A new study from the University of Virginia found that children who are raised in dense, walkable neighborhoods are more likely to find economic success later in life and out-earn their parents. The report partly attributes this to the sense of community that children in these areas develop.
Hollyfield Solar Farm in King William County sits on 160 acres in Manquin, and with 65,000 solar panels, it generates 17 megawatts per hour. The farm produces 12% of the total electricity used at the University of Virginia and the farm saves 75.9 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions every day, the equivalent of burning 83,053 pounds of coal, according to UVA’s Darden School of Business.
The courts may never make a determination one way or the other, especially if they decide the amendment doesn’t extend legal protections beyond those provided under current interpretations of the 14th Amendment, said Saikrishna Prakash, a UVA law professor who has studied and written about the issue.
The UVA School of Law is the place to go if you want a great classroom experience, wonderful professors and superior quality of life. Basically, it sounds like the perfect law school even if you still have to take torts. No one other law school got more top honors by The Princeton Review in its recently released 2020 edition of "Best Law Schools."
While planning the early stages of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson envisioned a fantastical planetarium for the school's historic Rotunda. In 2019, that vision has been achieved as the Rotunda Planetarium, thanks to three Ph.D students from the school's English department, and a grant from the Jefferson Trust.
The University of Virginia’s business school has been named one of the nation’s best. Bloomberg Businessweek on Nov. 4 released its ranking of the best U.S. business schools. The Darden School of Business at UVA came in fifth behind Stanford, Dartmouth, Harvard and the University of Chicago. The Darden School was ranked ninth last year.
Service to School provides free undergraduate and graduate application counseling to military veterans. For fall 2019, 178 veterans working with S2S enrolled as undergraduates at 72 colleges, including the University of Virginia.
Hamilton Lombard can point to volumes of research and official data compiled by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center that vividly shows the fault lines.
UVA President Jim Ryan read to classes at Johnson Elementary School last week as part of the national Read for the Record program.
(Video) UVA alumni on Saturday got a peek at what new projects are coming to the University.
UVA’s Center for Politics recently found that only three governors out of 50 trailed Trump in approval in their home state -- Raimondo, by a point; Bevin, by 34 points; and Justice, by 25 points.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam disclosed plans Thursday to help public universities produce 31,000 more degrees in computer science and related fields over the next two decades, an initiative that aims to help meet growing demand for a high-tech workforce as the state prepares for a new Amazon headquarters in Arlington. The University of Virginia plans to add 3,416 bachelor’s degrees.
Eleven universities in Virginia, including the University of Virginia, have been promised just under $1 billion in state funding to substantially grow their computer science programs.
This is a time of change for university-community relations, and local governments want to be at the table for that change. To do that, Charlottesville and Albemarle County elected officials have decided to remove themselves from the table most of the time. The city and county both this week dissolved the Planning and Coordination Council with the University of Virginia.
The tiny town of Saxis on Virginia's Eastern Shore is learning to live with water. Donna Croushore spends much of her time at her vacation home on Saxis and has become the mayor's point person for resilience projects. Eighteen months ago, she signed the town up for RAFT, a collaboration of experts from the University of Virginia, William & Mary and Old Dominion University that provides towns with a scorecard to assess their resilience.
A conversation with UVA President James Ryan and College Board CEO David Coleman.
UVA will receive about $33 million from the state over the next 20 years to support more than 3,000 degrees in computer science. Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday that the state plans to create 31,000 new computer science graduates over the next 20 years through partnerships with 11 universities.
Tuesday’s election could offer a test of whether the anti-Trump surge that tipped those districts remains potent. “You’re seeing this nationalization happen,” said Kyle Kondik, an elections analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “These states are good tests for that.”
In Virginia, Democrats are trying to gain total control of the government in the commonwealth. And one candidate could become the first to topple a sitting House speaker. Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, Phillip Bailey, a reporter at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, and MSNBC’s Chris Jansing join Craig Melvin to discuss.
"Virginia doesn't trade party control in the legislation very often,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “In fact, it's only happened once in my lifetime, which was in the 1990s when the Republicans took over the House and Senate, so this would only be the second turnover, party turnover of the General Assembly in the 20th and this piece of the 21st century, so that’s pretty remarkable if it happens."