The Virginia Department of Education has awarded more than $2.4 million in second-year grants to support 13 programs established last year to help math and science teachers learn more about their topics and sharpen their classroom skills. The grants include $238,034 for VCU and UVA to serve 85 teachers in Caroline County, Chesterfield, Henrico and Richmond.
UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan is planning a second official trip to East Asia. Sullivan will depart May 24 and return June 2, traveling to Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo. She will speak at forums and participate in panel discussions at each stop.
Charlottesville: it’s the heart of Virginia in terms of both location and culture. It’s not quite a small town, but doesn’t pass for a big city, either. In this spirit, Charlottesville mixes together many different identities but never loses itself. It’s a college town and a beautiful place to raise a family. The University of Virginia is one of the most integral parts of the town. This community of undergraduate, medical, business, and law students as well as the faculty and staff create a spirit of higher education.
Harry Harding recently sat down with Insight to discuss the state of U.S.-China relations. Harding, a longtime observer of China, is concurrently a professor of public policy at UVA and a visiting professor of social science and senior adviser to the director of the Institute for Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Washington’s journal “is of profound historical significance” and offers a glimpse into an adventurous period in his life, said Edward Lengel, director of the Washington Papers at UVA, home to 135,000 documents pertaining to the nation’s first president.
A training exercise at UVA puts first responders under the stress of a school shooting was part of the annual Pegasus Critical Care Conference, but no one was expecting it.
The University of Virginia professor who predicted the resurgence of cities, questioned suburban safety and led a grassroots effort to turn Charlottesville into a town and merge it into Albemarle County, has died.
Last month, Ryan Zimmerman gave $1 million to UVA to support the baseball program. The money will go towards an expansion of Davenport Field, including new permanent chair-back seats, field level club seats and suites. Zimmerman says, "It's where I came from. They're a big reason why I'm here, and it's the least I could do for them. They're a great group. They have a good thing going there, and they obviously helped me become the player and the person that I am today, so it was nice to be able to do that for them."
“The pensions that run into problems are the defined benefit pensions where it’s entirely up to the employer, the city or the state to put the money into the account and save the money," said Leora Friedberg, an associate professor of economics at the University of Virginia.
As doctors try to connect with young, digitally native patients, those same patients are sending pictures of their genitalia to their doctors’ mobile phones. UVA health ethicist Lois Shepherd said exchanging photos like this is incredibly risky.
With the air of inevitability surrounding Donald Trump’s potential nomination dissipating somewhat, there might be some hope among Republicans that what looked like an unmitigated down-ballot disaster in November might not be so awful after all. But a new analysis from UVA’s Center for Politics and some recent polling suggest that Republicans shouldn’t get their hopes up just yet.
Kyle Kondik, an elections analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, told the BBC he could envision a candidate such as Libertarian Gary Johnson receiving a "significant number of protest votes – probably not enough to win a state, but just enough to deprive Trump of votes in certain places.”
(By Michael A. Livermore, UVA associate professor of law) From chants of “Drill, Baby, Drill” to outrage over the BP oil spill, offshore drilling has been highly controversial in recent years. Some view it as a vastly underused revenue source, while others see it as a grave environmental threat.
Ila Berman has been named the new dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. Berman comes to Charlottesville from Toronto, where she is a tenured professor of architecture at the University of Waterloo.
An obscure medical technique involving zapping a body part with converging beams of sound is finally getting some high-profile attention. UVA neurosurgeon Dr. Neal Kassell has made it his mission to accelerate development of the treatment, and this week, he got an opportunity to do that in a big way when he was named to a panel advising Vice President Joe Biden on the national cancer moonshot initiative.
The Cornerstone Summer Institute helps high school students to learn about the legacy of slavery in Charlottesville. As part of the program students will dig at an archaeological site and do service projects to understand how UVA impacts the surrounding community.
Researchers have developed a super-strong steel that acts more like glass – and can be used to shield satellites from meteorites or drill through stubborn rock formations. Another idea was to use it for a bunker-busting projectile, said UVA physics professor John Poon.
"The vast majority of incumbents are solid, predictable conservatives or liberals, with voting records to match," says Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. "It is difficult and unpleasant and, maybe impossible, for them to adapt to a moderate competitive district. Just as Americans generally are seeking shelter in localities that reflect their own social mores and party choices, so, too, do member of Congress seek territory that reflects their own shade of red or blue."
Douglas Laycock, a constitutional scholar at the UVA Law School who helped win passage of Religious Freedom Restoration Act, said state RFRAs have been under-enforced. "But they have done some good in cases that do not involve culture war issues and that the press has mostly not covered," he said.
“The threat of Trump using Wisconsin as a potential springboard to the nomination probably focused the minds of anti-Trump voters in Wisconsin, and many strategically voted for Cruz as a way to block Trump,” said Kyle D. Kondik, the director of communications at UVA’s Center for Politics. “The chances of a contested convention just went up, but Trump still has a chance to finish April strong.”