Living Wage at UVA spoke out once again Wednesday afternoon. The group rallied for one main cause: equal work for equal pay. They protested on campus between Newcomb Hall and Peabody Hall just a short time before the University of Virginia's steering committee began their open forum meeting on the future of public universities.
Construction is under way for a new child care facility for the University of Virginia Physicians Group. When the center is complete, it will serve UVa. Health System faculty and staff and will accommodate up to 150 kids.
A day after being sanctioned by its accrediting body, the University of Virginia faces a challenge beyond being removed from a one-year warning, professors and students said Wednesday.
The honorees include Jacqueline Novogratz, who earned bachelors degree in economics and international relations from U.Va. and is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to the problems of poverty.
Moral stereotypes about "typical" liberals and conservatives held by both groups are generally correct, but exaggerated both for their own group and the other, according to new research published December 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Jesse Graham at the University of Southern California and his colleagues at the University of Virginia (Brian Nosek) and New York University.
(Editorial) The governing board of the University of Virginia can certainly continue to claim that there's no backstory to the attempted coup of President Teresa Sullivan in June.
William B. Hopkins Sr. (who attended the U.Va. School of law) fought in two wars, wrote two books, and used his clout as a state legislator to help modernize Virginia's government and strengthen arts and cultural programs in Roanoke.
NVIDIA has been awarded a contract worth up to $20 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to research embedded processor technologies that could lead to dramatic improvements in the ability of autonomous vehicles to collect and process data from on-board sensors. NVIDIA researchers will work on the program with academic partners at the University of Utah and the University of Virginia.
“If Republicans are looking to damage their brand further, then they should play hostage politics with the debt ceiling,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “Such a maneuver will go over like a lead balloon with the public, which is clearly tired of fiscal antics and wants the White House and Congress to reach a reasonable compromise."
Two years ago, after Teresa Sullivan was selected as the eighth president of UVA, and the first woman to fill the role, replacing John Casteen, III after 20 years at the helm, an associate dean in the McIntire School of Commerce, George Overstreet, joked that "a reduction in testosterone level can never be bad."
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said both candidates need to figure out a way to appeal to independents if they are going to win. "It would kind of be a unique circumstance in Virginia political history," Skelley said. "Virginia doesn't have the habit of electing or even nominating fire breathers or extremely strong partisans."
On Dec. 17, Jim DiTullio (a U.Va. Schoool of Law graduate) will serve a very important public service role for not only Massachusetts but also the country — he will be one of the state’s “presidential electors” who in a ceremony at the Massachusetts Statehouse will along with 10 other officials vote for Barack Obama for President of the United States.
The optimal social networking strategy depends on socioeconomic conditions, a new study has suggested. Researchers Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia and Selin Kesebir of the London Business School explored the benefits of social networking strategies in two studies.
(Commentary by Charles Laughlin, Weedon Chair Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Virginia.) When Chinese novelist Mo Yan accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this week, the relationship between literature and politics attracted much attention.
(Editorial) Six months removed from a long Sunday, the leaves have turned and fallen, but the institution that Jefferson built still labors to sweep aside the bitter residue that day produced – a doomed bid to oust University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan.
A parade of University of Virginia students filmed a YouTube video recently that praised a row of twinkling Christmas trees and other holiday fare adorning a row of front porches along the school’s famed Lawn dorms and pitched administrators to let the decorations stay -but alas- campus officials told students to pack it up.
The fallout from the leadership crisis at the University of Virginia will extend for at least another year as the venerable school faces a rare, perhaps unprecedented sanction from its accrediting agency. (NOTE: This story also was covered by the Washington Post, New York Times, Associated Press and other news outlets.)
The University of Virginia has been put on warning for one year by its accrediting agency as a result of the way the board of visitors sought to oust U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan last summer.
Law and dance might seem like an unlikely combination, but U.Va. Law alumna Mara Brust, of Fargo, says they’re actually very compatible.
Civic leaders from across the globe gathered at an Albemarle County farm Tuesday to ponder one of Central Virginia’s most consequential exports: Jeffersonian democracy. The Presidential Precinct is a collaboration between UVa, the College of William & Mary, Jefferson’s Monticello, Madison’s Montpelier and Monroe’s Ash Lawn-Highland.