Service to School provides free undergraduate and graduate application counseling to military veterans. For fall 2019, 178 veterans working with S2S enrolled as undergraduates at 72 colleges, including the University of Virginia.
Hamilton Lombard can point to volumes of research and official data compiled by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center that vividly shows the fault lines.
UVA President Jim Ryan read to classes at Johnson Elementary School last week as part of the national Read for the Record program.
(Video) UVA alumni on Saturday got a peek at what new projects are coming to the University.
UVA’s Center for Politics recently found that only three governors out of 50 trailed Trump in approval in their home state -- Raimondo, by a point; Bevin, by 34 points; and Justice, by 25 points.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam disclosed plans Thursday to help public universities produce 31,000 more degrees in computer science and related fields over the next two decades, an initiative that aims to help meet growing demand for a high-tech workforce as the state prepares for a new Amazon headquarters in Arlington. The University of Virginia plans to add 3,416 bachelor’s degrees.
Eleven universities in Virginia, including the University of Virginia, have been promised just under $1 billion in state funding to substantially grow their computer science programs.
This is a time of change for university-community relations, and local governments want to be at the table for that change. To do that, Charlottesville and Albemarle County elected officials have decided to remove themselves from the table most of the time. The city and county both this week dissolved the Planning and Coordination Council with the University of Virginia.
The tiny town of Saxis on Virginia's Eastern Shore is learning to live with water. Donna Croushore spends much of her time at her vacation home on Saxis and has become the mayor's point person for resilience projects. Eighteen months ago, she signed the town up for RAFT, a collaboration of experts from the University of Virginia, William & Mary and Old Dominion University that provides towns with a scorecard to assess their resilience.
A conversation with UVA President James Ryan and College Board CEO David Coleman.
UVA will receive about $33 million from the state over the next 20 years to support more than 3,000 degrees in computer science. Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday that the state plans to create 31,000 new computer science graduates over the next 20 years through partnerships with 11 universities.
Tuesday’s election could offer a test of whether the anti-Trump surge that tipped those districts remains potent. “You’re seeing this nationalization happen,” said Kyle Kondik, an elections analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “These states are good tests for that.”
In Virginia, Democrats are trying to gain total control of the government in the commonwealth. And one candidate could become the first to topple a sitting House speaker. Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, Phillip Bailey, a reporter at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, and MSNBC’s Chris Jansing join Craig Melvin to discuss.
"Virginia doesn't trade party control in the legislation very often,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “In fact, it's only happened once in my lifetime, which was in the 1990s when the Republicans took over the House and Senate, so this would only be the second turnover, party turnover of the General Assembly in the 20th and this piece of the 21st century, so that’s pretty remarkable if it happens."
The election wins now clear the way for Democrats to pass a wide array of liberal policies, including gun control measures, increases to the minimum wage and ratification the Equal Rights Amendment. "It wouldn't really be an exaggeration to say that we could have the most progressive regime we've had in Virginia's government history," said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, which provides nonpartisan analysis on elections through UVA’s Center for Politics.
For many patients with type 1 diabetes, testing doesn't begin until their symptoms land them in the emergency room. But researchers at the University of Virginia are trying to see if a genetic test can determine if someone is more likely to develop the disease.
New research from the 18th Annual Pain Medicine Meeting is offering clinicians additional guidance on the impact of ketamine and whether or not it increases adverse events. Conducted by investigators from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the University of Virginia, results of their study revealed reported infusions of ketamine treatments for migraines and pain did not increase a patient’s risk for hepatotoxicity or psychomimetic adverse drug events.
Several universities have added benefits for middle-income students in the past year.The University of Virginia said it would waive tuition for in-state students whose families earned less than $80,000 annually.
Inova is renovating an existing building slated to be home to the Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Institute, a research partnership between Inova, the University of Virginia and George Mason University.
As an outgrowth of a state school, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business offers two tuition price points for the 2019-20 school year: $67,500 for Virginia residents and $70,500 for out-of-staters. The school estimates an increase of 3% to 5% for the 2020-21 school year.