“It is not just a movie. It’s a book. It’s a movie. It’s something so very, very special because we’ve never seen this before,” Kornheiser said.
An Antares rocket blasted off on schedule from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Wednesday, en route to the International Space Station, with supplies and with working satellites built by Virginia students. UVA’s Trace LaCour is a fourth-year aerospace and engineering student, who helped build one of the three satellites, that will orbit as a constellation and send back data on atmospheric density and how it causes orbits to decay.
The University of Virginia’s first spacecraft began its trip to the International Space Station on Wednesday afternoon. The small cube launched from Wallops Island aboard a Northrop Grumman rocket.
Kirk Martini, a professor at the UVA School of Architecture, said the transept is probably the greatest vulnerability.
How the economy fares in spring 2020 is likely to play a large role in Trump’s reelection chances, according to election experts such as Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics.
People’s ability to think logically suffers when they are faced with arguments that go against their political belief systems, a study from researchers at UVA and the University of California, Irvine has found.
Singer, songwriter, and philanthropist Pharrell Williams will return to the commonwealth to speak at the University of Virginia. Williams, a Virginia Beach native, will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 Valedictory Exercises. He's scheduled to address the graduating class on May 17.
O’Rourke Flounders for an Excuse After a College Student Confronts Him Over Measly Charitable Giving
During a Tuesday campaign event at the University of Virginia, a college student called out 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s charitable giving. The student referenced O’Rourke’s tax returns, which revealed that less than one-third of 1 percent of his income went to charitable donations. She claimed that her sister pays more to charities than he did, despite their difference in pay.
The former Texas congressman has taken heat over his 2017 tax return showing he and his wife Amy gave $1,166 out of their $366,455 adjusted gross income that year to charity, a giving rate of just 0.3 percent. A town hall questioner at the University of Virginia asked O'Rourke why her sister, a recent college graduate, made far less than he did but gave more to charity.
UVA’s Building Bridges Earth Week Expo kicked off this week and on Tuesday, students mingled with environmental organizations. They got a chance to learn about new projects being work on and network for potential internship and job opportunities.
But even the new normal is still far from equal, says Jennifer Lawless, a UVA political scientist and an expert on women in politics. “The fact that this moms’ caucus has to exist continues to demonstrate the incredibly disproportionate share of household labor and child care that women, even in the top tier of professional accomplishment, remain responsible for,” she said.
On Tuesday night, Beto O’Rourke became the first 2020 candidate to make a campaign stop in Charlottesville, speaking to hundreds of people at UVA. Students and community members packed UVA’s Nau Hall, filling the 272-person-capacity lecture hall and crowding the halls and staircase outside. O’Rourke spoke to both crowds.
Chris Long, a UVA alum, was lucky enough to attend the MCAA championship game out in Minnesota last week, and it helped land him on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Sort of!
Researchers at the University of Virginia found removal of kidney obstruction promotes regeneration and repair of developing kidneys, which could lead to a better treatment for infants and adults with chronic kidney disease.
Despite opposition from teachers’ unions, a Florida-based company will try to turn around schools in Aurora and Pueblo – though it’s not likely to win the chance to take on a full district. Trey Traviesa, chairman and CEO of MGT, said the group partners with the University of Virginia to work with schools and build their leadership, so they can take over when the consultants leave.
About a hundred students from UVA, and another 50 from Virginia Tech, ODU and Hampton will be watching when a rocket blasts off late Wednesday afternoon with three little satellites on board. The four-inch cubes weigh about three pounds apiece, but they’ll pack a big informational punch, according to Christopher Goyne, a UVA associate professor of engineering.
ESPN-W stopped by the University of Virginia Monday as part of their “Campus Conversations” tour with women student-athletes. A panel of UVA alumnae and former student-athletes told the young women in the room how being an athlete helped them in their careers.
Personal attacks have always been a fixture of American politics. In 1800, when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams ran for president against each other, Federalists suggested that Jefferson was an atheist, while Republicans branded Adams as a wannabe monarch planning a family dynasty, according to UVA’s Miller Center, which specializes in political history.
Ting Xu, a UVA assistant professor of business administration, was interested in studying risk factors in entrepreneurship. From previous surveys on the topic, he knew that loss of career growth and financial stability were the most commonly cited concerns. But what if you were guaranteed to get your old job back?
The FCC put the grant process for the $4.5 billion program on hold late last year as it launched an investigation into whether one or more major carriers violated rules and submitted incorrect maps. Christopher Ali, a UVA assistant professor of media studies, said the looming mapping question leaves the government flailing blindly at a problem that prevents it from meeting the needs of rural America.