Stephania Cash balances her UVA nursing career with professional wrestling matches.
A Paramount Theater audience howled with laughter Friday night when prolific British-Indian author Sir Salman Rushdie sat for a live interview. The New York-based essayist-novelist-professor brought his unique perspective as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ four-day Human/Ties event in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
The project restored the Rotunda to some of its original architecture, while also enhancing the space to give students more room for classrooms and study areas. The building has been closed to the public for the past two years, but will reopen Sept. 26.
A panel of UVA professors is helping people learn about Charlottesville’s history with race and heritage. The experts say memory is critical to link the past with the present.
A UVA School of Law audience got a briefing Thursday on the state of cybersecurity and other major threats to the U.S. Former U.S. Security Adviser Tom Donilon spoke at his alma mater on current major threats to cybersecurity and challenges the next presidential administration may face.
Lakes and snowmelt-fed streams on Mars formed much later than previously thought possible, according to new findings using data primarily from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. These results provide insight into the climate history of the Red Planet and suggest the surface conditions at this later time may also have been suitable for microbial life. "We discovered valleys that carried water into lake basins," said Sharon Wilson of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Virginia.
Albemarle County Public Schools learned Wednesday that they fell short of winning a $10 million grant from XQ: The Super School Project. But school officials said entering the nationwide competition to redesign high school education generated ideas that will shape the division’s schools in the years ahead. Keaton Wadzinski, a UVA fourth-year student and executive director of ReinventED Lab, said that a review of student responses identified two major themes: a desire for greater agency and ownership of learning, and more authentic learning experiences in the “real world.”
For the past few months, Virginia’s top legislators have sniped at each other regarding the restoration of voting rights to felons who have served their terms. In April, Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced that he was using his executive power to restore the voting rights of some 206,000 convicted felons. Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics, concurs. “It’s definitely overblown,” Skelley says. But that doesn’t mean that McAuliffe’s efforts to restore felon voter rights are without a political element.
A new CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday shows Donald Trump opening leads over Hillary Clinton in the key battleground states of Florida and Ohio. After these latest numbers, Talking Points Memo predicts Florida will break for the GOP this fall. But as Geoffrey Skelley from UVA’s Center for Politics points out: "The race has vacillated between larger and smaller Clinton leads. Is this a Clinton valley, a new normal, or [the] start of a Trump breakthrough?"
Pamela M. Sutton-Wallace, CEO of UVA Medical Center, began her keynote speech at the Owens & Minor Healthcare Supplier Diversity Symposium on Tuesday by outlining the challenges health care providers face. The symposium is meant to provide minority- and women-owned health care supply businesses the chance to network with providers and help them succeed in the industry.
Wednesday the ad hoc committee created by UVA’s Board of Visitors in August met to look at ways they can spend a controversial Strategic Investment Fund. The committee created a five-step plan.
A new Snapchat geofilter by Hillary Clinton's campaign in Virginia, "Love Trumps Hate," will be available on Norfolk State University's campus starting Thursday and Friday. The geofilter – one that is pegged to a physical location – will also be available on the campuses of Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.
Turning back another potential point of contention about its new $2.2 billion Strategic Investment Fund, UVA’s Board of Visitors said Wednesday that students also can submit proposals for spending the money. Vice Rector Frank Conner, chairman of an ad hoc committee reviewing parameters for the fund, responded to a letter of concern from the Student Council.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers dropped dramatically in the Democratic stronghold of Washington, D.C., according to a Google Consumer Surveys poll published Thursday. The District of Columbia is ranked “safe Democrat” by UVA’s Center for Politics and the statistics site 538, but recent poll numbers could change that determination.
UVA’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences received a $40 million gift from Thompson Dean, a private-equity executive and 1979 graduate. The funds will support a range of curricular initiatives.
The U.S. Open ended just three days ago, but UVA graduate Danielle Collins already knows she’ll back in Flushing Meadows next year. Collins won the American Collegiate Invitational, earning her entry in the 2017 U.S. Open.
The UVA Board of Visitors is reviewing the procedures and guidelines governing the University's Strategic Investment Fund. The more-than-$2 billion fund is intended to support investments in scholarship, research, health care, student access and student life without relying on tuition or tax dollars.
UVA is hosting a four-day celebration for the 50th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Humanities. There will be panels, discussions and movies to show the importance of humanities and art in today's society.
Originally a novelist [with an M.F.A. From UVA’s Creative Writing Program], Avery Chenoweth had a major heart attack that left him too fatigued to write. He had to look elsewhere to pay the bills. … A year later, a friend, Philippe Sommer, told him about an incubator at UVA’s Darden School of Business. Known as i.Lab, it began by offering mentorship and courses to support students starting businesses.
Everything about “The Star-Spangled Banner” — its lyrics, its author, and the path it took to becoming the national anthem — is inextricably bound up with America’s gruesome history of racism. Among the academic experts with this perspective is Alan Taylor, a UVA professor and one of the foremost contemporary scholars of early U.S. history. Two of Taylor’s books have won the Pulitzer Prize; one of these, “The Internal Enemy,” addresses “The Star-Spangled Banner’s” third stanza, calling it “Key’s dig at the British fo...