An accelerated masters program at UVA is paving the way for veterans looking to advance their careers. This group meets every other week for a year and offers students a master's degree in systems engineering.
Jacquelin Alcius co-founded a business accelerator and incubator in the city of Cap-Haitien, Haiti, soon after the country was left devastated by an earthquake in 2010. Alcius is one of 10 young entrepreneurs from Latin American and Caribbean nations who were placed at Charlottesville-area businesses and nonprofits this fall through the U.S. Department of State’s Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative. Charlottesville’s YLAI Professional Fellows were hosted by the Presidential Precinct, a collaboration between UVA, the College of William & Mary and four presidential estates – Thomas Jeff...
On Saturday, people from all backgrounds came together at UVA to celebrate Culture Fest 2017. The event showcased diversity at the University.
Cadets and midshipman at UVA are preparing to honor service members who went missing in action or are prisoners of war. The students are hosting a 24-hour vigil starting Monday at McIntire Amphitheatre.
In 1863, when the U.S. War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops, James T.S. Taylor became one of about 240 African-Americans from Albemarle County to join the Union Army in the Civil War. During Reconstruction, Taylor went on to be a county delegate at the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868. The Charlottesville City Council on Monday plans to honor Taylor for his service 150 years ago to the state and the country. According to a recent study by UVA’s John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, Taylor was one of at least 240 black men from Albemarle who fought for the U...
With less than two days left until election day, Sen. Mark Warner and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez stopped at UVA in an effort to get out the vote Sunday night. Warner and Perez spoke on the Lawn at UVA to encourage millennials to vote and to campaign for Ralph Northam.
With the election for Virginia’s governor just two days away, UVA students are working to get out the vote. On Sunday, Democratic Party leaders rallied volunteers in Charlottesville to explain why this election is historic.
The new center is being led by Derrick Alridge, a professor in UVA’s Curry School of Education. Alridge also is the director of “Teachers in the Movement,” an oral history project that explores the ideas and pedagogy of teachers during the civil rights movement.
Derrick Alridge said that hearing the toll of activism on educators during civil rights struggles informs his own teaching and research at UVA’s Curry School of Education, and provided the impetus for UVA’s recently opened Center on Race, Education and the South.
New UVA athletic director Carla Williams has made her first hire, picking a department deputy familiar to both her and the University. Former UVA administrator Jim Booz, who has spent the past six years with Williams at Georgia, will become the Cavaliers’ deputy athletics director for administration in December, the school announced Monday.
“We think within a three-year period, someone could develop an improved, better-engineered, all-purpose helmet. We don’t say engineering is a panacea and will solve everything. It’s a systemic approach,” says Dr. Jeff Crandall, director of UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics and chairman of the NFL Engineering Committee.
Larry Sabato is weighing in on the close gubernatorial election for Virginia.
A controversial TV ad targeting Republican Ed Gillespie has been pulled off the air a day after it began running. The commercial was paid for by the Latino Victory Fund, an independent group supporting Democrat Ralph Northam’s bid to be Virginia’s next governor. “It certainly provoked a pretty loud response from the right,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Republicans were very angry with it.” Skelley added that Gillespie’s campaign has run equally negative ads against Northam.
The commissioner of the revenue assesses personal property taxes and issues business licenses, among other functions. The treasurer collects and invests all the city’s money. The clerk of the court issues marriage licenses and keeps records of court cases, deeds and wills. Their duties are similar to those of many city department heads, who are – at least in theory – appointed based on skill, education and experience. But there are few requirements for holding a constitutional office – aside from the commonwealth’s attorney, who must be a member of the state bar. If you can win an el...
"Tension in Virginia's whiter areas, rural areas, versus more multicultural areas – those are very old tensions," UVA historian Grace Elizabeth Hale said. The Trump campaign and this year's protests in Charlottesville and elsewhere "have put those things in front in a way that they hadn't been before," she said.
The UVA School of Medicine has concluded clinical trials on a new form of treatment for Parkinson’s disease and reports encouraging results. Neurosurgeon and principal investigator Jeff Elias has successfully used focused ultrasound on essential tremors. Now, he says, a pilot study indicates it works on Parkinson’s disease as well.
After years of animal testing, Penn State researchers have developed a therapy to treat some of the most resistant cancers without damaging healthy cells, and that treatment is now in the early stages of testing on humans. The therapy has been approved by the FDA for phase one clinical trials at three U.S. institutions. including the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
A new international study led by the UVA School of Medicine has found that breastfeeding for just two months cuts a baby's risk of sudden infant death syndrome almost in half.
UVA is playing host to an expert who says tighter gun control won't just drop the number of homicides in the U.S, but have an impact on suicides as well. Dr. Steven Miles, a medical professor from the University of Minnesota, spoke about the direct correlation between number of gun-owning households and gun related deaths.
Several dozen UVA students walked out of their classes Wednesday to protest what they say is an increasing attack on those who are undocumented, both at UVA and around the country. More than 100 gathered on the amphitheater steps to talk about the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., and how common it is to know one.