In the first installment in a series assessing the LGBT climate on university campuses, as told by alumni, we’re pairing with current students to tell their stories. This week: U.Va. alumnus Bob Witeck and current student Brendan Maupin Wynn.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about certain types of temporary tattoos that are causing bad skin reactions. It's something dermatologists at the University of Virginia have been seeing for years. "If you're kid is going to a birthday party or on spring break and they want to get one of these temporary tattoos, my advice is, don't do that," said Dr. Thomas Cropley, the chair of the dermatology department at UVa.
Well-known educators from all around the region are coming to the University of Virginia for a student-run summit. The S.Y. Scholars Program is a mentorship, scholarship and college prep organization for high school students. At Saturday’s summit, several teachers, principals, education leaders, and even UVA President Teresa Sullivan will take part in a panel discussion on the state of education in America.
An event at the University of Virginia taught students what sexual violence is and and what isn't allowed, and what happens after a sexual assault case is filed. The third annual mock sexual assault trial took place Tuesday evening. UVa's Sexual Misconduct Board put on the event along with Take Back the Night as part of this week's Take Back the Night events.
Who knew that picturesque Charlottesville, Va., could be a hotbed for innovation in education? Well, apparently the organizers, sponsors and participants of the Startup Weekend Education Charlottesville this past weekend did. There have been several Startup Weekend events in Charlottesville before, but this was the first focused on education.
A new group is bringing together business owners from all around the region.
The Minority Business Network launched in December. It's bringing business owners from various industries together to share ideas and develop new opportunities.
Les Haughton, the director of supplier diversity at the University of Virginia, hosts these hourlong meetings every month. He describes them as "intensive." Haughton helps all members of the network create business opportunities at UVA as well as throughout the area.
A 24-year-old University of Virginia graduate student is the latest democrat to announce his candidacy for Charlottesville City Council. Adam Lees held a press conference on the steps of the Rotunda Tuesday afternoon.
So how much do college kids really drink? If you talk to any college student, or to anybody who knows a college student, or to anybody who has ever walked past a college student, you know the answer is a lot. A lot a lot. And the consequences are staggering.
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced $17.4 million in grants Tuesday for 205 humanities projects, including nine in Virginia totaling $426,878. The University of Virginia received $59,084 for “Digital Yoknapatawpha,” a project to develop an expanded prototype that allows for the mapping and study of William Faulkner’s fiction that took place in the imaginary county of Yoknapatawpha. U.Va. also was awarded $29,902 for a two-day workshop that will bring together digital humanities scholars and software developers.
New research from a team including U.Va. researchers has questioned the reliability of neuroscience studies, saying that conclusions could be misleading due to small sample sizes.
One of the big reasons the University of Virginia has the lowest underemployment ranking is that 15 percent of its graduates are in jobs funded by the school. That's a heck of a lot better than leaving them out to dry, and some of those fellowships, which include jobs on Capitol Hill and with nonprofits, will likely lead to bigger and better opportunities.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said Tuesday that she’s been floating the idea of a state-level version of the work-study financial aid program.
Irving Gottesman, a psychologist at the University of Virginia who has worked on the Danish twin study, believes the results show that “criminals are not born, but the odds at the moment of birth of becoming one are not even."
A recipient this time last year of the 2012 Maurice Udall Scholarship, Rowan Sprague was one of 80 winners chosen nationwide, for her commitment to a career in the environment. For Sprague, as a student of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Applied Science, this yearlong project focused on ways to trap harmful predators to honeybees, who already contending with harm from both natural and man-made obstacles resulting in a drastically reduced population in recent years.
Matt Miller was in a freak bicycle accident in 2008. Today, he's finishing medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and training for the Ironman World Championships in October.
This is not how you'd expect Snapchat, the self-destructing image-sharing app, to get college kids into trouble: many underage students at the University of Virginia dumped their beer and spirits because of a social media hoax on Monday afternoon.
(Commentary) The bad news, though, is how rarely female initiatives turn into reality. Women’s-issues bills are the ones that see the highest gridlock rates. Overall, only 4 percent of bills become law, but a mere 2 percent of women’s bills ever make it through the process. “These are issues that the average member of Congress doesn't see as crucial,” the University of Virginia's Craig Volden said, underscoring a very real aspect of our democratic legitimacy problem.
Consider the oscillating historical verdicts on the Mexican War. President Polk and Mexican dictator Santa Anna "were as combustible a combo as [Bush] 43 and Saddam," said Philip Zelikow, a historian at the University of Virginia who was a foreign-policy adviser for both Presidents Bush. When the war ended in 1848, it was counted as a clear-cut American success, assuring that Texas would remain part of the United States and adding territories that became the states of Arizona, California, and New Mexico. But after 1850, this territorial expansion reignited the political battles over ...
(Guest post by H. Brevy Cannon, General Assignments Writer at the University of Virginia, and Joyce Smaragdis, Associate Director of Outreach, Batten Institute, U.Va.’s Darden School of Business) The University of Virginia and other leading universities are making a concerted effort to build entrepreneurial ecosystems and programs that provide students and faculty the academic foundation, practical tools, and opportunities to cross-collaborate, with the understanding that great ideas are not created in isolation, and great businesses are inherently multi-disciplinary.