University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville was ranked as the top hospital in Virginia for the third consecutive year.
The Piedmont Workforce Network is inviting people looking for a job to a fair on Wednesday at the Northside Library from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Several companies will have representatives on hand to talk to attendees, including the University of Virginia.
A jury in Atlanta has convicted a Nigerian man on federal charges related to hacking universities. Prosecutors said in a news release Monday that 34-year-old Olayinka Olaniyi and co-defendant 29-year-old Damilola Solomon Ibiwoye ran several phishing scams targeting employees at U.S. colleges and universities, including the University of Virginia.
(Commentary co-written by Ben Castleman, associate professor of education and public policy) In a few short weeks, millions of low-income students will return to high school, college or a vocational institution to continue their progress toward college and career. Too few of these students will have the supports they need to make it across the graduation stage.
Somewhere in the American Southwest or northern Mexico, there are probably the ruins of a scarlet macaw breeding operation dating to between 900 and 1200 C.E., according to a team of archaeologists – including UVA archaeology professor Stephan Plog – who sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of bird remains found in the Chaco Canyon and Mimbres areas of New Mexico.
Gloria Graham, the University of Virginia’s vice president of safety and security, said UVA officials worked with the student organizers of Saturday’s protest and supported them wholeheartedly, “It was a peaceful protest, and we support peaceful protests,” she said.
The NBL has lured another aspiring NBA talent to Australia this summer with NBA draft pick Devon Hall joining the Cairns Taipans. Hall was drafted in the second round (pick 53) by Oklahoma City Thunder earlier this year after a stellar career at the highly ranked University of Virginia.
"President Trump is very popular with Republicans nationally, and most polls suggest the same is true in Wisconsin," said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "This could be problematic for Vukmir."
(Commentary) So why did Taylor work so hard to get Shaun Brown on the ballot in November? “He’s seriously threatened,” Larry Sabato, prognosticator extraordinaire at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told me Friday
The poetry world would hardly seem a likely place for a “race row,” the phrase The Guardian applied in 2011 to a blunt exchange of literary verdicts. The celebrated (and white) critic Helen Vendler had disparaged the celebrated (and black) poet Rita Dove’s selections for the new Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Dove, Vendler wrote, had favored “multicultural inclusiveness” over quality. Dove took strong exception to a pattern she saw in the response of established white critics.
You can’t legally organize with others into battalions to fight those with whom you disagree. As University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard, who formerly directed the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Revision, has written, this provision “ensures the right of all citizens . . . to live free from the fear of an alien soldiery commanded by men who are not responsible to law and the political process” — an accurate description of the militant groups that invaded Charlottesville.
Dewey Cornell, a UVA professor of education who specializes in school bullying, said context is critical to determine if this is a case of bullying or simply “horseplay.” “Bullying usually involves a power imbalance, an intent to harm and a repetitive action,” he said. “If this was part of a pattern intentionally trying to cause distress, then it would constitute bullying.”
With law enforcement unable to tell the intoxicating kind of cannabis from the low-THC hemp, it was all treated the same. Other than a brief reprieve during WWII, when hemp was desperately needed for ropes, all cannabis has been outlawed since. “If the rest of the world can figure out the difference, why can’t we?” said Michael Timko, a University of Virginia professor who’s one of the lead researchers associated with the state’s hemp program. “Instead, we import $500 to $600 million worth of industrial hemp products into the country every year. It’s baffling.”
A demographer at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service last year did the math on what it would take to reverse the population trends in the coal counties. The answer was a baby boom of an unrealistic scale.
In the immediate weeks after the violence on August 12, 2017, a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center for Politics discovered that the most people in the U.S. oppose white supremacists. The poll revealed that 89% of respondents believed "all races should be treated equally," and 70% “strongly agreed” that people of different races should be allowed to live wherever they choose. Both of those beliefs reject the core principles of the ideology on display in Charlottesville.
(Editorial) A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted this month in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center and released earlier this week also lends credence to the belief that racial attitudes have not improved over the past 12 months. It concluded that a 57-percent majority of Americans believe that race relations in the United States have worsened over the past 18 months of the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Thirty-nine percent say they’ve become “a lot worse.”
Includes reflections by UVA faculty members Siva Vaidhyanathan, Larry Sabato and Nicole Hemmer.
This month, a group of UVA faculty compiled a book of essays, “Charlottesville 2017,” published by the University of Virginia Press. Claudrena Harold, a professor of African-American and African studies and history, co-edited the volume. She spoke to The Chronicle about how the campus has felt different since white supremacists descended upon it — and how it remains very much the same.
A planned student protest at the University of Virginia quickly turned into a rolling rally that traversed the Grounds, part of Charlottesville and wound up at Market Street Park with minor skirmishes between marchers and police along the way.
The president of the University of Virginia offered the first apology from that office for the tiki-torch march that injured UVA students and supporters one year ago Saturday. “I am sorry,” he said, simply. Jim Ryan’s statement came amid an event intended to commemorate that anniversary and offer healing to a university that is still wrestling to recognize First Amendment issues and involvement with slavery and racism.