The airline's decision to offer service to the Aloha State has rattled the stock of would-be competitor Hawaiian Airlines. In what's been dubbed the "Southwest Effect," fares are $45 lower in markets where the airline has nonstop service than in cities without those routes, a University of Virginia study found.
So far this decade, Virginia has grown — and shrunk — in population. Seventy of the state’s 133 cities and counties gained population between April 1, 2010, and July 1, 2018, according to data released this week by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. The population of Loudoun County, in Northern Virginia, jumped 30 percent, to more than 406,000.
An “exit tax” already exists under U.S. law, applying taxes on all the U.S. assets of expatriates with net worth above $2 million as if they had been sold, said Ruth Mason, a law expert at the University of Virginia.
Constructed in 1825, the Rotunda has always served as the centerpiece of the university’s Academical Village, a UNESCO World Heritage site where Jefferson’s original structures stand.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia) What we lament is the demonstrated anti-democratic, inhumane, hateful and violent forces hijacking your service and doing great damage to the world. The problem is Facebook, not “the Internet.”
(Video) University of Virginia's Children Hospital held a fundraiser to support a program that could help hundreds.
Ryan has been a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio for 21 years. In a keynote speech during the University of Virginia’s two-week celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ryan dove immediately into the events of Aug. 12, 2017. But the core of her speech focused on women in the center of civil rights movements, who organized and strategized for greater freedoms. Those women, she said, offer hope in the face of racism and hate today.
“I can only compare her in America to a movie star or a music celebrity, because no poet here would reach that kind of status,” said Farzaneh Milani, author of “Forough Farrokhzad: A Literary Biography” (2016) and a professor of Middle Eastern culture at the University of Virginia.
“We’ve got to have actionable, practical ideas,” former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) said last week during a conference at the University of Virginia. “And I worry — we can’t get into this election season with everybody trying to out-promise one another.”
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has launched a new leadership circle for members. It's called Partners in Trust, and area organizations are invited to invest in the advancement of the business community as a whole while allowing participants to position themselves at the front in leadership and innovation. The founding members of the program include the University of Virginia and the UVA Health System.
Admissions season is year-round for many colleges, with some top colleges filling nearly half of their freshman classes through early admissions processes that start at the beginning of fall. UVA is no exception; on Jan. 25, the school announced its Class of 2023 is so far more selective and more diverse than the previous year.
Anyone with a serious illness knows it can really take a toll, and it can be just as tough for the people taking care of them. That's why staff at the UVA Medical Center want to lend a hand.
By 2020, the teams are expected to have developed a way to determine, in less than two weeks, whether an unknown DNA sequence poses a threat. That will be a difficult task, says Andrew Warren, a UVA software engineer. “We have to be able to recognize any organism on the planet and also its molecular function.”
"The big theme is a return to light-hearted humor," University of Virginia professor Kim Whitler said. "There’s an acknowledgement the Super Bowl is about entertainment."
A health issue, normally associated with cruise ships, is popping up at the University of Virginia. Norovirus, sometimes referred to as the stomach flu, is affecting several people at UVA. The Director of Student Health at UVA spoke on Wednesday about methods of prevention of the virus.
With arctic air blowing in Wednesday night and wind chills below zero, don’t forget to dress warmly if you are going to be outside. Doctors at the UVA Medical Center are reminding people to cover their heads, faces and hands. They add that you should not stay out longer than you have to.
Central bank efforts to save the world economy after the 2007-2009 financial crisis were much lauded by pundits these past few years. But now researchers are digging up evidence that some of their actions resulted in significant unintended consequences. Sometimes the results were the opposite of those desired by the policymakers. It happened over the period 2015 to 2017 and the problem was revealed through a recent working paper titled "Central Bank-Driven Mispricing" by researchers at Research Center SAFE - Goethe University Frankfurt and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Stern School of Busi...
Also moving forward are bills to offer reduced tuition to students from the Appalachian region who are enrolled in the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
Beating its neighbor MIT, Harvard University was once again emerged as the best institution of higher learning in the world, that’s according to the latest Webometrics ranking. The University of Virginia is among the top 500 higher education institutes worldwide, 2019, ranking No. 60.
The Restoration of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia involved the repair of what is often considered Thomas Jefferson's most significant architectural achievement. Despite the 200-year-old building's historical value, it was in dire need of restoration, with a leaky roof and poor quality previous work that needed undoing. John G. Waite Associates worked with multiple specialists to replace its roof with a new copper unit and restored the original exterior metal moldings dating back to the 1890s, among other improvements. The interior was overhauled too, with Jefferson's original finish...