(Commentary by Ashon Crawley, UVA associate professor of religious studies and African American and African studies) If we use Zora Neale Hurston as our guide, we can understand that the black church has always been a place of class antagonism, and we can use that complexity to think about current trends in popular culture.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam joined businesspeople, investors, financiers and government officials at UVA’s Darden school of Business on Tuesday to kick off Opportunity Virginia, a statewide initiative to bring economic development into distressed and disadvantaged communities.
When it opened in 1825, the University of Virginia was the most expensive school in the nation, and for every student there was a slave. Two new books explore what life was like for them.
Gov. Ralph Northam announced the official launch of Opportunity Virginia Tuesday during an event at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
American universities dominate U.S. News & World Report's rankings of 2020's best global universities, a list that evaluates 1,500 schools across the globe on academic research and reputation. The University of Virginia ranks No. 49 on the list.
The University of Virginia’s Arts & Sciences faculty voted to approve a new general education program – the first major update to the undergraduate curriculum in more than 40 years, the University announced.
First Lady Pamela Northam and the Office of the Secretary of Education will host a summit Tuesday with education leaders, policymakers and academic researchers at the University of Virginia to discuss early childhood education in the commonwealth.
Managing agricultural and other land in a more environmentally sound manner could take the world nearly a third of the way toward meeting the Paris agreement goals. “These [measures] are feasible now and deliver many other benefits,” said lead author Stephanie Roe, a UVA environmental scientist.
A UVA student with autism had her gaming console stolen while she was eating lunch. That’s when her fellow ’Hoos stepped in to replace it.
With the first early decision college-application deadline looming on Nov. 1, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its “2020’s Best College & University Rankings.” No. 1 on the list is the University of Virginia.
Kitty O’Brien Joyner was the first woman to graduate from the University of Virginia’s engineering program after winning a lawsuit challenging its all-male engineering school. She joined NACA (the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which later became NASA) in 1939 and was its first female engineer, working on turbines in wind tunnels and researching supersonic flight. She retired from NASA in 1971.
Nine lacrosse greats were formally inducted as the newest members of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Saturday evening at The Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Kara Ariza Cooke was a three-time All-American at the University of Virginia and helped lead Virginia to the ACC title as a senior in 1998. She was also a member of the 2001 and 2005 U.S. World Cup Teams, winning the gold medal in 2001 and the silver in 2005.
“He hasn’t changed since I saw him at the University of Virginia. He’s a pro’s pro – and one of the great players that I’ve ever scouted,” General Manager Mike Rizzo said. The “face of the franchise” carries with it a ton of weight on the field and in the clubhouse. Production at the plate and making great plays in the field are tangible skills one can easily see; being the leader Zimmerman has been for the bulk of his career is not. But his teammates know and appreciate what Zim has done and continues to do on a daily basis.
Dr. Robert Carey, dean emeritus of the UVA School of Medicine, said, “There is no realistic mechanism to which one could attribute that difference in suicide.” He doesn’t believe this data is evidence to switch a patient's medication from ARBs to ACE inhibitors.
Dentures, which were often ill-fitting and uncomfortable, came from similarly disturbing sources: George Washington – who, contrary to popular legend, did not boast false teeth made of wood – likely relied on dentures made from various materials, including metal alloys, cow and horse teeth, and human teeth. “[He] probably gave his inaugural speech with teeth that were from people who were enslaved,” Kathryn Gehred, a research specialist at the University of Virginia, told Live Science’s Stephanie Pappas in 2018.
The secret to the Carters’ success might be as simple as the fact that, well, they chose to stay together. W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, has said that long-lasting couples adopt a commitment to “marital permanency,” as he told the Washington Post in 2016. “They don’t see divorce as an option.”
(By Bob Gibson of UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service) In Virginia Senate elections, Democrats have nominated 17 women for the upper chamber’s 40 seats and Republicans have nominated six. UVA Center for Politics founder Larry Sabato calls the record numbers of women running significant. “The election will be decided on party and issues, but having a majority of women candidates – a first for either party in Virginia – is a plus for Democrats.”
The most comprehensive analyses have been conducted over the past 18 years at the University of Virginia by education professor Dewey Cornell. He developed a threat assessment model that is used by school districts across the country. It’s distinct from Albuquerque’s procedure, using different evaluation forms and classification categories. But it shares the goal of preventing school violence.
Louis P. Nelson, an architectural historian at the University of Virginia, writes in an essay for the exhibit’s catalogue that Jefferson’s designs also limited white society’s view of enslaved workers. “Jefferson the architect was incredibly important, and his legacy is worthy of investigation on its own terms,” Nelson said. “But we would do a profound disservice if we limit ourselves to a celebratory history.”
“Obviously, one would rather have more money than less, and Schweikert’s fundraising is weak,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. “That said, he still benefits from holding a district that is right of center, although it has been getting more competitive.”