The grants will be used to develop and test the technologies in simulated environments over the next 10 months, demonstrating their readiness for a potential lunar mission as early as 2023. UVA is among six universities and colleges receiving grants.
On Presidents Day: Hear former President Bill Clinton’s closing keynote address at the Presidential Ideas Festival held last year at the University of Virginia.
The UBike docked bicycle program started in 2015 and has provided bicycles to UVA students, staff and faculty, as well as general community members, for a fee. Rebecca White, director of UVA’s Department of Parking & Transportation, said the decision to discontinue the UBike program was influenced by several simultaneous events, including that Social Bicycles, the provider of the brain/lock mechanism and software for the bikes, did not want to renew the procurement.
(Video) Someone is disrupting years of research at UVA. The question of who is responsible remains a mystery.
The school’s commitment to put unsurpassed teachers in every class starts with Darden’s recruitment and hiring of new faculty and ends with student evaluations that are taken as seriously as a professor’s academic research.
(Commentary by Gary Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor Emeritus in the History of the American Civil War) It has become common to say that the United States in 2020 is more divided politically and culturally than at any other point in our national past. As a historian who has written and taught about the Civil War era for several decades, I know that current divisions pale in comparison to those of the mid-19th century.
He taught and coached at Albemarle for 12 years. While there, he earned an administration and supervision endorsement from UVA and took on supervisory roles that helped prepare him for his current position as principal of Orange County High School. During his first stint at OCHS, from 2001 to 2004, he earned his teaching license and completed a master’s degree in education at the University of Virginia.
Multiple attorneys who have practiced federal criminal law for years in various parts of the justice system emphasized that the jury selection process for a federal trial is explicitly designed to eliminate the complaint at the heart of President Trump’s accusation: bias that would prevent a juror from fairly weighing the facts and law of a case. “The whole process is designed to flag potential bias,” said Timothy Heaphy, a former U.S. Attorney who is now general counsel for the University of Virginia.
“I have spoken to a lot of senior Democrats who want to do whatever they can to stop Sanders winning the nomination,” says Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “They think he would be a disaster, but they don’t believe Buttigieg is experienced enough to win a general election. They are willing to support Bloomberg if that’s what it takes.”
The UVA Medical Center has been named one of the 100 hospitals and health systems with great neurosurgery and spine programs for the sixth year in a row.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have determined that a rare form of childhood brain cancer, previously thought to have a simple structure, actually grows in a very complex way.
Former Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo has been named the University of Virginia’s associate vice president for safety and security and chief of police.
Former Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo is now the police chief at the University of Virginia. Longo will also serve as associate vice president for safety and security.
Tim Longo, former chief of the Charlottesville Police Department, was named UVA’s associate vice president for safety and security and chief of police on Thursday.
UVA is taking steps to make life easier for hundreds of employees who commute from the Scottsville area. A van carpool is in the works to help commuters save time and money.
Office furniture at the University of Virginia is made in prisons. So is some of the furniture at George Mason University and the University of Mary Washington. That’s because public universities in Virginia are required to buy from Virginia Correctional Enterprises, a state-owned company that employs inmates in state prisons.
The global public health crisis precipitated by an outbreak of a new coronavirus in China – and the imposition of travel restrictions barring entry to the U.S. of most foreign nationals who have traveled to China within the last 14 days – threatens student flows and other forms of collaboration. Chinese students make up the biggest group of international students in the U.S., accounting for slightly more than a third of all international students at American colleges.
As tuition prices across public colleges have climbed, some institutions are raising the income threshold that qualifies students for institutional need-based aid. The University of Virginia will waive tuition for state residents whose families earn less than $80,000 per year.
“I’ve always been a fan of McClatchy, and that’s from someone who’s no fan of big-chain newspapers,” said Christopher Ali, a professor in UVA’s department of media studies. “They seem to have understood for years the importance of local news. [But] when a large chain says we’re going to emerge from bankruptcy stronger and more digital, these are red flags.”
UVA media studies professor Aynne Kokas, author of “Hollywood Made in China,” said Disney has built an extensive infrastructure in the country via its theme parks and merchandising. “‘Mulan’ is a perfect example of where Disney’s infrastructure in China begins to pay off,” she said. “It has the advantage of not being a story that just has a few Chinese characters added in, which Chinese audiences find insulting.”