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.
You might not expect a professor of engineering to report advances in medicine, but at UVA, that’s what’s happening. Daniel Quinn might revolutionize care for people with asthma.
“The accusations against Sinema are part of a larger line of attack that Martha McSally and Republicans are making against Sinema, which is simply that she is not credible,” says the UVA Center for Politics’s Kyle Kondik. “For instance, a major theme of the advertising being used against Sinema has been to argue that she is more left-wing than she lets on. The message, basically, is that Sinema is not the moderate that she has presented herself as — again, from the GOP perspective.”
Since that climate is one of extreme polarization, the question of how political museums should get is becoming increasingly urgent. And they carry extra weight in a place like Charlottesville, where right-wing demonstrators last year rallied around a statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and attacked counter-protesters, killing one, Heather Heyer. “The 21st-century museum is a place for dialogue, and it can be perhaps a place where, mediated through art, some of the tensions around that dialogue might fall away more easily,” says Matthew McLendon, the director of UVA’s Fralin Museum...
“Why do we care about safety?” says Peter Norton, a transportation historian at the University of Virginia. “Because we care about human health.” Norton warns that the autonomous future will result in less walking, more sprawl, and—without dedication to electric propulsion—a huge spike in pollution. “When your car drives itself and you can spend the commute doing whatever you want, who cares if a trip that used to take 20 minutes now takes an hour?” he says.
The president has intensified his attacks as the midterm elections for control of Congress draw nearer and as the fight over the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has grown increasingly fraught. With his ridiculing of a woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault and references to a left-wing "mob," Trump has provided a template for congressional candidates to follow. "My fear is that the Rubicon has been crossed," said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. "Others will see that this is the way to power and will use this model a...
A two-time Academy Award-winning actor will be a special guest at the upcoming Virginia Film Festival. Christoph Waltz will attend the festival in November. Waltz will appear with Academy Award-winning producer Mark Johnson for "A Tribute to Christoph Waltz" on Nov. 3, which will combine an onstage interview with clips of scenes from Waltz's career.
Seven Virginia coastal localities are participating in The RAFT project, an initiative designed to help improve resilience to flooding and other coastal storm hazards while remaining economically and socially viable. The RAFT project was created by an academic interdisciplinary collaborative Core Team led by UVA’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation, the Virginia Coastal Policy Center at William & Mary Law School, and Old Dominion University, Virginia Sea Grant.
How should professors handle recommendations for students who want to pursue studies or causes the instructors disagree with, and how should colleges respond? “It’s a delicate process, and one that has to be handled with utmost professional and personal care,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies. “The thing is, nobody tells us this when we start the tenure track.”
A total of 33,555 Virginia addresses were not included in the 2010 Census, according to a study by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. These addresses are not included in the U.S. Census Bureau’s address lists and—using the bureau’s estimate of 2.58 people per residence—mean that more than 70,000 people will not be counted in the next census if they are not incorporated.
Exploring Jupiter’s moon Europa will be a treacherous task, it seems: scientists reckon its surface is covered in sharp towering icy daggers. The menacing shards are known as penitentes, according to a paper published in Nature Geoscience this week. On Earth, these structures have been spotted pointing in the direction of the sun in the Andes and can reach up to five meters tall. Researchers from Cardiff University in the UK, and the NASA Ames Research Center and the University of Virginia in the US, estimate that conditions on Europa can nurture the growth of penitentes to almost 15 metres or...
Virginia’s health commissioner kicked off a statewide listening tour Wednesday evening with a town hall at UVA.
(Video) Students with UVA’s largest student-run organization are gearing up to flip thousands of flapjacks that will all go toward a great cause.
Just in time to text and post Homecoming memories on social media, WiFi is coming to Scott Stadium Saturday night. The University of Virginia announces a partnership with Ting to provide a high-capacity, cutting-edge wireless network. UVA AD Carla Williams says the service has 168 access points precisely placed throughout the stadium.
This was posted on Twitter by Daniel Willingham, a well-regarded UVA psychology professor who focuses his research on the application of cognitive psychology to K-12 schools and higher education.
It sounds all too familiar to historian Peter Norton, a UVA professor who wrote "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City." The book covers a similar period of social turbulence when automobiles were first seen on city streets. "It's a new version of an old problem," Norton said.
The competence of your manager is one important factor in deciding how you view his or her intervention in your project, said Roshni Raveendhran, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
Half of women – a key voting bloc in the fight for the House that’s playing out in America’s suburbs – said they’re likely to support the Democratic candidate, including 41 percent of women who identify as independents. “It’s hard to quantify exactly” what kind of electoral gains Democrats would make were that 10-point margin to bear out on Nov. 6, Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, said in an email Tuesday. But one study he pointed to, published on his website last year by Emory University professor Alan Abramowitz, predic...