A decades-old program at the University of Virginia has been granted departmental status. The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies was granted the new status in June by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
Two Virginia localities -- Charlottesville and the Alexandria/Arlington -- made the top 25 list of the magazine's "Happiest Cities in the United States" list. "Along the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville has ample opportunities for getting outdoors between visits to Monticello and the University of Virginia -- both listed as World Heritage sites," the article said.
Almost 200 years after his death, the University of Virginia has been working to make the hundreds of books on Thomas Jefferson’s legal reading list available to the public through an online library.
Chris Long is donating the rest of his year's salary to increase educational equality.The Philadelphia Eagles' defensive end and UVA alumnus already gave up his first six game checks to provide two scholarships for students in Charlottesville. Now, he's using the next 10 to launch the “Pledge 10 for Tomorrow” campaign.
The first time Rick Mayes offered his class on American health care at UVA, three years ago, about a dozen students signed up. This year, Mayes had to cap the number he could accept at 60.
Meanwhile, Trump has taken to answering questions during pool photo ops and while departing from the South Lawn on Marine One, a move that Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said he borrowed from Ronald Reagan -- and used to contrast his own moving figure with an unruly mob of pursuers. “We get a lot more formal news conferences from other presidents. Even recent ones tended to have more formal situations than Trump has or likes,” Sabato said. “He’s not very good in a formal setting. He doesn’t do well. He certainly doesn’t look or act very presidential. I think he’s awar...
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Sabato's Crystal Ball publication at UVA’s Center for Politics, says there is an argument to be made that Pennsylvania makes a fairly decent microcosm of where the country stands right now in terms of who holds the power in government -- and it's a decent bellwether by which to gauge next November's midterm elections.
Imagine trying to moderate every puppy photo or birthday greeting, said Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship. He believes moderating content is ultimately impossible because you can't create a system that works for everyone from Saudi Arabia to Sweden. "The problem is the very idea of the social media system -- it is ungovernable," he said. "Facebook is designed as if we are nice to each other. And we're not."
With drug overdose the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., and opioid addiction driving the epidemic, medicine is aggressively turning to new approaches to treating pain. Emerging trends focus on improving physical and emotional health and counseling patients to realize their own role in relieving their pain, says Bhiken Naik, a UVA anesthesiology and neurosurgery professor.
(By Nancy Deutsch and Joanna Lee Williams, professors at UVA’s Curry School of Education) Study after study shows that feeling secure, embraced by family, and validated by peers are among the most important developmental needs for young people as they explore new ideas and seek positive ways to contribute to society.
Despite such reassurances, 56 percent of Americans believe that automation destroys more jobs than it creates, according to a new study by Ipsos Public Affairs and UVA’s Center for Business Analytics.
Children and their families will be able to trick-or-treat on UVA’s Lawn on Halloween. Residents of the rooms and pavilions on the Lawn will greet children and hand out treats from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 31.
Hillary Clinton will be the keynote speaker at UVA’s Women’s Global Leadership Forum in November. The forum will explore issues facing women during UVA’s history and highlight challenges for the next century.
A symposium at the University of Virginia this week will try to make history relatable and personal through a series of speeches, discussions and events about race and higher education.
(By Brian Balogh, history professor and co-host of the nationally syndicated podcast “BackStory”) Last week President Trump signed several executive orders, including one that expands access to “Association Health Plans.” We really can’t blame the president for not knowing the scope of associations, though.
“The two biggest factors are the flexibility of your hamstrings and and the range of motion of your hip joints,” says Jeffrey Jenkins, a physiologist at the UVA School of Medicine. “But the other big factor is the relative length of your arms and your torso to your legs.”
The UVA Breast Care Program now has some extra cash to put toward supporting breast cancer research. A Charlottesville family donated $270,000 to the program following its annual Women’s 4-Miler.
(By Mark Edmundson, professor of English) Milo’s coming: What are we going to do? That question was being urgently asked at the University of California at Berkeley not long ago. Milo Yiannopoulos, right-wing jester and provocateur, was scheduled to speak on the campus. I’m not against Yiannopoulos and company having the right to speak, far from it. But should universities be sponsoring them?
Despite having the blessing of Gov. Terry McAuliffe and an unpopular president weighing on his GOP challenger, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam's 2017 gubernatorial campaign is being warned about a November "surprise" that could deliver a stunning defeat and potential blow to McAuliffe's 2020 bid. The hometown political guru, the UVA Center for Politics ‘Crystal Ball,' said that GOP challenger Ed Gillespie could be that surprise. Noting questionable polling, Northam's lackluster support and past gubernatorial campaigns showing a late conservative surge, the Center's Geoffrey Skelley wrote in the Crystal...
"One concern that is kind of hard to be able to analyze is: Where is African-American turnout for Democrats? Barack Obama becomes a very nice surrogate ... where [attracting] those extra few votes really could count," says Geoffrey Skelley, an elections analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. Northern Virginia, Skelley adds, "is perhaps the most critical part to the entire ballgame for Democrats. If turnout [there] lags in some way, that could be game-over for Democrats.”