As career centers and college advisers push students to take on at least one internship, administrators have begun to address the financial burden that often accompanies internships, especially unpaid ones. A number of schools have established or increased financial aid for interns in the past few years, although no one formally tracks such programs. Many programs focus on public-interest internships, which encompass many of the unpaid positions available in D.C. This summer, 16 interns received $3,000 each from the University of Virginia Parents Committee.
Vendors displayed their wares, food carts served up snacks and musicians and dancers performed on stage at Washington Park for a day of festivities Saturday in celebration of African heritage. … The University of Virginia, Martha Jefferson Hospital, the Virginia Department of Health and the Quality Community Council partnered to organize the health fair. Dr. Marcus Martin, UVa's vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity, said health workers performed about 60 free sports physicals, and the UVa Health System’s mobile mammography unit was slated to perform roughly 13...
Tuition from out-of-state students continues to subsidize the education of in-state students, and this year it's higher than ever. A State Council of Higher Education for Virginia report finds that out-of-state students at the University of Virginia will pay 185 percent of what it costs to educate them.
Fairfax County leads the state by far in the number of students winning acceptance to both U.Va. and Virginia's other public ivy, the College of William & Mary.
Asher Biemann
associate professor of religious studies and director of the Jewish studies program
From Mussolini’s Estate to Shoah Memorial
The Jewish Daily Forward / July 29
Ed Burton
economics professor
UVA Econ Professor Talks Debt Ceiling
WINA / July 27
Susan Chaplinsky
professor Darden School of Business
Many Virginia companies prefer growing through buyouts rather than IPOs
Virginia Business / July 29
Gerald Fogarty
historian
Diplomatic Relations between the Holy See and the United States
Vatican Radio / July 29
Jonathan Haidt
psychology professor
On Leadership: Why is Global R...
You still have a chance to see the monks before they leave Charlottesville. They perform Friday (July 29) night at 6:30 inside UVA's McKim Auditorium.
The University of Virginia hosts an annual five-week summer program dedicated to the study of rare books. Founded in 1983 at Columbia University, the Rare Book School moved to Charlottesville in 1992.
Many programs focus on public-interest internships, which encompass many of the unpaid positions available in D.C. This summer, 16 interns received $3,000 each from the University of Virginia Parents Committee, which first launched the awards in 2005 with 10 interns.
Buddhist monks visiting the Charlottesville area created a Tibetan sand mandala. They say the work of art is supposed to promote world peace. The monks will be performing music at UVa's McKim Hall Auditorium Friday, July 29 starting at 6:30pm to help the public learn more about Tibetan culture.
Welcome to Rare Book School, summer camp for bibliophiles. Tucked in the basement of the cavernous main library at the University of Virginia, the school is an annual five-week homage to the printed page. Or is it an elegy?
Fall camp starts in three and a half weeks for college football teams. To get us in the mood, UVA announced which of those practices you'll be able to see in person.
Members of the University of Virginia community on the Eastern Shore gathered Thursday to support the 17 students from both counties who will head to Charlottesville next month as the Class of 2015.
Courtney Davis, Ph.D. grad in special education
Austin Smith, graduate student, creative writing
Susan Chaplinsky, professor at the Darden School of Business
Could Nazi atrocities during World War II have been motivated, in part, by fear of religion? A Virginia scholar has been awarded a prestigious international fellowship to study that question. U.Va. historian Alon Confino describes what he has been discovering, and the lessons those discoveries may hold for our future.
With a temperature of around 40-50C (104-122F), the exhaust from a rack of cloud servers could be a very cost-effective way of heating your house, according to researchers from Microsoft and the University of Virginia.
PAUL B. EBERT has earned a reputation as a tough but fair prosecutor over his four- decade career as Prince William County commonwealth’s attorney. But something apparently went terribly wrong with Mr. Ebert’s handling of the case of Justin Michael Wolfe. Failures were discovered only after Mr. Wolfe’s lawyers from King & Spalding, the University of Virginia’s Innocence Project Clinic and the Virginia Capital Representation Resources Center persuaded a court to force Mr. Ebert and his office to turn over all of their files.
A coalition of 29 American universities, including U.Va., is throwing its weight behind a plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks — with Internet service several hundred times faster than what is now commercially available — in the communities surrounding the participating colleges.