(By Ira Bashkow, UVA associate professor of anthropology) The recent violence in Charlottesville likely won’t be the last attempt by white supremacists to stoke racial conflict. An anthropologist offers insights to other communities that might face similar challenges.
(By Cale Jaffe, assistant professor and director of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic at the UVA School of Law) Last week the Trump administration took action to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which had been the Obama administration’s signature program for reducing carbon pollution linked to climate change-related impacts such as more destructive hurricanes and longer wildfire seasons. For Virginians eager to build a diverse and resilient energy industry here at home, Trump’s action is a blind leap in the wrong direction.
SPICMACAY is a student-run organization that focuses on bringing Indian culture and music to UVA’s Grounds. On Sunday night, they filled an auditorium to listen to poetry and classical music performed by an acclaimed Indian singer as well as famous musicians.
The UVA Medical Center is expanding its vascular center and moving into a new facility Monday. It will host patients in a new location and receive more advanced equipment.
The outpatient trial was led by Frank Doyle and Eyal Dassau from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and included collaborators at the William Sansum Diabetes Center in Santa Barbara, California; Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; the University of Virginia's Center for Diabetes Technology; and the University of Padova.
Projects funded through Science Everywhere participated in a research study conducted by University of Virginia professor Robert Tai, who is analyzing the results to better understand the impact this type of outside-class learning experience has on student engagement and success.
According to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, nearly one in five Virginians will be age 65 or older by 2030. The trend is no different in Henrico County.
A team of American and Italian researchers successfully piloted a novel artificial pancreas system that showed improvements in two key measures of folks living with the metabolic disorder. The project team extended across the country – and the world – to include Jordan Pinsker from the William Sansum Diabetes Center in Santa Barbara, Calif.; Ananda Basu at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.; Boris Kovatchev of the University of Virginia’s Center for Diabetes Technology; and Claudio Cobelli from the University of Padova in Italy.
Today, university leaders will gather where Jefferson and James Madison and James Monroe did 200 years ago to lay the cornerstone of this renowned public university. Jefferson’s ideals and his vision for this school he founded are well known, as he sought to transform American higher education. At the centennial, a five-volume history of UVA looked back with pride on decades of illustrious achievements. But the bicentennial comes at a remarkable time in the history of this state flagship school.
UVA’s Young Women Leaders Program hosted a food drive to benefit the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank at the Whole Foods Market in Charlottesville on Sunday.
A former U.S. first lady and Secretary of State will be headlining a conference on women's leadership in November. Hillary Rodham Clinton will participate in UVA's Forum on Women's Global Leadership, which will take place Nov. 13 and 14. The two-day symposium will bring in leaders from across the United States and the world to explore the role of women in 21st-century democracy.
Off to its best start in a decade, the Virginia football team is inching closer to becoming nationally ranked.
Off to its best start in a decade, the Virginia football team is inching closer to becoming nationally ranked.
Taylor Lamb had just decided to postpone a panel of LGBT speakers of color when a call went out for proposals for funding from the University of Virginia. A small grant, Lamb thought, would help her sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho, try to hold the event again.
About a year ago, Dr. Lawrence Lum and Dr. Daniel “Trey” Lee both arrived on UVA’s medical campus. They joined a growing group of physician-scientists, and brought expertise to the rapidly expanding field of immunology.
For decades, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and the University of Virginia have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site List. On Thursday, it was announced the United States would be withdrawing from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, because of what the Trump Administration sees as its "anti-Israel bias" and a need for "fundamental reform."
An expert in homeland security and national security policy, Kirstjen Nielsen previously served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush and worked for the Transportation Security Administration. She’s also the first nominee to have worked for the department, the White House said. Nielsen graduated from the UVA School of Law in 1999.
In a debate Thursday at the University of Virginia, two independent candidates for Charlottesville City Council took swipes at the top vote-getter in the June Democratic primary, criticizing her for alleged problems in the city school system. The forum was hosted by the Washington Literary Society and Debating Union.
Hundreds of families are expected to gather at the University of Virginia this weekend to celebrate, honor and remember children with cancer. The 2017 Charlottesville CureSearch Superheroes Unite event is scheduled to kick off at UVA Park at 9 a.m. Saturday.
By 2040, Virginia is projected to become the 10th most populous state in the country, jumping over New Jersey and Michigan from its rank of No. 12 in the 2010 Census (a little more than 8 million), according to an analysis by the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.