(Video) While the Virginia football team has an off week, the schedule never stops for the UVA cheerleaders.
U.S. voters will soon render their verdict on Donald Trump and his ruling Republican Party after two tumultuous years that have deeply shaken the world's oldest existing democracy. "For Democrats, the top issue by a mile is Donald Trump," said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Video) A program at the University of Virginia is hoping to get women involved in STEM by telling the story of a well-known female engineer.
“I think they (national Democrats) just look at the seat and think it’s too Republican leaning for them to win. So if McMurray is going to win, he’s basically going to have to do it on his own, which is probably why it’s an uphill battle for him,” said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics.
When it comes to matters of sexual assault, the question of how a law professor should communicate with her students has weighed heavy on the mind of UVA law professor Anne Coughlin. It's important, Coughlin says, not to trivialize anyone's experience and to approach these issues with respect, regardless of her views on the issue.
Virginia has launched a multi-million-dollar contraception initiative. The Virginia Department of Health says the long-acting reversible contraceptive initiative will give residents of the commonwealth greater access to family planning options. There are 12 facilities participating, including the UVA Health System.
Telehealth and telemedicine programs that assist health care providers in treating people with substance abuse issues will be getting a significant upgrade, thanks to a massive bill passed by Congress and headed to President Trump’s desk. Among those now using the platform is Virginia Commonwealth University, which is partnering with Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia in a telemedicine programs spanning the state.
In the new study, the researchers test the hypothesis that this link exists in the earliest stages of human development. Study leader Dr. Tobias Grossmann and colleagues tracked the eye movements of 7-month-old infants to examine whether their attention and response to seeing emotion in other people’s faces could predict altruistic behavior at 14 months of age. These findings critically advance our understanding of the emergence of altruism in humans by identifying responsiveness to fear in others as an early precursor contributing to variability in prosocial behavior,” said Grossmann, of the ...
Robert M. O’Neil, a scholar of First Amendment law who served in the 1980s as president of the University of Wisconsin system and then as president of the University of Virginia, where he was credited with recruiting more minorities to the faculty and student ranks, died Sunday at his home in Washington. He was 83.
(Video) The United States’ first openly transgender elected state lawmaker paid a visit to UVA to talk to students about her new program.
Also in the nation’s top five, out of the 797 institutions with at least 10 candidates, were the University of Georgia (86.3 percent), Wake Forest University in North Carolina (84.5 percent) and the University of Virginia (84.2 percent).
A Wednesday afternoon fire at a luxury apartment complex for University of Virginia students injured one person and left 14 occupants temporarily homeless.
At least two other public institutions have set $5 billion goals: the University of California at San Francisco, which has brought in $4.3 billion so far, and the University of Virginia, which just announced its campaign goal in June.
State Del. Danica Roem strode into the UVA School of Law Wednesday cracking jokes, fact-checking deans and encouraging current law students to make sure other’s voices are heard. Roem, the first openly transgender person to be elected and seated in a state legislature, focused her message on the need for officials who care about both equality and about bread and butter issues such as transportation and health care.
For an early snapshot of the landscape, UVA student Max Patten did a survey for Axios on the Lawn on Sept. 25, National Voter Registration Day. The bottom line: Patten said he expected to hear much of President Trump. But, he said, “[T]he students never (with the exception of one) mentioned Trump by name, but took views strongly contrary to him on the issues they mentioned.”
By protecting and restoring forests, the world would achieve 18 percent of the emissions mitigation needed by 2030 to avoid runaway climate change, a group of 40 scientists, spanning five countries, said in a statement. “The forest piece of the conversation is often lost,” UVA environmental sciences professor Deborah Lawrence said. “We almost take forests as a given, but we lose forest every year, which means we are diminishing them as a carbon sink.”
Part of the University of Virginia Research Park has been certified as infrastructure ready by the Virginia Business Ready Site Program. The VBRSP is a discretionary program administered by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to promote the development and characterizations of sites that contain at least 100 contiguous acres to enhance and promote the competitive business environment in Virginia.
The University of Virginia is working to get wrongfully convicted people out from behind bars. The UVA Law School teamed up with the Virginia chapter of the Innocence Project to raise money for the strenuous legal work it takes to overturn false convictions.
Former University of Virginia President Emeritus Robert O’Neil died Sunday at the age of 83 at his home in Washington, D.C. O’Neil served as the sixth president from 1985 to 1990, and taught at the School of Law until 2007.
Legal experts specializing in torts – civil wrongs that intentionally or accidentally cause injury – have kept a close eye on litigation surrounding the opioid epidemic. UVA Law vice dean Leslie Kendrick said the plethora of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies are “the most significant thing happening in the world of torts right now.”