Princeton University is one step closer to offering an undergraduate major in African-American studies. Last week, the faculty at the Ivy League school voted to departmentalize the Center for African American Studies (CAAS), which has granted undergraduate and graduate certificates since 2006. The faculty vote comes nearly three years after an external review of the center, which was led by Dr. Deborah McDowell, the Alice Griffin Professor of English and director of the Carter G. Woodson Center at the University of Virginia. McDowell and two other members of the committee recommended that the ...
The 2016 presidential race is already becoming crowded with candidates, and officials at the University of Virginia Center for Politics say Virginia is going to play a pivotal role in deciding who will win the White House. The center's Kyle Kondik says Virginia is trying to move its primary earlier in the year to have a stronger influence on selecting the Democratic and Republican nominee.
Amazon's recent decision to start paying local tax rates in individual European countries could have a domino effect on the overseas operations of major American technology companies such as Google and Apple, which have been embroiled in court cases against European regulators. Ruth Mason, international tax expert and law professor at the University of Virginia, attributes the European regulators' moves to a revenue crunch. "[Individual European] countries need revenue, and this is a push by regulators to reduce profit shifting by [multinational corporations],"...
Patent law is not something most Americans are passionate about or have ever contemplated — which is exactly why the Obama White House and Congress got away with making radical changes to our time-tested traditions of protecting the fruits of entrepreneurial inventors’ labor. Like Obamacare, the sheer size and complexity of the AIA nullify the dubious benefits the White House and its statist lobbying pals claim it will bring. University of Virginia law professor John Duffy points out that the law is 140 pages long, “more than twice the length of the entire federal patent stat...
A nurse, an owner of a medical billing firm , a doctor — all in South Carolina — and an executive with a laboratory company in California came forward with allegations that put one of the Richmond region’s fastest-growing companies in the cross hairs of federal regulators. “In many situations, there is no way you would know there is something wrong without someone on the inside,” Margaret Foster Riley, a professor of law and public policy at the University of Virginia, said about the whistleblowers.
Paul Tudor Jones II is the president and founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, and was featured in Jack D. Schwagers classic “Market Wizards“. … I went to high school at Memphis University school. My father went to Virginia Law School so he steered me to the University of Virginia. I went to Virginia from 1972 to 1976, majored in economics and had a great time. I really loved UVa.
Virginia junior Ryan Shane (Falls Church, Va.) concluded his season Monday by capturing the 2015 NCAA Men's Singles Championship. Shane, the No. 8 seed, rallied from down a set and a break to defeat seventh-seeded Noah Rubin of Wake Forest 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-1 at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center on the campus of Baylor University.
Vinegar Hill Theatre will open again, but for a different purpose this time around. Light House Studio, a Charlottesville nonprofit, has purchased the iconic downtown space to expand its efforts to teach the art of filmmaking to children and teens. Jody Kielbasa, director of the Virginia Film Festival and vice provost for the arts at the University of Virginia, said he’s happy to hear Light House Studio has purchased the theater, which had been a site for the film festival in the past. Kielbasa said the film festival and Light House Studio have partnered together for a long time.
Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System’s new clinic on Pantops hand out some unusual prescriptions, including acupuncture, yoga and massage therapy. But patients who also need cholesterol medication and antibiotics won’t be disappointed either.
By unlocking the secrets of a bizarre virus that survives in nearly boiling acid, scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have found a blueprint for battling human disease using DNA clad in near-indestructible armor.
In almost every speech during graduation exercises this month, administrators, students, and even Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) mentioned the series of dramatic events — almost all beyond the university’s control, but moments, still, that defined the academic year.
Professor Lavahn Hoh spent more than four decades teaching various aspects of theater, but perhaps his greatest show on earth was "Circus in America", an elective that focused on the history of an art Hoh said we know very little about. After 46 years at UVa, attention was directed to the center ring as Hoh took his final bow.
A year ago, as Memorial Day neared, a special program aired on nearly 80 public radio stations nationwide. Last month, "With Good Reason," which is produced by the Charlottesville-based Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, was honored with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award by the Radio Television Digital News Association. The prize came as a result of the special program winning first place for audio news documentary.
The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business will begin its annual, summer-long accelerator program to help aspiring entrepreneurs start their ventures. The 2015 i.Lab Incubator program in the W.L. Lyons Brown III i.Lab features 23 ventures, consisting of both new and returning participants. The 2015 class includes nine ventures from Darden students, nine from non-Darden UVa students and faculty and five from the community.
(Opinion) By Gov. Gerald Baliles: The headline events of the past five years, events out of the control of any one person, have obscured many of President Sullivan's accomplishments. Progress rarely makes headlines. Crises do. But the day-to-day moving forward of this complex institution through her leadership and her administrative team, is a story that should be told.
Loans for a student from a low-income family will be capped at $4,000 over four years, rather than $14,000 currently. For other in-state students, loan debt will be reduced from $28,000 to $18,000.
America has many educational challenges, but one of the most serious is the decline in general knowledge, especially history and geography, among students. Whether that can be attributed to the Internet, or increased non-academic demands on schools and teachers, or the zeal to test, or a decline in rigor in the nation’s classrooms and in the culture more broadly, the general-knowledge deficit is as much of a crisis as the budget deficit, maybe graver. Nearly three decades ago, E.D. Hirsch Jr., an emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, decried the decline in cultural literacy, ...
Schools are continuing to step up campus security measures despite the fact that actual school violence has declined in the last couple of decades. But Dr. Dewey Cornell, a professor in the school of education at the University of Virginia and director of the school’s Virginia Youth Violence Project, told Fusion studies show no relationship between security measures and crime in schools.
It is virtually impossible to completely secure the software used to operated aerial drones or other unmanned vehicles, so it is important that these systems be designed to operate safely even when the software is compromised, panelists said during a session at the recent Unmanned Systems 2015 event in Atlanta. And those are the kind of opportunities that being exploited by cyber attackers that have significantly better tools at their disposal than they did just a few years ago, according to Thomas Richardson, a systems and information engineering researcher for the University of Virginia.
Underwhelmed by the effort thus far of Democrats to win back the U.S. Senate seat held by Pat Toomey? You're not alone. The University of Virginia has released the latest edition of Sabato's Crystal Ball, and Kyle Klondik, the project's managing editor, isn't especially impressed either – he's moved Pennsylvania from a tossup in the 2016 Senate race to leaning Republican, a startling assessment given the widely held belief that Mr. Toomey is one of 2016's more vulnerable incumbents.