Three University of Virginia artists debuted their months of work in Charlottesville's CitySpace building Friday. The OpenGrounds Scholars exhibit featured pieces that focus on increased environmental consciousness.Artist Jon Bellona designed a project that illustrates how social media behavior affects the environment through carbon emissions. Bellona's piece is made up of glass cylinders full of water that are injected with carbon every time someone tweets, and speakers that play a note every time someone tweets.
"It's very surprising for Virginia," said Dania Jazouli, a fourth-year at the University of Virginia and a Charlottesville native. "I think everyone was just pretty shocked by it."Jazouli hopes that Virginia won't become known for corruption, like some other states."Inevitably it will shed some sort of harsh light," Jazouli said. "But I don't think one person should determine Virginia's standing as a whole."
Paul Tudor Jones celebrated his 60th birthday in Greenwich, Connecticut, in the same style of the fundraisers for his charities, with star musicians in live concert.... At a December fundraiser for the Dubin Breast Center, Jones told guests he’d be dead without his wife, Sonia. She said she steers him clear of Big Macs and makes him drink a green shake every morning. She also introduced her husband to yoga and meditation. The couple gave $12 million to create the Contemplative Sciences Center at his alma mater, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Jatin Bhandari has empowered many students and helped him in accomplishing his dream of studying in prestigious schools abroad. Being an MBA student from Darden Business School, University of Virginia, Jatin—Founder and CEO of PythaGURUS Education Pvt. Ltd—has become a mentor to hundreds of candidates, and helped place them across top B-schools and Ivy League Universities. Through an intensive curriculum and unmatched, practical counseling, Pythagurus has become a reckoning force in the higher education industry.
The undying love of the University of Virginia Cavaliers drove Laurel Feinman to schedule her fall wedding date on an Oct. 31 so the special event could conveniently line up with football season. ...Hoo-Hokie rivalry in Central Virginia recently found a new direction: trying to outdo the other in selling raffle tickets for seats to the Tech-UVa showdown in Blacksburg on Nov. 30.The friendly competition is for a good cause — in raising money for Interfaith Outreach Association, a Lynchburg ministry that serves a variety of charities and local needs.
Julia Elbaba took a brief but important timeout this week from the first semester of her junior year at the University of Virginia. The 20-year-old from Oyster Bay couldn't turn down a chance to play in an event at the U.S. Open.Saturday she lost in the final of the USTA's inaugural American Collegiate Invitational at the National Tennis Center. She was beaten by University of North Carolina sophomore Jamie Loeb of Ossining, New York, 7-5, 6-1.Elbaba wants to play professional tennis. She's a media studies and French major at Virginia, intent on earning a degree if the tennis caree...
When it comes to drones, the University of Virginia knows exactly what it's doing.In a video published to the school website this week, Professor David Sheffler shows off his 3D-printed, hand-launchable, fully autonomous U.A.V. called The Razor. An appropriate name for such a sleek contraption, Sheffler developed the aircraft in partnership with the Mitre Corporation. It was built with completely off-the-shelf hardware, with the brains of the unit an Android Smartphone that acts as the central processor.In the short film, Sheffler talks about the several different ways he and hi...
With tuition increases and financial aid cuts off the table, the University of Virginia will have to find other ways to meet state-mandated budget reductions as set forth by Gov. Terry McAuliffe.This comes at an awkward time for the university, which is beginning to implement a five-year strategic plan that includes faculty salary increases, infrastructure improvements and a wave of hiring.The cuts — which add up to about $6.5 million this year and $9 million next year — will not come out of the strategic plan or out of students’ wallets, said university President Teresa A. S...
Even as protests in Ferguson, Missouri, are dying down, the black community at the University of Virginia is still fighting to bring attention to police brutality and racism.More than 100 students marched across the Lawn on Friday afternoon chanting “no justice, no peace,” “show me in my cap and gown,” “black lives matter” and “hands up, don’t shoot.”The rally, organized by the Black Student Alliance, featured speeches by several students about the everyday realities they say all black people face and the need for change.
More than 80 runners and walkers gathered Sunday at the University of Virginia to honor the heroes of 9/11.A UVA women's choir sang the national anthem to kick off the second annual 9/11 heroes run. Runners warmed up and lined the start at Newcomb plaza on UVA's grounds.All proceeds from the 5k went to the Travis Manion Foundation that gives back to veterans and families of emergency responders.
From August to December of 2013, I was one of 600 college students who got to go on Semester at Sea's Fall 2013 Voyage across the Atlantic. Semester at Sea, in partnership with the University of Virginia, is a study abroad program that focuses on global comparative hands-on learning, open to all college students majoring in any field. Students and professors from different universities and colleges embark on a ship called the MV Explorer, and literally sail around the world, all while taking classes and completing college requirements!
The University of Virginia will have new legal counsel in October. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has appointed Virginia State University general counsel Roscoe C. Roberts to the post.
Two students from Fairfax, Mitch Lawhorn and Nikki Furst, had the opportunity to be ball kids for the CitiOpen tennis tournament in Washington, D.C. this year. “During play we're responsible for the balls,” explained Nikki Furst, a University of Virginia student hoping to attend veterinary school. She described the main responsibility: “Don't hold up play in between points, between serves.” Other duties include bringing towels and drinks to the players during the matches. Who shades them from the hot sun? “We also hold the umbrella,” answered Furst.
Dr. Todd Cleveland, assistant professor of history at Augustana College, recently completed a book about diamond mining in Africa. In “Stones of Contention: A History of Africa’s Diamonds,” Dr. Cleveland provides an accessible and informative account of diamond mining in Africa, from ancient times through the era of colonial exploitation, and up to the present day.Dr. Cleveland was approached to write this book by Dave Robinson and Joe Miller, editors of the series in which his new bookappears. The series, “Africa in World History,” is published by Ohio University...
Still, "The clear majority of kids are raised in two-parent married homes," said Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, who was not associated with the report. "Kids raised by their own intact, married parents are more likely to flourish. Given that, public policy should help strengthen both the economic and the married foundations of family life for kids in the United States."
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, has been tracking gubernatorial races across the nation with his “Crystal Ball.”He recently moved Ohio’s governor’s race from “likely R” to “safe R.”
The Democratic effort should be viewed largely as a way of firing up a party base that needs a jolt for this fall’s election campaigns. “Democrats are using fear of Republicans to motivate their own people,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor at the political website Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.
“It’s a historically sad day for Virginia. We’ve never had a governor convicted of a felony, and in the entire nation there has never been a governor and first lady of a state convicted,” said Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“If Hillary Clinton doesn’t run in 2016, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Kirsten Gillibrand jump in,” says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Gillibrand seems to have the ambition to do it.” ... “It’s always a bit amusing when a relatively junior senator decides to offer up an autobiography,” says U-Va.’s Sabato. “That means one thing: She’s interested in higher office.”