The University of Virginia announced Friday it has received a $50 million lead gift to build a performing arts center, a donation by Tessa Ader, a prominent Charlottesville-area philanthropist who serves on the Fralin Museum of Art advisory board at U.Va.
UVA President Jim Ryan announced Friday at a Board of Visitors meeting a $50 million lead gift from Tessa Ader for the building of a performing arts center at the University.
The University of Virginia announced Thursday it will expand its presence in Arlington, marking another significant move for the Charlottesville university in Northern Virginia.
Since Marty Whitlow’s death, a dedicated group of her friends has raised more than $430,000 to help support ovarian cancer research at the University of Virginia’s Women’s Cancer Center.
Donald Trump won Florida only by three points in 2020. Other famed swing states like Ohio and Iowa were redder — Mr. Trump won each by eight points — and many new residents flocking there come from more left-leaning places like the Northeast. In a broader context, there’s evidence, from places like the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, that Mr. Trump was perceived as moving too far right between 2016 and 2020, and it cost him dearly with swing voters.
The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers lies on the University Grounds, a few hundred yards from Jefferson’s rotunda and along a path linking the campus to its surrounding community.
“The very first thing I would do, and this is really important, is that we get our plan together, a good solid plan that we all agree on, and that we move forward. My understanding is that [University of Virginia] and [Albemarle County] both have solid plans and there’s really no reason why we do not, and so that would be my very first thing,” Democrat Brian Pinkston said.
J Miles Coleman, a political analyst at The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, says commissioners will have to balance criteria, and this debate is going on across the country.
Highway construction displaces bats, causing them to relocate under bridges and overpasses. When bats are found during bridge inspections, engineers have to stop the inspection, report the sighting, and then determine next steps. Research helps spot the bats using computer imaging to help spot them, without harming them.
When Dr. Lorna Breen, an emergency-room physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, died by suicide in April 2020, her family and colleagues were cratered. Corey Feist, who is Dr. Lorna Breen's brother-in-law and CEO of UVA Physicians Group, is fighting for mental-health support for health care professionals.
United Airlines seems to be taking that approach. Staff granted religious exemptions to the airline’s recently-announced workforce vaccine mandate will be placed on temporary unpaid leave starting next month. The government has an “easy case” to refuse religious exemptions for vaccines against infectious disease, wrote Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, in an article published last week on Australia-based news site The Conversation.
AUniversity of Virginia professor will receive an estimated $9 million over seven years to pursue whatever research he wishes as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, the organization has announced.
New Dominion Bookshop will host an in-person book talk with UVA professor and author Caroline E. Janney on Friday, Oct. 29, from 77-8 p.m.
As Democrats and Republicans duel over redistricting, line-drawers in more states are carving cities into multiple districts for political gain. Republicans need to flip as few as five seats to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022, a goal states could accomplish with redistricting alone, according to a University of Virginia Center for Politics report released in May.
Some 14 genes that can cause obesity, as well as three that can prevent it, were discovered by a team of scientists at the University of Virginia on Monday.
Some 14 genes that can cause obesity, as well as three that can prevent it, were discovered by a team of scientists at the University of Virginia on Monday.
Thirty-three US scientists are joining the ranks of Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers, the institute announced today (September 23). Jochen Zimmer, University of Virginia, who studies how polysaccharides are made and integrated into cells.
'At the end of the day, I do think there are subtle but real differences between Moderna and Pfizer,' Dr Jeffrey Wilson, an immunologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who was not involved in the study, told The Times.
Republican candidate for governor Glenn Youngkin has embraced charter schools and “school choice.” “It’s not the promised success in terms of magnitude that the case has been made for,” said Bob Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development. “These schools have shown real difficulty in scaling. None of them are the size of a reasonably small city school system.”
University of Virginia and Duke University researchers studying ecosystems stated that if the nation’s coastal white cedar forests continue to succumb to climate change, the wetlands will reach the “point of no return within the century.”