Thrillist.com's list of the "most beautiful college campuses in America" includes the University of Virginia. "The neoclassical architecture aside, the campus is 1,682 acres of classic Virginia foliage, making it feel in summer like a public country club during the fall, a technicolor wonderland," the website wrote.
A robust fourth-quarter recuperation enabled the Cavaliers to defeat Central Michigan 49-35 after squandering an all-but-insurmountable four-touchdown lead. But before they could deal with the Chippewas, the Cavaliers had to deal with history.
At the University of Virginia, a motion to endorse Trump almost tore apart the chapter’s College Republicans, majority of whom criticized the GOP candidate’s spiteful remarks against the fallen Muslim-American soldier, Capt. Humayun Khan. The late Capt. Khan, a UVA alumnus, was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq while serving in the U.S. Army. The UVA Republican chapter voted 67-63 to endorse Trump.
“Everybody knows she’s smart and more knowledgeable [on policy] than Trump,” agrees Larry Sabato, the founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “She has to prove to be likable. She has to demonstrate she has personal qualities to be president. That’s tough to do in a debate. But too bad.”
The reason viewing levels may skyrocket? Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, cites the unpredictability of Trump, whose appearances in the Republican primary debates set audience records on four different cable networks over the past year.
There is a great deal of excitement heading into Monday night’s presidential debate, but Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said he hopes the audience will allow viewers to listen to the candidates, who enter the debates very close in the nation’s polls.
“Anne Holton is the perfect political spouse, not because she can gaze up at her husband in an adoring way, but because she is a superb campaigner on her own,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “She has given hundreds of speeches over the years. And she is Kaine’s intellectual equal.”
Yet while debate one-liners, exchanges, and candidate performances have produced some of the most memorable moments in U.S. politics, few debate bon mots or gaffes have succeeded in making or breaking a candidate’s campaign – even if popular wisdom suggests otherwise, says Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics.
In “Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century,” co-written by UVA sociology professor Josipa Roksa, the authors argue that accountability is the key. If faculty in economics or biology can come to a consensus on what students should know by the end of four years, they can come up with tests that meaningfully measure students’ progress.
Health-related vendors handed out life-saving information and the University of Virginia’s Mobile Mammography program offered free testing.
“To think that kids’ experiences in the early grades changed so much over such a short period of time is really surprising to us,” said Daphna Bassok, a UVA associate professor of education. Bassok said she believes the shift in kindergarten is rooted in a “trickling down of accountability pressures,” with schools under more demands to ready children for standardized tests that are used to evaluate teachers and schools.
The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences is planning major reforms to the general education curriculum – the mandatory coursework students need to take to graduate.
A University of Virginia committee recently endorsed a master plan for Brandon Avenue that initially calls for a new 300-bed dormitory and a new student health center.
To help compensate for a major decline in state funding, the schools sought freedom from the state bureaucracy’s clawing procedures. That impulse, which found broad favor in the Virginia General Assembly, formed the basis of new management agreements enacted 10 years ago for UVA and three other state universities. Those agreements effectively set the table for the creation of UVA’s Strategic Investment Fund.
UVA doctors along with the Charlottesville Fire Department and City Parks and Recreation gathered to start the discussion at the Senior Center. "One-third of adults over the age of 65 falls," said Diamond Walton, the injury prevention coordinator for the UVA Trauma Program.
Dr. John C. Herr, the enterprising UVA reproductive biologist who invented the home male fertility test and led the search for a male contraceptive, died suddenly on Saturday afternoon. Herr, 68, died of a heart attack just hours after participating in a 10K run for charity at Meriwether Lewis Elementary School in Albemarle County.
With more than half the amount already raised, Virginia Commonwealth University set a goal of $750 million for its largest fundraising campaign yet. And the University of Virginia next summer is expected to begin the silent phase of a multibillion-dollar effort for its third century that will be tied to the bicentennial celebration.
The back-cover copy of UVA professor of English Jane Alison’s “Nine Island” identifies it as “an intimate autobiographical novel,” which seems both exactly right and entirely inadequate.
Coaches and athletes alike have sworn by pickle juice for decades, pointing to its sodium content as a way to help retain moisture and electrolytes. “Most athletes walk around in a dehydrated state,” said Randy Bird, UVA’s director of sports nutrition. “It’s a gradual problem throughout the week. So Monday they practice and don’t properly hydrate, and Tuesday they do it again. And then, bam, it’s Saturday, and they’re very dehydrated.”
UVA is moving forward with plans to give the intersection of Emmet Street and Ivy Road a complete makeover. The Board of Visitors recently approved the “long-term framework” for a plan to make major changes to the intersection.