The University of Virginia, Mary Baldwin University, Old Dominion University and local resource agencies will participate, as well.
This week in Charlottesville, the University of Virginia, in partnership with the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Washington, D.C., will host five visiting fellows from Germany to work with faculty and students on projects that deal with racism and history.
After receiving a “ruff” diagnosis, a UVA Police Department K-9 has retired and is on the road to recovery. Muki, a 10-year-old Belgian Malinois who has detected explosives for UPD over the past eight years, was honored at a ceremony Friday.
The UVA School of Nursing is recognizing a distinguished group of black nurses who studied in Charlottesville. On Saturday, the school hosted a celebration of “Hidden Nurses” to honor a group of women who graduated from Burley High School's Licensed Practical Nursing program. The women graduated before the school was desegregated and many went on to become nurses at UVA Medical Center.
(Subscription required) When Auburn University and University of Virginia meet in the NCAA tournament this weekend, it’s going to be tough to tell their fans apart. They share school colors. And a history of petty theft.
Mark Newlen played for the University of Virginia in the mid-1970s. He was part of the school's first ACC Tournament basketball championship team in 1976. He is also a Robert E. Lee High graduate, scoring 1,506 points in his high school career. Now he is preparing to watch his Cavaliers in the NCAA Tournament's Final Four Saturday night. We asked him three questions in an email interview about the Cavaliers and this season.
Until this past December, hemp could be grown in Virginia only for research purposes. Virginia Tech, James Madison University, University of Virginia and Virginia State University have all maintained research plots; along with a handful of private growers who had the proper licensing.
Russell M. Nelson's tenure has been marked by "an unusual degree of change in an otherwise very cautious institution," said Kathleen Flake, a professor of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia. She believes many of the changes were considered by past presidents and studied by a governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of which Nelson was a member.
This Dockless Mobility Pilot was adopted by City Council in November and is set to expire July 31. As part of the evaluation process, city staff have partnered with UVA’s Urban and Environmental Planning Program to develop and implement a survey to collect feedback on this program.
A group of UVA faculty on Thursday worked to alleviate concerns about the proposed School of Data Science, voting to move the school one step closer to reality.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what PolitiFact can do for your country. That’s not a John F. Kennedy quote (though it’s close to something the former president said during his inaugural address), and neither is this one that was posted on Facebook on March 30. "There’s a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child," reads the text of a photo of what looks like a flyer pasted to a phone pole. "Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot." Marc J. Selverstone, chair of UVA’s Presidential Recordings Program, t...
UVA law professor George Yin said that at first blush, Neal’s letter seemed to meet the relatively modest requirements needed to make the request. “I don’t see any reason not to comply with the request,” said Yin, who has researched the statutory requirements.
Many on Twitter hoped it was at most a half joke, urging him to run. Comey, who lives in McLean, has ruled out running for president. But there could be an opening for him in the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial race if he decided to run for office. “He would have to stake out positions in line with the Democratic primary electorate, as I doubt he would be such an obviously strong candidate that he could clear the primary field in any major race,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
The University of Virginia is one of 33 schools participating in a 2019 campus climate survey that aims to gauge the types and frequency of sexual assault and misconduct at universities. The climate survey is designed to measure students’ knowledge and beliefs about social situations and perceptions related to sexual misconduct at UVA. It also aims to determine their knowledge of available resources, according to the school.
University of Virginia President James E. Ryan will deliver the commencement speech for the Class of 2019 at UVA’s College at Wise.
Taxpayer information is legally supposed to remain confidential, but a 1924 provision gives Congress some access. It has rarely been invoked, UVA law professor George Yin told NPR in October 2018.
Kirt von Daacke, an assistant dean and professor of history at UVA who studies race and culture, said blackface photos and other racist imagery are intended by perpetrators to do violence, and releasing them into the public without warning and explanation is "to allow them to do that violence again."
Congestion pricing has the potential to significantly change how traffic flows through Manhattan streets, how commuters get around the city, how companies like Uber and Lyft operate. If the policy spreads it could challenge a deeply embedded cultural idea, requiring people to pay for something Americans have long demanded – and largely believe they’ve gotten – free of charge. UVA historian Peter Norton traces this thinking to the 1920s and ’30s.
University of Virginia students celebrated the Wahoos win over the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday night at all of the bars on The Corner, including Boylan Heights.