Two of the Democrats vying for spots on the Charlottesville City Council participated in a form Wednesday night at the University of Virginia. The forum, which was hosted by the Gov360 nonprofit, focused on the relationship between the city and UVA, and how it can be improved.
More than 100 employers filled the John Paul Jones Arena Wednesday for the annual Charlottesville Community Job Fair. Most of Charlottesville's largest employers attended the event including the University of Virginia and Martha Jefferson Hospital,  as well as a few stores opening new locations such as Bonjagles, Chipotle and Nude Food.
Just 14 months ago, the Blue Ridge Scholarships program was launched with a $4 million challenge grant and an invitation to University of Virginia supporters to match the total. A rapid and robust response grew the seed grant to $8 million, propelling a need-based scholarship that assisted dozens of high-achieving students in the current academic year.
A group of graduating University of Virginia students will leave a legacy with seven Charlottesville nonprofits. Students from the UVA Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy awarded a total of $50,000 in grants to those organizations during a ceremony Wednesday afternoon. The private initiatives and public problems class selected the nonprofits to receive the funds after researching and experiencing the work they do in the community.
The University of Virginia’s University Singers will be performing for audiences in England, Czech Republic, Poland and Austria. The ensemble’s first international tour in several decades is set for May 19 to 28. The singers, led by faculty conductor Michael Slon, will perform works by Whitacre, Part, Lukaszewski, Dvorak, Bruckner, Finzi and Biebl. Some American folk songs and spirituals also will be on the program.
In the increasingly crowded GOP primary field, there are three candidates who have something that all Republicans want, and few can claim: a plausible path to making a substantial connection with Hispanic voters. They are, or course, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. That won’t be easy, says University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. “Hispanics lean heavily to the Democratic party in a polarized age when party identification matters greatly. Turnout may be the key for the GOP. Are Hispanics energized (2012) or not ene...
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has hurdles to overcome if he doesn't want his 2016 presidential bid to look like his 2008 race, two political scientists said Tuesday. Huckabee will have to work harder to differentiate himself from the other social conservatives, said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of "Sabato's Crystal Ball," the University of Virginia Center for Politics' nonpartisan newsletter on American campaigns and elections.
At the University of Virginia, landscape architect Timothy Beatley has created the Biophilic Cities Project, devoted to developing new ways of making cities more “biophilic”, or close to nature – not only by increasing exposure to green spaces, but also by enhancing the emotional connection of urban residents to life outside.
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.
Testiness during oral arguments at the Supreme Court get more heated based on the subject. Here's Justice Scalia during oral arguments two years ago in U.S. vs. Windsor challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. Michael A. Livermore, Associate Professor at University of Virginia Law School, weighs in on the analysis, which is to be formally published next year.
The man charged with abducting and killing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham last year now is facing the death penalty. Albemarle County prosecutors announced Tuesday that they have charged Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr, 33, with capital murder and said they will seek the death penalty. He also faces a charge of abduction with intent to defile.
Two new reports show the U.S. Department of Education has been hit with a massive increase in complaints about schools' handling of sexual violence over the last few years. "This data underscores that more must be done to address the backlog of ongoing Title IX investigations into how college campuses handle sexual assault, including the UVA investigation that has been pending since June 2011," Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said in a statement Tuesday, highlighting thongoing inquiry at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is among the 10 schools with the strongest record for getting its students these types of full-time, long-term jobs, according to this week’s ABA employment report, which reflects outcomes for over 200 schools and includes positions the programs themselves funded.  
(By Josh Wheeler, the Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression located in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he co-directs a First Amendment Practice Clinic.) On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its opinion in Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar, a case arising out of Florida decided by a five-to-four vote involving the confidence of the American public in the country’s judicial system. In the words of the great legal jurist Yogi Berra, &ldquo...
But the field of serious contenders has ballooned to more than two dozen -- 20 of which are on the GOP side, according to supreme pundit Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia (he's to national politics what Bill Ballenger is to Michigan politics).
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is trying to frame her campaign around issues like immigration reform, but her message has been muddled by a series of recent distractions, including questions about donations to the Clinton Foundation. "When you vote for the Clintons you get a lot of good things, but in the package also comes something kind of bad, which is ethical transgressions," University of Virginia Director for Politics Larry Sabato said.
The speakers on the panel reflect the Urban Blue theme really well. The closing keynote this year is a professor from the University of Virginia, Tim Beatley. He wrote a book called Blue Urbanism, from which we’ve derived the theme of the conference. He’s giving the closing keynote on designing cities to be more blue-minded while also reflecting on the discussions throughout the day — a big job!
A prosecutor's decision not to seek a death penalty for the man accused of abducting and killing a University of Virginia student is emblematic of capital punishment's decline across the country and in the state that once operated one of the busiest execution chambers in the nation. A recent study by University of Virginia law professor John G. Douglass concluded that the number of capital murder charges has declined, but not as rapidly as the number of death sentences.
The Book Doctors met Bruce Holsinger at the Tucson Book Festival (by the way, if you read or write, do yourself a favor and put the Tucson Book Festival on your Bucket List) and when he told us about his book, The Invention of Fire, we just had to pick his brain about writing historical fiction, non-fiction, teaching fiction, plagues, witches, wars and guns. Bruce Holsinger is an award-winning fiction writer, critic, and literary scholar who teaches at the University of Virginia.
Biologists have just announced that they have determined what they believe to be the key mechanisms of aging. And, more importantly, they claim that with this knowledge they can now determine how to slow down and potentially reverse the process. “This is a beautiful example of how genomics, human stem cells and the new gene-editing technologies conjoin to provide major insights into human disease,” comments Rick Horwitz, who is the executive director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science. He also holds a position as a professor at the University of Virginia and goes on to sa...