UVA is one of the top higher education institutions in the country, according to Business Insider, which recently released its list of the 50 best colleges in America.
Universities across the country have been wrestling with their historic ties to slavery. The University of Virginia named a new dorm after a husband and wife who were owned by professors on campus.
More than a dozen universities in the U.S. – including Brown, Harvard and UVA – have publicly recognized their ties to slavery and the slave trade.
Last year, the University of Virginia named a new dorm building after a slave couple who worked on campus. Officials at the University of Virginia and Brown University said they have had little success tracking descendants of slaves connected to their campuses.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, discusses the evaporation of the convention bounce and the state of the electoral map.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, discusses the evaporation of the convention bounce and the state of the electoral map.
As the nation celebrates the 100-year history of its national parks, some UVA alumni and professors are remembering a man who was central to the evolution of many parks – a landscape architect who shared his wisdom with hundreds of students.
UVA swimmer Leah Smith has returned to Charlottesville with her two Olympic medals.
A UVA professor is weighing in on the feud between the city of Charlottesville and the Charlottesville Parking Center over the Water Street Parking Garage. Andrew Mondschein, an assistant professor of urban and environmental planning, looked at all four scenarios that CPC had presented to the city earlier in August.
(By Russell L. Riley, an associate professor at UVA’s Miller Center) In his 1992 campaign for president, Bill Clinton called for federal investments to revive the U.S. economy. But soon after he was elected, he had to change course, when it turned out that the budget deficit was far higher than projected. The ensuing battle over his first economic plan would define the rest of his presidency.
As children head back to class, school systems in Virginia are gearing up to make sure pupils get the health care they need by setting up telehealth centers. The centers, which will be located in elementary and high schools in Bland County and Martinsville and developed with help from the Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth at University of Virginia, will especially be helpful for children with special care needs.
A 2014 study from the University of Virginia compared kindergarten teachers’ expectations for their students in 1998 to today. The differences were striking. In 1998, 31 percent of teachers thought that kindergarten students should be able to read by the end of the year. By 2014, that figure is now about 80 percent.
Charlottesville has been ranked No. 4 of 200 cities as being one of the most environmentally friendly in the United States, according to a new study. The city says it collaborates with the University of Virginia to continue research on sustainability and to push for new initiatives.
Nitrogen is a fertilizer spread across farm fields and excreted by farm animals. Over the decades, large amounts have washed into Virginia’s rivers and streams, according to James Galloway, a UVA professor of environmental science. “It causes a whole host of environmental problems: groundwater contamination, acid rain, smog, stratospheric ozone depletion, greenhouse effect … Coastal eutrophication is a big one for the bay.”
In 2011, UVA professor Ben Castleman, then an education doctoral candidate at Harvard, was trying to find a low-cost way to address the problem of “summer melt” – the phenomenon in which high schoolers say they plan to go to college, but fail to follow through during the summer after senior year.
Starting in September, 24-year-old Sierra Prochna will study the mores of corporate culture in Asia and Europe for the next year as a part of a new master’s program. Prochna will embark on a journey with 60 other students of UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce that includes coursework on three different continents.
While the methodology behind Mendenhall’s “earned, not given” policy was researched, he admits the decision to implement it was an impulse. “This was all formed when I was standing in front of the team for the very first time,” Mendenhall says, explaining that the team lacked certain “foundational elements” necessary to “build a consistently strong program over time.” A week before the Cavaliers face-off against the Richmond Spiders Sept. 3, the whole team has earned the right to wear small V-sabres on their workout shirts. A total of 72 pl...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is again targeting Michigan in his run for the White House, expanding his first general election television advertising campaign to include the Great Lakes state. Michigan “doesn’t fit” on that list, said UVA Center for Politics director Larry Sabato, who also questioned the wisdom of Trump airing ads in Colorado and Virginia, where Clinton is polling well.
While the global economy will dominate at this weekend's summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging-market nations, politics and security issues form the backdrop to the gathering of world leaders in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. Observers of the G-20 will be judging the response to such initiatives, whether "positive, reticent or divided," said UVA China scholar Brantly Womack.