“There’s no question that the surprise of the night was that the Republican Primary was closer than the Democrats,” with Gillespie’s victory “a knife’s edge,” says Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Research by University of Virginia’s Robert S. Harris, University of Oxford’s Tim Jenkinson, Chicago Booth’s Steve Kaplan, and Rüdiger Stucke of private-equity firm Warburg Pincus suggests that one type of private-equity FOF has been able to overcome that fee hurdle.
Slavery has been in the news a lot lately. From the discovery of the auction of 272 enslaved people that enabled Georgetown University to remain in operation to the McGraw-Hill textbook controversy over calling slaves “workers from Africa” and the slavery memorial being built at the University of Virginia, Americans are having conversations about this difficult period in American history.
At a Board of Visitors meeting earlier this month, Melody Bianchetto, the university’s vice president for finance, reminded board members that the university is lucky enough to have a steady stream of philanthropic income — more than $150 million in operating money projected over the next year.
The University of Virginia, in honoring an alumnus who died in combat, is establishing a $10,000 annual scholarship. The Capt. Humayun Khan Memorial Bicentennial Scholarship is a need-based award that will go to one student each year.
The University of Virginia Foundation is planning to expand the squash facility at the Boar's Head Sports Club in anticipation of the World Masters Squash Championships next year.
Randy Jones, associate professor in the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing, is using a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help prostate cancer patients make more informed decisions about their care.
In the midst of an increasingly polarizing debate over the future of the Lee and Jackson statues in downtown Charlottesville, we can’t help but notice the progress being made toward a contrasting memorial being planned for a prominent position on the UVA Grounds.
Despite the 50-50 leadership split at the Ivies, only 20 percent of U.S. colleges and universities are run by women. Dr. Faust’s appointment could have a lasting impact on the gender imbalance among faculty at Harvard, and in the leadership ranks across academia, experts say. “This is a crack in the glass ceiling, in the sense that to have as prestigious an institution as Harvard expand their notion of suitability for the presidency, sets an example for the rest of academia that’s hard to ignore,” says Margaret Miller, professor of higher education at the University of Virginia.
If you need further information check out “the Switch Study,” a clinical study performed by UVA researchers. Their research discovered that switching baby formulas is safe and well tolerated by infants. This can help assure parents and care givers to be confident in making the switch to store brand infant formula.
Otto Warmbier, who was medically evacuated from a 17-month detention in North Korea this week, has extensive loss of brain tissue and is in a state of unresponsive wakefulness, University of Cincinnati doctors said Thursday afternoon.
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato said the primary polls in Virginia this year “were generally awful … The polls generally created two themes that hardened into conventional wisdom. First, Gillespie was the runaway favorite and the GOP primary wasn’t much of a race. Second, Northam and Perriello were in a death struggle in a very close primary that Perriello was on the verge of winning. Both propositions were absolutely wrong.”
(Video) People painted the Beta Bridge at the University of Virginia to show support for Otto Warmbier.
According to researchers at UVA and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the immune system may directly affect social behavior in certain animals, such as mice. The finding could have enormous implications for people with autism-spectrum disorders or with schizophrenia.
The share of the Republican primary electorate from the predominantly moderate and affluent suburbs of Northern Virginia declined from 34 percent in the 2016 presidential primary to 30 percent in Tuesday’s statewide contest, according to an analysis of official data by Geoffrey Skelley, an expert at UVA’S Center for Politics. “There are a lot of moderate, white-collar workers in Northern Virginia who might at one time have been moderate Republicans or independents, but now vote Democratic because they have become functionally Democrats,” Skelley said.
Trump has issued two orders that seek to limit visitors and refugees from several predominantly Muslim countries to the U.S., and both have, so far, been blocked by the courts. “Ultimately, it was the President’s decision whether to defend the first order,” Micah Schwartzman, a constitutional law professor at the University of Virginia, said. “He could have told his Attorney General (or acting Attorney General at the time) to do that.”
Wearing the jacket his son Otto Warmbier wore at the sham trial that ended with his imprisonment in North Korea, Fred Warmbier denounced the “pariah” regime that had brutalized his son, and fought back tears Thursday as he remembered kneeling to hug him when he was returned to the United States.
The Major League Baseball Draft ended Wednesday, signaling a win for Virginia. After five Cavaliers were chosen among the first 10 rounds, Bennett Sousa, selected by the Washington Nationals in the 34th round, became No. 6 Wednesday. Only two UVA signed recruits were picked, but in rounds 31 and 36. The late selections likely indicate both will come to Virginia and not sign professionally.
The parents of a UVA alumnus who was killed in Iraq will establish a scholarship in their son's memory. Khizr and Ghazala Khan will make the announcement Friday about the Bicentennial Scholarship in memory of their son, U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan.
UVA student Otto Warmbier is back home in Cincinnati, but as people in the community awaited news about his health while he was treated at the hospital Wednesday, they were in a familiar place: feeling helpless, wishing there was something they could do.