Applying her creative ideas and intellectual energy to improving the brand of Washington’s baseball team, UVA alumna Valerie Camillo was thinking of team marketing ideas before the Nationals paid her to.
In Charlottesville, two UVA students have set out to improve so-called town-gown relations with a program that cultivates friendships through gardening.
Shades of Tina Fey, she studied in many of the same classrooms and with the same teachers at UVA. Richard Warner – a professor of acting, not an acting professor – was her adviser. When Lorne Michaels added Zamata to his cast in 2014, Warner told UVA Today that the Cavalier was confident, poised and ambitious and had an offbeat sense of humor.
For the last three weeks, David Guinn has been ascending and descending the walls here at the Graduate Hotel in Charlottesville. The nine-story mural he and his assistant are painting faces UVA’s Grounds. … The other part that hooked him was who he would be collaborating with: Rita Dove, professor of English, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a former Poet Laureate.
While the RealClearPolitics average has Democrats leading by three points on the generic ballot test, that edge is going to have to increase substantially for Democrats to have a chance at retaking the House, explained Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Open-access advocate Brian Nosek, director of the Center for Open Science and a UVA researcher, is calling for psychologists to post their preprints to the site.
“He has a really hard time of just sort of backing down from some sort of fight or argument, and it has caused him to keep a lot of controversies alive that a different kind of campaign could easily deal with,” UVA analyst Kyle Kondik said.
Christopher Ali, who teaches media studies at UVA, said Univision is, like all old-school broadcasters, trying to stay relevant and boost revenue with younger audiences. But another goal might be to combine content.
(By Russell L. Riley, associate professor and co-chairman of the Presidential Oral History Program at UVA’s Miller Center) Although First Ladies have been given important responsibilities in their husbands’ presidencies, none has taken such an active part in policymaking as Hillary Rodham Clinton did.
UVA English professor Stephen Railton and collaborators from around the country and abroad began the “Digital Yoknapatawpha” project several years ago and will continue developing the website, thanks to a three-year, $286,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research division.
The UVA School of Medicine's Dong-Wook Kim and Kwon Park have identified a weakness in small cell lung cancer.
Charlottesville Area Transit says the free trolley will be detoured Friday and Saturday during move-in at UVA. Instead of taking McCormick Road to get to University Avenue, the trolley will travel down Whitehead Road, Stadium Road and Emmet Street.
As UVA’s Miller Center notes, Roosevelt's successful campaign “challenged the conservative wing of the Republican Party and left it discredited.”
UVA and the Charlottesville Police Department are taking new steps to keep underage drinkers away from a booze-filled block party. As many as 6,000 people are expected to show up at the Block Party on Wertland Street Saturday.
Rijo Walker earned his undergraduate degree at Virginia in 3½ years. As a safety for the Cavaliers, he made the ACC’s Academic Honor Roll before interning with the football office while earning his master’s. He recently landed first job as the College Football Playoff's team operations coordinator.
Donald Trump’s ascendance to being the Republican Party’s nominee for president has served as a particular boon for historians. Historians at UVA’s Miller Center for Public Affairs, such as Barbara Perry, co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program, and Nicole Hemmer, assistant professor in presidential studies, have contributed pieces on Trump and conservative politics to USA Today, U.S. News & World Report and The Atlantic.
This is what Milwaukee looks like today, according to the 2010 Census, as visualized by the UVA Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Racial Dot Map.
Former UVA track star Robby Andrews waited until the final turn of his first-round men’s 1,500-meter race Tuesday morning to make his big move, which – so very late in the race – got him up to third place and a guaranteed place in the Thursday evening semifinals of the event at the Estadio Olimpico.
Dr. Mitchell Rosner, a kidney specialist at the UVA School of Medicine who chaired the guideline development group, says that overhydrating with water or sports drinks can lead to a condition called exercise-associated hyponatremia. When the body has too much water relative to its salt level, the salt level in the blood drops too low which can lead to significant problems.
Roush declined to comment on McAuliffe’s latest thoughts. So did UVA Prof. A.E. Dick Howard, who helped write the state constitution and whose analysis McAuliffe has leaned on more than anyone else’s in this case. Howard argued that McAuliffe had the authority to restore rights en masse.