University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan said Wednesday she has been talking with people within and outside the university to reassure them the institution is strong and moving toward the future. Sullivan said a strong leader depends on a solid team and that she has been fortunate to have a strong team at U.Va. She added that strategic planning efforts have gone well this year and that she's making a "systematic effort" to ensure stakeholders are heard.
The key for party switchers "is whether the ideology and voting record can stay stable after the switch," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.
Bob Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, criticized NCTQ’s reliance on course materials as a “very, very thin and indirect determinant of what the students who take that course actually learn.”
There is a similar mission in protecting US corporate data from theft as there was in defending the nation as a Marine.  Like most of the professionals working in the digital forensics/incident response (DFIR) field, I believe that this work is important and it makes a difference.
"BIOMASS will be a hugely important instrument for global environmental science research in the coming years, and its observations will be the basis of significant environmental policy in the areas of carbon cycling and global warming," Hank Shugart, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia and member of the BIOMASS advisory committee to the ESA, said in a statement.
A coalition of over 100 student body presidents and leaders including U.Va. Student Council vice president Alexander Pawlowski, representing more than 1 million college students, will deliver a petition to lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday to demand that Congress find "a long-term solution" to the student loan crisis before July 1, and take immediate action to prevent interest rates on key government loans from doubling.
Gary Gallagher, a leading Civil War historian at the University of Virginia, argues that the long-reigning emphasis on slavery and liberation distorts our understanding of the war and of how Americans thought in the 1860s.