Dick Bennett’s influence is obvious in both teams as they prepare to meet in the national semifinals. It’s an early version of Bennett-ball that Pearl has mimicked in leading Auburn to its first 30-win season and first appearance on college basketball’s final weekend. Virginia, a No. 1 seed for the fourth time in the six years but in its first Final Four, actually is turning over the ball more this season than in past years, but much of that may be because it’s a better offensive team this year. And because of that, Bennett has allowed the team to become a bit more aggressive and — at times — ...
When Ty Jerome's second free throw came off the rim, Virginia needed a lot to happen to come away with a win and fortunately for the Wahoos a lot happened. ESPN's win probability gave the Cavaliers only a 9 percent chance of winning over Purdue, just enough to cover for a Mamadi Diakite top out, a Kihei Clark pass and of course Diakite's game-tying shot. A moment that even days later seems so improbable and shot that not even the man who made it could explain.
Do banks and credit unions make money off the security deposits from secured credit cards? “Yes, banks and credit unions earn money on secured credit cards by lending the funds deposited with them at a higher interest rate than they pay on the deposited funds. The banking business is based on borrowing money from depositors at low rates and lending the money to borrowers at higher rates,” says Dorothy C. Kelly, a professor in UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce.
A state grant of nearly a half-million dollars will help UVA’s Darden School of Business create a program to support fledging small companies. The Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Darden School will receive $475,200 in Growth and Opportunity for Virginia, or GO Virginia, funds from the state.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Board voted Friday to roll back a 3 percent tuition increase because additional funding approved by the Virginia General Assembly will cover slightly more than what the tuition boost would have provided.
Leading up to the report’s release, the researchers invited groups of students, faculty members, administrators, and others for face-to-face discussions on four campuses that have been flashpoints for free-speech controversies: the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Virginia, Middlebury College, and the University of Maryland at College Park. See the key conclusions they came away with.
The following statement has been repeated so often among the edtech community that it almost sounds like a broken record: Educators should have more say in decisions around purchasing and implementing education technology. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative wants to turn that refrain into a reality. And this week, it is putting money where its mouth is, by way of a two-year, $1.6 million grant it has awarded to the Jefferson Education Exchange, a nonprofit based out of UVA’s Curry School of Education.
Board members also approved a resolution allowing the university to acquire the University of Virginia’s entire interest in the Virginia Tech/University of Virginia Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church, and to acquire the fee simple title interest in the 5.33-acre parcel currently leased from and owned by the City of Falls Church. Total cost for these transactions will be approximately $11 million. Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia opened the Northern Virginia Center 1996 to deliver graduate education instruction in several academic degree programs.
This course from the University of Virginia provides a comprehensive understanding of the legacy that John F. Kennedy left behind. It covers JFK’s rise to power, presidency and assassination, and explains how these momentous events have had a long-lasting impact on the public, media and presidents who came after him.
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad is feeling the effects of a shortage of EMTs, but the 100 percent volunteer organization is counting on UVA students to continue filling the gap.
As a basketball lifer, UMBC coach Ryan Odom marveled at Virginia and Purdue on Saturday night, quality programs hunting an elusive Final Four amid breathtaking tension. “Champions always answer,” Odom said. “That’s what we say around our place, and they both just kept answering one another. It was incredible, absolutely incredible, a joy to watch.” But Odom’s take on the Cavaliers’ overtime victory goes far deeper. Tthe result brings him the unfettered happiness he couldn’t derive from his signature professional accomplishment.
In 1969, James R. Roebuck arrived at a University of Virginia that was still considered a gentleman’s university and was reluctantly enrolling black graduate and undergraduate students. Roebuck enrolled in UVA’s graduate philosophy program and became the Student Council’s first African-American president. He discussed his efforts to force university administrators to support black students and enroll women at a UVA symposium on March 22.
Jennifer Lawless, a professor at the University of Virginia, said that the gender biases in politics are more subtle now but still exist. Men aren’t explicitly sexist or discriminatory, she said, but they sometimes diminish or belittle women’s accomplishments. “Regardless of his intent, there are gendered implications if this is a woman with these credentials,” Lawless said.
Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) can ask for copies of Donald Trump’s federal tax returns whenever he wants, but Neal is in no hurry and seemingly doesn’t care if Democrats don’t get the documents before the next election. Neal can request any American’s tax info thanks to a specific section of the tax code that grants that power to the chairs of congressional tax committees. George Yin, a tax expert at the UVA School of Law, said he is unaware of any instance of a treasury secretary refusing to comply with a request under the law, which Congress has rarely used since it was enacted in 1924.
Jennifer Lawless, a UVA professor focused on gender and politics, said it is fortunate for Biden that the alleged encounter with Flores took place in 2014, before the #MeToo movement.
In the last 20 years, Virginia has lost almost 140,000 manufacturing jobs. That’s a 36 percent decline for a sector that once offered blue-collar jobs and formed a staple of the commonwealth’s economy. Kyaw Khine at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service says the numbers offer a paradox.
Harris was the first African-American woman to become California attorney general, the first African-American senator California has ever elected, and the second African-American woman to sit on the Senate’s powerful Judiciary Committee. “I would think in a national Democratic primary, part of Harris’ path to victory is doing what Obama did: performing strongly in the South, where African-American support is so important,” says UVA’s Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
Last fall, as part of the long run-up to the 2020 census, UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service reviewed the Census Bureau’s existing address file for 101 of the state’s 133 localities and compared it to what localities had on file. In its review, the center found 33,555 new addresses, which is like saying it possibly found 70,000 new Virginians who otherwise wouldn’t have been counted.