UVA political scientist Larry Sabato reckons that since the 2008 election, Democrats have suffered a net loss of 13 governorships, nine U.S. Senate seats, 63 U.S. House seats and 949 seats in the 50 state legislatures. The GOP controls 32 of those Legislatures and after inauguration days, will have 33 governorships. In 23 states, including Missouri, Republicans will have a trifecta: both houses of the Legislature and the governor’s office.
UVA sociologist Josipa Roksa said more colleges and universities in recent years have begun to rethink their core course requirements. One reason for change is that universities want to better ensure students learn meaningful skills like critical thinking and writing to prepare them for life after college, she said.
David Martin, a UVA immigration law scholar, believes the U.S. government should be able to take nationality into account in its security process. But he's clear – that's different from profiling based on national origin or religion.
(Co-written by Richard Schragger, Perre Bowen Professor, and Barron F. Black, research professor, UVA School of Law) Before the election, it was common to hear experts say the “culture wars” were over, and that the left had won. After the election, all that has changed.
State and federal governments will need to take some innovative steps to keep public higher education funded and affordable to American students, according to a new study from UVA’s Miller Center.
The University of Virginia is hoping to create a permanent endowment of up to $300 million to support financial aid through philanthropy, rather than tuition dollars.
Inova also recently announced it had formed a comprehensive partnership with the University of Virginia, one that could one day lead to a regional medical school campus.
Certified nurse midwives are advanced-practice nurses specializing in women’s health care throughout a lifetime. At the UVA Health System, there are systems in place to seamlessly transfer women within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology so they may be seen by the most appropriate care provider.
With his first season as the Cavaliers’ coach now behind him, Bronco Mendenhall said he is. “It really feels like to me, I’ve now become the head coach at the University of Virginia,” Mendenhall said. “I’m so much more clear on what the program needs and where we are.”
In a nondescript storefront across from the Habitat Resale Store on Harris Street, a small biomedical engineering firm is hoping to revolutionize male contraception. Contraline, founded by UVA graduate Kevin Eisenfrats and the late Dr. John Herr, a professor of cell biology and biomedical engineering at the University, moved into its first permanent home last month.
Although it’s a good start, the policy doesn’t go far enough, said Christopher Ali, an assistant professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies. “If this content is vetted by users and vetted by trusted news sources … after all of this deliberation [Facebook] is just putting a warning up, I wonder if it's going to make a difference.”
There also may be some politics at play, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, because Putin’s alleged involvement boosted the GOP. “It’s just based on the ancient principle that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I don’t think it’s much more complicated than that,” Sabato said.
Visiting scientists from UVA have used the facilities of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source to observe their chemistry in action. “To be really technologically relevant,” said Joshua Choi, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Virginia, “we need to be able to scale up this process while maintaining or even improving the efficiency of the solar cell. To do that, we need to understand how this material crystallizes and grows from solution into a thin film.”
The article includes UVA’s Aryn A. Frazier, one of two Rhodes recipients from the University.
The University of Virginia recently held a meeting aimed at getting input from local residents in the Charlottesville area for their views on a proposed memorial to the black slaves and laborers who helped construct early buildings at the University.
UVA ranks second among public schools and Washington & Lee University is third among liberal-arts colleges in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s best-values list for 2017.
UVA gets a high ranking in the latest Kiplinger’s list of “Best Values in Public Colleges.”
Muslim American soldier whose combat death in Iraq was described in a centerpiece speech at this year's Democratic National Convention will be honored with a plaque at his alma mater, the University of Virginia. The plaque will be dedicated this spring in memory of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, UVA officials said in a statement Thursday.
For 20 years, Rojai Fentress has been locked away for a slaying he insists he didn't commit. Finally though, Fentress is being heard. In September, the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law learned about Fentress' case and decided to take it up, giving him a glimmer of hope.
Ed Ayers and Brian Balogh, historians and co-hosts of the public radio show and podcast “BackStory,” say hoaxes, conspiracy theories and Russian interference in American elections have all happened before.