Autumn Routt, a senior at Lusher Charter School, has been awarded one of the most highly selective merit scholarships in the nation. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia selected Routt as one of 38 recipients of the Jefferson Scholarship. She will commence her studies in the fall at the University of Virginia.
“Medical groups do tend to see what they are used to seeing,” UVA applied ethics professor Deborah Johnson said. “It’s why it is best to hear from a lot of disciplines in an investigation.”
The UVA Health System is joining a coalition of health care organizations seeking to improve vaccination rates for human papillomavirus, or HPV, in western Virginia.
“When [President Trump] says he does not want to be impeached, I think that’s utterly counterfactual to what he really wants,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
Loud cheers for UVA’s announcement that it’s forming a new Institute of Democracy. If ever we needed fresh attention to the institution of democracy, and renewed commitment to the fulfillment of its ideals, that time is now.
“The polling strength of Joe Biden (and Bernie Sanders, to a much lesser extent) may be based on residual name ID,” said Kyle Kondik, an elections watcher at UVA’s Center for Politics. “They haven’t been tested yet, but they will be, and it may be that some of the desires of the Democratic electorate are not being expressed through the candidates leading the polls as of yet.”
Sandip Sukhtankar is associate professor, department of economics, University of Virginia. He has authored a critically acclaimed paper “Sweetening the Deal? Political Connections and Sugar Mills in India.” He spoke to Down To Earth.
The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business announced the largest gift in its history Thursday, a $68 million donation from investor and alumnus Frank M. Sands Sr.
Frank M. Sands Sr., the founder of Sands Capital Management, is giving $68 million to the graduate business school. Sands received an MBA degree from Darden in 1963.
An iconic building at the University of Virginia will be demolished this Saturday. University Hall, or "U-Hall," is a 1960s sports arena, a building that some have described as a "squeezed lemon" or a "pregnant clam." But others see it as a futuristic structure that helped UVA recruit talent.
For a moment Saturday, it will be like the ’70s all over again in Charlottesville, only this time Ralph Sampson won’t be viewing University Hall from a helicopter. Sampson, the former Virginia All-American and three-time national player of the year, will be one of the dignitaries given the honor of detonating U-Hall, the home for UVA basketball teams from 1965-2006.
In an increasingly politically polarized country, former President Bill Clinton said finding ways to work together is the best way to build the United States into a “more perfect union.” Clinton was the closing keynote speaker Thursday for the University of Virginia’s first-ever Presidential Ideas Festival. A tie-in to UVA’s bicentennial founding celebration, PrezFest featured more than 60 White House veterans, journalists and scholars discussing the state of the American presidency.
This week's “Politics with Amy Walter” broadcasts from the Presidential Ideas Festival at the University of Virginia. And we'll get a look at the evolution of the executive office.
The University of Virginia on Thursday announced a $68 million gift to the Darden School of Business, the largest gift the business school has ever received. Funds will support faculty positions and the development of lifelong learning and online programs.
The University of Virginia announced Thursday the largest private gift to its business school, a $68 million donation that will fund a major construction project, invest in faculty positions and support an initiative for "lifelong learning."
Concerts were an important part of University Hall’s story from the beginning. But it wasn’t until its rock concert heyday of the mid-1980s that U-Hall hit its stride as a music destination for UVA students and townspeople alike.
The UVA athletic department is selling commemoratives from two historic events that have occurred in 2019.
We have to start asking ourselves new questions, said Tami Kim, who studies the social rules around Venmo payments as an assistant professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. Like, “How close am I to the person I’m paying?”
Ryan hails from a small town in New Jersey and played point guard at Ursinus College, a small liberal arts school in Pennsylvania. When she first laid eyes upon U-Hall, she remembers thinking it was the Taj Mahal.
If there’s one thing that’s certain about the 2020 presidential election, it’s that nothing is certain. The University of Virginia’s Presidential Ideas Festival focused on the upcoming election on Wednesday with a panel led by Larry J. Sabato, director of the school’s Center for Politics.