The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced the 2020-21 recipients of VMFA fellowships. Twenty-six students and professional artists were selected from more than 500 applicants to receive a total of $146,000 toward professional advancements in the arts. Five graduate students were awarded $6,000 each this year, including Kelvin Parnell a UVA art history student.
The harsh physical treatment of children at local Head Start centers is concerning, especially when there are repeated incidents in the building, according to Robert C. Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development. He developed the system that the federal government uses to evaluate Head Start programs.
Teachstone, a local developer of early childhood education assessments, has appointed Bridget Hamre as chief executive officer. Hamre is a research associate professor at UVA’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning and is a co-founder and board member of Teachstone.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has appointed Christine Appert, instructor at UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development, to the State Rehabilitation for the Blind and Vision Impaired Board.
Virginia Union University will host a daylong leadership symposium on March 26 to honor the legacy of L. Douglas Wilder, Virginia’s 66th governor, on the 30th anniversary of his inauguration. An afternoon panel will examine the 2020 election, moderated by Dr. Larry Sabato, political analyst and director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Two nurses from UVA’s School of Nursing are looking into the needs of transgender-identified senior citizens. Nursing professor Cathy Campbell produced the case study with Lauren Catlett, a Ph.D. nursing student.
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan spoke to a packed house of students at UVA on Friday. He answered questions taken from students, asked by Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato.
The UVA Center for Politics played host to the 54th Speaker of the House of Representatives on Friday. Former Speaker Paul Ryan lead a conversation on policy, politics and his experience leading the House.
Members of UVA’s Association of Bangladeshi Students celebrated International Mother Language Day on Saturday at Newcomb Hall. The event invited the community to learn more about the art, songs and culture of Bangladesh.
UVA students are hoping to turn the typical TEDx talk on its head. “We’re changing the conference this year from less of a speaker’s series to more of a conversation,” UVA TEDx Curator Wyatt Zetterberg says.
Civil rights activist Dr. John Perkins, 90, is still inspiring people with his message of gratitude and faith. He spoke Sunday evening at UVA’s Rotunda with the theme: parting words on race and love.
ClimateVoice, launched this weekend at the ClimateCAP conference in Charlottesville, is the brainchild of Bill Weihl, who led Facebook’s sustainability team until leaving the company in 2018. To build that constituency, ClimateVoice will ask students and employees to sign a pledge committing to “prioritize,” “vocalize” and “mobilize” on climate action. That’s one reason Weihl launched his initiative public at the second ClimateCAP summit, an event convened by 18 universities, including Duke, Harvard and UVA, focused on building knowledge of climate change issues among MBA s...
Virginia is commonly recognized as having a quality education system. The U.S. News and World Report ranked the commonwealth No. 8 for K-12 schools and No. 14 for higher education. Some of Virginia’s top universities include Washington and Lee University, the University of Virginia, the College of William & Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University as the No. 1 public arts school in the country.
DNA microscope. A gene therapy for “bubble boy” disease. The restoration of cellular activity in pig brains four hours after death. Nano-robots that might clean teeth better than flossing. These are just some of the 64 important discoveries and inventions included in this year’s STAT Madness, a bracket-style competition to honor the best biomedical research published in 2019. The contest is modeled on college basketball’s March Madness, but rather than head-to-head competition for athletic glory, STAT Madness pits 64 U.S. universities, medical schools, and other institutions against each other...
UVA students are teaming with students from Charlottesville High School to build an art installation out of single-use plastics.
UVA researchers at hope to use text messages to help clinicians detect an increased risk of suicide attempts in real-time.
Kathleen O’Connell, a census official in the Charlottesville area, said the bureau is working with universities to manage outreach. “Both UVA and JMU are coordinating outreach on their campuses and will be sending communications to both students and their families to let them know where and how they should be counted,” she said.
“I was watching the national championship game and I thought to myself, ‘You know what? I’ll give myself an ultimatum. If we win the national championship game, then I’ll commit to UVA tonight,’” said first-year student Olivia Hale. “So then we did, and I committed to UVA that night, and there was my decision.” She said a lot of her friends were also influenced by the win.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan said in a column published Wednesday that threats against a black student who expressed her views regarding a multicultural center on campus are “reprehensible.” Ryan further said that he saw the student’s comment that there were “too many white people” at the newly renovated Multicultural Student Center “as a statement of concern that one of the few places traditionally ‘for’ students of color would turn into a place dominated by white students.” At the same time, Ryan reiterated that the MSC “will and should remain open to all students.”
A former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives will be in Charlottesville on Friday. Paul Ryan will talk about his time in Congress and the current state of American politics at in the Dome Room of UVA’s Rotunda.