The Virginia Student Environmental Coalition is riding along the proposed route of Dominion's natural gas pipeline and talking to landowners along the way. They traveled 47 miles across Augusta County Sunday, ending at Sherando Lake. College students concerned about the future of the environment began a bike ride Sunday that will stretch the width of Virginia.
Many college football coaches have advocated for years for ways to get more money, within the rules, to their players. So they all must be ecstatic with the NCAA’s new legislation that allows colleges to pay for athletes’ full cost of attendance and not just the previously covered tuition, room and board, fees and books. Right? At the University of Virginia, in-state students on full scholarships will receive an added $3,180 for the upcoming school year to cover the full cost of attendance. Out-of-state students are eligible for up to $4,450, depending on where they live.
A cosmic dinosaur is about to hatch, say scientists, who have discovered what may be the first known example of a globular cluster on verge of being born – an unimaginably massive, extremely dense, but star-free cloud of molecular gas. The globular cluster on the verge of being born was discovered by Kelsey Johnson, an astronomer at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and colleagues using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile.
German intellectuals created the idea of the research university, and, with it, academic disciplines. In “Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University” (Johns Hopkins University Press), Chad Wellmon explores this history and its impact on academe in the United States, right up through the creation of massive open online courses. Wellmon, associate professor of German studies at the University of Virginia, discussed his new book in an email interview with Inside Higher Ed.
For the past 15 years, crime investigators have employed a type of sophisticated DNA testing to determine the source of genetic material, such as hair or skin, recovered at a crime scene. Despite the availability of this DNA testing, however, the FBI recently revealed that some jurisdictions around the US were still relying on an outdated technique called hair microscopy. But the problem doesn't stop at hair microscopy. Other so-called eye-balling techniques for determining evidence still exist — such as bite marks, ballistics, and even fingerprints. &qu...
(By Abraham Axler, the student body president at the University of Virginia.) The success of the University of Virginia’s new financial model, termed “Affordable Excellence,” ought to be determined not by statistics but rather by students’ experiences. Our nation is facing a crisis of college affordability and student indebtedness to which there is no elegant solution. The aim of Affordable Excellence is to increase the accessibility of a UVa education to lower- and middle-income families. This is a noble goal, but it cannot be the only goal.
Headlines about Greek Life portray a culture of excessive drinking, partying, sexual assaults and all around misbehavior. A now discredited Rolling Stone Magazine article that claimed a University of Virginia student was the victim of a gang rape at a fraternity house has shined an even harsher light on the culture
The Charlottesville School Board is delaying a decision on a $600,000 reading initiative. The new Reading Initiative for Students to Excel (RISE) would keep those students struggling with reading in a mandatory two hour after school program. RISE is a cooperation with the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education.
Stroll down Rugby Road on any given day and you’ll see students shuffling to class while others fling Frisbees and play music as they socialize in Mad Bowl, the grassy field at the northeast corner of Rugby and University Avenue. College life may look relaxing to a passerby, but many of these same students also dedicate hours to service outside of the classroom on a daily basis. Between Beta Bridge and the University Grounds lies Madison House, an independent nonprofit organization that connects student volunteers with more than 100 nonprofits and other programs across Charlottesville.
You’re standing in the middle of an open gallery floor, surrounded by white walls hung with prints, paintings, photos and the occasional freestanding sculpture. Works appear to be clustered around intentional themes like color, medium or subject, but nothing is labeled. “You have to walk up and experience it. You’re interacting with the piece,” said Rebecca Schoenthal, interim curator at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia and co-curator of the museum’s latest exhibit, “What is a Line?”
The University of Virginia Health System's stroke program now has one of the highest distinctions from the American Heart Association. UVA received both the 2015 Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold-Plus Achievement Award and made the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite. Neurologists are working on a number of treatment options including what is called clot-retrieval. This approach will streamline UVA stroke guidelines going forward.
Two states, California and Vermont, have called for a convention to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision that permits huge amounts of unregulated money into federal campaigns. Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist, wants a convention to adopt sweeping changes, including a single six-year presidential term and concomitant House and Senate terms, to create more of a parliamentary system. Petitions to adopt term limits for members of Congress have circulated for years.
Back in the 1920s, most American city-dwellers took public transportation to work every day. There were 17,000 miles of streetcar lines across the country, running through virtually every major American city. That included cities we don't think of as hubs for mass transit today: Atlanta, Raleigh, and Los Angeles. So whatever happened to all those streetcars? "There's this widespread conspiracy theory that the streetcars were bought up by a company National City Lines, which was effectively controlled by GM, so that they could be torn up and converted ...
Do you believe in life after death? Where does the soul go? Can it live on in another body? A professor at the University of Virginia studies cases of children who say they have lived a past life as someone else. Dr. Jim Tucker has written a book about it, called Return to Life.
For many New Yorkers, nothing symbolizes summer more than a scorching day at Coney Island or a blissful swim in McCarren Park Pool. And some are urging the city to make it easier for locals to escape the heat by extending the season of public beaches and pools beyond the typical definition of summer. “Prior to the civil rights movement, public beaches were only public to white America,” says University of Virginia Professor Andrew Kahrl, who has studied the history of race and beaches in the U.S. “They were practically off-limits to people of color.” Today, as the effec...
While the power of money in politics should never be underestimated, institutions can be changed. Thomas Philippon of New York University and Ariell Reshef of the University of Virginia argue, for instance, that financial deregulation produced a huge wage premium for finance executives, even as it increased risks for the rest of society.
Medically and legally, it is challenging to determine consent for someone with Alzheimer’s. Two common tests for short-term memory, the Mini Mental Status Exam and the Brief Interview for Mental Status, are widely acknowledged by experts as well as the Alzheimer’s Association not to be sufficient to determine whether a patient with dementia can or cannot consent to sexual activity. John Portmann, a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, says that both people in a marriage have rights to sexual satisfaction. In his book The Ethics of Sex and Alzheime...
The technology industry is plagued not only by a gender gap but also by a broad lack of inclusiveness that affects minorities too, experts say. Joanne Cohoon, an associate professor of science, technology and society at the University of Virginia, has said that girls are often expected to have interests that are fundamentally different from those of boys, and that this can create a gender imbalance in work like computer science.
Jerome McGann believes that Poe has been underrated as a poet. McGann teaches at the University of Virginia, where Poe briefly studied.
Two students at the University of Virginia have developed a new app.The app is called VotersChoice and was created by Tara Raj and Garrett Allen.