The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers is designed to commemorate the estimated 5,000 slaves who either were rented by UVA or owned or rented by faculty members, administrators or hotel keepers in the area.
Filip Mihaljevic captured the NCAA title in the discus on Friday, leading the No. 9 Virginia men’s track and field team at the NCAA Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Led by Mihaljevic's two national titles, the Virginia men finished third in the NCAA meet, earning the program’s best finish in school history.
Recent UVA graduate Sam Ezersky has landed his dream job, assisting the puzzles editor at the New York Times.
The university is planning to build a large and visible memorial to commemorate the contributions of an estimated 5,000 enslaved people who helped build and maintain the school founded by the third U.S. president. It’s part of a larger ongoing effort by the university – and about 30 others – to grapple with painful truths and to tell a more complete and accurate story of its past.
This time, Andres Pedroso knew if he got the call, he’d take the job. That wasn’t the case the first time Virginia tennis came calling. The Cavaliers’ newly hired director of tennis and men’s coach also worked as a UVA assistant from 2010 to 2014, a position he accepted after much coaxing and caressing by former men’s head coach Brian Boland.
On June 3, two dozen teams of observers in South America and South Africa tried to learn something about distant 2014 MU69, which New Horizons will visit in early 2019. Across the Atlantic in South Africa, UVA’s Anne Verbiscer coordinated the teams in South Africa.
“The investigation will continue, with a focus on Trump’s state of mind,” said Saikrishna Prakash, a UVA law professor and senior fellow at the Miller Center. “We learned a couple of new things: The president is a transgressive person, unaware of certain norms and willing to break known conventions. Trump desperately wanted the world to know that he was not being investigated. Trump never asked Comey to end the Russia investigation.”
In the modern era, most presidents have sought to expand the bounds of presidential power through executive action. But there’s a difference between aggressive moves to enact policy and possibly crossing legal lines to achieve other goals. “I would draw a distinction between the kinds of things that presidents do in pushing the bounds of their constitutional powers toward a policy end and pushing the envelope of presidential power in the realm of a criminal investigation,” says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
(By Jack Hamilton, assistant professor of American studies and media studies) The most famous definition of rock journalism comes from Frank Zappa, who, in 1977, described the form to an interviewer as “people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.” It’s a funny quip that has enjoyed a robust afterlife, mostly because generations of quasi-self-deprecating rock journalists can’t stop quoting it. But it was never really true, and certainly wasn’t in 1977.
A sizable section of land with a copious number of towering trees, generous foliage and dead leaves and twigs that make crunching sounds beneath your feet, the plot surrounded by student dorms at the University of Virginia looks like any other dense thicket of land on Grounds. Small steps lead to a wooden bridge over a creek, and upon looking closely, one may notice a few stones scattered amid the leaves. Although the University of Virginia has made an effort to preserve the ground that was first discovered in the 1980s, the plot looks much different than it did in the period of enslavement. O...
James B. Murray, an Albemarle County resident and a former rector of the College of William & Mary, was elected vice rector of the University of Virginia on Thursday afternoon.
On Tuesday, the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Biological Sciences announced it would end its Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Program, which provided crucial research funding to Ph.D. students for their dissertation work. “$8K allowed me to afford two years of field work that got my career started (and still appears in textbooks),” wrote Butch Brodie, a UVA evolutionary biologist. “What better [return on investment]?”
UVA baseball players Adam Haseley and Pavin Smith are expected to be first-round picks in Monday's Major League Baseball draft. Both have left a lasting legacy at UVA.
(By Jack Hamilton, assistant professor of American studies and media studies) The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” turns 50 years old this month, and to mark the occasion, Apple Records has trotted out a deluxe reissue set, the crown jewel of which is a new stereo remix of the album by Giles Martin, son of the late Sir George Martin. The younger Martin’s mix is a revelation.
"Postmenopausal have lower estrogen levels due to menopause. Heavy use of alcohol in this group of women led to more muscle wasting, less strength and poorer physical performance. Exercise, and possibly postmenopausal estrogen, may play a beneficial role in maintaining muscle mass," said Dr. JoAnn V. Pinkerton, executive director of The North American Menopause Society and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UVA Health System, who was not involved in the study.
Dominion Energy has given more than $10 million to Virginia candidates – Democrats and Republicans – over the past decade. These contributions make Dominion a major player in the state, unrivaled in its “wide-ranging influence and impact on Virginia politics and government,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor and longtime observer of state and federal politics.
James Comey will present a disturbing and detailed account of his interactions with Donald Trump. But do Trump’s actions amount to obstruction of justice? It’s also worth remembering, according to UVA law professor Brandon Garrett, that “there is a whole family of obstruction of justice statutes; it's not just one crime, and many of them overlap.”
UVA’s Miller Center conducted confidential oral history interviews with former Clinton administration officials that have just recently been released. Russell Riley, who co-chairs the program that conducted the conversations, wrote a book based on what he learned called “Inside the Clinton White House.” In a new piece for The Atlantic, he explains that there was conjecture within the Clinton inner circle that the Whitewater probe would take only six months.
Indeed, the Senate has taken an average of 44 days to confirm a Trump appointee -- the slowest ever. Obama's picks held the previous record of 32 days. Still, part of the blame rests with the White House, which had a slow start to its January hiring blitz, according to interviews with more than a dozen former government officials, lobbyists and executives familiar with the process. "Trump can criticize the Senate all he wants," said Christopher Lu, former deputy at the Department of Labor under the Obama administration and a senior fellow at the University of Virginia. "He deserves much of the...
The numbers are stark: Among registered voters in a Politico/Morning Consult poll at the end of May, 43 ppercent want Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump, up from 38 percent the week before. But experts say the polls may mean less than they appear to show. Barbara Perry, presidential studies director at UVA’s Miller Center, notes one other huge problem: the House of Representatives is in charge of deciding whether to begin impeachment proceedings. Perry argues that polls of individual congressional districts – which don't exist – would be better indicators of the ...