A decade after the opening of John Paul Jones Arena, Paul Tudor Jones believes it was one of the best decisions he ever made.
The troubled financial history of DDA members, and powerful role they play overseeing publicly funded sports arenas, illustrates a key point, said George Yin, a UVA School of Law tax expert. “Given the kind of doubtful or questionable nature of public subsidies for these facilities, you want the people making decisions to be people whose judgment has been proven to be right over and over again,” Yin said.
UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said Wednesday that a lawsuit that alleges the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors religiously discriminated against a Muslim congregation earlier this year when it denied a utility permit to serve a planned mosque is “full of smoking guns.”
A Muslim American soldier whose story of sacrificing his life for his comrades was held up by Democrats during the 2016 presidential election as an emotional counterpoint to anti-Islam rhetoric will be honored with a plaque at his alma mater. The University of Virginia announced Tuesday that its Board of Visitors had voted to install a plaque on the college’s famed Rotunda to honor Capt. Humayun S. Khan, who died in Iraq in 2004 when he stopped an explosive-laden vehicle from entering a U.S. Army compound.
Humayun Khan, a UVA graduate who was killed in Iraq in 2004, will be honored with a plaque outside the university’s Rotunda. The university will honor Khan – the only alumnus to be killed in action during the Iraq War – with a plaque at the terrace level of the Rotunda in the spring, according to an announcement from the UVA administration.
UVA’s National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education has released its recommendations for the industry to create financial sustainability through public appropriations, access to low-income and minority students and private sector engagement.
UVA’s Miller Center and the affiliated National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education on Wednesday released a report making the case for how to best fund increased college credential production in the United States.
U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim immigrant who received an officer’s commission after graduating from the University of Virginia and died in 2004 during combat in Iraq, will be honored with a plaque in his memory on the UVA campus.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) The winners of 2016’s House, Senate and gubernatorial races are finally now set. This allows us to do a little housekeeping.
“It can be a hard time for people, and for a couple of reasons,” said clinical psychologist Peter Sheras, chairman of the Department of Human Services at UVA’s Curry School of Education. “It is a time for increased stress, positive and negative, for most people.”
“Jim Justice is the most Trump-like person running for office whose name isn’t Donald Trump,” said Geoff Skelley, associate editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Michael Slon has been the music director of the 75-member group since 2011. He also directs UVA’s University Singers and Chamber Singers. “I’m thrilled that we’re able, in starting this two-year celebration of our 50th anniversary, to go back to the piece that started it all for the Oratorio Society,” said Slon, who was recently awarded the 2015 Julius Herford Dissertation Prize from the American Choral Directors Association.
UVA Vice Provost Jeffrey W. Legro is interviewed by China’s Modern Weekly about the impact of a Trump presidency.
Robert Tracci sent a letter to leaders at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital and the UVA Health System on Tuesday asking for "collaborative steps to reduce opioid addiction and overdoses in Central Virginia."
Durham’s American Underground has launched more than 250 businesses and poured millions back into the local community since its inception in 2001, according to a University of Virginia “Thriving Cities” study, which says AU should be a model for other communities nationally.
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A 2014 University of Virginia study found that when pried away from their smartphones and other distractors, 67 percent of men and 25 percent of women chose to push a button to shock themselves electrically, rather than try quiet introspection. Looking inward is not in our modern nature.
It is a publication that has been at the University of Virginia since 1912. Typically, The Yellow Journal is released during final exams at UVA. Dressed in yellow and wearing disguises, the writers distribute the publication to students at the library. But unlike other student news outlets, The Yellow Journal is a satire.
Rob Cross and Peter Gray of the University of Virginia monitored knowledge workers, and found 70 to 85 percent of time was devoured by attending unproductive meetings, dealing with e-mail and phone calls and generally handling pleas for attention from staff.
(Subscription required) Counties that are home to a land-grant university have lower unemployment rates than the U.S. overall and bounced back faster from the most recent recession.
The endowment is an elegant solution, both intrinsically and because of its recent history. It’s heartening to see a positive result emerge following the sturm und drang, the suspicions and recriminations regarding that use of money just a few short months ago.