Kyle Kondik, political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and author of “The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President,” said the state reflects the political realignment taking place across the country: Voters in the parts of the state that are highly educated and increasingly diverse are turning toward Democrats, while working-class white voters continue their migration to the Republican Party.
Demand Justice, a group founded to counteract the conservative wing’s decades-long advantage over liberals in judicial fights, will release a list of 32 suggested Supreme Court nominees for any future Democratic president as they ramp up their push for the 2020 contenders to do the same. The full list from Demand Justice includes M. Elizabeth Magill, the provost of the University of Virginia.
In an effort to increase enrollment of first-generation students, David and Jane Walentas has donated $100 million to the University of Virginia. David Walentas, a New York real estate developer, is UVA alumnus who also was the first in his family to attend college.
The University of Virginia has launched a helpline that is intended to provide answers to anyone with opioid-related questions.
A man who was the first in his family to attend college and went on to become a successful real estate developer has made a $100 million contribution to help other first-generation students. David Walentas and his wife Jane are donating $100 million of their fortune to Walentas’ alma mater, the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Film Festival is once again bringing a diverse program of more than 150 films covering a wide range of important and fascinating issues and topics. The festival will again partner with James Madison’s Montpelier to present the “Race in America” series, featuring films dealing with a wide spectrum of issues that dominate, and in many ways define, our nation today.
A Virginia case is once again headed for the U.S. Supreme Court as opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline try to prevent construction of that 600-mile project from West Virginia to North Carolina. "The trail runs through The George Washington and Jefferson National Forest. Those forests are managed by the Forest Service," says Cale Jaffe, a UVA law professor and a consultant to the Southern Environmental Law Center, which is leading a fight against the pipeline on behalf of seven groups.
UVA physician Dr. Richard Santen has his research, and then he has his passion project. For the past several years, he has turned his attention to getting appropriate treatment to people with diabetes who live in underserved – often low-income and rural – areas.
(Commentary by Richard Bonnie and Joanna Lee Williams, both at the University of Virginia) Adolescents have our attention. Young people are leading transformative movements on climate change, gun control, police brutality and criminal justice that are reverberating in the halls of Congress and the White House.
UVA hasn’t received a deluge of early decision applications from prospective students, but Dean of Admission Greg Roberts said he expects a trickle to become a flood in the final hours before the application deadline Tuesday.
A new scholarship program aimed at attracting first-generation students to the University of Virginia will be established as part of a $100 million gift announced Saturday. Alumnus David Walentas, a New York real estate developer, and his wife, Jane, donated the $100 million. He was the first in his family to attend college, according to a news release.
On Sunday, the Men's Leadership Project partnered with Houses of Wood & Straw to build dog houses to keep pets warm this winter. MLP is a community-based mentoring program, connecting UVA undergrads with seventh-graders from several Albemarle County schools.
Members of the Men's Leadership Project partnered with their mentees to build several new wooden doghouses for Houses of Wood and Straw at Canine Campus on Sunday morning.
On Sunday, Lyons and his “big brother,” UVA student Garrett Lukens, joined 10 other big brothers and nine other little brothers to build shelters for local nonprofit Houses of Wood and Straw. UVA’s Men’s Leadership Project is a yearlong mentoring program, run through UVA’s Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center, that partners undergraduate students with seventh-graders at Sutherland, Jack Jouett and Jackson P. Burley middle schools.
The University of Virginia will receive a $100 million gift to benefit first-generation college students. The donation is from David and Jane Walentas. David Walentas is an alumnus of UVA and was a first-generation college student himself.
Fittingly, most of the money – which Walentas says will be paid out over five to 10 years – will help the school fund opportunities for first-generation college students like Walentas, who is now worth an estimated $2.5 billion.
The donation comes from a graduate who said his education was "transformational."
The University of Virginia has kicked off a $5 billion 'Honor the Future' campaign. The goal is to make UVA the nation's best public university.
UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art has resolved to devote half of its exhibitions to underrepresented art. “It’s important to make a real, discernible commitment,” says museum director Matthew McLendon. “There are difficult conversations our society needs to have.”
UVA researchers have found that when people move away from their established communities, it can result in a weaker commitment to those friendships – so instead of texting every other day, you might check in with each other every other week instead. Eventually, those plans to catch up stay just that – plans.