Recent Articles by
Caroline Newman
May 19, 2020
Dave Matthews wrote the song during quarantine and performed it during Saturday’s virtual celebration of the Class of 2020, the latest example of his many efforts to support the community where he got his start.
May 16, 2020
Saturday’s virtual celebration included remarks from President Jim Ryan, appearances from Dave Matthews and Yo-Yo Ma and the conferral of degrees, marking the official end of this very unusual academic year.
May 10, 2020
On the Sunday morning show, Ryan discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting UVA and higher education. Watch the full interview here.
May 07, 2020
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.
May 07, 2020
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.
May 06, 2020
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.
May 01, 2020
The paid virtual internship is intended to help politically minded students whose public sector internships or summer jobs vanished due to the pandemic, while giving them valuable job experience in an election year.
April 30, 2020
Visiting politics professor Syaru Shirley Lin discusses tensions between the two superpowers ahead of a virtual symposium to be hosted Monday by the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
April 23, 2020
The Fralin Museum of Art and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at UVA aren’t open to visitors, but staff have been busy creating vibrant digital offerings – perfect for online classes, homeschooling or a quick break.
April 21, 2020
UVA Health COO Wendy Horton said solutions to big problems – like a global pandemic – often start at academic medical centers. She takes us behind the scenes to show how those discoveries become reality.