Sylvia Earle has spent six decades exploring the depths of the world’s oceans and now fights to protect the seas and their inhabitants from a changing climate. Earle and three others were honored Friday with 2019 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in a series of events that celebrated the third president’s birthday.
Judge Carlton Reeves is a Mississippi federal judge who compared President Donald Trump’s attacks on the judiciary to tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan during the Jim Crow era while accepting an award at the University of Virginia. Reeves, who is African-American, hit out at Trump’s tweets railing against federal courts and judges while accepting the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law award from his alma mater.
While UVA builds a large memorial for the enslaved people who built the University, one that already exists was the topic of conversation on Friday.
In a speech to the UVA School of Law on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves criticized Trump’s aggressive responses to his administration’s losses in court and the lack of diversity in his judicial appointments – an extremely rare rebuke from a sitting federal judge.
A new job board created by the University of Virginia aims to help spouses and partners of incoming UVA employees get a sense of their own job options before they move to Charlottesville.
University of Virginia's Darden Business School ranked in a tie for 12th among U.S. colleges offering master of business administration programs, according to a new study by U.S. News that examined 367 schools.
Girls from in and around the Charlottesville area are working to break down barriers in science and tech-related fields. On Sunday, they took part in “Ladies in the Lab” to get more familiar with engineering and encourage them to build those skills. Dozens of girls gathered on University of Virginia Grounds to take part in different hands-on workshops taught by different clubs from the University.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility and Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport is set to launch an Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Wednesday. The Virginia Space Grant Consortium has four of member universities: Old Dominion, Virginia Tech, UVA and Hampton. Three student teams designed and developed small satellites, each about 4 inches cubed and weighing approximately 3 pounds.
UVA student actors and are performing their short plays, all written in a day. Over the course of 24 hours, students write, act and perform in original short plays.
This week’s scheduled Antares launch at Wallops Island will carry space satellites engineered and built by Virginia university students. The satellites will rendezvous with the International Space Station, be released by the astronauts and orbit for up to two years. For three years, 140 students from UVA, Virginia Tech and Old Dominion University have been designing and building three small satellites that are now ready for launch.
The UVA Clean Water Working Group, UVA Office of Sustainability, Westminster Presbyterian Church and other organizations around Charlottesville worked to clean up the stream underneath Beta Bridge on Saturday.
Duke University has some answers for a question echoing around Charlottesville and Albemarle County: What is the role of universities in making housing affordable?
Members of the UVA family are remembering an engineering student who died on spring break. Students, professors, families and friends held a memorial for Rehan Baddeliyanage on Sunday morning.
Hundreds of people gathered at the IMPACT action assembly Thursday at Charlottesville High School to demand city and county action on affordable housing. This was also the first time the University of Virginia was asked to commit to efforts to end the affordable housing crisis.
The University of Virginia is the best public college in the commonwealth, according to new national rankings published by Business First. Business First released its 2019 rankings Monday after analyzing data for more than 500 public colleges across the country.
The use of the hacking charge has a two-fold purpose: helping ease Assange’s extradition by making the central charge sound more like a common crime, and trying to reassure journalists and First Amendment advocates that Assange isn’t being prosecuted simply for publishing classified information – an activity that mainstream news outlets regularly engage in, UVA law professor Ashley Deeks said.
The severe drought that struck California from 2011 to 2015 had some surprising effects on the state’s notorious air pollution. A research team, led by atmospheric chemistry Ph.D. candidate Angelique Demetillo and environmental science professor Sally Pusede at the University of Virginia, examined more than a decade’s worth of satellite and sensor data that documented atmospheric conditions over two California cities that suffer from ozone pollution.
The final season begins Monday, but “Game of Thrones” and its memorable scenes will have a lasting impact on the broader TV landscape, according to industry experts and fans. Lisa Woolfork, a UVA associate professor of English, said the complexity of the characters was unique and has paved the way for future shows.
“I am a leadership fan. And I’m a principle fan. And I’m a developer-of-young-people fan,” Mendenhall said Wednesday morning, following his team’s eighth spring practice. “Which means, I’m a UVA basketball fan.”
Cairns’ NCAA Championship winner Kody Stattmann feared his University of Virginia were going to fall short of playing off for the national championship. “It was really, really nerve-wracking,” the freshman guard said on RSN Breakfast Club on Melbourne radio on Thursday morning.