University of Virginia (public): $120 million from the Quantitative Foundation, a private charity associated with the married couple Jaffray and Merrill Woodriff. The gift supported the launch of a school of data science. Announced in 2019.
Online U has just released its rankings of the best online bachelor’s degrees for return on investment. The No. 1-rated college is the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) By creating or expanding programs that address skills gaps and target emerging opportunities, colleges and universities can ensure Virginians are positioned for success. Examples include George Mason University’s and James Madison University’s programs in cybersecurity; the University of Virginia’s initiatives in data science; and Virginia Tech’s genomics sequencing center.
They developed new ways to teach classes and new medical tests and protocols. They redesigned classrooms, living quarters and dining facilities. And they did it all in a matter of months. It’s not like University of Virginia officials, staff, faculty and students had a choice. The changes were necessary due to the pandemic that began sickening and killing Americans in March.
Dr. Laurie Archbald-Pannone, UVA associate professor of medicine: No. March 12, 2020 was the last day I ate indoors at a restaurant. At the time, there was mild apprehension – but much changed that week. The COVID-19 pandemic altered many aspects of “normalcy,” and for me eating inside at a restaurant is one of those activities.
(Commentary by Jennifer L. Lawless, Commonwealth Professor of Politics, and Mary Kate Cary, adjunct professor of politics and a senior fellow at the Miller Center) Worried that 2021 could be filled with cringe-worthy political conversations around the virtual dinner table and, post-pandemic, in real life? The two of us – one a card-carrying liberal and the other a self-avowed conservative – just survived 13 weeks of hour-long political conversations, twice a week every week. And get this: We actually enjoyed it.
On the morning of Dec. 16, the threat of a Virginia snowstorm canceled school for 7-year-old Alain Bell. He instead spent the morning scribbling a scowling face in black marker onto his father’s newly vaccinated upper arm. “It was his idea,” Alain said over Zoom, pointing to his father, Dr. Taison Bell, 37, a critical care physician at UVA Health in Charlottesville. “I feel good that he’s not going to get sick.”
With the coronavirus pandemic placing significant restrictions on the level of contact college coaches could have with recruits, Bronco Mendenhall and his staff became adept at forging connections through video conferences with the 24 players they signed Wednesday on the first day of the early signing period.
Isao Sekiguchi has been appointed Regional Vice President, Marketing and Sales, ASEAN. Sekiguchi holds a masters degree in business administration from Darden Business School, University of Virginia.
Isao Sekiguchi has been appointed Regional Vice President, Marketing and Sales, ASEAN. Sekiguchi holds a masters degree in business administration from Darden Business School, University of Virginia.
Peter D. Leary was named acting U.S. Attorney following the resignation of Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Raised in Watkinsville, Leary received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was a Jefferson Scholar.
Despite the Pacers dropping their first two preseason games, point guard Malcolm Brogdon and head coach Nate Bjorkgren expressed optimism and talked of the improvements seen in the team after Thursday's practice. Brogdon, the fifth-year guard from the University of Virginia, offered his take on the team's expectations for the upcoming regular season.
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists led by Cornell postdoctoral researcher Jake D. Turner, Philippe Zarka of the Observatoire de Paris - Paris Sciences et Lettres University and Jean-Mathias Griessmeier of the Université d’Orléans has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Boötes –that could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system. Turner, who laid the groundwork for this research while earning his doctorate at the University of Virginia, received funding from the National Scien...
Biden, who has presented himself as a leader who can unify and heal the country, could establish a new model for the presidency in the post-Trump era, Sidney Milkis, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, told Politico last month.
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 64 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. Engineering professor Anil Kumar Vullikanti is among the distinguished members for Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing.
The Trump administration’s decision to remove federal Clean Water Act protections from millions of acres of wetlands and millions of miles of streams is based on dubious methodology and flawed logic, according to a new report by environmental economists from leading research institutions across the U.S., including Jay Shimshack of the University of Virginia.
(Commentary co-written by Corey Feist, CEO of UVA’s Physicians Group) The coronavirus pandemic has hit nearly every facet of people's lives, but especially Americans' mental health, including among frontline health care workers.
(Commentary by business administration professor R. Edward Freeman) There are many reasons for the ascendency of stakeholder-thinking in business. Some have even argued that “stakeholder capitalism” is the new narrative that better describes how businesses can be successful. While there has also been a great deal of skepticism around this proposed change in narrative, it is worth a more careful look at why the ideas of Milton Friedman seem to fall short in today’s world, on this occasion of the 50th anniversary of his essay “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits,” pu...
People of color have been hammered by the coronavirus, but achieving racial equity in the vaccine rollout may be easier said than done. An anesthesiologist and critical care physician at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Hilton, 38, was notified she'd be among the first in the nation to get a new, federally approved emergency vaccine to protect her against COVID-19. Soon after she received the notice, Hilton, who is Black, posted a video about it on YouTube, practically radiating optimism.
Daniel Cox, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and internal medicine is testing a new, wearable device that tracks blood sugar levels in real time as someone eats or is physically active.