case before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the CFPB.
Charlottesville currently operates under a “council-manager” or “weak mayor” system, which UVA law professor and municipal government expert Rich Schragger categorized as the most common form of government in towns and small cities across the country.
UVA professor Dewey Cornell and University of Missouri associate professor Francis Huang’s 2015 research into the effectiveness of anti-bullying programs showed limitations inherent in nearly every type.
Science Storytellers brings together two groups of innately curious individuals: scientists and children. One of the volunteers at that first Science Storytellers event was Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia who studies implicit bias – thoughts and feelings that exist outside of conscious awareness or conscious control, such as racial bias. Nosek spoke to an 8- or 9-year-old boy who immediately made a connection between Nosek’s research and a story he knew. Cutraro, listening in, caught a bit of their conversation, which she and Nosek recall as going something like this.
Christopher Deppmann, a UVA biologist who was not involved in the work, said he believed it had “profound implications” for how scientists think about stem cell biology, stress biology and potentially the aging process. “Like any good study, it opens up at least as many questions as it answers, but it may represent an important steppingstone toward rationalizing and developing pharmaceutical fountains of youth,” he said.
Researchers have successfully treated age-related macular degeneration in mice after finding an unexpected link between the two main forms of the blinding eye disease, which is the leading cause of vision loss in people 60 and older. “It’s not as if this is the final answer to the problem, but it’s certainly a big step along the way, hopefully,” said researcher Brad Gelfand, of the UVA schools of Medicine and Engineering, in a news release from the medical school Wednesday.