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...
Democrats are hoping that Donald Trump’s behavior on the campaign trail may be able to help them with military voters in Virginia. Geoff Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics says veterans tend to be more white and more male than the population in general, which means they’re more Republican.
"[Kaine’s] approach was very centrist. He tried to support trade agreements that helped the state's economy, he tried to support equal opportunity and things that enhance economic opportunity for individuals," said Bill Shobe, director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies and a UVA professor of public policy. "His approach was very much in the political mainstream, and I think we can expect that from his as vice president."
Two major college rankings – MONEY‘s and U.S. News & World Report‘s – agree that Princeton University is the nation’s best college in 2016. But because the two rankings value different things, they rank many other universities very differently. One major difference can be seen among public universities. The University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, and the University of Virginia, for example, all score higher in MONEY’s rankings.
UVA’s College at Wise has earned a worthwhile distinction: It is ranked first nationally in public liberal arts colleges for graduating students with low debt (based on the latest U.S. News & World-Report annual college guide data).
Dominion Virginia Power says it wants to develop offshore wind power, but the high cost of installation would make it far more expensive than electricity produced by burning fossil fuels or operating a nuclear plant. The utility also wonders how well offshore turbines would fare during a hurricane. Now, engineers at the University of Virginia have come up with a design that could solve both of those problems.
UVA’s Miller Center on Tuesday released two new papers by prominent higher education researchers that seek to make states’ higher education dollars go farther and to improve degree completion rates. They are two of six new papers prepared for the National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education.
The episode underscores the perils of the "inclination towards secrecy" that has colored Clinton's campaign, says Kyle Kondik, managing editor of UVA’s political newsletter, Sabato's Crystal Ball.
Brian Balogh, a UVA professor, said that while the pneumonia appeared to be a “relatively minor health issue,” it would cast a long shadow given that Clinton had dismissed questions about her health as right-wing conspiracies.
In the changing context of higher education in the United States, leaders spend most of their time raising funds and dealing with an array of regulations and legal issues. It is like working for a corporation, just one that is not for profit. Dean Scott C. Beardsley of UVA’s Darden School of Business, who spent 26 years at consultancy firm McKinsey & Company, was recently in India and spoke about his upcoming book that discusses the rise of the non-traditional leader in educational institutions and making way for 'future-ready' leaders.
The history of the presidency includes a running thread of illness and incapacity, much of it hidden from the public out of political calculation. Such situations point to another subtle change in American politics, said Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor in presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center: vice presidents are more carefully vetted, and are more intimately involved with the operations of the government, than they were a century ago.
(By David A. Martin, professor emeritus of law) Donald Trump has made empowering local police to enforce federal immigration law a key part of his campaign. He apparently hasn’t been paying attention to what local jurisdictions have been doing over the past 10 years.
Thanks to the Food Hub and a student group, Greens to Grounds, UVA is offering a 100 percent local foods option to diners this fall.
President Teresa Sullivan outlined UVA’s ambitions at a state of the university address Monday afternoon.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan delivered her State of the University address on Monday. In her address, Sullivan focused on what achievements the school has made in the past year, including hiring more diverse faculty members and making significant advancements in research.
The University of Virginia is the second-best public university in the nation, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report. UVA tied for No. 2 with the University of California-Los Angeles, reclaiming the spot it lost last year, when it fell behind UCLA for the No. 3 ranking.