West Virginia's population loss would likely continue for the next 20 years, according to projections from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. In the 1990s, a high immigration population and increased birth meant a younger age profile for the nation.
Ivy Tech Community College and the University of Virginia have announced a new partnership. The agreement allows Ivy Tech students who complete the Liberal Arts Associate in Arts or Associate in Science program to continue working toward an online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies through the University of Virginia.
The second-place winners of the Commonwealth Challenge and the Social Impact Challenge were awarded to two teams from the University of Virginia.
Wylie kindly took time away from teaching photography and his work as director of UVA’s Studio Art Department to share by email his creative process, and how he sees Pompeii both through the camera lens and through time. And essentially, what Pompeii means to him.
(By Mark Edmundson, University Professor of English) Though America had been a nation for nearly 80 years, it was incomplete. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution – those were political documents, pragmatic in their designs for democracy. What America lacked was what Emerson called for: an evocation of what being a democratic man or woman felt like at its best, day to day, moment to moment.
“It is not just a movie. It’s a book. It’s a movie. It’s something so very, very special because we’ve never seen this before,” Kornheiser said.
An Antares rocket blasted off on schedule from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Wednesday, en route to the International Space Station, with supplies and with working satellites built by Virginia students. UVA’s Trace LaCour is a fourth-year aerospace and engineering student, who helped build one of the three satellites, that will orbit as a constellation and send back data on atmospheric density and how it causes orbits to decay.
The University of Virginia’s first spacecraft began its trip to the International Space Station on Wednesday afternoon. The small cube launched from Wallops Island aboard a Northrop Grumman rocket.
Kirk Martini, a professor at the UVA School of Architecture, said the transept is probably the greatest vulnerability.
How the economy fares in spring 2020 is likely to play a large role in Trump’s reelection chances, according to election experts such as Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics.
People’s ability to think logically suffers when they are faced with arguments that go against their political belief systems, a study from researchers at UVA and the University of California, Irvine has found.
Singer, songwriter, and philanthropist Pharrell Williams will return to the commonwealth to speak at the University of Virginia. Williams, a Virginia Beach native, will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 Valedictory Exercises. He's scheduled to address the graduating class on May 17.
O’Rourke Flounders for an Excuse After a College Student Confronts Him Over Measly Charitable Giving
During a Tuesday campaign event at the University of Virginia, a college student called out 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s charitable giving. The student referenced O’Rourke’s tax returns, which revealed that less than one-third of 1 percent of his income went to charitable donations. She claimed that her sister pays more to charities than he did, despite their difference in pay.
The former Texas congressman has taken heat over his 2017 tax return showing he and his wife Amy gave $1,166 out of their $366,455 adjusted gross income that year to charity, a giving rate of just 0.3 percent. A town hall questioner at the University of Virginia asked O'Rourke why her sister, a recent college graduate, made far less than he did but gave more to charity.
UVA’s Building Bridges Earth Week Expo kicked off this week and on Tuesday, students mingled with environmental organizations. They got a chance to learn about new projects being work on and network for potential internship and job opportunities.
But even the new normal is still far from equal, says Jennifer Lawless, a UVA political scientist and an expert on women in politics. “The fact that this moms’ caucus has to exist continues to demonstrate the incredibly disproportionate share of household labor and child care that women, even in the top tier of professional accomplishment, remain responsible for,” she said.
On Tuesday night, Beto O’Rourke became the first 2020 candidate to make a campaign stop in Charlottesville, speaking to hundreds of people at UVA. Students and community members packed UVA’s Nau Hall, filling the 272-person-capacity lecture hall and crowding the halls and staircase outside. O’Rourke spoke to both crowds.
Chris Long, a UVA alum, was lucky enough to attend the MCAA championship game out in Minnesota last week, and it helped land him on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Sort of!
Researchers at the University of Virginia found removal of kidney obstruction promotes regeneration and repair of developing kidneys, which could lead to a better treatment for infants and adults with chronic kidney disease.
Despite opposition from teachers’ unions, a Florida-based company will try to turn around schools in Aurora and Pueblo – though it’s not likely to win the chance to take on a full district. Trey Traviesa, chairman and CEO of MGT, said the group partners with the University of Virginia to work with schools and build their leadership, so they can take over when the consultants leave.