UVA has warned students who plan to travel abroad about the virus and has “strongly recommended” that students not travel to locations with CDC or State Department high alerts. “While we have not cancelled any current or existing study abroad programs, the university will cancel any such programs, even if already under way, at any location for which the CDC sets a warning level 3, or the State Department sets a warning level 3 or 4,” Allen W. Groves, the university’s dean of students, said in a statement.
Among the recipients of this year’s ADL SHIELD Award were the local, state and federal agencies, and individuals, that investigated, prosecuted and assisted in the prosecution of James Fields Jr. The ADL recognized contributions from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia, the Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Virginia State Police, the Charlottesville City Police Department, the Albemarle County Police Department, the City of Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, and the University of Virginia ...
UVA’s Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center hosted a Black Womanhood in College Workshop on Saturday, where more than a dozen girls from Charlottesville area high schools heard from a variety of speakers and got a tour of the University’s Grounds.
Individuals and family foundations spread the wealth in 2019, giving record amounts to Virginia universities, but also assisting cancer patients, museums and out-of-work coal miners. In October, the University of Virginia announced a $100 million gift from David and Jane Walentas to help fund a new scholarship program for first-generation students.
Professor Henry J. Abraham died Feb. 26 at the age of 98 in Charlottesville. In 1972, Henry and his family left Penn and Philadelphia for Charlottesville, where he became a chaired professor at the University of Virginia in government and foreign affairs, retiring in 1997. He continued to teach in a program for 55-plus-year-old adults in courses on his specialty, the United States Supreme Court.
The Anti-Defamation League recognized contributions from a host of local, state and federal agencies, including the UVA Police Department.
The decision to tap engineers for top campus roles underscores a trend that has been unfolding for about a decade. Universities have spent the last several years broadening their engineering curriculums to emphasize skills outside of the discipline, including communication and leadership. “People thought of engineers as the pocket-protector people who couldn’t be social,” said Craig H. Benson, dean of UVA’s engineering school. “That’s really changed.”
The day before Matthew Simon was to begin crew practice in 2015 as a high school sophomore, he was diagnosed with leukemia. Now in his second year at UVA, Simon discovered something seemingly counterintuitive: exercising during chemotherapy made him feel less fatigued.
“While there is less ticket-splitting in American politics than there used to be, we do still see voters doing it,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political website at UVA’s Center for Politics. “So even if Sanders does do poorly — and that is far from guaranteed — House Democrats may be able to distance themselves from Sanders, much like many Republicans did from Trump four years ago.”
Bill Shobe, director of UVA’s Center for Economic and Policy Studies, said Virginia has operated under two effective cap-and-trade programs in the past: one implemented during George H.W. Bush’s administration aimed at reducing sulfur dioxide and the other aimed at cutting nitrogen oxides. “We have pretty good evidence that these cap-and-trade programs greatly reduce the cost of achieving these emission reductions,” Shobe said.
A new study has taken a look at how green space can help reduce violent crime. Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine found that properly designed and maintained outdoor green space has the potential to reduce violent crime, including gun violence.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has announced this year’s winner of the Q Businesswoman Award. The award will be presented to Libby Edwards-Allbaugh of the Tax Ladies Inc. during the upcoming Quadruplicity Conference on March 13. She was also recently selected as a University of Virginia Equity Fellow for a project to increase financial literacy among African-American girls.
UVA-Wise Chancellor Donna Henry and Vice Chancellor for Advancement and Alumni Engagement Valerie Lawson accepted a $1 million gift Thursday from Rapha’s board of directors to the college’s foundation. Thursday’s gift will be matched by $1 million from the University of Virginia’s Strategic Investment Fund to create the Rapha Foundation Bicentennial Scholarship Fund.
The University of Virginia says there are no faculty-led or UVA-administered education abroad programs in China planned for the remainder of the spring 2020 semester; students in China for University-related purposes were advised to leave following the change in the CDC alert and State Department travel advisory on Jan. 27 and students whose spring term of study in China had not yet begun are receiving assistance with revising their plan of study for spring 2020.
Ahead of spring break, the University of Virginia is notifying students, staff and faculty about the potential impact of coronavirus to study-abroad programs and travel.
Hopkins Architects of London has won a contest for a new School of Data Science building on the edge of the University of Virginia’s UNESCO World Heritage-protected historic campus. The building will provide an “innovative new pedagogic environment” for the school and be a gateway to the emerging Emmet-Ivy Corridor campus expansion.
Henry Abraham, a UVA professor for 27 years and an expert on the court system, has died at 98. Abraham was born in Germany in 1921 and immigrated to the U.S. in 1937 to avoid Nazi persecution. After serving in the Army, he became a professor of political science, first at the University of Pennsylvania and later, in 1972, at UVA.
“In our view, we think a Sanders nomination would tilt the election more toward Trump, to the point where the ratings would reflect him as something of a favorite,” write UVA’s Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman. “However, we would not put Trump over 270 electoral votes in our ratings, at least not initially and based on the information we have now.”
As it did last year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison tops this year’s Peace Corps rankings with 79 alumni currently serving. Rounding out the top five are the University of Florida, with 70 volunteers; the University of Virginia, with 68; the University of Maryland, with 66; and the University of Georgia, with 64.
A recent comment from a black student at the University of Virginia that there were “too many white people” at a multicultural student center brought forward long-simmering racial grievances on campuses around the country, but a new book says that such centers help reduce stress for minority and underrepresented students.