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.
About a hundred students from UVA, and another 50 from Virginia Tech, ODU and Hampton will be watching when a rocket blasts off late Wednesday afternoon with three little satellites on board. The four-inch cubes weigh about three pounds apiece, but they’ll pack a big informational punch, according to Christopher Goyne, a UVA associate professor of engineering.
ESPN-W stopped by the University of Virginia Monday as part of their “Campus Conversations” tour with women student-athletes. A panel of UVA alumnae and former student-athletes told the young women in the room how being an athlete helped them in their careers.
Personal attacks have always been a fixture of American politics. In 1800, when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams ran for president against each other, Federalists suggested that Jefferson was an atheist, while Republicans branded Adams as a wannabe monarch planning a family dynasty, according to UVA’s Miller Center, which specializes in political history.
Ting Xu, a UVA assistant professor of business administration, was interested in studying risk factors in entrepreneurship. From previous surveys on the topic, he knew that loss of career growth and financial stability were the most commonly cited concerns. But what if you were guaranteed to get your old job back?
The FCC put the grant process for the $4.5 billion program on hold late last year as it launched an investigation into whether one or more major carriers violated rules and submitted incorrect maps. Christopher Ali, a UVA assistant professor of media studies, said the looming mapping question leaves the government flailing blindly at a problem that prevents it from meeting the needs of rural America.
A small satellite designed and built by UVA students is set to blast off from Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Wednesday. At 4:46 p.m., the Libertas CubeSat will be launched from the Wallops Flight Facility and will travel on a rocket to the International Space Station. The satellite then will be launched from the space station this summer and will orbit the Earth in conjunction with other satellites built by Old Dominion University and Virginia Tech students.
Charlottesville City Council is celebrating the UVA men's basketball team. During the event at Scott Stadium on Saturday, councilors Heather Hill and Kathy Galvin presented a proclamation honoring the team for its national championship season.
After the Virginia Cavaliers defeated the Texas Tech Raiders, 85-77 on Monday night to win the NCAA men’s basketball national championship, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution to congratulate UVA on their accomplishment.
Mingling in a line that formed outside Scott Stadium’s west gate on Saturday more than four hours before it opened, generations of Virginia fans eagerly awaited a celebration for a championship that was decades in the making.
The sun was shining over Scott Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Virginia men’s basketball team celebrated the first NCAA Tournament championship in program history in front of approximately 21,000 fans at the university’s football complex in Charlottesville.
“At a certain point, it’s obvious there is not going to be something forthcoming, and at that point, you take further steps,” George K. Yin, a University of Virginia law professor who served as chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation, said in an interview earlier this week. “My inclination is, it’s not yet.”
As UVA English professor Stephen Arata has pointed out, such narratives of “colonial reversal” where the “civilized” world is on the point of being overrun by “primitive” forces, and where the colonizers become colonized and the exploiters become exploited, were frequent in late-Victorian popular fiction in Britain. Arata argues that these discourses of reversal intensified when the empire was in crisis.
The Trump administration is pushing back against House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal's (D-Mass.) request for President Trump's tax returns, arguing it serves no legitimate policy purpose. Most tax-law experts agree Neal is on firm legal ground in demanding Trump's tax returns to view in private ("executive") session. Before 1924, "the president had the sole and unconditional right to obtain and disclose anyone's tax return information," University of Virginia law professor George Yin tells Vox. But after the Teapot Dome scandal, Congress decided "it had to have the same...
Kyle Kondik of the UVA Center for Politics said Ryan’s decision to run may be strategic. Because of slow population growth, Ohio likely will lose a congressional seat in 2022. Because he lives in a region of the state that has been losing population, it’s possible that the surrendered district will be Ryan’s. “Maybe running for president is partly a way to set him up for something in the future if he performs well but doesn’t get the nomination or the vice presidency,” Kondik said. “Maybe if a Democrat wins he can be a part of the administration in some way. Who knows? Only he knows his motiva...
Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia and author of “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics,” said the relationship between Fox and Trump was both “unprecedented” and symbiotic. Shifting directions, she said, could therefore cost Fox an important segment of its viewers.
Sylvia Earle has spent six decades exploring the depths of the world’s oceans and now fights to protect the seas and their inhabitants from a changing climate. Earle and three others were honored Friday with 2019 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in a series of events that celebrated the third president’s birthday.
Judge Carlton Reeves is a Mississippi federal judge who compared President Donald Trump’s attacks on the judiciary to tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan during the Jim Crow era while accepting an award at the University of Virginia. Reeves, who is African-American, hit out at Trump’s tweets railing against federal courts and judges while accepting the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law award from his alma mater.