It’s never the right time to say goodbye, but loyal patrons of UVA’s iconic, clamshell-roofed venue with notoriously bad sound quality don’t have much longer – the dumping of more than 40 years’ worth of stuff from University Hall has begun, with a complete demolition scheduled by 2020. To help you grieve, here’s a look back at some of the basketball stadium and concert hall’s greatest – and not-so-great – hits.
UVA and UVA Foundation employees updated officials from the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County on demolition plans Wednesday and Thursday, and offered sweeping updates on the University’s plans to reshape Ivy and Emmet and the athletics grounds.
(By Aja Gabel, 2009 M.F.A. in fiction alumna) In an excerpt from Aja Gabel's just published novel, “The Ensemble,” Jana is trying to lead her quartet to greatness — but a much older famous violinist might be getting in the way.
“Grey’s Anatomy” cast member Jason George, a UVA alumnus, has joined the Virginia Film Festival Advisory Board.
Entry-level jobs allow teens to earn more than a paycheck over the summer break; these job opportunities also teach teens valuable job skills that will carry with them throughout their careers. In an earlier study from our organization, economists Dr. Christopher Ruhm and Dr. Charles Baum from UVA and Middle Tennessee State University, respectively, found that teenagers who held part-time jobs realized annual earnings that were roughly 7 percent higher compared to their fellow classmates who didn’t work.
Now that the Senate Judiciary Committee has released 2,500 pages of congressional testimony pertaining to Russiagate, it is time for President Donald Trump's critics to admit something they may not want to hear: There is no smoking gun contained inside. "I don't know that there are going to be massive political implications," Dr. Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Wednesday.
“It’s a big diverse country, and activists in the same party differ from place to place,” Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said. Sabato said there was “no uniform pattern among Democrats” voting May 15 in primary contests in Nebraska, Oregon, Idaho and Pennsylvania. “No particular strain of ideology dominated, unless you count strong opposition to Trump an ideology,” Sabato said.
The results of Indiana’s May 8 primary have not yet been certified but the general election race for Indiana’s U.S. Senate seat is off and running. Election handicappers, including UVA’s Center for Politics, continue to rate the race one of the most competitive in the nation. “This was a toss-up before (the primary) and is a toss-up now,” the center’s Kyle Kondick and Geoffrey Skelley wrote last week.
Professor Douglas Laycock joins the program to discuss ramifications of the Supreme Court legalizing sports gambling on a state to state basis.
UVA announced Wednesday a $10 million gift from Jane Batten to the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. The gift will be matched by the university’s Bicentennial Scholars Fund. The $20 million gift will support the new Batten Family Bicentennial Scholars Fund, which benefits graduate students in the Batten School’s master of public policy program.
The Cavalier Inn is at occupancy for its final UVA graduation weekend. The hotel, built in 1965 and bought by the UVA Foundation in 1998, will check out its final guest on Monday before being demolished this summer.
Boston Public Schools is working with UVA in a new three-year partnership to improve achievement at five elementary schools. The changes are part of the district’s reorganization efforts to create networks of elementary and secondary schools with the goal to support schools on the brink of failure.
Trials are about to get under way for the first ever blood test that could confirm whether a person has had a concussion. Scientists at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and UVA are teaming up with a Virginia-based biotechnology company, known as the Virginia Catalyst, to test it.
Being married combines “sex, parenthood, economic cooperation and emotional intimacy into a permanent union,” observes Bradford Wilcox, a UVA sociologist and co-author of the above report. It also makes you happy.
While the annual crowds for UVA Finals Weekend are something the Charlottesville area sees each year, those in charge of tracking occupancy rates say yearly numbers are on the rise.
The NCAA’s “Don’t Bet on It” slogan is still the law of the land in college athletics, but could that be changing? “We’ve talked about it as athletic directors and knew this was on the radar,” UVA athletic director Carla Williams said. “I think it’s too early to make any definitive comments about it, but it’s definitely something I know we’ll talk about. The concerns that typically come along with gambling – we know what those are.”
More research – some of it going back almost a decade – has shown that “media multitasking” and other smartphone-facilitated behaviors may impair memory. It may even zap face-to-face human interaction of its meaning. “Our research found that when parents maximized their phone use around their children, they felt less connected with their children, and they also reported less meaning from those interactions,” says Kostadin Kushlev, a UVA post-doctoral research associate. A sense of meaning – not fun or affection, but feeling like a relationship matters – is one of the major established benefits...
A UVA-based dementia program has won a state award. The Dementia Care Coordination Program received third place for best practices in the state from the Commonwealth Council on Aging.
Clinics provide an excellent opportunity for law students to gain hands-on experience in casework and client advocacy in particular areas of law. The UVA School of Law has a Family Law Clinic that focuses on mediation, negotiation and creative problem-solving as alternative dispute resolution methods to resolve conflicts in families.
Some GOP candidates are not only trying to appear ideologically tight with Trump, but they’re also jockeying to mirror the president’s rhetoric. The results are candidates “going out of their way to be pro-Trump in almost cartoonish fashion,” Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said.