A small satellite designed and built by UVA students is set to blast off from Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Wednesday. At 4:46 p.m., the Libertas CubeSat will be launched from the Wallops Flight Facility and will travel on a rocket to the International Space Station. The satellite then will be launched from the space station this summer and will orbit the Earth in conjunction with other satellites built by Old Dominion University and Virginia Tech students.
Charlottesville City Council is celebrating the UVA men's basketball team. During the event at Scott Stadium on Saturday, councilors Heather Hill and Kathy Galvin presented a proclamation honoring the team for its national championship season.
After the Virginia Cavaliers defeated the Texas Tech Raiders, 85-77 on Monday night to win the NCAA men’s basketball national championship, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution to congratulate UVA on their accomplishment.
Mingling in a line that formed outside Scott Stadium’s west gate on Saturday more than four hours before it opened, generations of Virginia fans eagerly awaited a celebration for a championship that was decades in the making.
The sun was shining over Scott Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Virginia men’s basketball team celebrated the first NCAA Tournament championship in program history in front of approximately 21,000 fans at the university’s football complex in Charlottesville.
“At a certain point, it’s obvious there is not going to be something forthcoming, and at that point, you take further steps,” George K. Yin, a University of Virginia law professor who served as chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation, said in an interview earlier this week. “My inclination is, it’s not yet.”
As UVA English professor Stephen Arata has pointed out, such narratives of “colonial reversal” where the “civilized” world is on the point of being overrun by “primitive” forces, and where the colonizers become colonized and the exploiters become exploited, were frequent in late-Victorian popular fiction in Britain. Arata argues that these discourses of reversal intensified when the empire was in crisis.
The Trump administration is pushing back against House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal's (D-Mass.) request for President Trump's tax returns, arguing it serves no legitimate policy purpose. Most tax-law experts agree Neal is on firm legal ground in demanding Trump's tax returns to view in private ("executive") session. Before 1924, "the president had the sole and unconditional right to obtain and disclose anyone's tax return information," University of Virginia law professor George Yin tells Vox. But after the Teapot Dome scandal, Congress decided "it had to have the same...
Kyle Kondik of the UVA Center for Politics said Ryan’s decision to run may be strategic. Because of slow population growth, Ohio likely will lose a congressional seat in 2022. Because he lives in a region of the state that has been losing population, it’s possible that the surrendered district will be Ryan’s. “Maybe running for president is partly a way to set him up for something in the future if he performs well but doesn’t get the nomination or the vice presidency,” Kondik said. “Maybe if a Democrat wins he can be a part of the administration in some way. Who knows? Only he knows his motiva...
Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia and author of “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics,” said the relationship between Fox and Trump was both “unprecedented” and symbiotic. Shifting directions, she said, could therefore cost Fox an important segment of its viewers.
Sylvia Earle has spent six decades exploring the depths of the world’s oceans and now fights to protect the seas and their inhabitants from a changing climate. Earle and three others were honored Friday with 2019 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in a series of events that celebrated the third president’s birthday.
Judge Carlton Reeves is a Mississippi federal judge who compared President Donald Trump’s attacks on the judiciary to tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan during the Jim Crow era while accepting an award at the University of Virginia. Reeves, who is African-American, hit out at Trump’s tweets railing against federal courts and judges while accepting the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law award from his alma mater.
While UVA builds a large memorial for the enslaved people who built the University, one that already exists was the topic of conversation on Friday.
In a speech to the UVA School of Law on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves criticized Trump’s aggressive responses to his administration’s losses in court and the lack of diversity in his judicial appointments – an extremely rare rebuke from a sitting federal judge.
A new job board created by the University of Virginia aims to help spouses and partners of incoming UVA employees get a sense of their own job options before they move to Charlottesville.
University of Virginia's Darden Business School ranked in a tie for 12th among U.S. colleges offering master of business administration programs, according to a new study by U.S. News that examined 367 schools.
Girls from in and around the Charlottesville area are working to break down barriers in science and tech-related fields. On Sunday, they took part in “Ladies in the Lab” to get more familiar with engineering and encourage them to build those skills. Dozens of girls gathered on University of Virginia Grounds to take part in different hands-on workshops taught by different clubs from the University.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility and Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport is set to launch an Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Wednesday. The Virginia Space Grant Consortium has four of member universities: Old Dominion, Virginia Tech, UVA and Hampton. Three student teams designed and developed small satellites, each about 4 inches cubed and weighing approximately 3 pounds.
UVA student actors and are performing their short plays, all written in a day. Over the course of 24 hours, students write, act and perform in original short plays.
This week’s scheduled Antares launch at Wallops Island will carry space satellites engineered and built by Virginia university students. The satellites will rendezvous with the International Space Station, be released by the astronauts and orbit for up to two years. For three years, 140 students from UVA, Virginia Tech and Old Dominion University have been designing and building three small satellites that are now ready for launch.