The University of Virginia is already in discussions with third parties to develop and operate a hotel and conference center on the Ivy Road corridor, according to discussions at Board of Visitors meetings Thursday.
The community is encouraged to go to www.ClimateActionTogether.org to learn about the City of Charlottesville, the University of Virginia and Albemarle County’s participation opportunities, previous regional climate action efforts and more information about sustainability and climate action.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former NATO supreme allied commander, spoke to dozens of UVA students recently, encouraging them to change the political atmosphere.
Design. Innovation. Disruption. Those buzzwords are driving strategies and decisions from boardrooms to bullpens across the globe. And yet: What is good design worth, and how can that value be measured? Measuring the effects and results of design involves “a complex set of issues,” cautioned Jeanne Liedtka of UVA’s Darden School of Business, author of the forthcoming book “Designing for the Greater Good.”
The UVA Health System’s executive vice president announced Monday that he will step down in May. Dr. Rick Shannon has been at UVA for six years, overseeing the Medical Center, the schools of Medicine and Nursing, the Health Sciences Library and physicians’ group.
The 2018 midterm elections saw a record number of women elected to Congress. Now, women are organizing to make the ‘moment’ into a movement. “In politics there are these jolts to the system and something fundamental happens,” said Jennifer Lawless, a UVA professor who writes extensively about women in politics. “It’s likely that 2018 was that year.” But the 116th Congress is still only 23.7 percent female.
Gov. Ralph Northam appointed Jim Ryan, president of the University of Virginia, to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority.
Gov. Ralph Northam appointed Jim Ryan, president of the University of Virginia, to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority.
“The exact cause for the loss of the rusty patched is unclear,” says UVA biology professor T’ai Roulston. “But it’s almost certainly related to disease,” especially a fungal gut parasite that “can shorten the lives of worker bees and disrupt mating success and survival of queens and males.”
One reason for India’s declining rural poverty rates could be MGNREGS itself. In a 2016 review of MGNREGS studies, Sandip Sukhtankar of University of Virginia, suggested that the program has boosted wages in agriculture and unskilled labor and, when implemented well, it is associated with increases in income.
(Audio) Joe Topinka and Dr. Jennifer Lawless, a professor at the University of Virginia discuss the anticipation of the city of Chicago’s first African-American female mayor. How will a woman conduct herself and govern differently in this prestigious position?
The Charlottesville community is coming together to commemorate the end of slavery in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered at the Rotunda Dome Room at the University of Virginia for a service to honor those who were enslaved.
Confronting the history of slavery is a tall task, particularly in creating a monument to slaves who labored at the University of Virginia. “It has really taken a village to get here,” said Mabel Wilson, a professor of architecture at Columbia University. About 120 people filed into the Rotunda on Sunday to commemorate Liberation and Freedom Day and wrap up a weekend of events.
For the third straight year, Charlottesville and Albemarle County celebrated Liberation and Freedom Day at the University of Virginia. The celebration recognized the end of slavery in Charlottesville and Albemarle 154 years ago on Sunday.
A UVA research group has been looking at the stability of sodium carbonate at Ceres-like temperatures, pressures and radiation levels. Catherine Dukes and colleagues have a barbeque grill-sized vacuum chamber that allows for observing different materials in various “space environment” conditions.
Vermont ranks so well on measures of childhood health and well-being that a colleague once referred to it as “the best state in America.” But the 2020 Census will probably confirm that Vermont peaked during this decade and is now losing population, according to projections from demographer Shonel Sen and her colleagues at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center.
Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center and the author of “Messengers of the Right,” a history of the conservative media’s impact on American politics, says of Fox, “It’s the closest we’ve come to having state TV.”
Nearly 1,700 people worked at the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in fiscal year 2017. The number is expected to rise to nearly 3,150, by 2026, according to a study by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Center for Economic and Policy Studies. In January, the University of Virginia announced plans to establish a $200 million School of Data Science with the help of a $120 million donation.
Researchers from Northeastern University and the University of Virginia have found that school shootings are not more common than they were in the past and have actually been declining since the 1990s. Second, schools are still the safest place for children.
The guard has helped his team to the best record in the NBA. He talks to Donald McRae about race, Giannis Antetokounmpo and his drive to fight poverty.