(By Phoebe Willis, a UVA law student and the student representative to the UVA Board of Visitors) I understand the privilege of attending the University of Virginia, which provides a first-class education at a fraction of the cost of its peer group colleges and universities.
The Virginia Eventing and Dressage Team has grown to almost 30 members since its start in 2013. UVA has won the college team challenge at the Fall Virginia Horse Trials for three consecutive years and is hoping to continue that streak this fall.
Telos Corp., an Ashburn-based IT consulting company, is hosting its third annual Cyber Innovation Internship commencement Thursday night – like a “Shark Tank” for ideas on how to commercialize cybersecurity products and technologies. This year, students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Virginia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Northern Virginia Community College, Providence College and George Mason University are representing their schools, and showing off their products Thursday night at Telos’ headquarters.
Administrators, faculty and students across Apereo’s global network responded enthusiastically to the announcement. “We’re so excited about the enhancements included in this release,” said Trisha Gordon, the director of the group that manages Sakai at UVA. “The introduction of Morpheus, a completely updated user interface with an emphasis on responsive design, allows our faculty and students to do outstanding work no matter where they are or what devices they’re using.”
For months now, the team at UVA’s Center on Politics has engaged in a periodic assessment of the likely breakdown in electoral votes in the presidential election. Rather than allow themselves to weasel out of making tough calls, they have eliminated the “toss-up” category and forced themselves to assign states to either Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump.
As former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove remarked, “Our nation needs to learn to value its independent writers and artists as the heralds of a richly textured, inclusive national identity.” Along with Dove, a UVA professor of creative writing, M.F.A. alumna Eleanor Henderson and upcoming Kapnick Writer-in-Residence Junot Díaz weighed in.
According to Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center of Politics, Obama may be waiting for the water to recede, since his visit could affect rescue efforts.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s use of undercover investigators “is a worrisome precedent, because ... we see more and more aggressive civil law-enforcement activity by the government, so that civil law enforcement borders on, if not bleeds into, criminal law enforcement,” said Andrew Vollmer, a former deputy general counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission who teaches at the UVA School of Law.
A new Electoral College analysis by UVA’s Center for Politics reveals that the map is only growing for Hillary Clinton and even South Carolina and Kansas have moved from “safe Republican” to “likely Republican.”
(By Jack Hamilton, Slate’s pop critic and a UVA assistant professor of American studies and media studies) The 2016 U.S. Olympic team isn’t dreamy, and it has nothing to redeem. It’s still incredibly fun to watch, and worth rooting for.
The findings show that “once you’re in a committed relationship, your drinking frequency declines permanently, whereas quantity goes back up if you exit that relationship,” said lead author Diana Dinescu, a UVA doctoral candidate in clinical psychology.
A study from economists at UVA and Middle Tennessee State University finds that young people with a part-time job their senior year of high school earned 20 percent more annually six to nine years after graduation, compared to their counterparts who didn’t work.
The National Science Foundation has awarded 18 grants to multidisciplinary teams from across the United States to conduct frontier research focused on neural and cognitive systems. Each award provides a research team with up to $1 million over two to four years. Matthew Reidenbach of the University of Virginia, and Barry Ache and Jose Principe of the University of Florida, received their grant for a computational neuroscience framework for olfactory scene analysis within complex fluid environments.
University officials are imploring students to stay away from the Wertland Street Block Party, and law enforcement officials have pledged to crack down on anyone who breaks the law at Saturday’s event.
As the city of Charlottesville prepares to implement about $30 million of streetscape projects, Albemarle County and UVA officials want to ensure the entire region’s bike and pedestrian infrastructure is improved as a result.
Thirteen local high school students recently participated in the third annual Bio-Med Tech-Girls at the University of Virginia, a weeklong program that offers hands-on exposure to biomedical engineering for teenage girls.
Louis Nelson, a UVA professor of architectural history who has participated in several restoration projects relating to the slave trade, is a member of the international team working on the House of Slaves project.
The General Assembly soon will conduct hearings in order to “get a full picture” of UVA’s $2.3 billion Strategic Investment Fund. UVA Rector Bill Goodwin has stood firm on his school’s financial planning, and he is wise to do so. It is innovative, it is new and he should see the hearings as a useful opportunity to inform.
(Video) Steve Swanson, UVA women’s soccer head coach, was an assistant coach with the U.S. Women’s National Team in the Olympic Games in Brazil.
Gravely, a Fayetteville State University undergraduate and graduate of the UVA School of Law, died Monday in Richmond. He recently resigned as the interim executive director of the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP. He hosted “The Jack Gravely Show” on Richmond’s Rejoice WREJ-AM 990 (formerly WLEE).