University of Virginia

On April 12 and 13, the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present their highest honors, the 2022 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in Architecture, Citizen Leadership, and Law.This year’s…

For some parents of young children, the wait for COVID-19 vaccines has been long and agonizing.Throughout 2021, vaccines against COVID-19 emerged as the most effective way to prevent severe forms of the disease. Vaccines are currently…

From hot volcanic springs where the water is nearly boiling acid, a University of Virginia researcher and his colleagues have discovered how lemon-shaped viruses got their form. And that discovery could lead to new and better ways to…

U.S. News and World Report has again named the University of Virginia School of Law as the best public law school in the nation in its 2023 rankings of graduate schools.The publication, which publishes several different rankings…

In 10 years, when today’s elementary school students enter the workforce, what skills and knowledge will they need to have to succeed? While we can’t know for sure, one thing is clear: it will involve computers.“Computing is a new…

Risa Goluboff, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, testified Thursday at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.Speaking as an expert on constitutional…

Wearing a stiff hat adorned with small flowers and a fine, lacey blouse, the lone woman gazes directly into the lens – and hence at the viewer, her expression as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa’s.Her identity is currently a mystery, one of the…

Friday afternoon, the University of Virginia offered admission to just over 2,000 students in the third of its three admission cycles, called “regular decision.”At a time when matriculating high school students have spent much of their…

It’s hard to say who had the biggest smiles on their faces Saturday night in Atlanta as the University of Virginia women’s swimming and diving team – led by junior Kate Douglass and sophomore Alex Walsh – dominated the field en route to…

In a case brought to light by the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, the Supreme Court of Honduras in February overturned the convictions of six environmental activists that drew the ire of the…