Students graduating in this year's class from UVA are getting their degrees after a rocky four years. From the disappearance and death of Hannah Graham, to the recent white nationalist violence from last summer, students faced a different challenge year after year. President Teresa Sullivan called this year's class 'resilient.'
(Commentary by Bob Gibson of UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service) I bet you think the U.S. Supreme Court opened up some interesting possibilities, either dire or opportunistic, when the high court ruled May 14 that states are free to legalize sports gambling.
Researchers compiled a list of characteristics and behaviors that many shooters shared and concluded, “there was no single profile of these kids that would be scientifically reliable,” UVA psychologist Dewey Cornell said. “People say, ‘Well, these kids are victims of bullying, these kids are paranoid, these kids play violent video games, these kids are narcissistic.’ And many of the kids who have committed school shootings have those traits. But so do a million other kids.”
As UVA’s Final Exercises wrapped up, Charlottesville and Albemarle County vendors were feeling a positive impact from the surge of visitors that graduation brought to town.
The rise of screen time might be another factor that has caused Americans to have less sex, said W. Bradford Wilcox, a UVA sociologist, at a recent roundtable discussion for reporters at the American Enterprise Institute, the free-market think tank in Washington. Think of a couple, he said, “and it’s Wednesday night, and they start Netflix going, and they keep watching Netflix and they don’t do ... anything else.”
Barring hail or high water, the University of Virginia says its latest class of graduates will walk the Lawn this weekend.
With a turbulent start to the school year, UVA undoubtedly looks a little different than it did last spring. Although outgoing President Teresa Sullivan and the UVA administration were criticized for not doing more to protect members of the University community from last summer’s white supremacist torch-lit march, the events of Aug. 11 and 12 have served as a catalyst for some policy changes, including requiring non-UVA-affiliated speakers to register before being allowed on Grounds.
A total of $20 million in gifts to UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy will support fellowships for graduate students. On Thursday, a gift of $10 million was announced from Jane Batten, the wife of the late Frank Batten Sr. It will be matched by UVA’s Bicentennial Scholars Fund.
UVA is letting the Charlottesville and Albemarle County community know about its plans for University Hall. UVA architects presented the current plan to the Planning and Coordination Council Thursday.
Due to forecasted inclement weather, UVA’s Valedictory Exercises scheduled for Friday afternoon will move inside to the John Paul Jones Arena.
A UVA graduation tradition is turning controversial. Each year, students carry balloons throughout the commencement ceremony, but, this year, two UVA groups are calling on the grads to ditch the balloons.
(Commentary) To overcome the perception of civic life as one extended shouting match, we need to elevate the good work happening all over the state. “There are a lot more positive narratives out there, but they’re lonely and disconnected,” says UVA professor Philip Zelikow. “It would make a difference to join them together as a chorus that has a melody.”
It’s never the right time to say goodbye, but loyal patrons of UVA’s iconic, clamshell-roofed venue with notoriously bad sound quality don’t have much longer – the dumping of more than 40 years’ worth of stuff from University Hall has begun, with a complete demolition scheduled by 2020. To help you grieve, here’s a look back at some of the basketball stadium and concert hall’s greatest – and not-so-great – hits.
UVA and UVA Foundation employees updated officials from the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County on demolition plans Wednesday and Thursday, and offered sweeping updates on the University’s plans to reshape Ivy and Emmet and the athletics grounds.
(By Aja Gabel, 2009 M.F.A. in fiction alumna) In an excerpt from Aja Gabel's just published novel, “The Ensemble,” Jana is trying to lead her quartet to greatness — but a much older famous violinist might be getting in the way.
“Grey’s Anatomy” cast member Jason George, a UVA alumnus, has joined the Virginia Film Festival Advisory Board.
Entry-level jobs allow teens to earn more than a paycheck over the summer break; these job opportunities also teach teens valuable job skills that will carry with them throughout their careers. In an earlier study from our organization, economists Dr. Christopher Ruhm and Dr. Charles Baum from UVA and Middle Tennessee State University, respectively, found that teenagers who held part-time jobs realized annual earnings that were roughly 7 percent higher compared to their fellow classmates who didn’t work.
Now that the Senate Judiciary Committee has released 2,500 pages of congressional testimony pertaining to Russiagate, it is time for President Donald Trump's critics to admit something they may not want to hear: There is no smoking gun contained inside. "I don't know that there are going to be massive political implications," Dr. Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Wednesday.
“It’s a big diverse country, and activists in the same party differ from place to place,” Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said. Sabato said there was “no uniform pattern among Democrats” voting May 15 in primary contests in Nebraska, Oregon, Idaho and Pennsylvania. “No particular strain of ideology dominated, unless you count strong opposition to Trump an ideology,” Sabato said.
The results of Indiana’s May 8 primary have not yet been certified but the general election race for Indiana’s U.S. Senate seat is off and running. Election handicappers, including UVA’s Center for Politics, continue to rate the race one of the most competitive in the nation. “This was a toss-up before (the primary) and is a toss-up now,” the center’s Kyle Kondick and Geoffrey Skelley wrote last week.