In 2012, University of Virginia employees gave more than $1 million to the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, more than a quarter of the campaign's total take that year.
"Politics Matters" will continue its four-part series on social activism and civil rights with a two-part interview with University of Virginia history professor Phyllis Leffler.
A proposed change to the University of Virginia’s honor system would eliminate juries of random students, but give the accused an opportunity to confess, the school’s Board of Visitors heard Friday.
Consumers who believe they have a right to know whether their food contains genetically modified ingredients are pressing lawmakers, regulators and voters to require labels on altered foods. But even if they succeed, experts say there's no guarantee that labels identifying genetically engineered foods would ever appear on packages. "People are usually surprised to learn that there is no legal right to know," said Michael Rodemeyer, an expert on biotechnology policy at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by Rachel Alexander, a third-year University of Virginia student, and Margaret Given, a second-year student and a member of the student council’s academic affairs committee) At a school overflowing with tradition, the University of Virginia’s Honor Code is one of the most enduring.
A quarter-century has passed since Kat Imhoff (who earned U.Va. degrees in urban and environmental planning) first stood on the front lawn of Montpelier, the home of the Father of the Constitution. Now, less than two months into her role as president of James and Dolley Madison's beloved estate in Orange County, the memory remains vivid and precious.
A revolutionary treatment pioneered at the University of Virginia, which uses concentrated sound waves shot into the brain to stop patients’ hands from shaking, is heading into the last round of trials needed to seek FDA approval.
Most other teams were high school and college students from Roanoke. One team, Akademix, hailed from the University of Virginia and another, D-Trex, from Liberty University. … Ese Shaw, 21, a third-year cinematography major at UVa, said Akademix emphasizes diversity and represents several ethnicities within the 11-member team. “Our goal at UVa is to expose the school to different genres of music and dance,” Shaw said.
More than 450 students worked to raise money in advance of the heel-stomping, pulse-thumping party at the school's Memorial Gymnasium, which ran from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday. The event brought in more than $54,000 -- a $15,000 improvement over last year's marathon, said Ryan Lightner with the Children's Miracle Network.
(Commentary by politics professor Larry J. Sabato) Virginia’s politics reminds me a bit these days of the classic 1949 Cold War film noir, “The Third Man,” written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.
Excerpt from a blog post by U.Va. alumna Alison Bauerlein, as an editor for DipNote and a Foreign Service Officer in the State Department's Office of Digital Engagement.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia said Jindal with his education reform stance, McDonnell with his socially conservative agenda and Walker with his union-busting image would pose a toxic combination for New Jersey voters. “He’ll use all the surrogates he can get – if they’re helpful in New Jersey,” Sabato said. “I’m not sure all these governors can he helpful in New Jersey because they’re so much more conservative than the voters.”
Marty Humphrey, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Virginia, said one task for educators is to ensure that students are able to author new cloud-based applications. "On the one hand this will not require a radical rethinking of computer science curriculum because at the core, cloud applications are based on algorithms and data structures, which have been the foundation of computer science courses since the beginning," he said by email.
From a medical standpoint, dermatologist Dr. Thomas Cropley and medical student Kourtney Weathersby say being natural is much healthier for the hair. That's because relaxers, heat and weaving can cause permanent damage. “You're born with a certain number of hair follicles and they're supposed to last you for your entire life and if a hair follicle dies it can't come back,” said Cropley, professor and chair of Department of Dermatology at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
(Commentary by U.Va. psychology professor Daniel Willingham) Not every theory merits the limited time in students have in school. There is a minimum bar of quality that has to be met in order to compete.
A new C-SPAN series on our country's first ladies is being promoted by bus. University of Virginia students and faculty could climb on the red bus -- parked outside of Clark Hall -- to learn more about "First Ladies: Influence and Image."
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has named Matthew Affron, a scholar and curator at the University of Virginia, to the museum's prestigious post of curator of modern art, museum officials announced Friday.
Adam Pesapane, nominated in the animated short film category, plans to make the attention lead to a full-length feature career.
Highlights of revisions to the state’s two-year, $88 billion budget approved Saturday by the 2013 General Assembly.
Only New Jersey and Virginia have governor’s races. While polls show Christie with a huge lead, the Virginia race could get more DGA attention because it’s a tossup with no incumbent. “There’s no question they will put more emphasis on the Virginia governor’s race,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “They’re not stupid. … The Virginia race is highly competitive. It’s crazy actually. It’s chaos.”