At the Dec. 10 meeting of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors, UVA President Jim Ryan announced a $5 million commitment from Donna and Richard Tadler to create the Donna and Richard Tadler University Professorship of Entrepreneurship.
This month as epidemiologists study the potential threat from the omicron variant, pandemic hospitalizations rise with the onset of winter, and travel requirements tighten again, Global Affairs is pleased to celebrate a small but important victory over COVID.
Despite losing spring and summer participation due to the pandemic, the University of Virginia remained among the top 25 doctoral-granting institutions in the number of its students who study abroad, according to the annual Open Doors report released Nov.
Global Affairs asked two professors who have hosted Global Mentors in the inaugural year about their experience working with a mentor and their advice for faculty interested in participating in Global Mentors Program.
In this episode, Aswin Punathambekar and Eli Carter from University of Virginia talk about the Global Media Cultures Collaboratory. They hope to bring together scholars with a shared interest in the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of media practice and use that are reconfiguring socio-cultural, political, and economic terrains across the Global South.
Benjamin Hill is a fourth-year student studying Global Development Studies and Religious Studies. Outside of his studies, the Filipino-American born and raised in Northern Virginia loves reading, comics, growing plants, and singing.
