Dave Matthews Band is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a hometown benefit concert, to be held May 7 at UVA’s John Paul Jones Arena. To date, the fund has raised more than $40 million for programs like the Music Resource Center, The Boys and Girls Club, and the UVA Children's Hospital.
About a dozen students and recent graduates from minority-serving colleges visited the Education Department in Washington late last week to tell about their experiences and what they think helps and doesn’t help in the quest to get a college diploma. UVA student Alysse Dowdy said that figuring out the Common Application to apply to colleges was somewhat daunting, but she was lucky to find an English teacher who guided her through the process.
King University named Alexander W. Whitaker IV, an alumnus of UVA’s School of Law, as its 23rd president on Monday.
The true nature of the “Trump Democrats” is one of the big question marks hanging over the 2016 election. Donald Trump and his supporters claim he’s inspiring a large number of Democrats to switch parties and vote for him. As UVA political analyst Kyle Kondrik put it, “The Democratic Party became the non-white party, became the environmental party, became the socially liberal party, became the anti-gun party.”
The burgeoning subfield of literary studies that focuses on human beings’ impact on the environment is changing the curricula of English departments across the country. While scholars tend to support the classes, that sentiment isn’t always echoed outside academe. Some observers, especially online, have assailed the books as essentially propaganda, indoctrinating students with misinformation, says Jennifer Wicke, a UVA professor of English. Wicke says she has been confronted by people on social media who claim her class is teaching a "dangerous notion."
2016 has been a strange year, but is there a conceivable universe where a third-party candidate really puts a dent in the electorate, or even wins? We asked Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, to game out the possibilities with us.
“If it’s a public event, it’s unconstitutional to remove you for viewpoint-related reasons,” says Leslie Kendrick, a First Amendment scholar at UVA’s law school, adding: “That’s a textbook First Amendment violation.”
Ted Cruz's campaign is well-organized, well-funded and committed to a delegate-based strategy to steal the nomination from Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. It may triumph in a few more states, beginning with an expected victory Tuesday in Utah. And yet, as Larry Sabato, who runs UVA’s Center for Politics, puts it, "Everything has to go perfectly for this to work."
Bernie Sanders is likely to start racking up a series of victories over the next two to three weeks as the Democratic primary heads out West. "Even if he wins every state from here on out, he probably couldn't catch [Hillary] Clinton in terms of pledged delegates," says Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. "The math is really, really daunting."
A new facility for the UVA Medical Center's "Pegasus Air" will help crews take to the skies more efficiently.
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. One UVA study found low-income students are more underrepresented than black and Latino students within the reported gifted student population.
UVA engineer Jim Smith and Dr. Rebecca Dillingham are co-directors of PureMadi, a company that makes and distributes ceramic water filters in South Africa for communities with little access to clean water.
Students and faculty at UVA are bonding over their drive to do something their parents never did: earn a college degree. UVA is celebrating first-generation students by publicly listing hundreds of faculty members who know what it is like to jump over economic and socioeconomic hurdles.
The UVA Center for Politics’ Geoff Skelley says there is an increased chance no candidate will win enough delegates to avoid a contested GOP convention this summer. Skelley calls Tuesday's primaries a decisive day since U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio suspended his campaign.
"Violence can be prevented,” said UVA professor Dewey Cornell, one of the featured speakers and an expert on 'threat assessment' to prevent a violent attack.
Be it printed, digitalized or recorded, the next five days in Charlottesville will be all about the book. With more than 400 authors and moderators participating in 253 festival programs, including programs tailored toward all ages, the 22nd annual Virginia Festival of the Book began Tuesday and continues through Sunday.
A debate at UVA drew voters to hear from Fifth District candidates hoping to replace current Congressman Robert Hurt. Moderators from UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy asked candidates about policy issues that affect the Fifth District as well as domestic and foreign policy.
Nursing student Anne McClure reads her essay on her experience caring for a patient suffering from a drug overdose.
Hosted by UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, the seven candidates currently vying to succeed retiring Rep. Robert Hurt were invited to participate in a public forum.
Malcolm Brogdon has elevated himself and Virginia’s program to heights unseen in Charlottesville for decades. As important, Brogdon has positioned himself intellectually and socially to affect United States policy on poverty in Africa.