UVA recently paid $9,375 for a letter written by Thomas Jefferson about the school’s first law professor. The letter is on display at the UVA Law Library’s Special Collections and Archives through Friday.
The U.S. Postal Service honored a Muslim-American Army Officer Monday, naming a post office in his hometown – Charlottesville – after him. U.S. Senator Tim Kaine praised Captain Khan but criticized his commander in chief for failing to support and protect the military. Captain Humayun Khan was killed when he stopped a vehicle headed for a U.S. base in Iraq. It exploded, killing him and its passengers. His father, Khizr Khan, expressed pride in the decisions his son made during a short but noble life. “The first decision he made was to come to the University of Virginia," he recalled...
Jennifer Wagner Davis, UVA’s chief operating officer, said the school wasn’t necessarily planning on century bonds earlier in the summer when it started its recent debt sale. But when the yield curve inverted, “the market presented UVA with an unprecedented opportunity,” she said.
On what would have been his 43rd birthday, a Charlottesville post office was renamed after fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan. The UVA graduate was killed in Iraq in 2004 when a vehicle packed with improvised explosives drove into the gate of his compound.
UVA researchers now have more money to help battle childhood cancer, thanks to a grant from Hyundai. Children's cancer researcher Dr. Brian Belyea received the $300,000 grant from the Hyundai Hope on Wheels program at an event Monday morning.
Virginia is turning to one of the most successful coaches in NCAA history to lead its track and field and cross country programs. Vin Lananna is the Cavaliers’ new director of track and field and cross country, the school announced Monday. Lananna also will serve as associate athletics director for administration at UVA.
A spin-a-thon in Charlottesville raised money for research at the UVA Stroke Center on Saturday. People worked out on their indoor cycling bikes at Purvelo to burn calories during the annual Spokes for Strokes event.
The top-ranked public institution among National Universities is the University of California--Los Angeles. Following UCLA, at No. 2, is the University of California--Berkeley. The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor rounds out the third spot among Top Public Schools, displacing the University of Virginia, the prior No. 3.
The University of Virginia ranks No. 4 on the U.S. News & World Report’s list of Top Public Schools National Universities for 2020.
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, presidential studies director at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) When news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s most recent cancer treatment garnered headlines, both her legions of fans and equally staunch opponents speculated on her plans to step down.
“Mindar’s metal skeleton is exposed, and I think that’s an interesting choice; its creator, Hiroshi Ishiguro, is not trying to make something that looks totally human,” said Natasha Heller, a UVA associate professor of Chinese religions. She said the deity Kannon, upon whom Mindar is based, is an ideal candidate for cyborgization because the Lotus Sutra explicitly says Kannon can manifest in whatever forms will best resonate with the humans of a given time and place.
As Virginia fans flocked to Grounds ahead of a Friday night football game against the College of William & Mary, some made a detour to a smaller venue to cheer on a different cause: the University of Virginia’s proposed School of Data Science.
Now, researchers believe they have found possible indications of an exomoon orbiting a giant, scorching exoplanet in the Lepus constellation, 550 light-years from Earth. Researchers, including the UVA’s Bob Johnson, have previously demonstrated that large quantities of sodium present at exoplanets could suggest the presence of rings or even hidden bodies like moons.
In a separate study published as a working paper, researchers and administrators at another community college took a slightly different approach. This school was worried that students might be borrowing too much and offered loan counseling in text messages. The texts encouraged students to think carefully about how much they borrowed. The college worked with the professors Andrew Barr of Texas A&M and Kelli Bird and Benjamin L. Castleman of the University of Virginia to randomly assign students to receive these texts.
Liz Schwab, Google’s public affairs manager for Virginia, said the company is getting the state, the Virginia Community College System and the University of Virginia’s Nudge Lab to help with collecting and analyzing data so that Google could build something that could be replicated elsewhere.
Virginia football fans descended on Charlottesville's Downtown Mall for the annual Paint the Town Orange pep rally on Thursday night to show their school spirit before the Cavaliers' first home game. UVA hosts William & Mary at 8 p.m.
(Commentary) The University of Virginia had the highest public graduation rate (88.3% four-year rate and 94.6% six-year rate). Interestingly, UVA is frequently considered the best deal for public institutions.
Four Virginia universities are ranked among the top 100 institutions in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings, released Thursday. In this year’s ranking, the University of Virginia notched No. 50.
Three out-of-state institutes of higher learning, which have local ties, assembled current students, parents, alumni and friends for send-off socializing. The buzz was about the University of Virginia, Stanford University and Rhodes College, all three with some of the most impressive collegiate grounds in the country.