On a recent Sunday morning, it was business as usual at Classified Moto, a custom motorcycle shop in a former mule barn here. In a corner, Matthew Crawford, whose independent custom-parts business is based at the shop, was talking with a reporter about Kant. Motorcycles and philosophy both count as shoptalk for Mr. Crawford, a wiry, soft-spoken 49-year-old decked out that day in a blue workshirt and retro-nerd glasses. (Crawford is a fellow at U.Va.’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.)
The University of Virginia’s Medical Center Operating Board on Tuesday approved expanding the center’s emergency department into a six-story tower that would provide three floors of private patient rooms and beds in the emergency room with space dedicated to mental health services.
The West Potomac High School softball team honored former teammate Hannah Graham after its season-opening game. Graham, a second-year U.Va. student, died last fall after having gone missing.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe is ordering the Alcoholic Beverage Control to retrain its officers in use of force and in cultural diversity, per an executive order signed Wednesday.
University of Virginia students are pushing the state government to take the power to arrest people away from the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control agents following high-profile incidents involving unarmed students.
Speaking at the U.Va. School of Law, the attorney representing National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden warned against about the future of privacy if citizens aren’t protected from government and corporate overreach.
The Virginia Department of Education is awarding more than $1.6 million in grants to enhance teachers’ knowledge of science and math and their ability to teach the subjects. The department said in a release that nine partnerships between school divisions and colleges and universities won the awards as part of the math and science partnership grant competition. A partnership of the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University received $208,555 to serve 60 teachers in Albemarle County.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said today that the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control should not enforce liquor laws against students purchasing illegally but should enforce the laws against establishments that sell to the students.
Students picketed outside the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library shortly after the University of Virginia Board of Visitors finalized a series of planned tuition increases set to take effect this fall.
University of Virginia chief Teresa Sullivan has persevered through an aborted coup, the aftermath of two student murders, a scandal over an alleged gang rape, and the recent fallout from the bloody arrest of a black student by white officers. Does that make her a good leader?
Humans are lazy thinkers. Although the brain comprises only about 2.5 percent of our body weight, it generally uses 20 percent of the body’s energy. That’s why the human learning machine prefers to operate in a low gear — on autopilot — as much as possible: It’s a conservation thing. So (your slothful brain is probably thinking) what’s wrong with that? According to Edward Hess, the big problem is that business has taken the “laziness model” — aka operational excellence — as far as it can go. “The lazy brain is why the operationa...
More than two decades ago, long before the Great Recession wreaked havoc on higher education finances and tuition skyrocketed, David Breneman, currently a professor of economics in education at the University of Virginia, warned educators that liberal arts colleges were on their way out. "The liberal arts college as we know it is disappearing from the landscape, and another type of institution – the professional college – is taking its place" he wrote in 1990. More recent research has also found Breneman's statement to be true – the number of liberal arts c...
A new campaign urging science museums to cut ties with David Koch has thrown a spotlight on the billionaire Koch brothers' enormous philanthropic footprint and their oil interests, as they continue to undercut climate science, environmental regulations and clean energy.Other experts on philanthropy contend that the outcomes the donations create are more important than the intentions of the donors. Olivier Zunz, a professor of history at the University of Virginia and an expert on American philanthropy, said the "more important thing is to see if there are strings attached than second-...
The University of Virginia Medical Center is moving forward with a plan to expand its emergency department. A plan to add dozens more beds for emergency patients is now headed to the UVA Board of Visitors.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have developed a compound that delays leukemia in mice and effectively kills leukemia cells in human tissue samples, raising hopes that the drug could lead to improved treatments in people. The researchers call it an exciting "new paradigm" for treating leukemia.
Young adults who were raised in educated households develop higher cognitive ability than those who were brought up in less ideal environments, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia and Lund University in Sweden.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe ordered changes today at the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to address mounting concerns over the agency's law enforcement powers in the aftermath of the second allegation of excessive force against a University of Virginia student in two years.
The University of Virginia will institute a new pricing model that will raise tuition for incoming in-state students over the next two academic years but lower student debt caps. The Board of Visitors approved the plan in a quick vote — 13-1, with one member abstaining — on the same day it was publicly announced, agitating students who had come to protest rumored tuition increases.
The Charlottesville Police Department has found there is “no basis” to believe the allegations in an explosive Rolling Stone story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia. This represents the second time in a month — the first was the Department of Justice’s inquiry into the Michael Brown shooting — that careful investigation has refuted the premises of a story that provoked national outrage.
It’s a crowded field out there for the Republican presidential primary. Whether firebrand Ted Cruz, the first out of the gate with his official announcement Monday, can break from the pack is now the question. “History tells us that somebody that the party leadership likes will get the nomination,” says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics in Charlottesville. “Certainly the party leadership will not want Ted Cruz to get the nomination.”