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.
By contrast, from 2013 to 2017, there was no difference in school bullying rates between Republican- and Democrat-leaning counties in the commonwealth's biannual school climate survey, according to study authors Francis Huang, an associate education professor in education at the University of Missouri, and Dewey Cornell, an education professor and the director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project at the University of Virginia. In fact, bullying overall was on the decline across Virginia from 2013 to 2015, as it has been in the nation as a whole, they found.
The big question in the case was whether the House had standing, or the right to bring this case against the president. Rosemary Collyer, a D.C. district court judge, said yes. Although the substance of the Obamacare case was eventually resolved through a settlement agreement, and Collyer’s decision wouldn’t be binding on future judges, it showed that legislators have a chance of success in suing the president—or, at least, in using a lawsuit to slow down the president. This is the most important question, said Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor at the University of Virginia: “If they sued, w...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that “According to an International Coach Federation report, the 2016 ICF Global Coaching Study, there were about 17,500 coach practitioners in North America in 2015.” Connie Whittaker Dunlap, executive director for professional advancement at UVA’s Darden School of Business, who regularly contributes to Forbes through the Forbes Coaches Council, writes “Western Europe was estimated to have the highest number of coaches, with 18,800 coaches in 2016.” Dunlap has written of the failure of the coaching industry to “adequately capture the complexities of coac...
UVA’s Gordie Center usually works on substance abuse problems, hazing and other forms of bullying among college students and at high schools. The recent workshop at Albemarle County’s Henley Middle School was directed at a different audience.
Thomas Jefferson left instructions that his tombstone should read as follows: “Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom and Father of the University of Virginia.” Jefferson was justifiably proud of his many accomplishments, but what’s not on there is “third president of the United States of America.”
Kent Germany, a fellow at UVA’s Miller Center, notes that Johnson wore his Silver Star pin on his suit for much of his political career. “In his presidential portrait and many of the images of him as president,” Germany says, “that award for gallantry rests high up on his left lapel, connecting him to that moment in 1942 despite any possible reservations about his receiving it.”
There’s little evidence that “family policy” has more than a marginal impact on total lifetime fertility. UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox, who oversees the National Marriage Project, notes that even “krybbe”-to-“grav” Nordic welfare states have failed to keep birthrates above replacement.
The University of Virginia Cavaliers and Virginia Tech Hokies are facing off on Tuesday night in men’s basketball with much more on the line than usual. For the first time ever, both teams are ranked in the top 10 in the nation - Virginia is No. 4 in the most recent Associated Press poll while Virginia Tech is No. 9. In the USA TODAY Sports coaches poll, UVA is No. 1 while Tech is No. 7.
Attorney general hopeful William Barr is set Tuesday to appear for confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee — again. Barr is still more likely than not to be confirmed, said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center.
The McLean, Virginia-based federally funded research and development center recently reopened the SE Fellowship program, a yearlong professional development curriculum designed to offer federal employees an education on how to design and manage complex technology systems. The MITRE program, partnered with the University of Virginia’s Department of Engineering Systems and Environment and the Darden Graduate School of Business, accepts six to 12 fellows to examine the applications of systems thinking, engineering systems for complex multi-stakeholder use, model-oriented and evidence-based system...
(Commentary by Catherine Bradshaw, professor and the senior associate dean for research and faculty development at the Curry School of Education and Human Development) Five years ago, the Obama administration made the critical connection between school safety and equity with its “Dear Colleague” guiding principles underscoring racial disparities in school discipline and outlining how schools can become safer by bridging those gaps. Last month, the Federal School Safety Commission released a recommendation to revoke this guidance.