In 2002, Lee Ann Parsley-Davenport won the silver medal in skeleton – the sport in which a person slides head-first down a frozen track, lying face down on a sled.
A mask that’s washable, breathes easily and filters the coronavirus? A patent-pending technology developed at UVA could lead to one of the first plain cloth masks to meet new official standards for filtration and breathability.
The findings shed light on the role of immune cells in harmful lung inflammation.
Tony Elliott, who became UVA’s head football coach in December, said his experience at the U.S. Air Force Academy Preparatory School influenced several of his new hires.
Fourth-year student Lauren Kim chairs the University Judiciary Committee, which investigates and adjudicates alleged violations of UVA’s Standards of Conduct.
As tensions build on the Russia-Ukraine border, Stephen Mull, UVA’s vice provost for global affairs and a former U.S. ambassador to Lithuania and Poland, answers pressing questions surrounding the crisis.
Assistant professor Adrienne Wood analyzed nearly 4,000 laugh tracks to conclude that context can influence the sound of a laugh.
Also in this summary: the Darden School is all over the Princeton Review rankings, eight UVA education scholars are listed among nation’s 200 most influential, The New York Times picked one professor’s book among 2021’s best, and more.