The UVA men's basketball team has climbed to the top spot in the latest Associated Press men's basketball poll. Fans are reacting to the men's No. 1 ranking.
Despite their overtime one-point loss to cross-state rival Virginia Tech last Saturday, the Cavs moved up one spot to No. 1 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll. Virginia is the fourth team since 1990 to go from unranked in the preseason to the top of the poll, along with Baylor (2017), Syracuse (2010), and Duke (1990).
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – a once-rising Republican star – made an appearance in Charlottesville on Monday to discuss the next generation of politics. Christie appeared for a taping of “American Forum," a weekly public affairs broadcast that airs at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
According to a 2017 study by the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center, Martinsville will lose roughly a third of its residents over the next three decades. The research indicates that Martinsville will be Virginia’s second-fastest-shrinking locality, behind Buchanan County.
The lawsuit employs a unique legal strategy intended to force the embattled firm to provide substantial financial compensation to Weinstein’s alleged victims before an impending sale of the company. “It’s a creative intervention on behalf of victims,” said Anne Coughlin, a UVA law professor. “It’s an interesting use of the law to say, ‘We’re going to take a stand on behalf of the women you abused, harassed and victimized.’”
Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey and 2016 presidential candidate, visited Charlottesville Monday to film an episode for "American Forum." Christie sat down with Douglas Blackmon, host of "American Forum," inside UVA’s Miller Center for Public Affairs.
Gameday has come to Charlottesville three times now, and all three times the Virginia fan has sunk the three point shot for a cool $18 grand. Tyler Lewis did it in 2015 (we interviewed him). Andrew Board did it in 2016. And now, your 2018 winner is first year student Angus Binnie.
Virginia suffered a surprising home loss to unranked Virginia Tech on Saturday, ending its winning streak at 16 games. One recent defeat was not enough to sway the NCAA Division I Basketball Committee. The Cavaliers are still viewed as the best in the country a month before Selection Sunday. Virginia was the top overall seed in preliminary NCAA tournament rankings released Sunday.
It isn’t easy to fool Sarah Jane Freeman. The UVA junior has made the Dean’s List every semester in her first 2½ years of college. She’s also studied at the Sorbonne in France and the London School of Economics. Pity the parents, then, who devised an elaborate ruse to surprise her with the news that she has been chosen to reign as Queen of Carnival 2018.
Some Mormons say the Porter scandal raises serious concerns about whether the church's patriarchal culture and the belief that marriage is sacred and eternal -- a cornerstone of Mormon theology -- may prevent some spouses from leaving bad marriages. "I see this as an extension of the #MeToo movement," said Kathleen Flake, a UVA professor of Mormon studies. "It is almost inevitable that this will cause the Mormon church to examine their existing guidance to local church leaders."
“[Corporations] are very frustrated with what they’re getting from our educational institutions,” said Philip Zelikow, a UVA professor who collaborated with corporate leaders like Howard Schultz of Starbucks on a 2015 report titled “America’s Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age.” “The American labor market is dysfunctional and broke.”
Only one Senate incumbent from those five states had taken to the airwaves through early February: Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, viewed as 2018’s most vulnerable Republican. Heller, the only sitting Republican on the ballot from a state won by Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, faces a primary challenge from Danny Tarkanian, a perennial candidate who has aligned himself closely with President Trump in this race. Given the high stakes of the midterms, “you are going to see the airwaves in certain states totally flooded with ads,” said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes elections at UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Commentary by Michael Nelson, senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center) It’s one thing not to understand the challenges of a new position because of lack of experience. It’s another not to learn. Every one of Trump’s elected predecessors became more surefooted in the job by doing it. They got better because they crammed during the post-election transition period, surrounded themselves with advisors experienced in government, and learned from their mistakes. In contrast, Trump took office avowing that he had nothing to learn.
Five years ago, select schools in West Virginia’s GEAR UP program, or “Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs,” participated in a national text message initiative to get high school seniors more prepared for college. A UVA study found that high school seniors in West Virginia who received these text reminders were almost 7 percent more likely to persist through their first-year of college. But among students from rural areas, that number jumps to 8 percent. Why?
The local Evidence-Based Decision Making Policy Team was founded in 2010 as part of a federal initiative to bring more data-driven policy to the criminal justice system. The EBDM team partnered with UVA’s Department of Systems and Information Engineering to design the study.
The ability of cancer cells to develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs, known as multidrug resistance, remains a major cause of tumor recurrence and cancer metastasis. A team including UVA researchers has made a major breakthrough in the fight against multiresistant cells with a technique using nanoparticles to administer drugs to cancer cells.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has announced a new business analytics master program, which will be run partially online to allow working professionals to keep up with work commitments while they study.
UVA has now invested nearly $1 million in the early stages of student and faculty startups, joining the growing number of schools investing in homegrown enterprises.
This free tax preparation program relies on the work of more than 200 community volunteers, many of whom are UVA students. Creating Assets, Savings, and Hope (CASH) is the division within Madison House, a student volunteer center that assists the United Way program.
Dozens of UVA students left Fashion Square Mall on Sunday night feeling ready to dress to impress and land their first professional job. JCPenney partnered with the UVA Career Center for a "Suit Up Event.”