Otto F. Warmbier, an American college student held prisoner in North Korea for more than a year, has been released and is on his way back to the United States, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said on Tuesday.
Otto Warmbier, an American sentenced to 15 years hard labor by North Korea for alleged “anti-state acts,” has been released. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Tuesday morning that 22-year-old Warmbier was on his way back to the U.S. to be reunited with his family. Warmbier has apparently been in a coma since shortly after his trial, according to the Washington Post. He was sentenced in March 2016.
According to Daphna Bassok, an assistant professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, 80 percent of teachers believed that children should learn to read while in kindergarten in 2001, up from 30 percent in 1998.
(By Chris Lu, senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center) This week, the Trump administration will try once again to focus its policy agenda around a single theme. With an erratic chief executive and rapidly changing news developments, that’s easier said than done.
The UVA community is honoring the victims of a mass shooting from one year ago. Monday night, the student body at UVA hosted a memorial service to honor the 49 victims who lost their lives at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Sara O’Leary is the new head coach of the Virginia women’s tennis program, the school announced Monday. O’Leary served as the head coach at Davidson the past three seasons.
A regional culture of entrepreneurship and innovation, along with growth in digital technology education, are among the goals of a cash infusion from the University of Virginia to its College at Wise. UVA-Wise’s Wise Innovation Ecosystem will receive $3.5 million from the University’s Strategic Investment Fund.
But Clinton-Sanders II not quite the right way to frame this race, says Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics. The contest has tightened, he says, not because of a lingering squabble in the Democratic base, but because Perriello has made it about who can be the stronger antagonist to President Trump.
On a recent afternoon, Kyle Edwards, a UVA Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, and fourth-year student Christina Monroe dug into an area near the foundation of a two-story white building adjacent to the guest house at Highland, the estate of former President James Monroe.
Dove talks about how dancing gave her a new lease on life, and reads her poem “Foxtrot Fridays,” the first she wrote after her house burned down in a fire.
In Trump's case, some travel ban opponents say, one doesn't need a long memory because he never stopped talking in stark terms about the travel ban. “There is a continuous run of statements from the campaign, through the election, through the inauguration and right up to this week," says Micah Schwartzman, a UVA law professor specializing in religion. "The president has never expressly disavowed those earlier statements."
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said the race can be viewed as a redux of Clinton vs. Sanders to the extent that it pits an establishment favorite against an insurgent, but the analogy is imperfect. Northam has only been in state politics a decade while Clinton had been “around forever,” he said, and Perriello isn’t exactly pushing an entirely new brand of Democratic politics.
UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, gives advice to young fathers about striking the right balance between work and family.
Universities are also encouraging the practice of mindfulness. David Mick is a marketing professor at UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce who teaches a “Wisdom and Well-Being” course that equips business students with philosophical concepts and mindfulness practices that can improve their professional and personal lives. Each week, students apply readings on philosophy and mindfulness to business cases and to their lives.
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors on Friday approved a $3.4 billion budget that sets aside more funding for instruction, research and financial aid.The budget, which covers both academic and Medical Center spending, represents a $400 million increase over last year’s $3 billion budget.
Plans for the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia are moving forward after receiving the endorsement of UVa’s Board of Visitors’ Buildings and Grounds Committee on Friday.
UVA’s College at Wise will receive $3.5 million from the University of Virginia to increase enrollment in programs at the college and to create a robust culture of entrepreneurship and innovation in the region, the college said Friday.
Singapore Management University will partner with the University of Virginia in the summer of 2017 for the first exchange of the US-Singapore Summer Exchange Scholarship Programme. The programme commemorates the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Singapore and the United States in 2016.
(Commentary) A quarter century ago, Carl Smith, Joe Palumbo, David Harrison III, and many others stepped up to build the Frank McCue Center, to expand Scott Stadium, and made UVA football relevant. Paul Tudor Jones did the same with basketball. Now, Virginia needs another hero, or several of them, to rescue Cavalier football.
A proposed $55 to $60 million football operations center for the University of Virginia was added to the capital plan during the June Board of Visitors meeting on Friday.