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.
A partnership between Albemarle County, the city of Charlottesville and UVA is helping to connect job-seekers to employers in the area. They have developed a program called Embark, which helps recruit potential employees to different area businesses.
Twenty-four schools reserve their no-loans policy for their lowest-income students. Each policy sets criteria for qualifying: University of Virginia: Household income up to 200 percent of the poverty line.
(Commentary) This is the column I was going to write last year. This is the column I never had a chance My alma mater, the University of Virginia, is going to the Final Four for the first time in 35 years after a thrilling OT win in the Elite Eight against Purdue’s hardy Boilermakers.
Why did Facebook air live video of the New Zealand mosque shooting for 17 minutes? Didn’t anyone alert the company while it was happening? Facebook says no. “When we see things through our phones, we imagine that they are like a television show,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. “They are at a distance, and we have no power.”
Data scientists and women in related careers gathered at UVA on Friday to share lessons learned working and leading others in the field. The panel was part of a daylong Women in Data Science event hosted by UVA’s Data Science Institute.
Saddled with about $170 billion in net debt from the deal, AT&T is expected to explore ways to cut costs at Warner Bros. “I am not sure and I cannot see how Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures fits within the digital business plan of AT&T,” UVA professor Christopher Ali said.
The U.S. government did not adequately test the impact of a crash on a belt-restrained female dummy until 2012. Dummies for decades had been based on the average, 50th-percentile male body. According to a 2011 University of Virginia Center for Applied Biomechanics study, that meant female drivers involved in crashes had a 47 percent greater chance of serious injury than their male counterparts, and a 71 percent higher chance of a moderate injury.
The University of Virginia has announced the speakers for the 190th Final Exercises.According to a release, Dr. B. Cameron Webb, a physician and lawyer, and School of Nursing Dean Dorrie Fontaine will speak to graduates from the College and Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences on May 18.
The University of Virginia has announced the main speakers for this year’s Final Exercises on the Lawn. Dr. Cameron Webb will address graduates from the College and Graduate Schools of Arts & Sciences. Webb will speak to the Class of 2019 at UVA’s largest school during the Saturday, May 18th ceremonies.
Former President Bill Clinton will be a featured speaker at the University of Virginia’s Presidential Ideas Festival. A tie-in to UVA’s bicentennial founding celebration, PrezFest will feature more than 60 bipartisan White House veterans, journalists and scholars discussing the state of the American presidency.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has reappointed its dean to a second five-year-term. Scott Beardsley became dean at the Charlottesville-based school on Aug. 1, 2015. The reappointment extends his term to 2025.
Jim Koch, the founder of Samuel Adams brewery, made a trip to talk with UVA students. He shared his experiences in the beer business with the School of Brew at the Darden School and at Draft Taproom.
“I spent many years observing classrooms, and what I saw blew my mind,” said Patricia Jennings, a UVA education professor, recalling a period earlier in her career when she helped young teachers improve their classroom management. “The teachers’ own stress levels and emotional reactivity were causing problems in their classrooms.”
Members of UVA’s Community Working Group said Thursday that while their group is officially done, they intend to keep working toward and advocating for recommendations made in a recent report.
Patrice Preston Grimes, an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, recommends field trips. For several years, she has taken her preservice teachers to James Madison’s Montpelier estate. They spend hours immersed in the history of the enslaved people and their descendants who once lived there, examining primary source documents and walking through the buildings where they slept. “That was far more effective than me trying to do some sort of simulation in the classroom,” she said.
Nobody wants to think about the next recession when the state and national economy are booming, but that attitude is exactly what got VRS into trouble the last time. The results of the latest stress test should not be ignored. As University of Virginia Associate Economics Professor Leora Friedberg warned public employees last year, they “need to be aware that the benefits they’ve been expecting may not be there.”
A first-of-its-kind caregiver’s workshop was held Wednesday to provide the community with information on valuable resources in Central Virginia. “We're very fortunate to have many community-based resources, and so we want the caregivers to have a chance to find out for themselves what’s here," Kathy Campbell, a facilitator with the UVA Nursing School, said.