High school students in Charlottesville who are interested in careers in medicine are taking part in the School of Medicine’s Summer Opportunities in Academic Research program, known as SOAR.
Also in this roundup: WTJU takes three national awards, a heart doc is a great mentor, and a professor’s paper on international law enforcement wins an award before he even joins the faculty.
Competing Sunday, incoming UVA swimmer Emma Weyant won a silver medal in the 400 individual medley, marking the highest individual finish by a Cavalier women's swimmer in Olympic history.
UVA has more former players on NBA rosters than the vast majority of other college basketball programs, and could add as many as three more in Thursday night’s NBA Draft.
In the second of a five-part series, a UVA nurse shares entries from her journal, which gave her a place to say things she couldn’t speak out loud while caring for COVID patients.