University of Virginia students are continuing to raise funds for the renovation of the historic Rotunda. A group of UVa. students jump-started an online fundraising effort to aid in the multi-million dollar project. The Restoration Auction has unique items and experiences available to the highest bidder.
Monday members of the University of Virginia community are coming together to talk about race issues. The University and Community Action for Racial Equity, or UCARE, will host a panel discussion about what its members say is an "alarming" drop in enrollment by African American undergraduate students at UVA over the last two decades.
Larry Sabato, the oft-quoted University of Virginia political scientist, offers this perspective to those who bemoan the media mistakes covering the Boston Marathon manhunt: Even in the so-called golden age of TV news, when Walter Cronkite told it the way it was, grievous mistakes were made on breaking news.
Talking to people may not be enough, said Geoffrey Skelley, of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "These days, with party I.D. the way it is, it's very, very hard to overcome party I.D., but it is possible," Skelley said. "... If there are a couple key policy things they want to do ... if you can find those things, and harp on them a lot, and make them your whole campaign, then maybe they can win."
Marriage expert W. Bradford Wilcox from the University of Virginia even argues that "over-the-top proposals allow men to signal to a future wife, and to family and friends, that they are all in. They are ready to man up, forgo all others and become a responsible husband."
Harvard is first in a 'rich list' that revealed the colleges where students are most likely to become multi-millionaires. The Boston college comes top after producing 2,964 alumni worth $200 million or more. The University of Virginia is the highest ranked public university.
Includes comments from both politics professor Larry J. Sabato and analyst Kyle Kondik of U.Va.’s Center for Politics.
A report by The Miller Center at the University of Virginia notes a similar phenomenon for Carter. Though Carter was the first incumbent president to lose the presidency in half a century, "to many people, Jimmy Carter has provided Americans with an ideal model of post-presidential life. In fact, some consider him to be the nation's greatest former president," the report said.
"Does telling someone that they are terminally ill mean telling the how long they have to live? (hard to know for any individual)," writes Dr. Leslie J. Blackhall, a palliative care specialist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. "Does it mean telling them that they will eventually die (true for all of us)? Does it mean telling them there is 'nothing we can do' (never true)?" Blackhall writes. And at exactly what point in a protracted illness for which there is little prospect of a cure does a physician declare a patient "terminal," she wonder...
Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said "events have thrown fresh-faced senators into the maelstrom before." He cited the case of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the sponsor of an assault weapons and high capacity magazine ban. She became mayor of San Francisco just after the 1978 murders of former Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk and has advocated for gun control ever since.
The University of Virginia is unveiling its first electric charging station Friday. It's giving UVA students, faculty, and staff, as well as the general public, a chance to fill-up without actually using any fuel.
An award-winning free, mobile application, developed by University of Virginia students, is now available. The WalkBack mobile application is giving new meaning to the term "buddy system." The app allows students to check in with police and file a flight plan to connect with the university. It can also digitally walk friends in a user's social network home. It starts with a simple fist bump.
(Editorial) Two of America's greatest presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, do not have presidential libraries, let alone one of the grandiose affairs being built these days. Most of Washington's documents are housed at the University of Virginia, Lincoln's at the National Archives in Washington.
Virginia has seven active transplant centers. The busiest is the University of Virginia Health System, with 3,835 transplants from 1988 through 2012, according to data from the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network.
Three alumnae of the University of Virginia Jazz Ensemble will team up for the first time for the "Three Women in Jazz" concert, which is set for 8 p.m. Saturday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.
A part of the Rivanna Trail is a lot more hiker-friendly thanks to a lot of hard work from volunteers. As part of Earth Week, volunteers from University of Virginia Parking and Transportation services, the Charlottesville Area Mountain Bike Club and the Rivanna Trails Foundation rolled up their sleeves and got busy on a section of the trail at the north side of UVA.
Kyle Liggan, a senior at St. Catherine’s School, wants to make sure they don’t miss the latest songs of Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Blake Shelton or the recently reunited Destiny’s Child while they’re gone. She raised more than $3,000 to buy about 50 iPods and download music for them. Soon, the iPods will be in the hands of deployed men and women of the Air Force. Liggan plans to study engineering when she heads to the University of Virginia in the fall so she can develop information systems for the military.
The 12th Annual Open Water Festival begins today at Miromar Lakes in Fort Myers, intensifying with the Masters 5K national championships at 10 a.m. Saturday. Many also will do the Crippen Mile at 7 p.m. Saturday, in honor of the late Fran Crippen, who swam at the University of Virginia and died while swimming a race in the United Arab Emirates in 2010.
“The president’s announcement of this program and the reaction that it got really played a role in helping pave the way for the discussion that we are now having on immigration reform,” said David Martin, a law professor at the University of Virginia who served as deputy general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2010.
Virginians are using less water, but every year there are more Virginians. From 2010 to 2012, the commonwealth added nearly 184,000 new residents, a 2.3 percent increase, exceeding the nation’s population growth rate. Fairfax tops the list of growing localities, adding 30,000 new residents in the last two years alone, according to 2013 figures released by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.