The first time University of Virginia alumnus Jeff Walker meditated, it was on Grounds. More than four decades later, the site of his first meditation is home to the Contemplative Sciences Center, ...

“Contemplative studies satisfies an urge that everyone has — to investigate what it means to be experiencing, to be alive,” said Henry Langton ’16, one of the first Brown students who will officially ...

An April 5 event at the John Paul Jones Arena featuring music from Zac Brown Band and Maggie Rogers and a performance by stand-up comedian Joe Zimmerman will celebrate the UVA Contemplative Sciences ...

Cloudy skies didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of University of Virginia leaders and guests Friday morning as they celebrated the groundbreaking of the Contemplative Commons in person and gave several ...

The recent International Symposium for Contemplative Studies (ISCS), held in Denver, opened with a guided meditation-turned-keynote address by mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn, sitting cross-legged ...

The University of Virginia will celebrate the groundbreaking of the Contemplative Commons with an on-site ceremony on Friday at 10 a.m. on the former Dell basketball courts adjacent to Bavaro Hall.

The University of Virginia is one step closer to building a new research center and a memorial for slave laborers following a Tuesday afternoon Board of Visitors meeting. The board’s Building and ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WRIC) – In celebration of the new Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia (UVA), the Zac Brown Band is set to perform with a special guest. The university ...

Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, opened the 2nd International Symposium for Contemplative Studies (ISCS) in Boston with more than 1400 academics, researchers, practitioners and ...

Marco Drago, a young physicist in Hanover, Germany, got the news by an automatic email on Sept. 14, 2015. For about half a second, the perpendicular, four-kilometer-long arms at the LIGO experiment’s ...