The University of Virginia’s “Rising Scholars” program in the College of Arts and Sciences, which dispenses graduate fellowships exclusively to racial, ethnic, sexual and gender minority students, has ceased accepting applications, according to a posting on its...
Don’t question university overhead costs or thousands will die!That is essentially the message of Virginia’s big three research universities — Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University — in response to a National Institutes of...
Now comes the battle to replace the University of VIrginia’s provost Ian Baucom. The University has assembled a fourteen-person group to launch a national search, according to an announcement in the UVA house organ UVA Today.The announcement attributed the...
When University of Virginia President Jim Ryan appeared in a WVIR-TV interview in late January, he seemed fatigued. His brow was deeply furrowed and his face, already lean from marathon training, wore an expression of perpetual worry.The last few months have been the...
Scrutinizing ResearchUVA has established the goal of boosting its status as a research university. Sponsored research now accounts for roughly $714 million a year in a $5.4 billion total budget (including both academics and the healthcare division). The strategic case...
