Jack Salt has created history, becoming the first Kiwi to reach U.S. college basketball's national championship final. On Sunday (NZ time), Salt's Cavaliers beat Auburn 63-62 at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis to reach the national championship game.
Virginia Cavalier fans on Sunday prepared for Monday’s men’s basketball national championship game by stocking up on team gear, studying early for biology class and picking up trash and lost belongings from the night before.
George K. Yin, a tax law professor at the University of Virginia, disagreed. He said Mr. Neal’s argument was cleverly framed, particularly in light of a relevant past use of Section 6103 by Congress in examining whether President Richard M. Nixon had properly paid his taxes. “There is an inherent conflict of interest when the agency is responsible for auditing its boss,” he said.
“The IRS has to audit the president, and that puts them in an almost automatic conflict of interest when you have to audit your boss,” said George Yin, a UVA law professor and former staffer on the Joint Committee on Taxation who wrote a widely circulated paper on the statute that empowers Neal to issue the request. “But I think that from the standpoint of the committee, that seems like a very clear and legitimate reason to make this type of request.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he believes the conservative network is largely a propaganda arm of President Donald Trump’s administration. “It’s the closest we’ve come to having state TV,” Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia who has studied conservative media, told Mayer.
Swirls of aqua and peach command a starry night sky in the Xigazê region of Tibet in April 2014. Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of China in Beijing and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville are observing colorful ripples of airglow. To get the photo, Jeff Dai — then an engineer on a photography holiday and now a full-time photographer — ran a long exposure of 47 seconds.
The University of Virginia, Mary Baldwin University, Old Dominion University and local resource agencies will participate, as well.
This week in Charlottesville, the University of Virginia, in partnership with the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Washington, D.C., will host five visiting fellows from Germany to work with faculty and students on projects that deal with racism and history.
After receiving a “ruff” diagnosis, a UVA Police Department K-9 has retired and is on the road to recovery. Muki, a 10-year-old Belgian Malinois who has detected explosives for UPD over the past eight years, was honored at a ceremony Friday.
The UVA School of Nursing is recognizing a distinguished group of black nurses who studied in Charlottesville. On Saturday, the school hosted a celebration of “Hidden Nurses” to honor a group of women who graduated from Burley High School's Licensed Practical Nursing program. The women graduated before the school was desegregated and many went on to become nurses at UVA Medical Center.
(Subscription required) When Auburn University and University of Virginia meet in the NCAA tournament this weekend, it’s going to be tough to tell their fans apart. They share school colors. And a history of petty theft.
Mark Newlen played for the University of Virginia in the mid-1970s. He was part of the school's first ACC Tournament basketball championship team in 1976. He is also a Robert E. Lee High graduate, scoring 1,506 points in his high school career. Now he is preparing to watch his Cavaliers in the NCAA Tournament's Final Four Saturday night. We asked him three questions in an email interview about the Cavaliers and this season.
Until this past December, hemp could be grown in Virginia only for research purposes. Virginia Tech, James Madison University, University of Virginia and Virginia State University have all maintained research plots; along with a handful of private growers who had the proper licensing.
Russell M. Nelson's tenure has been marked by "an unusual degree of change in an otherwise very cautious institution," said Kathleen Flake, a professor of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia. She believes many of the changes were considered by past presidents and studied by a governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of which Nelson was a member.
This Dockless Mobility Pilot was adopted by City Council in November and is set to expire July 31. As part of the evaluation process, city staff have partnered with UVA’s Urban and Environmental Planning Program to develop and implement a survey to collect feedback on this program.
A group of UVA faculty on Thursday worked to alleviate concerns about the proposed School of Data Science, voting to move the school one step closer to reality.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what PolitiFact can do for your country. That’s not a John F. Kennedy quote (though it’s close to something the former president said during his inaugural address), and neither is this one that was posted on Facebook on March 30. "There’s a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child," reads the text of a photo of what looks like a flyer pasted to a phone pole. "Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot." Marc J. Selverstone, chair of UVA’s Presidential Recordings Program, t...
UVA law professor George Yin said that at first blush, Neal’s letter seemed to meet the relatively modest requirements needed to make the request. “I don’t see any reason not to comply with the request,” said Yin, who has researched the statutory requirements.