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Harvard, with an endowment of $51.9 billion, held the top spot, followed by the University of Texas System with $42.9 billion. Private universities dominated the top 20 largest endowments, but a handful of public institutions rounded out the list, including the University of Virginia with a $10.5 billion endowment.

The American Phbilosophical Association traditionally held its annual conventions over the Christmas holidays of the collegiate world, and at the end of 1948 William Thomas Valeria Fontaine made plans to attend the gathering of the premier Eastern Division of the Association. The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, a few hours to the south, would host the meeting where the APA would formally accept Fontaine ept into full membership. … On their arrival in Charlottesville, however, the philosophers crossed the tracks and made their way into the “Nigra’ section” of town — the Sou...

Black History Month is a very important time to learn and reflect on the significance of African-Americans and their history everywhere, especially for students of color at the University of Virginia.

Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and University of Virginia leaders are discussing their top priorities for the year. It’s all part of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s first-ever “State of the Community” event that will be held Friday morning at the new CODE building downtown.

Attracting and retaining employees is perhaps the biggest challenge for Albemarle County, Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, officials told the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce at its “State of the Community” event on Friday.

The University of Virginia Foundation wants to add a massive new mixed-use development with up to 1,400 homes to its North Fork industrial park property in Albemarle County, but concerns about water infrastructure could stop it in its tracks.

As the city of Charlottesville wrestles with serious budget questions, one city councilor says making the University of Virginia pay its fair share would go a long way to help. Councilor Michael Payne suggested that UVA enter into a "payment in lieu of taxes program" or PILOT for short.

Dr. Carlton Haywood Jr., an assistant professor in the Berman Institute of Bioethics and in the division of hematology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, died Dec. 31 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Baltimore resident was 45. Despite an unconventional childhood that was shaped by sickle cell disease, Dr. Haywood became a straight-A student, and was accepted to the University of Virginia, where he planned to study medicine. But early that first year, he came to realize that he didn’t like working in laboratories, and his adviser suggested another field of study. “Intro to Bioethics changed...

Yacov Yosseph Haimes, 85, of Charlottesville died Tuesday. In 1986, he took a position in the Engineering School at the University of Virginia. Over his 50-plus-year professional career, Yacov distinguished himself as a global leader in risk management. He was a prolific publisher of both books and professional papers. His most influential work was the textbook “Risk Modeling, Assessment and Management.” He was named a fellow in seven professional societies and was a past president of several of them. He also served on many national advisory boards, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Se...

Less than three months before the Phillies drafted him, Griff McGarry was removed from the University of Virginia’s rotation. He could not throw strikes. Virginia had title aspirations and Drew Dickinson, the pitching coach, could not reconcile how McGarry featured some of the best raw stuff he’s ever seen without the appropriate results.  

University of Virginia fourth-year student Megan Sullivan has advanced to the semifinals in the “Jeopardy National College Championships.” UVA hosted a watch party where more than 100 students came to support Sullivan in her “Jeopardy!” debut.  

The life of an adult amateur is never easy. Between balancing school or work with riding, and factoring in all of life’s other responsibilities, it can be quite a challenge. This year’s USEA Adult Amateur of the Year Award winner, Katie Lichten of Hamilton, Massachusetts, is no stranger to the dedication required to make all of those scales balance equally. As a student in the business school at the University of Virginia and a four-star eventer, Lichten often finds herself juggling a handful of roles and responsibilities as she pursues her degree in IT and business analytics as well as an upc...

(Commentary by Olivia Paschal, Ph.D. student in history) In the aftermath of the anti-racist uprisings of 2020 and the Trump presidency, many American newspapers are reckoning with how their coverage has made them complicit in racism and racial violence. Caught up in the unattainable and relatively recent ideal of journalistic objectivity, which did not take root until the 1930s, the traditional news media has struggled to cover the communities it now claims as its audience. While the historical and contemporary failures of mainstream, historically White newspapers have come to light, the path...

President Joe Biden is expected to make a Supreme Court nomination in the next couple weeks. Although this nomination won’t change the balance of the court, University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato says it will have a lasting impact. “Essentially, Biden’s appointee will be a liberal replacing a moderate liberal - Justice Breyer. So it’s not changing enormously, but every individual on a nine-person court matters,” Sabato said. Sabato brought in former reporter and Yale Professor Linda Greenhouse to share her thoughts Thursday.  

The result of the recall vote is especially significant because San Francisco is a liberal bastion that gave more than 85% of the vote to the Democratic presidential ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2020 presidential election. According to Rhodes Cook, a senior columnist at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, San Francisco gave the Democrats the sixth highest vote share in the 2020 presidential election out of all the more than 3,100 counties and county-equivalents in the U.S.  

Over a 30-year period, when income inequality has moved up and down, mobility has remained more or less constant, with virtually no correlation to the tax code. Bradford Wilcox, who leads the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia said, “Inequality itself is not a particularly potent predictor of economic mobility.” Wilcox studied the Harvard and Berkeley data and concluded that “high percentages of two-parent families and high local government spending — which may be a proxy for good schools — are the most likely to help poor children relive the Horatio Alger story.” &nbsp...

University of Virginia law professor Margaret Foster Riley told CNN that the new law could be “fatal for much of the litigation currently pending. But the new law is quite vague in some areas and possibly overbroad -- and that might provide some potential opportunities,” she told CNN in an email.  

Defendant Michael Alexander Brown’s account of blacking out during the murder of his mother’s live-in boyfriend was deemed credible by a clinic with the University of Virginia’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. The institute diagnosed him with dissociative amnesia that would leave him unable to remember what had happened during an episode. “He was physically present, but not conscious,” Sharon Kelley, a clinical psychologist, testified.  

Another reason Washington is doing okay, could have to do with the state’s relatively low COVID-19 case counts. “Some jobs, especially those that are public-facing, are perceived to be so hazardous or unpleasant that workers are no longer willing to stay, even at higher wages,” said University of Virginia Professor Teresa A. Sullivan. “Fear of contracting COVID, abuse from customers, frustration over unavailable inventory, and other supply-chain issues have all made retail, hospitality, and some health care jobs much less attractive.”  

When it comes to cardiac arrest, timing is everything, because it can be the difference between life and death. “Improvement in survival is seen when we have people responding to the patient’s side within the first couple minutes of cardiac arrest,” said Dr. William Brady, from UVA Health. He says giving CPR within the first two minutes significantly improves survival rates, stating it’s “a factor of three to six times more likely to live than somebody that doesn’t receive this care.”