Tuesday, Nov. 5, is Election Day. Across the state, Virginians will go to the polls to elect members of the General Assembly. All 140 seats in the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates are up for election. “Every election is determined by the people who show up,” political analyst Larry J. Sabato of the University of Virginia has said.
Alan Taylor’s latest book, “Thomas Jefferson’s Education,” also addresses the connection between slavery and the University of Virginia, where he has served as a professor of history since 2014. But Taylor approaches the question from a different perspective.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have designed a wind turbine inspired by palm trees that has two blades instead of three and faces downwind instead of upwind.
Many excellent public universities, despite severe budget shortfalls, have substantially increased their size. In the last quarter century, the University of Virginia boosted undergraduate enrollments by more than 40%, to over 16,000.
Virginia has been leaning more and more Democratic since the election of President Trump, according to Kyle Kondik, managing editor at UVA’s Center for Politics. The Democratic surge in the 2017 election – almost but not quite winning the majority in the House – bodes well for the party’s chances in next week’s election.
UVA landscape gardeners are accustomed to motoring around Grounds on diesel-powered utility vehicles. Now, a cleaner and more nimble electric cargo bike means the workers’ transportation footprint can be as green as their thumbs.
(Commentary co-written by Barbara A. Perry, Gerald L. Baliles Professor and Presidential Studies director at UVA’s Miller Center) The Trump administration faces unrelenting challenges, many as a result of chaotic decision-making. The incumbent may be unique in many respects, but self-inflicted wounds are not unprecedented in presidential history. How best to stanch the bleeding?
In just a week, the University of Virginia men's basketball team takes the court as defending national champions. UVA's roster looks much different than it did last year.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a newsletter from UVA’s Center for Politics, wrote in an email that Democrats have shown good fundraising capabilities in the Donald Trump era throughout Virginia and the rest of the country. “But that fundraising almost always is not enough to offset the fundamental partisanship of a seat, and HD-18 is still strongly Republican,” Kondik wrote.
The U.S. Supreme Court needs to clear up a circuit split over whether disciplining a worker for conduct caused by a disability counts as disability discrimination, according to a former federal intelligence agency employee who claimed attendance issues stemming from depression cost her her job. “Hannah P.’s” legal team includes Daniel R. Ortiz of the University of Virginia School of Law Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
“All of them were damaged to some degree,” Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics said. According to Kondik, the most noteworthy effect of the scandal has been the absence of the governor, or any Democrats currently in statewide office, on the campaign trail.
NREL will work as the prime contractor on three projects within ARPA-E’s Aerodynamic Turbines Lighter and Afloat with Nautical Technologies and Integrated Servo-control (ATLANTIS) program, aiming to develop next-generation floating wind turbines. On this project, NREL’s partners include the University of Virginia.
These efforts have led to initiatives like Universities Studying Slavery, a University of Virginia-led consortium of roughly 50 schools that examines the history and legacy of slavery and its continued impacts in the present. Individual schools have also looked into the matter; earlier this year at UVA, for example, a genealogist began working to identify and find the descendants of some of the 4,000 slaves estimated to have worked on the University’s Grounds before 1865.
Cale Jaffe, UVA associate professor of law and counsel representing the two counties, said they filed their amicus briefs to “ensure that the Clean Water Act will remain a tool, as it has for decades, to help resolve those crises.”
Dessane Lopez Cassell talks with Kevin Jerome Everson, who has made more than 170 films, one of which, “Black Bus Stop,” codirected with Claudrena N. Harold, has just screened at the New York Film Festival. Everson is not only a filmmaker; he’s also a street photographer, a sculptor, a printmaker, and a professor at the University of Virginia.
With inclement weather too close to call, the University of Virginia has delayed Thursday’s “Trick or Treating on the Lawn” until Friday evening.
Lakshmi Fjord began to cry after an attorney for the State Air Pollution Control Board conceded in federal court Tuesday that Union Hill, a community established by freed slaves in Buckingham County after the Civil War, is indeed overwhelmingly populated by African Americans. “It was hugely vindicating for all of us,” said Fjord, a UVA anthropologist.
Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of psychology, said it’s hard to find a coherent story across different state and local school districts, but that he hoped the results would “spur us to do something a little more vigorous. … We’ve just absolutely stalled.”
At UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development, “a virtual classroom interface” allows teacher candidates to practice in simulated classroom situations long before they’re in charge of a real-life classroom. “And they get to do this from the comfort of their own home,” assistant professor Julie Cohen said.