(Audio) The weekly podcast includes a discussion of decades of what UVA students wrote in Alderman Library, all over its walls.
SCHEV’s Peter Blake noted there has been an ongoing conversation around enrollment challenges in the state. Last year, the General Assembly allowed the University of Virginia’s College at Wise to offer in-state tuition to students from the Appalachian region as a way to attract more students.
Many prospective students are looking to study an MBA before switching to a more purpose-driven career. UVA’s Darden School of Business was among the first to recognize ethics as a core business discipline. The school has integrated ethics across the MBA curriculum, and was ranked No. 1 for corporate social responsibility in the FT’s MBA ranking for 2019, the first year this was considered as a component for the list.
A standing-room-only crowd gathered at UVA’s Rotunda on Friday to hear panelists’ thoughts on presidential impeachment. The panel featured Deborah Hellman, a UVA professor of law; Kyle Kondik, communications director for UVA’s Center for Politics; and Chris Lu, former deputy secretary of labor under former President Barack Obama.
Jonathan Kipnis, the director of the Center for Brain Immunology and Glia and chairman of the department of neuroscience at the University of Virginia, was curious as to whether the body’s immune system might somehow be in dialogue with the brain, and microglia, in ways that could influence neurological and psychiatric conditions.
“If 18-year-olds are burdened with the responsibility of adulthood, they should be afforded some of its privileges,” said Charlotte Lawson, a 21-year-old fourth-year student at UVA who wrote an opinion piece in the campus paper in 2018 calling for the drinking age to be lowered from 21.
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to menopause expert Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, division director of the Midlife Health Center at the University of Virginia, who answers listeners' questions.
A proposed tax on digital advertising revenues in Maryland could run into significant legal barriers. The measure targets the revenue of large companies that profit from showing online advertising to users in Maryland. The tax rate would range from 2.5% to 10%, depending on companies’ annual gross revenue. If Maryland lawmakers pass the bill, it could be challenged on constitutional and legal grounds, said Ruth Mason, a professor of law and taxation at the UVA School of Law.
Cooper is not a typical police dog. He is a miniature American shepherd instead of a German shepherd, and a therapy dog instead of an explosive detection expert. “Our other handlers, they love Cooper, but they say it’s just not what we're used to seeing with a police dog, like a big German shepherd, whereas he’s short and hairy and kind of round,” said Sgt. Ben Rexrode of the UVA Police Department. Rexrode personally bought and trained Cooper to come to work with him and help members of the university community.
Charlottesville is the epitome of history. It’s home to one of the premier colleges in the country. The University of Virginia provides the local community everything it needs. This includes medical care, entertainment, recreation and fine arts.
The University of Virginia Equity Center is welcoming four fellows this year as part of a new initiative to reduce racial and economic inequality in the community. One of those recipients, Myra Anderson, will spend a year developing a program she calls “Queens, Cuts, and Conversations: Mental Health Support for African-American Women.” The support will be delivered through a beauty salon.
U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced Thursday more than $1.5 million in federal funding for UVA and Virginia Tech to improve resources for the U.S. agricultural industry and rural communities.
Scientists at UVA’s Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center are learning about climate change and sea-level rise and their effects on coastal habitats, marine life, and ultimately, people living on the Eastern Shore and around the globe.
Some futurists, and a few economists, worry that rapid progress in artificial intelligence could lead to mass displacement of labor and social crisis. But Anton Korinek of the University of Virginia notes that not all uses of AI are alike.
(Commentary by Pamela M. Norris, executive dean of the UVA School of Engineering and the director of UVA CHARGE, a National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program designed to increase the representation of women faculty in STEM fields.) As we head into a new decade, we are tasked with preparing engineers and computer scientists to lead a transforming workforce. In just five years, the workforce will require an additional 65,000 engineers. By 2028, we will need 593,900 new computer scientists. And by 2030, an Institute for the Future study estimates that 85% of today’s learners ...
The nine-member commission had help combing through the laws from students at Virginia Commonwealth University and the law schools at the University of Richmond and the University of Virginia.
Sally Southard is like most diabetics describing the disease. “It’s 24/7. No vacations,” Southard said. “You know It’s always there. You’re always thinking about it.” But that’s now changed. “I don’t think about diabetes as much as I used to because of this. I totally trust it,” Southard said, pointing to the small device she’s holding in her hand. She’s talking about the artificial pancreas, powered by an algorithm developed at the UVA Medical Center, that tracks her blood sugar and regulates the amount of insulin it’s pumping into her bloodstream.
Online degrees from three Virginia universities were cited in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Online Programs rankings. The University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development was ranked third in the nation for online master’s in education programs.
UVA student Emilia Couture had no idea what the Equal Rights Amendment was before her sister told her about it a few years back. Now as the outreach director of Generation Ratify, a youth-led movement created to ratify the ERA, Couture and others are leading a new generation in the decades-long fight to add the amendment to the U.S. Constitution.