Ryan has been a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio for 21 years. In a keynote speech during the University of Virginia’s two-week celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ryan dove immediately into the events of Aug. 12, 2017. But the core of her speech focused on women in the center of civil rights movements, who organized and strategized for greater freedoms. Those women, she said, offer hope in the face of racism and hate today.
“I can only compare her in America to a movie star or a music celebrity, because no poet here would reach that kind of status,” said Farzaneh Milani, author of “Forough Farrokhzad: A Literary Biography” (2016) and a professor of Middle Eastern culture at the University of Virginia.
“We’ve got to have actionable, practical ideas,” former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) said last week during a conference at the University of Virginia. “And I worry — we can’t get into this election season with everybody trying to out-promise one another.”
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has launched a new leadership circle for members. It's called Partners in Trust, and area organizations are invited to invest in the advancement of the business community as a whole while allowing participants to position themselves at the front in leadership and innovation. The founding members of the program include the University of Virginia and the UVA Health System.
Admissions season is year-round for many colleges, with some top colleges filling nearly half of their freshman classes through early admissions processes that start at the beginning of fall. UVA is no exception; on Jan. 25, the school announced its Class of 2023 is so far more selective and more diverse than the previous year.
Anyone with a serious illness knows it can really take a toll, and it can be just as tough for the people taking care of them. That's why staff at the UVA Medical Center want to lend a hand.
By 2020, the teams are expected to have developed a way to determine, in less than two weeks, whether an unknown DNA sequence poses a threat. That will be a difficult task, says Andrew Warren, a UVA software engineer. “We have to be able to recognize any organism on the planet and also its molecular function.”
"The big theme is a return to light-hearted humor," University of Virginia professor Kim Whitler said. "There’s an acknowledgement the Super Bowl is about entertainment."
A health issue, normally associated with cruise ships, is popping up at the University of Virginia. Norovirus, sometimes referred to as the stomach flu, is affecting several people at UVA. The Director of Student Health at UVA spoke on Wednesday about methods of prevention of the virus.
With arctic air blowing in Wednesday night and wind chills below zero, don’t forget to dress warmly if you are going to be outside. Doctors at the UVA Medical Center are reminding people to cover their heads, faces and hands. They add that you should not stay out longer than you have to.
Central bank efforts to save the world economy after the 2007-2009 financial crisis were much lauded by pundits these past few years. But now researchers are digging up evidence that some of their actions resulted in significant unintended consequences. Sometimes the results were the opposite of those desired by the policymakers. It happened over the period 2015 to 2017 and the problem was revealed through a recent working paper titled "Central Bank-Driven Mispricing" by researchers at Research Center SAFE - Goethe University Frankfurt and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Stern School of Busi...
Also moving forward are bills to offer reduced tuition to students from the Appalachian region who are enrolled in the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
Beating its neighbor MIT, Harvard University was once again emerged as the best institution of higher learning in the world, that’s according to the latest Webometrics ranking. The University of Virginia is among the top 500 higher education institutes worldwide, 2019, ranking No. 60.
The Restoration of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia involved the repair of what is often considered Thomas Jefferson's most significant architectural achievement. Despite the 200-year-old building's historical value, it was in dire need of restoration, with a leaky roof and poor quality previous work that needed undoing. John G. Waite Associates worked with multiple specialists to replace its roof with a new copper unit and restored the original exterior metal moldings dating back to the 1890s, among other improvements. The interior was overhauled too, with Jefferson's original finish...
A UVA associate professor and poet is using the power of writing to help cancer patients and survivors.
UVA is offering early admission to fewer out-of-state students and more of those who would be the first in their family to attend college.
Former UVA basketball star Joe Harris’s journey from unemployed castoff to indispensable starter mirrors the rise of the Brooklyn Nets, a team reconstructed through savvy draft picks and second-chance signings.
Trump has an 88 percent approval rating within his own party, and his overall approval rating has never really found a ceiling or a floor outside of its typical 35 to 45 percent range. “Will he lose? Get real,” said Larry Sabato of the UVA Center for Politics. “I can’t believe after 2016 anybody is writing Trump off.”
There's nothing particularly alarming or surprising about Peters' numbers, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball newsletter at the UVA Center for Politics. "He’s not very well-known, but his numbers are decent. It’s not like he’s underwater on favorability," he said.
National forecasters have noted Bevin’s poll numbers were anemic coming into 2019 after a year of battling the teachers’ union over pension reform. The most recent survey, conducted by Morning Consult in January, showed Bevin had a 51 percent disapproval rating, which makes him the least popular governor up for re-election this year. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, said polling can't be given too much weight because Bevin was considered a slight underdog for governor four years ago, according to surveys at the time.