Anne Holton, Virginia first lady Dorothy McAuliffe and two other former first ladies were in Charlottesville on Thursday to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, D-Va. The group, which included Lynda Johnson Robb and Jeannie Baliles, spoke to about 70 students and community members at UVA’s Newcomb Hall.
On Thursday afternoon, Virginia First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe was joined by some former first ladies at the University of Virginia to encourage students to vote in November. All four were campaigning for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
In 2017, the University of Virginia will celebrate it's bicentennial. On Thursday, it was announced that the planning for a big celebration has begun, and the bicentennial commission was announced at the Rotunda.
JAUNT bus service between Crozet and Charlottesville is likely if a survey of UVA employees living in Crozet and other locals who commute to jobs in Charlottesville shows that a dependable ridership is at hand.
Doctors at the UVA Medical Center are working to reduce patient complaints and make sure their patient care standards are top-notch. At UVA Medical Center’s Quality Subcommittee’s quarterly meeting Thursday, the board met to discuss how to close the book on old initiatives and set new goals.
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the University of Virginia will host a celebration of the Bard’s work – and offer the public a chance to see his first folio, published in 1623.
Thursday marked the 199th anniversary of an important event in University of Virginia history: the day builders laid the cornerstone of the University’s first building. With the 200th anniversary looming, the University is planning a huge bicentennial celebration.
A well-known retired professor at the University of Virginia has passed away. R. K. Ramazani was born in Iran in 1928, and spent most of his adult life educating UVA students about the history and politics of the Middle East. Ramazani eventually became the Edward R. Stettinius Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs at UVA.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, along with JCPS leaders and other education officials, announced Wednesday the Compassionate Schools Program is expanding to more schools. The curriculum, developed by UVA professor Patrick Tolan, focuses on mindfulness-based instruction, social-emotional skills training and attentive movements.
Some opponents of RFRAs have claimed such laws give religious parents cover for abusing and neglecting their children. In reality, legal experts say, it’s unlikely that the Indiana statute will actually shield the mother from charges. “Literally nobody believes that general religious-liberty provisions like RFRA create a defense for injuring a child, or injuring an adult, for that matter,” said Douglas Laycock, a UVA law professor.
“I don’t think the Clinton campaign has succeeded in making young people afraid of [a] Trump presidency,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor at Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.
Simon Fraser University researcher Lisa Craig is part of an international team that has uncovered new details about a microbe that invades the brain, sometimes with fatal results. The information is a critical piece of the meningitis puzzle, and could lead to new ways of treating meningococcal infection. Craig, a professor in SFU's Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and SFU research associate Subramania Kolappan, have worked with researchers at the Institut Necker Enfants Malades in Paris and the University of Virginia School of Medicine to reveal the most detailed structure...
A team co-led by Avik Ghosh, a UVA professor of electrical and computer engineering, has directly observed – for the first time – negative refraction for electrons passing across a boundary between two regions in a conducting material. First predicted in 2007, this effect has been difficult to confirm experimentally.
Paul Reyes, deputy editor of Virginia Quarterly Review since 2013, has been named the magazine's 10th editor. Reyes has been the interim editor of VQR since W. Ralph Eubanks left in the summer of 2015.
For the last year and a half, the Lambda Zeta chapter from the University of Virginia has been collecting business attire. They donated the clothes to Young Men with Great Minds, a club at AHS, created to provide academic support for minority students. They also gave tips on how to dress to impress, which students can appreciate.
According to most national sources, the estimate is that about 20 million people now have health coverage who would have been uninsured as a result of the ACA, said Carolyn Long Engelhard, UVA’s associate director for health policy.
The garden updates were a joint endeavor of the National Park Service and the University of Virginia School of Architecture, whose students designed the new layout, arbor, table and benches.
Looking ahead to Sunday's debate, UVA political analyst Geoffrey Skelley, said that for Trump "being better prepared would be a good thing. A major point for him is that voters just don't see him as presidential. Donald Trump has to counter expectations as to how he'd act as president."
A UVA study found that about one in 10 Virginia schoolchildren missed 18 or more days of school in the 2014-2015 school year, offering the first statewide look at a problem that research has shown can derail a child's education.
An $11 million, six-year experiment in social and emotional learning – developed by Dr. Patrick Tolan, who directs UVA’s Youth Nex Center to Promote Effective Youth Development – aims to teach students compassion, empathy and resilience.