On April 1, 1957, a handful of students gathered in a first-floor studio in UVA’s Old Cabell Hall for the first broadcast of WTJU. In just a few minutes, classical music filled the airwaves, radiating out to a small audience in Charlottesville that would grow into a dedicated following. Since its inception, WTJU has been a different sort of radio station: Dedicated to sharing unique and eclectic music, committed to serving the University and our broader community, staffed by volunteer UVA students and community volunteers.
The grind never stops for Kendall Street Company, formed at UVA in 2013. Since March 11, this squad has been driving up and down the East Coast on the first leg of its spring tour, with stops in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina.
For Deep Root Records, one of the few 100% Black-owned labels in dance music, it’s about bringing various genres of house music to the scene. The imprint began in 2014, when EDM was exploding and hip hop was at the forefront of music, with the purpose of creating a space for the classic house and old school house music that New York is known for. Deep Root, co-founded by UVA McIntire School of Commerce alumnus Ajamu Kambon, focuses on deep house, tech house, progressive house, melodic house and Afro house.
Ben McKenzie was driving his father’s silver Subaru through Texas farmland, talking in breathless bursts about money: who has it, who needs it, what makes it real or fake. He detailed the perils of cryptocurrency exchanges, the online brokers that sell Bitcoin and Ether to speculators. Over the last six months, as A-list celebrities have shilled for digital currencies and NFTs, McKenzie, a TV actor best known for his starring role in “The O.C.,” has become an outspoken skeptic. McKenzie has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Virginia.
Dr. William M. Shobe, director of the Center for Economic & Policy Studies, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, and an adjunct professor of economics at the University of Virginia, said “Pennsylvania actually profits by joining RGGI. Being the low cost, low emission-intensity generator, it will gain by selling emission reductions to the rest of RGGI.”
Charlottesville and Albemarle public schools don’t have enough substitute teachers to cover absences
Area school districts have also tapped into local universities in their search for replacement teachers. Student teachers at UVA’s School of Education are being hired out of their internships at rates higher than before, said Jeff Davis, director of curriculum, instruction and special education. In previous years, only a small handful of specialized student teachers would get hired toward the end of their internships. Davis said almost half of this year’s cohort of about 150 students have been hired, some a just weeks into their months-long internships, to serve as long-term substitutes.
In Lee County, Youngkin took home a whopping 87.6% of the vote — an example of how well the first-time politician performed all across Southwest Virginia. “Youngkin was at over 80% of the vote in a lot of those towns,” points out J. Miles Coleman, spokesman for UVA’s Center for Politics. … Lack of employment opportunities led to the region’s dramatic population drop. “What you see is a tremendous amount of out migration, particularly young adults, because they don’t see job prospects in the area,” says Hamilton Lombard, a demographer for UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Dana Walters, associate editor of The Practice, recently sat down with Roshni Raveendhran, assistant professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business, to talk about the psychology of behavior and decision making.
Over the past 25 years, “legislation has repeatedly raised the statutory limits on contributions and benefits for retirement plans and IRAs, delayed the start of required distributions, and weakened statutory non-discrimination rules — all to the benefit of affluent workers and the financial-services companies that collect asset-based fees from retirement savings,” Michael Doran, a law professor at the University of Virginia, wrote in an academic paper earlier this year. “The result has been spectacular growth in the retirement accounts of higher-income earners but modest or even negative grow...
Experts in American politics struggled to find another instance in which a former U.S. president had solicited damaging information about a sitting president’s family from the leader of one of the country’s most significant geostrategic rivals. “Don't bother to look for parallels because it's completely unparalleled,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said. “This is an example of complete self-absorption and elevation of personal interest over the country's interests.”
Civic education should supply “what students need to know to be participants in American public life,” says University of Virginia professor James W. Ceaser. But that goal is not being met at any educational level today.
(By Barbara A. Perry, Presidential Studies director and Gerald L. Baliles Professor at the Miller Center) The nation’s highest tribunal is normally wedded to precedent. For the sake of the law’s stability and to maintain its own legitimacy, the Supreme Court tries to avoid decisions that would muddy legal interpretations if they changed every few years. The current controversy over the partisan political activities of Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Virginia, raises an intriguing query about another kind of precedent: whether spouses of past justices have engaged in questionable personal or pr...
9. Birdwood Golf Course (University of Virginia): Designed by Davis Love III, Birdwood Golf Course is part of the famous Boar’s Head Resort in Charlottesville and is home to the University of Virginia’s golf teams. Along with a championship 18-hole golf course, Birdwood also has The Nest, which is a six-hole par-3 course. In addition, Ridges is a fantastic 18-hole putting course that sprawls over an acre of land. Birdwood not only serves up a championship layout, but it also has all of the modern amenities and extras to make it a top collegiate facility.
After a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the premier Special Olympics events in the world is back. Beginning Tuesday, the 14th annual Xperience Tennis Invitational — featuring some of the top players from around the globe — will kick off at the Boar’s Head Sports Club in Charlottesville. The event features an opening ceremony on Tuesday, as well as a clinic by the University of Virginia women’s tennis team.
(Video) Join us for a live conversation with University of Virginia assistant professor of history Chris Gratien as we discuss his new book, “The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier,” which explores the social and environmental transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that makes lynching a federal hate crime. According to some University of Virginia researchers, there were more lynchings in states with Confederate statues, like Virginia.
A talented team led by Joseph P. Allen and Jessica J. Connelly (University of Virginia) evaluated how long-term cannabis exposure impacts epigenetic aging as measured through DNA methylation profiles. They assessed links between cannabis use (assessed yearly) and epigenetic aging (measured at age 30) through a prospective longitudinal study of over 150 participants aged between 13 and 30 from the southeastern USA.
For over two decades, scientists have puzzled over how vertebrates make the essential polysaccharide hyaluronic acid, which has broad medical applications. One team – including Jochen Zimmer of UVA – took a different tack and solved the mystery.
Before moving its traditionally in-person campus tour “Days on the Lawn” to an online tour when the pandemic began, the University of Virginia created a “Virtual Grounds” section on their website. This section included the virtual tour [and several other elements].
The University of Virginia School of Law has been named one of the top law schools in the country. U.S. News and World Report released its 2023 rankings for graduate school programs, including law school.