The Board of Visitors has final say on recommendations, which include renaming the school and renaming Ruffner Hall (at right in photo) to honor Walter Ridley, the first African American to earn a UVA doctoral degree.
Some of the main ingredients for a good memoir – the time and quiet to craft one – are suddenly in abundance. Professor Charlotte Matthews talks about the resurgent platform.
The Charlottesville Free Clinic has continued to fulfill its mission of treating the underserved population in the community during the pandemic, but could use your help.
During “May Days” in 1970, UVA students protested at Alderman Library and on the Lawn, focused on anti-Vietnam War sentiment, as well as calls for more opportunities for black students and for women.
Fifty-six negative airflow rooms that suck air in rather than out. A new fan on the roof. And plans, years in the making, scrapped to fight a pandemic. Here’s how UVA Health transformed its nearly complete new tower into a COVID-19 ward.
UVA ICU Dr. Taison Bell, battling COVID-19 at work daily, is still looking to the future of medicine. His company, founded with classmate Timothy Harvey, hopes to revolutionize at-home diagnostics with a pill that can scan the GI tract for colon cancer.
The Charlottesville Food Justice Network partners with local groups, including UVA, to increase access to healthy food. It is one of many local organizations determined to meet the community’s needs during – and after – the pandemic.
She resisted going to her hometown school, and thought a career in music was unrealistic. She now happily admits she was wrong on both counts.