From studying honey as a wound-healing additive in Rwanda to assessing the effect of mobile banking on women in rural India, 52 UVA students will use Center for Global Health scholarships this summer to address public health problems in the far-flung corners of the globe.
(Editorial) A.E. Dick Howard is the father of Virginia’s modern Constitution. A UVA law professor, he has earned a national reputation for his expertise on constitutional issues at the state and federal levels.
In a recent span of 24 hours, UVA politics professor Larry J. Sabato appeared on CNN, the Fox News Channel, CNN International and the BBC. The world wants to hear what Sabato has to say about those who are seeking the Oval Office.
There is hope that improvements are on the way, but they will probably come in small steps rather than big strides forward, said Dr. William A. Petri, a UVA professor and lead researcher of a major study in Dhaka.
The Darden School’s “Strategic Planning and Execution” course is ranked as one of the best for March.
There stood Malcolm Brogdon on senior night, under the basket at John Paul Jones Arena, staring at the floor with the corners of his mouth turned down in a pout so similar to Barack Obama’s that it’s clear why one of his nicknames is “the President.” He stayed stone-faced as he was handed a framed No. 15 jersey and held it to the crowd as his mother, father and two older brothers stood beaming next to him. Whatever emotion he felt in his final home game as Virginia’s most decorated men’s basketball player since the Ralph Sampson era in the early 1980s didn&r...
Lisa Woolfork, a UVA professor who studies representations of American slavery, discusses “Underground,” premieres on the basic cable channel WGN America tonight. It's the first major scripted drama taking the Underground Railroad as a setting.
“There’s starting to be this consumer base that appreciates [locally sourced products],” Tim Kraft, assistant professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business, said. “A lot of it is around food, and it’s an interesting concept to take to other retail products.”
“A lack of passion for Clinton” led to her defeat in Michigan, said Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics. “While Clinton is going to be the nominee, barring an FBI intervention, Sanders has won the hearts of Democrats in a way Clinton never will. Even after 40 years of practice, her candidate skills are third-rate.”
UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, who helped draft the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, said the Barronelle Stutzman case is about “the religious context” of a wedding, not whether merchants can discriminate against gay couples.
Kyle Kondik managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, said that people may be “overstating” the impact of an open primary on the results.
Corporate America was already shifting jobs to lower-wage countries, said John McLaren, a UVA economics professor. China's shift to a more market-driven economy drew U.S. companies looking for cheap labor to manufacture their goods, from sweatshirts to iPhones. "These are trends that would have gone on," McLaren said.
Students at Charlottesville’s Walker Upper Elementary School got a unique hands-on health lesson from some special guests: doctors and nurses from the UVA Medical Center.
College students push poverty rates significantly higher in some Virginia cities, according to researchers, but Richmond’s share of poor residents remains high whether its students are factored into the equation or not. Researchers with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service found that because of the way the federal government identifies those in poverty, college students who don’t live in dormitories artificially inflate the rates.
Though the digital revolution has created an explosion of content, much of it risks being lost forever unless it can be preserved for future generations. UVA-based APTrust uses Amazon Web Services, a cloud hosting platform, to preserve the content submitted to it.
It would be impossible to talk about award-winning a cappella groups without spending hours raving about UVA’s Sil’hooettes, ranked No. 1. The group has done what other groups can only wish to accomplish since forming in 1989.
"There's no question that we are self-segregating by ideological perspectives more than we have before, at least in my lifetime," said UVA history professor Brian Balogh.
Former UVA baseball star Ryan Zimmerman donated $1 million to the Virginia Athletics Foundation to support the Cavalier baseball program on Wednesday. The Virginia athletics department is evaluating an expansion of Davenport Field with the funds from the former All-American third baseman and current member of the Washington Nationals.
“Sanders is just accumulating delegates in order to pull the platform, and Hillary, to the left,” UVA political scientist Larry J. Sabato said. “Candidates sometimes live in a parallel universe where they think against all the evidence that they can win, so maybe that’s part of it.”
John McCain has been dogged by questions from reporters about Trump, and earlier this week Ann Kirkpatrick, the U.S. representative from Flagstaff who is running for his seat, released a biting online ad splicing McCain's continued expressions of support with Trump's most controversial remarks. Larry Sabato, the political scientist who directs UVA’s Center for Politics, said Kirkpatrick got a jump start on what will be a central Democratic line of attack on incumbent Republican senators in this year's fight for control of the now-GOP-controlled U.S. Senate.