On Sunday, the Men's Leadership Project partnered with Houses of Wood & Straw to build dog houses to keep pets warm this winter. MLP is a community-based mentoring program, connecting UVA undergrads with seventh-graders from several Albemarle County schools.
Members of the Men's Leadership Project partnered with their mentees to build several new wooden doghouses for Houses of Wood and Straw at Canine Campus on Sunday morning.
On Sunday, Lyons and his “big brother,” UVA student Garrett Lukens, joined 10 other big brothers and nine other little brothers to build shelters for local nonprofit Houses of Wood and Straw. UVA’s Men’s Leadership Project is a yearlong mentoring program, run through UVA’s Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center, that partners undergraduate students with seventh-graders at Sutherland, Jack Jouett and Jackson P. Burley middle schools.
The University of Virginia will receive a $100 million gift to benefit first-generation college students. The donation is from David and Jane Walentas. David Walentas is an alumnus of UVA and was a first-generation college student himself.
Fittingly, most of the money – which Walentas says will be paid out over five to 10 years – will help the school fund opportunities for first-generation college students like Walentas, who is now worth an estimated $2.5 billion.
The donation comes from a graduate who said his education was "transformational."
The University of Virginia has kicked off a $5 billion 'Honor the Future' campaign. The goal is to make UVA the nation's best public university.
UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art has resolved to devote half of its exhibitions to underrepresented art. “It’s important to make a real, discernible commitment,” says museum director Matthew McLendon. “There are difficult conversations our society needs to have.”
UVA researchers have found that when people move away from their established communities, it can result in a weaker commitment to those friendships – so instead of texting every other day, you might check in with each other every other week instead. Eventually, those plans to catch up stay just that – plans.
Nearly half of all children who develop Type 1 diabetes don't know they have the disease until they end up in a coma in the hospital. UVA researchers have set out to see if a genetic test for Type 1 diabetes can eliminate many of those emergencies.
So what could happen if Trump were convicted in an impeachment proceeding? For starters, it’s still possible Trump could remain president despite a conviction, according to Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor and senior fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. “The constitution says, basically, the sanctions shall extend to no further than removal from office and a bar from holding office,” says Prakash, an expert in constitutional law and impeachment.
Some of the first primaries were held in 1912. Barbara A. Perry, the director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, who spoke to TIME as part of a presidential-history partnership between TIME History and the Miller Center, points out that those 1912 primaries were products of the progressive-era populist movement, as former President Teddy Roosevelt unsuccessfully tried to unseat incumbent President William Taft by forming the Progressive Party, also known as the Bull Moose Party.
Leading Democrats are licking their chops. The terrain for actual removal remains difficult, however. Said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics: “Try as I might, I can’t find 20 Republican senators who would vote to convict and thus oust Trump. I can find five or six who might, under the worst set of circumstances for Trump. … We do know that Trump’s base. … probably won’t turn on the president for any reason, ever.”
State climatologist Jerry Stenger at the University of Virginia said the amount of precipitation at the McCormick Observatory was only about 32% of normal for the month of September, and is so far only 18% for the month of October. “This is giving us some serious drying conditions in the Charlottesville area and, indeed, most of the Commonwealth. The situation is particularly bad in much of central Virginia, but there are some locations scattered around the state that have received less than 5% of normal precipitation for the last month or so.”
Finding a doctoral adviser who isn’t just a great scientist but also a skilled mentor is kind of a crapshoot. Yet while having a trainee-focused principal investigator, or PI, in the natural sciences is certainly beneficial, a new study says it’s not essential to the development of scientific skills. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, effectively compares the primary mentor-mentee model of scientific training, or the “cognitive apprenticeship,” with what’s referred to as a “cascading mentorship” model. And the authors -- including lead author Dav...
A local school division is one of six across Virginia that is getting funding to improve mental health services for students. Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane announced on Thursday that the Virginia Department of Education has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant. According to a release, the funds were awarded under the U.S. Department of Education's Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program and will support VDOE and the University of Virginia in developing a statewide training and professional development network to increase the quantity and quality of ...
St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish, staffed by Dominican Friars and bordered on three sides by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, was established to serve the spiritual needs of UVA students who self-identify as Catholic, as well as UVA faculty, administration and friends. The Friars are in the process of fundraising for and building a new church, a traditional structure that “will serve as a catalyst for a deeper commitment to our Faith, among both regular and occasional participants in the Eucharist and other liturgies, as well as a compelling invitation to all, especially the ...
Dayna Bowen Matthew wants to get universities back to their original purpose, as she sees it, and the University of Virginia officially is on board. On Friday, UVA announced a new center called the Democracy Initiative Center for the Redress of Inequity Through Community-Engaged Scholarship – or, the Equity Center. The new center aims to repair economic and racial inequity by changing the way university researchers operate through putting their resources at the service of community questions and needs.
Tony Bennett – the 19-time Grammy winner, not the Virginia basketball coach – will perform at an outdoor concert Saturday for members of the UVA community to mark the beginning of the public phase of the school's $5 billion capital campaign.
Two UVA students plan to appeal after the dismissal of their lawsuit against the U.S. government that claimed a federal law restricting sales of handguns to people younger than 21 is unconstitutional.