UVA students split up in teams today for the first round of an international global health care competition, offering solutions about how to use funds to enhance gender equality at a non-governmental-organization in Guatemala.
At some of the most prestigious state universities, the gatekeepers are clear: It’s much tougher to get in if you live out of state. “We are 100 percent committed to Virginians,” UVA Dean of Admission Roberts said.
Local residents, religious leaders and elected officials congregated at Covenant Church on Sunday evening for the 31st annual Community MLK Service, part of the UVA-sponsored Community MLK Celebration.
Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business has named Peter Rodriguez as its new dean and faculty member, effective July 1. Rodriguez is currently serving as the senior associate dean for degree programs and chief diversity officer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He has been in the role since 2001 and leads the the MBA programs at the Darden School and its global, online and diversity strategies.
Cornell University’s president, Elizabeth Garrett, is the recipient of the University of Virginia’s 2016 Distinguished Alumna Award. UVa’s Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center announced its selection Thursday. Garrett, a 1988 graduate of the UVa School of Law, is the first woman to serve as president of Cornell, a small Ivy League university located in upstate New York.
Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who is not involved in the complaint, says it's not clear whether the Florence ruling would also apply to immigrant detainees. "These people are not being detained for any criminal offense, yet they are being kept in a jail—it raises real constitutional questions," he says.
As Trump emerges as the Republican’s front-runner, he seems to recognize that his slash-and-burn style of campaigning would be a hindrance to getting very much done as president. Kyle Kondik of UVA's Center for Politics said Trump’s efforts to warm up to top Democrats likely will not hurt him with his core supporters.
(Commentary) A study of Washington D.C.’s “high-stakes” teacher evaluations, carried out by the Stanford Graduate School of Education and University of Virginia Curry School of Education, is the first to measure how teacher evaluations positively affect student learning in the context of teacher turnover. The researchers find that 46 percent of low-performing teachers in D.C. leave each year, which is more than three times the attrition rate of high-performers. It turns out that the mere threat of removal encourages many low-scorers to quit or shape up, and those who leave ar...
Researchers from the University of Virginia found that over a 12-year period, kindergarten classes have become increasingly like first grade.
The University of Virginia ($233 million) placed No. 3 in the top 10 institutions in the Washington region for charitable contributions.
Virginia’s cities and urban areas continue to grow in population and one UVA demographer said a contributing factor is that more people are choosing to rent rather than purchase their own homes. “If you look at cities, they have much larger rental markets so they are more attractive as a result,” said Hamilton Lombard with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
The local doctors were accompanied by 50 undergraduate students from UVA and the University of Wisconsin through the Global Brigades program.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has formally approved the University of Virginia’s newest graduate-level business program: the innovative, internationally immersive M.S. in Global Commerce program.
UVA engineers are teaming up with behavioral psychologists to better understand how family-eating dynamics lead to childhood obesity.
Researchers from UVA and elsewhere have developed a low-cost, offshore, 50-MW wind turbine two and a half times longer than any existing wind blade.
UVA students have been closely working with the University on plans to turn the Lloyd Building into another student center.
More than 300 University of Virginia students will take what they learned in architecture school into off-grounds neighborhoods. City Councilor Kathy Galvin says the students are looking at Preston Avenue in an exercise called the Vortex.
UVA is among the other universities represented in this year’s Jeopardy! College Championship Tournament.
It’s much harder to send a signal that fans out to many receivers, and the technology to do so is only just now becoming financially viable, says Scott Barker, an engineering professor at the University of Virginia.
Rajkumar Venkatesan, professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business, would have you believe that Netflix is actually a data analytics company that happens to be in the media business. Its actual capability is analytics, says Venkatesan, because it uses data it gathers on what people watch to evaluate what content to buy. And it is very good at it, he adds.