The University held its 19th annual Lighting of the Lawn Thursday to kick off the holiday season.
The UVA Board of Visitors Friday morning approved a 3.6% tuition and mandatory fee increase for the next academic year that board rector James Murray calls “tentative” until the General Assembly passes a budget in March. Last year, the board passed a similar increase for this academic year – but rescinded it after the 2019 General Assembly approved paying state colleges and universities a one-time stipend in exchange for not raising tuition and fees.
The industry has been “treading water,” said UVA professor Martin Davidson, who has consulted with banks on their diversity programs. “Firms that are built and developed in ways that support and privilege predominantly white male managers and leaders – cultures that are built so they move people who fit that prototype – will always continue to nurture those kinds of people,” he said.
Moïse gained the favor of the Trump administration in January, when his government voted not to recognize the legitimacy of the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela at a meeting of the Organization of American States. “The United States wanted one thing from Moïse, and that was a vote from OAS to isolate Maduro, and they got it,” UVA politics professor Robert Fatton said.
The nine-member commission had help combing through the laws from students at Virginia Commonwealth University and the law schools at the University of Richmond and the University of Virginia.
A researcher at the UVA School of Medicine has been selected for the American Lung Association's 2019-20 Research Team. Dr. Monica Lawrence is also getting $75,000 to research severe childhood asthma treatments.
Larry Sabato from the UVA Center for Politics said the rash of Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions being passed by Virginia counties will be meaningless if they are in conflict with state law. Sabato said counties are trying to send a message to the General Assembly and Gov. Ralph Northam.
Kemp appointed Loeffler in part to appeal to more moderate women voters in Georgia and boost the number of Republican women on Capitol Hill, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Of 25 female U.S. senators, eight are Republicans. “She will blow out of the water any candidate who challenges her. A fundraiser for her is a luncheon with her accountant,” Sabato said.
Incoming chief executives tend to replace top lieutenants within the first few years of joining a company. New academic research suggests there might be an incentive to do so when it comes to at least one key position: the finance chief. CEOs who appoint their own chief financial officers receive more compensation on average than those who don’t, according to a new study by accounting professors from UVA, Duke University and Cornell University.
The University of Virginia community is getting ready to officially ring in the holiday season. Nearly 15,000 people are expected to pack the UVA Lawn Thursday, December 5, for the 19th annual Lighting of the Lawn.
Dominion surprised industry experts this fall when it announced plans to build a massive wind farm off Virginia’s coast. Critics say customers could be stuck with big bills if the company is not required to compete for the right to build. UVA professor Bill Shobe, who studies the economics of energy, says about 100 countries have already shown how powerful that approach can be.
Many black professionals are so used to changing up how we speak, look, and act to make others comfortable that we’re hardly even aware we’re doing it anymore. Though it often helps us get ahead, it’s taking a toll on our well-being, according to an analysis published by Harvard Business Review and co-written by Courtney L. McCluney, a postdoctoral fellow in UVA’s Darden School of Business.
Ever gaze up at the starry night sky? This stunning view is at risk of disappearing -- unless we act now, says UVA astrophysicist Kelsey Johnson. She explains how light pollution affects almost every species on Earth (including us) and shares five "stupidly simple" things you can do to help solve the problem.
The Madison House on the UVA Grounds, in partnership with the Salvation Army, is collecting money and gift donations to be handed out to Central Virginia families in need this holiday season. With the help from community members, UVA alumni and current students, Madison House has raised $50,000 for the Holiday Sharing Program.
As Trump campaigns for reelection, he has abandoned more deals than he has struck, and his boasts about eager negotiating partners could face scrutiny from voters who expected more results from the self-described master dealmaker, said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
(Subscription required) Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the non-partisan Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA, said Harris had fallen in a cycle political scientists John Sides and Lynn Vareck call “discovery, scrutiny and decline.”
“That’s the interesting push and pull of the [United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement],” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of a nonpartisan political newsletter at the University of Virginia. In addition to the substance of the agreement, Democratic leaders must consider “competing political incentives” as they weigh how – and whether – to proceed.
The University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary pledged Monday to team up on projects to reduce fossil fuel consumption and limit greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to make their operations “carbon neutral” by 2030.
UVA student Ashley Heuser was diagnosed with sporadic hemiplegic migraines – a migraine that can also make the left side of her body numb. Now, she is working to make sure other mobility-impaired students can have better access to parking on Grounds.
As UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox pointed out in a response to Edsall’s column, for all the bright talk about the blue-state, upper-middle-class marriage model, in the aggregate Republicans marry more and divorce less than Democrats, ideological conservatives are much more likely to be married than ideological liberals, and conservatives are more than twice as likely to describe marriage as something “needed” for “strong families.”