Hedge-fund owner Jaffray Woodriff, and his wife, Merrill, today donated $120 million to the University of Virginia to launch a new school of data science. The donors are giving the money through their family fund, the Quantitative Foundation.
James Monroe's Highland and the UVA School of Architecture will host a series of public lectures as part of a class in the spring. The lectures are being put on with support from a grant from the Jefferson Trust.
Two 20-year-old University of Virginia grads Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian started Reddit in 2005 as a social media meets news site. Within two years, they had sold it to publishing house Condé Nast for between $10 million and $20 million.
The University of Virginia announced Friday the launch of a school of data science, backed by a $120 million gift, the largest private donation to the state’s flagship university.
"This has nothing to do with Steven King,'' said Larry Sabato, the University of Virginia political scientist, referring to the GOP outrage. "They are using King as a vehicle to send a message to Donald Trump."
When the team experiences a patient death, they gather together and pause. “You take 45 seconds for everyone to bow their heads and reflect on it. It helps you reflect and recognize the gravity and significance of what just happened.” Michael learned “the pause” from Jonathan Bartels, a palliative nurse at University of Virginia Medical Center, during his residency in their emergency department.
The Tom Tom Founders Festival is coming up in April, and the organization has now announced the first of its speakers for this year. The festival also says tickets for all six of its conferences have gone on sale as of Tuesday.
The University of Virginia announced the Tony Award-winning actor and singer Leslie Odom Jr. will be at the John Paul Jones Arena as the UVA President's Speaker for the Arts. Odom last visited Charlottesville during the bicentennial celebration in 2017, just months after the weekend of Aug. 12.
A UVA researcher says exercise and a new drug now under study could dramatically increase the time blood flow can be cut off without damaging organs and tissues downstream.
With major cold temps and freezing expected this weekend, UVA researchers say viruses can survive for weeks outside your body. Taking into consideration that your coats, hats, gloves, scarves, and other winter-weather related clothing and accessories come in contact with hair, lips, and the environment, all may very well have germs.
A study put together by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Virginia shows that getting a hug a day could keep the doctor away. Scientists looked at hugging and the probability of getting sick with a cold and they found participants who had been hugged did not suffer the same kind of symptoms as those who had not been hugged.
The group appointed by UVA President Jim Ryan that aims to bring the University and Charlottesville communities together by resolving existing issues is now asking for your help.
New entrepreneurs in Charlottesville and Albemarle County are starting their applications for a program with the University of Virginia. Soon, area business owners will be able to spend their summer working and learning how to succeed. The people behind the i.Lab at UVA’s summer incubator program say, this year, they want to interest more than just students to take part in the 10-week program.
"The area where Trump has had the biggest impact has been without Congress, using the powers of executive branch, particularly in deregulation," said Guian McKee, an associate professor in presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. "The trade-off is they can do a lot of things but it is, generally speaking, going to be less permanent than legislative action. The next president can reverse those."
Karen Kafadar, chair of the statistics department at the University of Virginia, has worked in forensic science validation for the past two decades, contributing to a groundbreaking study of the FBI’s bullet lead analysis.
Karen Kafadar, chair of the statistics department at the University of Virginia, has worked in forensic science validation for the past two decades, contributing to a groundbreaking study of the FBI’s bullet lead analysis.
Leslie Odom Jr. wasn’t always the Tony Award-winning originator of the role of Aaron Burr in the musical sensation, “Hamilton.” But on his way there, he learned to ask himself tough questions to keep himself on track to achieve his dreams, and he savored the transformative moments he discovered in the presence of art. Odom will return to UVA this weekend as the President’s Speaker for the Arts.
George Thomas Welsh, 85, Hall of Fame Football Coach at the University of Virginia and U.S Naval Academy, passed peacefully in the presence of his family on January 2, 2019, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Virginia Tech could not overcome the deficit in the second half, and Virginia rolled to an 81-59 win that its fan base had dreamed of for 11 months. With No. 1 Duke’s loss to Syracuse on Monday evening, Virginia (16-0, 4-0 ACC) assumed sole possession of first place in the ACC with the win.
A surprising new study from the University of Virginia suggests the last presidential election led to more bullying in Virginia middle schools. Every two years, UVA professor Dewey Cornell and a colleague at the University of Missouri survey almost every middle school student in Virginia to learn more about bullying. They did so the year before the latest presidential election and the year after.