“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.”
2020 is the second year where the FT has included corporate social responsibility, or CSR, in their methodology. It carries a 3% weighting in the overall ranking, and measures the number of teaching hours from core courses dedicated to CSR, ethics, social and environmental issues. IESE Business School in Spain finished top, with UVA’s Darden School of Business finishing in second.
The University of Virginia’s 2018 report on the institution’s ownership and treatment of enslaved people centuries ago tells the tale of a 10-year-old black girl who was savagely beaten unconscious in 1856 by Noble Noland, a student who deemed her reply to his questions too insolent. The attack’s prominence in the report is part of an ongoing effort to account for – and atone for – the ways the university encouraged, enabled and profited from slavery.
This year’s Virginia Film Festival will take place from Oct. 21-25 in a variety of Charlottesville locations. “We had great feedback from our audience last year about the expansion of the festival to five days,” said festival director Jody Kielbasa, UVA’s vice provost for the arts.
UVA psychologist Linda Gonder-Frederick tracked the performance of 14 diabetic alert dogs in a 2017 study. Before the study, their owners believed the dogs would prove more accurate than their glucose monitor devices. That didn’t happen.
David and Jane Walentas committed $100 million to the University of Virginia, earmarking $75 million for undergraduates and M.B.A. students who are the first people in their families to attend college. David Walentas, a real-estate developer and UVA alumnus, said, “Growing up, I didn’t know anyone who had been to college. But I knew it was a way out of poverty and path to opportunity.”
Dana Tierney, an editor, advertising executive, and writer for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post and other publications, died on Friday, February 7, 2020, at her home in Roanoke. Dana was born in Williamsburg on Dec. 12, 1961, graduated from Patrick Henry High School in Ashland and received her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia. She went on to earn a master’s degree in the program in creative writing at Columbia University, where she was awarded a fellowship and won the Heinfield Foundation Award for writing. She worked as an editor at the Mysterious Press and L...
Friends and colleagues recall Emma Edmunds as a gentle soul who had a good rapport and pushed for more inclusive representation in Danville’s history. Edmunds, who spent years studying local civil rights history and was instrumental in bringing a civil rights exhibit to the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, died Sunday at 74. She also worked as director of editorial and design at the University of Virginia and later became a project historian for History United in Danville.
The Howard County Women’s Athletics Hall of Fame will celebrate its 24th year of recognizing outstanding contributions with an induction ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 15 at Howard High School in Ellicott City. This year’s inductees include runner Lee McDuff Elkins (River Hill, 2001), who attended the University of Virginia and graduated in 2005 with a double major in economics and psychology. She ran cross country at UVA for one season “then decided to give my (competitive) shoes a rest. There was too much outside of college sports that I wanted to pursue. … Graduating from Virginia is one of my ...