The director of the National Institutes of Health and former head of the International Human Genome Project graduated from UVA in 1970 with a chemistry degree.
Whittington W. Clement’s undergraduate years at UVA were punctuated by the Vietnam War, a time when the University was about a third of the size it is today.
Middleditch, who mostly eschewed plaudits, co-founded UVA’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership and led a campaign to implement nonpartisan redistricting in Virginia, among many endeavors.
Jesse McCain and Ivana Brancaccio founded the group, saying there is a misperception that graduate students outgrow the challenges of being the first in their families to go to college.
Virginia’s Transportation Project Management Institute is one way UVA and the state’s Department of Transportation partner to improve road infrastructure to keep Virginians safely on the move.
With data from a pivotal Pfizer-BioNTech study (under review by the FDA) showing robust antibody responses in children ages 5 to 11, UVA Today spoke with expert Dr. William Petri about child vaccinations.