“You have not a [pure] democracy, but a republic accountable to people – but not immediately responsive to the people,” explains Sidney Milkis of UVA’s Miller Center. “That’s why you have a third [of the Senate] turning over, so it doesn’t get too far removed from currents of public opinion.”
Despite its volatile history, UVA has established itself as an exemplar in restorative justice due to its large-scale efforts to uncover and reconcile its ties to slavery.
11. University of Virginia: Thomas Jefferson designed the Academical Village in what is considered one of the most important architectural projects in U.S. history. The neoclassical campus, along with Jefferson’s home, Monticello, are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Brody Jewish Center of the University of Virginia held a memorial service Saturday evening in honor of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims.
UVA students and members of the Charlottesville community got a closer look at the history of African-Americans, specifically women, and their influence on UVA and the city as a whole.
(Subscription required) What might giving students more direction look like today? Rather than enforcing rules to keep students on the right path – or even suggesting that such a path exists – a number of colleges across the country are seeking to guide students as they chart their own. One of the more ambitious efforts is unfolding at UVA.
A new report shows that a record number of students earned college degrees in Virginia in the last school year.
Professor Douglas Laycock of the UVA School of Law is one of the nation’s leading experts on religious liberty and has served as lead counsel in six cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Democrats should win the House majority with room to spare in Tuesday’s elections, but the UVA prognosticator is warning that the party could fall flat and short of the needed 23-seat pickup. The school’s Larry J. Sabato Crystal Ball said Thursday that liberals should add 29 seats, but, “not so many more that one could rule out the Democrats sputtering out short of the majority.”
Christopher Taylor, the chair of the Johnson County Democrats, said the growth in party registration has been slowly building up over time. And Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan political analysis newsletter run by UVA’s Center for Politics, the Democratic Party as a whole has been pushing for more consistent base engagement since 2016.
Data science is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand disciplines. "Not only are opportunities for exceptional data scientists exponentially growing, but data science is being increasingly applied across diverse industries, in government, and in academia," Phil Bourne, director of the University of Virginia Data Science Institute, said in a statement in August.
Kyle Kondik, a political handicapper and managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, joined the Ohio Matters podcast to provide some insight.
The UVA Cancer Center has been listed as one of the top 100 great oncology programs in the country. The ranking came from Becker's Hospital Review on Wednesday. According to a release, this is the sixth year in a row that UVA has been recognized by Becker's for care, and it is the only health system in Virginia that was on this list this year.
UVA head basketball coach Tony Bennett says the theme for this year's team is "United Pursuit.” "It's pursuit, when you pursue something or seek something you have to do it with all your might," says Bennett.
The expansion is already having an effect on local health care providers. The program manager of the University of Virginia Medicaid unit says the UVA Medical Center has approved the hiring of several people to handle the increased number of Medicaid patients.
Public institutions say they are trying to help students within their states who struggle paying for college — and even those with moderate incomes. The University of Virginia just announced it will waive tuition for in-state students whose families earn less than about $80,000 annually while students from families earning less than $30,000 annually would be eligible for free tuition and room and board.
More than 150 movies and dozens of programs, guests and speakers will fill area venues at the four-day Virginia Film Festival — and that will present film fans with some tough decisions about which events to attend.
Set for Nov. 1-4 on big screens all around the city, the 31st annual Virginia Film Festival will center on 150 films, locally produced to internationally acclaimed, including a tribute to one of the art form’s most innovative and intriguing figures, Orson Welles.
University of Virginia's annual Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn took place Wednesday for Halloween. UVA President James Ryan passed out candy to hundreds of kids himself in front of his own lawn room.
Livia Sauvage carefully placed her hand on a sheet painted with a tree and lifted it, leaving an orange handprint. Sauvage, a second-year student at the University of Virginia, attended a letter-writing event Wednesday at the McIntire Amphitheatre. Dozens of students clustered around tables writing notes of support and encouragement to members of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where a gunman killed 11 people on Saturday, as well as to Pittsburgh Jewish students and police.