Despite the unprecedented economic convulsions sparked by the coronavirus pandemic this year, the MBA Class of 2020 at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business reported the highest average starting salary in school history, according to a December 15 announcement by the school.
We set out to find the law schools that offer the most resources and opportunities when it comes to racial justice. Some of the most prestigious law schools in the nation made the list, including the University of Virginia School of Law, No. 10.
Harrisonburg’s Zehr Institute for Reformative Justice held a webinar centered around Charlottesville Wednesday night. It was called “Stumbling Toward Repair” and focused on the University of Virginia and Charlottesville coming to terms with the past while creating equity in the present.
For some 50 years, Thomas Jefferson made nearly daily notations on the weather for wherever he lived. Now his notes can be read online as part of a cooperative effort between the Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton University and UVA’s Center for Digital Editing.
The UVA men’s basketball team lost out on chances to play Florida, Michigan State and Villanova earlier this season due to COVID-19 issues. The Cavaliers made up for the disappointment by adding the No. 1 team in the country to their schedule. Virginia will play top-ranked Gonzaga in Fort Worth, Texas on Dec. 26.
(By Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology) As the children play with their new toys, the husband reveals one last gift box, in which the wife discovers a diamond necklace. She squeals with astonished delight. This advertising trope feeds five false beliefs people commonly hold about what makes gift recipients happy. Fortunately, psychological and marketing research not only shows that these beliefs are wrong; it also offers guidance for picking gifts people will actually like.
Virginia Attorney General (and UVA alumnus) Mark Herring formally launched his bid for a third term as the state’s top lawyer Wednesday.
The amicus briefs present a wide range of arguments related to whether or not Administrative Patent Judges are principal officers or inferior officers, and if they are principal officers what remedy should apply. John Harrison, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, questions the constitutionality of the CAFC decision to strike the down the part of the statute giving the patent judges for-cause removal protection.
Likely no more than 20 congressional districts in the country voted for one party for president and another for Congress this year, according to J. Miles Coleman, an elections analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
For Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia, getting the first dose of the vaccine on Tuesday was a step toward a future without the coronavirus. “It’s the moment that I’ve prayed for, to be honest,” Bell said. “For me, [getting vaccinated] is just a drop in the bucket. ... But it’s an important first step.” Bell spoke about his anticipation of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine in a video he posted to Twitter on Tuesday morning.
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Virginia, and 8News is partnering with the Virginia Department of Health Wednesday night for the “Vaccinate Virginia” special. Experts will work to answer the community’s most pressing questions about the vaccine, whether it’s about how the vaccine will continue to be rolled out, or how the state plans to prioritize our most vulnerable communities. Dr. Ebony Hilton, the associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the UVA Health, is one of the experts lined up for Wednesday night’s special. “Answering those questions up front as w...
While some Black Charlottesville residents are optimistic about getting vaccinated, they’re still acknowledging past experiences in which Black people were treated as guinea pigs, they said. There was the practice of eugenics in the 1970s, which started at the University of Virginia, where minority groups were specifically targeted for sterilization, said Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care at UVA.
Ever since we wrote about about Andrew Stauffer’s Book Traces project, which documents marginalia in 19th-century library books, in our autumn 2014 issue when it launched at the University of Virginia, we’ve been eager to see more! And now that time has come. Stauffer’s book, “Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library,” will be available just after the new year.
The 2020 election confirmed what Americans have known for some time – that the nation is deeply divided. To learn more about why and what we might do about it, the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture surveyed more than 2,200 people, then issued a report.
The University of Texas at Austin topped the list of first-time CPA Exam pass rates by large collegiate programs (60 or more candidates), according to the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy’s “Candidate Performance on the Uniform CPA Examination – 2019 Edition.” UVA ranked seventh nationally, with an 84.8% pass rate..
The University of Virginia’s School of Nursing said they’ve seen a rise in applications for their programs. “We have seen an increase in almost every one of our programs,” said Beth Epstein, interim director of academic programs for the UVA School of Nursing. “It’s been exciting to see all these applications coming through.”
After a year of political unrest and urban strife, the solemn “Memorial to Enslaved Laborers” in Charlottesville also takes on new significance. Built to commemorate the slave labor force that built the University of Virginia, it takes the form of a circular outdoor temple, open to the sky. Like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that inspired it, it presents a wall inscribed with names, but they are fragmentary and incomplete. And while the Vietnam memorial is in effect a tombstone, speaking primarily of loss, the Charlottesville memorial aspires to something else, to grant retroactively to its Bl...
Leading up to today, the last 12 months for Dr. Ebony Hilton have been a long process of looking for any glimmer of hope. Hilton was the first health care worker to be vaccinated at University of Virginia Medical Center on Tuesday. Three hours after receiving her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, she says she already feels like a veteran. But she also has mixed emotions, she says. “On one hand, I’m really joyful and it felt like a weight was lifted. And in that same moment, I was thinking of the many people who didn’t get to live to see this day. So it’s one of those bittersweet momen...
Wintering Atlantic brant geese, largely absent on the Atlantic coast south of Long Island for more than half a century, are returning to the broad, shallow coastal bay behind seaside barrier islands. What has brought them back to Virginia is a long-term restoration partnership that includes UVA environmental scientists.
The UVA Medical Center is one of the places getting the vaccines. “It’s more like the [Winston] Churchill quote, ‘It’s the end of the beginning,’” said Dr. Bill Petri, professor of infectious diseases. “It’s a wonderful step forward.” Petri says the shot will help to create an antibody response against the virus.