An even bigger challenge, she found, is promoting the Black professional community in San Francisco — a city where the African-American population has been steadily decreasing since 1970. Today, only one in 20 San Francisco residents is Black. Enter the Coalition of Black Excellence, the nonprofit Johnson is driving herself. A political science major at the University of Virginia, Johnson’s study-abroad experience in South Africa piqued her interest in foreign policy and international law. At the University of Pennsylvania Law School she found that litigating came naturally. But as Johnson got...
Prof. Bruce Holsinger at the University of Virginia has recently shown just how this can work and what dramatic consequences it can have. His article "Thorkel Farserk Goes for a Swim: Climate Change, the Medieval Optimum, and the Perils of Amateurism," just published in a volume entitled “The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives,” tells a story about a 10th-century Viking and a modern scientist who read with too little skepticism, which has dramatic implications as we confront the recent UN report on climate change.
The special counsel’s lack of public commentary also hardly makes for good campaign material, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Mueller is the great sphinx so far,” Sabato said. “No one really knows what he’s thinking or how far his investigation has come. It’s hard to grab onto fog.” Sabato noted that even he has lost track of the Mueller probe — a good example of why the topic isn’t front and center with candidates or midterm voters.
As direct-to-employer contracts gain steam between providers and large companies, should health systems be trying out direct primary care on their own workforce? "I think every patient would like the kind of care that DPC promises. I know I would," says Carolyn Engelhard, associate professor of public health sciences and public policy at the University of Virginia.
In space news, a team with members from Cardiff University, NASA and the University of Virginia found that giant, jagged 'ice spikes' cover Jupiter's moon Europa – likely making things extremely difficult for any future landing craft.
The work reported by the Nanjing-ANU-Wisconsin team offers a nice win for the optoelectronic potential of 2-D semiconductor heterostructures. But how the inorganic part of those structures was made—laborious mechanical exfoliation of MoSe2 flakes—remains a problem for scaling such structures up to commercial use. To get past that roadblock to commercialization, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech, the University of Virginia and the University of Notre Dame, and Yonsei University, South Korea, looked at a very different approach, which the team believes c...
(Video) Dozens of UVA sorority women are learning how to protect themselves against a potential assault. Instructors from Gracie Charlottesville demonstrated some serious self-defense moves during one of the sorority's meetings Sunday.
The UVA School of Nursing wants to teach nurses how they can help communities struggling to recover following a disaster, thanks to an $87,000 grant from the Jefferson Trust. A panelist from UVA Nursing and Bluefields, Nicaragua, spoke to nursing students and community members about climate change and how the Nicaragua community bounced back from a hurricane 20 years ago. The presentation was part of a series to share insights and lessons learned in disaster preparedness and recovery.
UVA students and middle-schoolers came together to build doghouses Sunday, but what they hope to build is much more than that. The Men's Leadership Project at UVA helps get young boys on the right path by pairing them with students for support and advice.
UVA students and middle-schoolers came together to build doghouses Sunday, but what they hope to build is much more than that. The Men's Leadership Project at UVA helps get young boys on the right path by pairing them with students for support and advice.
At age 25, Haley Alvarez has already been to the postseason with the University of Virginia Cavaliers and major league baseball’s Oakland A’s. A couple weeks after a 97-win season, Oakland’s scouting coordinator is already looking at 2019.
All thanks to a Tweet, President Jim Ryan is now leading a morning run every week.
Virginia is amidst a launch of a fundraising camp for a new football facility, something that’s been long overdue for the UVA football program, which has fallen way behind its ACC counterparts in the facilities arms race. The estimated cost of the project is currently targeted at $180 million.
“We don’t have all of the numbers yet, but this democratic House fundraising is just off the charts,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Summit Public Schools, which over the past four years has led the creation of the “Summit Learning Program” currently used by more than 380 schools around the U.S., said today that it will spin out that program into an independent nonprofit as of the 2019-20 school year. Other board members will include Priscilla Chan, who heads the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Peggy Alford, CZI’s chief financial officer and head of operations, and Alex Hernandez, formerly a partner at the Charter School Growth Fund and now Dean of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at the University of Virginia.
The Face of Fake News also features Elizabeth Losh and Jaime Settle from the College of William and Mary, and Siva Vaidhyanathan from the University of Virginia.
Virginia announced a partnership with Ting to bring WiFi to Scott Stadium for fans, starting Saturday night when the Wahoos host the Miami Hurricanes.
The University of Virginia ranks No. 85 in Reuters’ list of 100 most innovative universities in the world.
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato discussed Republicans struggling in states Trump won in 2016. Sabato said Trump is in trouble in the Midwest, a part of the country where he did well in 2016, and it "seems to be flipping" in the midterm year.
UVA football coach Bronco Mendenhall was blunt with reporters earlier this week when asked about the impact the Cavaliers’ athletic facilities have on recruiting. “The easy answer is yes, certainly our facilities have cost us,” he said.