Gov. Jack Markell is traveling to Virginia to talk about his time in office in Delaware. Markell has been invited to speak Friday afternoon at the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society Distinguished Speaker Series at the University of Virginia.
The 2016 presidential campaign has seemed like a race to the bottom, but it's by no means the most vicious ever waged. "We can think of lots of family members of presidential candidates being attacked," says Barbara Perry, senior fellow and associate professor at UVA’s Miller Center's Presidential Oral History Program.
Andrew Traver, director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, spoke at UVA Thursday about terrorism and national security. “Television shows are great and entertaining, but they have nothing to do with what we do,” he said.
U.S. News and World Report just released its rankings of the nation’s best graduate schools, including law schools. Included in the top 10 is the University of Virginia, tied at No. 8.
A student-led group will "meet the dawn" on the historic Grounds of the University of Virginia this Easter. A joint University and Community Easter sunrise service will be held at the University Amphitheater at 7 a.m.
UVA students took the opportunity Tuesday to smash scales and raise awareness of eating disorders. The Southern Smash was held on the UVA Lawn Tuesday, during which students wrote message on the scales and then smashed them using a baseball bat or sledgehammer.
Thousands of middle school students got a glimpse at career options Wednesday as PVCC and the University of Virginia joined forces for “Explore Careers Day” for students from Albemarle, Greene, Louisa and Nelson counties.
UVA law students are mastering the art of a deal thanks to a new negotiations class. It's an important skill not just for lawyers but for anyone who wants to broker a compromise about anything.
Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer invited Columbia, South Carolina Mayor Steve Benjamin to talk with UVA students about racial inequality and social injustice Wednesday at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
Safiya Sinclair, a 2014 alumna of UVA’s Creative Writing Program, is one of 10 young writers nationwide to be selected for the Whiting Awards. The awards are among
After a string of early upsets during March Madness, there isn’t a single perfect bracket left in the country. But there is one perfect coach: UVA’s Tony Bennett. If there were brackets for dangerously good looks and impeccable poise, Bennett would already be cutting down the nets.
The foundation also honored four poets and one playwright this year. The poets include Safiya Sinclair, a 2014 alumna of UVA’s Creative Writing Program.
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato said the only question remaining in the election is whether Trump can get the 1,237 delegates he needs to capture the nomination before the party's convention in July. Right now, Sabato said, he looks like he will end up somewhere between 1,100 and 1,300.
No piece of modern legislation has spent as much time in the cross-hairs of Supreme Court litigation as the Affordable Care Act. The latest litigants aiming to take a bite out of the law are a coalition of religious non-profit organisations including Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of nuns who care for the impoverished elderly by running a few dozen nursing homes in several states. The lawsuit, known as Zubik v Burwell, will be argued on March 23 in a special 90-minute hearing. One of America’s foremost scholars of religious liberty, Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia law ...
Three UVA students studying abroad in Belgium are safe on Tuesday. But all of this has some again questioning how the potential future leaders of the United States should respond.
Students from traditional minority groups have long been underrepresented in gifted categorizations, and no blanket definition of "giftedness" exists across states or local education agencies. A UVA study found low-income students are more underrepresented than black and Latino students within the reported gifted student population. Some have drawn a correlation between this underrepresentation and its impact on college admissions and, ultimately, on the nation's leadership, innovation and even GDP.
How big is the newest wind turbine design? The latest turbine design unveiled by a team of scientists including a professor from UVA claim that the finished structure would stand 1,574 feet tall. This will officially make this structure 100 feet taller than the Empire State Building.
A Charlottesville High School German teacher helped lead her students to a first-place win for their short film, “Germanna.” As part of the University of Virginia’s German Film Festival event, the Film Shorts contest invites high school and university students to make and submit a three- to eight-minute film in German, according to Cora Schenberg, lecturer of Germanic languages and literatures at UVA. The second annual event took place in Minor Hall on March 19.
UVA law professor Douglas Laycock has filed a brief on behalf of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. "This is the only time in 30 years of filing briefs that I've ever filed on the government's side in a free exercise case," Laycock says.
A breast cancer survivor is getting ready to share her journey. In her new poetry collection, “Whistle What Can't Be Said,” UVA Professor Charlotte Matthews chronicles her chemotherapy through stage-three breast cancer.