"To have both statewide candidates come, talk about the issues that are important to southwest Virginia, talk about economic development, coal tax credit, talk about growing the University of Virginia's College at Wise," said Chuck Slemp, Commonwealth's Attorney for Wise County and the City of Norton, "that's amazing to me."
The Big Idea: Democrats have a real problem in rural America, and it was on display in the third and final Virginia governor’s debate last night. In the heart of coal country, at the University of Virginia campus in Wise, the moderator asked Ed Gillespie about schools. The Republican nominee quickly pivoted to talk about coal. Rather than push back, Northam — the lieutenant governor — talked about pre-K and K-12 education.
Virginia’s two major party candidates are closing in on the final days of a heated campaign. They made some of their closing comments in rural Virginia. The third and final debate between Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie took place in Wise County, where the candidates were asked about what can be done to keep millennials in rural Virginia.
Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie kept a civil tone but clashed over themes of economic progress for rural Virginia in a debate held Monday night in the state’s ailing coal country, at UVA’s College at Wise.
A group of students from the UVA School of Architecture toured Alaska to develop design strategies for extreme climates in the Arctic.
We wish the University of Virginia could have celebrated just one evening of unmarred joy over its 200 years of accomplishments. But, alas, it was not to be.
It's dropped on the floor, stuffed between sofa cushions and probably been in the dog's mouth, so it's no wonder a UVA study of cold viruses on household surfaces showed the remote control was one of the most infested.
When UVA senior Steven Stetzler met former NASA astronauts Al Worden and Catherine "Cady" Coleman, the computer science and physics major said it was "a very surreal experience." Astronauts had always seemed to exist in a different reality from his own, yet here they were, in the flesh, he said. Stetzler met the NASA astronauts last month in Washington, D.C., after winning a scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
Even in the past few months, there has been growing momentum for intersex rights – on both the cultural and political fronts. These developments are in step with the larger disability rights movement, which argues for replacing assumptions of “bad-difference” with acceptance of “mere-difference,” in the terminology of UVA philosopher Elizabeth Barnes.
UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan said that while Facebook and other internet companies are used to tough pressure from regulators in Europe, the degree of pressure that the platform is feeling in the U.S. is unprecedented. "Any time that the Senate Intelligence Committee demands that you testify, demands data from you, you better take it seriously,” said Vaidhyanathan, who’s writing a book about Facebook.
As the distance to Election Day shortens, Virginia’s two major-party candidates for governor are using considerably more of their paid TV and digital ads directly attacking each other – and, in Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam’s case, defending himself. Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor, said he considers such ads to be a poor investment because he doesn’t think there are many voters who are undecided.
Facebook finds itself either unable or unwilling to cope with the increasingly apparent fact that its platform was/is being used as a vehicle for propaganda through the use of fake accounts, by a hostile foreign country seeking to destabilize the country. Warned of the problem by no less than President Obama, Zuckerberg reportedly shrugged it off. As published at Wired, Siva Vaidhyanathan of the University of Virginia “describes Zuckerberg as a bright man who would have done well to finish his education.” Quoting Viadhyanathan directly, “[Zuckerberg] lacks the historical sense of the horr...
When it comes to active campaigning, Northam is more often found in Northern Virginia, Richmond or Hampton Roads. That may just be smart politics, said UVA political analyst Geoffrey Skelley.
The two major party candidates in Virginia's closely watched race for governor are set for their third and final debate. Republican Ed Gillespie and Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam will debate Monday evening at the University of Virginia at Wise.
On Monday, Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam do something that no candidates for governor have ever done: They will hold a debate in far Southwest Virginia. When Gillespie and Northam meet on the campus of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, they will be closer to seven other state capitals than they will be to their own in Richmond. The whole point of having a debate in the coalfields is to force the candidates to talk about the unique economic issues facing that part of the state.
Emily Hubbard had never encountered the theory of implicit bias before moving into Dillard Hall, a dormitory selected to pilot UVA’s implicit bias module. Participating in the module opened up good conversations about bias, stereotypes and discrimination, Hubbard said, and helped her to understand her new classmates better.
Though the exact location of its original capstone remains a mystery, the University of Virginia celebrated the early milestone with speeches, “The Good Ol’ Song” and a new marble time capsule Friday.
The University’s kickoff to a two-year bicentennial celebratio, reinterpreted history through music, dance and cutting-edge projection mapping.