The campsite called Norden here on the Tibetan plateau is not quite as spare as the tent homes of nomads who drive yaks across these wind-scrubbed pastures. “In the high-end market, it’s difficult to get heard out there and reach the right people,” said Dechen Yeshi, 34, who runs the camp with her husband, Yidam Kyap, also 34. Ms. Yeshi met her Tibetan husband, Kalsang, while attending Vassar College. Then the pair moved to Charlottesville, Va., where Ms. Yeshi pursued graduate studies in Tibetan Buddhism at the University of Virginia.
Patricia Jennings, an associate professor of psychology at UVA, isn't necessarily out to change all the factors that stress teachers; she aims to help them become the change they wish to see in the world.
In presentations at Wednesday’s meeting of Charlottesville’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces, UVA professors Kirt von Daacke and Karen Van Lengen spoke about how UVA and other communities around the country have been discussing how public monuments reflect – or in some cases overlook – essential narratives that explain a community’s history.
In presentations at Wednesday’s meeting of Charlottesville’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces, UVA professors Kirt von Daacke and Karen Van Lengen spoke about how UVA and other communities around the country have been discussing how public monuments reflect – or in some cases overlook – essential narratives that explain a community’s history.
Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump for aligning with the "alt-right." David Greene talks to Nicole Hemmer, University of Virginia professor and author of a forthcoming book, “Messengers of the Right.”
The UVA men's soccer team has won its first three exhibition games and team members are crediting their chemistry. The Cavaliers open up regular season play Friday, when they host Coastal Carolina.
Just after World War II, when the atomic bombs fell and our thirst for coal and oil became a full-blown addiction, Earth entered the Anthropocene, a new geologic time when humanity’s environmental reach left a mark in sediments worldwide. The group’s decision to go for a single, recent start date for the Anthropocene disappoints Bill Ruddiman, a emeritus professor of environmental science at UVA. “It is a mistake to formalize the term by rigidly affixing it to a single time,” he says, “especially one that misses most of the history of the major transformation of E...
Patients with high levels of four blood biomarkers may be more likely to have an ischemic stroke than those with low rates of the markers, researchers reported. In an accompanying editorial, Stephen Williams of the University of Virginia and Dr. Svetlana Lorenzano of Sapienza University in Rome agreed that the study "helped refine a well-established stroke risk clinical model ... and helped enhance individual stroke risk prediction," but similarly cautioned that it "should be further assessed in prospective investigations."
"Democrats are probably going to like it [felon voting] because they are going to expect a draw of votes and Republicans tend to object," said UVA professor Lynn M. Sanders, an expert in American government. "The people who do not register and do not tend to vote are usually poorer, less white, younger, and more likely to have complicated backgrounds, like a conviction."
The world has had lots to say about 15 French towns that banned the full-body burkini swimsuit worn by some Muslim women. All this seems barbaric to many Americans – a clear violation not only of the free exercise of religion guaranteed by the Constitution, but also of the liberté and égalité the French supposedly hold dear. As UVA professor Douglas Laycock has observed, when it comes to religious liberty, France and the United States are now “like distant cousins who have lost contact.”
(By Russell L. Riley, an associate professor at UVA’s Miller Center and co-chair of its Presidential Oral History Program) Bill Clinton was an ardent backer of free trade even before he ran for president in 1992. In this second of three excerpts from "Inside the Clinton White House: An Oral History," some of his top aides recall THE successful fight to win Senate approval for NAFTA.
Treatment with MRI-guided focused ultrasound significantly improves tremors and quality of life in patients with essential tremor, the most common movement disorder, according to a study published in the Aug. 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. W. Jeffrey Elias, director of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at UVA, is the principal investigator and lead author.
Dominion Resources has announced its education grants, which will give a total of $1 million to programs focusing on energy, the environment and workforce development. Among the recipients is the Morven Trail Project at the University of Virginia.
Medical schools today teach doctors and nurses how to talk with patients and their families about dying, but for millions of health care professionals trained in the 20th century, conversations about death are difficult. That’s why UVA plans its third annual conference on the subject.
A summit on racial equality and the legacy of American slavery will be held Sept. 17 on Thomas Jefferson’s former plantation. The forum also celebrates the 50th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Organizers include Monticello and the University of Virginia.
In the newest episode of the Presidential podcast, we explore two manifestations of Eisenhower's preference for covert action. Stephen Kinzer guest stars on this episode along with Will Hitchcock, a historian and professor at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs who is completing a new comprehensive biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency.
A UVA English professor is teaming up with experts from around the country to create a unique digital library. The team, which includes UVA professor Steve Railton, is using digital technologies to map out William Faulkner's fictional world in Mississippi.
More than half the private citizens who got face time or spoke with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state forked over bundles of cash to the Clinton Foundation, a stunning new investigation revealed Tuesday. Analysts said the revelations offer further proof that State under Clinton was rife with conflicts of interest because of its deep ties to the foundation. “The real conflicts of interest and appearances of conflicts are legion. This is proof positive the foundation should be shut if Clinton is elected president,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist.
More than half the private citizens who got face time or spoke with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state forked over bundles of cash to the Clinton Foundation, a stunning new investigation revealed Tuesday. Analysts said the revelations offer further proof that State under Clinton was rife with conflicts of interest because of its deep ties to the foundation. “The real conflicts of interest and appearances of conflicts are legion. This is proof positive the foundation should be shut if Clinton is elected president,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist.
Across the country, reliable GOP donors are bracing for an uncertain outcome for Republican candidates for Congress and offices further down the ballot if Trump were to lose to Clinton by a large margin, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.