For public schools, UCLA took the top spot, followed by the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia moved up two spots to 26th, and the College of William & Mary ascended one place to 39th in the latest ranking of the country’s best colleges by U.S. News & World Report, which was released Monday.
The University of Virginia announced Friday it would remove a statue that depicts subjection of Native American people and rename or remove several other campus landmarks or buildings named after slaveholders. The university’s Board of Visitors said it would work with Indigenous groups to find an off-campus location where it could relocate the controversial statue honoring George Rogers Clark, a military leader during the American Revolution credited with helping claim the Old Northwest Territory for the U.S. and noted for his military incursions against Nati...
The University of Virginia’s 2020 football schedule has changed again, and the Cavaliers will now have a home game in September. The Atlantic Coast Conference says UVA’s Saturday, November 14th game against Duke University has been rescheduled for Saturday, September 26th.
The memorial in Washington, D.C., pays tribute to the general who led the Allies to victory in Europe during World War II and the president who sought peace after it was over. “We are in a polarized moment. We’re going to be in a polarized moment for a long time,” said William I. Hitchcock, the author of “The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s” and a historian at the University of Virginia. “But maybe there’s a place for an actual physical site where you can reflect about what life might be like in a nonpolarized world.”
Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System is opening a $7 million comprehensive breast care center Oct. 12. The 18,500-square-foot center includes 32 patient rooms. It will offer surgical oncology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, genetics, plastic surgery and radiology services.
The first University of Virginia athletic event of the fall has been canceled. While it wasn’t slated to count in the regular-season standings, the UVa men’s soccer team’s Friday home exhibition with Clemson was canceled after the Tigers reported two positive COVID-19 cases within their program. The exhibition won’t be made up.
Three women have declared themselves the progressive candidates for the Elizabeth Board of Education election this November. Danielle Fienberg, Janice Figueroa and Natalie Hernandez officially launched their candidacy with a virtual campaign party August 28 with the slogan ‘Justice for Elizabeth.’ Figueroa was raised in Elizabeth and attended the Elizabeth Public Schools, having graduated from schools 19, 13, 28, 7 and Frank J. Cicarell Academy. Currently, she studies linguistics at the University of Virginia and is studying to obtain an ESL teaching certification.
This time a year ago, Dr. Cameron Webb of Charlottesville had no idea he would be among the top contenders this fall for election to the U.S. House of Representatives. The 37-year-old Democrat, a former White House Fellow and physician at the University of Virginia Health System who holds both a medical degree and a law degree, is running in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District centered in the Piedmont region.
Political analyst Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said the presidential race will have strong coattails this year. He said if former Vice President Joe Biden wins “by a least a few points,” the Senate is likely to split 50-50 between the two parties, with Harris able to cast the tie-breaking vote. “A bigger Biden win would usher in a bigger Democratic majority,” Sabato said.
Home schooling has been on the rise in Virginia for many years. The number of homeschooled students reached nearly 45,000 in 2019; if homeschoolers were a school division, they would have comprised the seventh largest of Virginia’s 133 school divisions. Demographer Hamilton Lombard at the Demographics Research Group at the University of Virginia, expects the homeschool trend to continue.
Aynne Kokas, assistant professor of media studies at University of Virginia, discusses the debut of Disney’s “Mulan” in China and why this version is so contentious. She speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: China Open.”
Researchers at the University of Virginia have discovered that concussions and other traumatic brain injuries can cause swelling that blocks the brain's ability to clean itself of toxins and debris.
In one study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science last year, two psychologists from the University of Virginia and University of California, Irvine, discovered people found it difficult to think logically about arguments, data or evidence that contradicted their politics, and the more committed they were, the worse their results.
"People are prescribing antibiotics because they're concerned the patient may have a bacterial superinfection when [sometimes] it's actually just the signs and symptoms of COVID," Amy Mathers, associate professor at University of Virginia's School of Medicine, tells Axios.
A new website from the University of Virginia aims to help connect families with resources and tools to use during virtual learning. UVa’s Equity Center, Madison House and Youth-Nex, a research center at the Curry School of Education and Human Development, teamed up to launch cvilleeducationequity.com this week. The Charlottesville Education Equity site includes information about virtual learning, where families can get food, after-school care and mental health resources.
Dozens of people joined a protest in front of the statue of George Rogers Clark on University of Virginia grounds Thursday night calling for the statue’s removal. The protest was organized by indigenous activists, who say the statue depicts and enforces a legacy of Native American persecution and white supremacy. This comes ahead of a UVA Board of Visitors meeting Friday in which they are expected to decide the fate of the statue.
A few groups at the University of Virginia just launched an equity website. The Cville Education Equity collaborated with Youth-Nex, Madison House, and the Equity Center offers resources for teachers and families across the Charlottesville area. The website offers anti-racist curriculum for teachers, virtual education help for families, and food resources for those experiencing food insecurity.
As part of the University of Virginia’s push to expand COVID-19 testing efforts, students can now be randomly selected for mandatory asymptomatic testing. The university is targeting asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers that may not even know they have the virus, especially those living off of UVA Grounds.
University HQ—regarded as a leading higher learning resource center for post-secondary education—today released its list of the Top 55 Business Administration Programs for 2020. The University of Virginia holds the No. 4 spot, in part, due to its exceptionally diverse group of program participants and alumni in over 90 countries.