More than 100 aspiring UVA entrepreneurs recently celebrated the opening of a new space to meet, make plans and find ways to change the world.
Virginia’s colleges and universities do extraordinary work. They teach our children. They fuel the economy all over Virginia. They deserve the support of our people and their political representatives. Are the colleges and universities more expensive than they once were? Yes, and the numbers show why.
Virginia guard London Perrantes was practically begging to get back into Thursday’s game against UNC Wilmington. He left with just more than five minutes remaining after being shaken up in a scrum for a loose ball. This could’ve easily been Perrantes’ final college game, so he sacrificed his body whenever he could – including in this moment, when he clutched his elbow a few times before getting the green light to go back in. By the time Perrantes returned, he wouldn’t be denied in a 76-71 win over the feisty Seahawks in a first-round NCAA East Region game.
Five diabetes experts I spoke with for this story do not think the trend is dangerous. Though a CGM is attached to the wearer's body, it's considered a minimally invasive device. “I don’t think there’s any risk,” says Boris Kovatchev, director of the UVA Center for Diabetes Technology. “Unless people get too fixated.”
Next week, the UVA School of Architecture will host a symposium – “Race and Public Space: Commemorative Practices in the American South” – to discuss how race, memory and commemoration intersect.
Last year, UVA paid $8.73 million for 2.63 acres between King Street and the railroad tracks. University spokesman Anthony P. de Bruyn said there are “no plans to redevelop the UVA-purchased properties at this time.”
(By David A. Martin, professor emeritus at the UVA School of Law) President Trump’s new travel ban displays operational sophistication and careful lawyering – qualities missing from his Jan. 27 executive order, which judges quickly enjoined. The newly careful drafting may be enough to bring eventual government victory in court. But in striving so obviously to avoid footholds for judicial review, the new order unwittingly exposes the policy hollowness and, it should be said, the foundational dishonesty of the blanket travel bans.
(By former UVA President Robert M. O’Neil, founder of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression) Earlier this month, Middlebury College was beset by what could fairly be termed the Academic Perfect Storm.
Donna Spruijt-Metz, director of the mHealth Collaboratory at the USC Center for Economic and Social Research, and her team are testing an innovative approach to address obesity: devices that measure mood and eating behaviors rather than focusing on dietary intake. In 2015, Spruijt-Metz, along with her colleagues John Stankovic and John Lach at the University of Virginia, and Kayla de la Haye at USC, received a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study obesity and eating habits within families through wearable, mobile health devices.
On a recent Wednesday evening, as rock music poured through the manicured gardens of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art here, a line of young people waited to see the artist Anne Patterson’s “Pathless Woods,” an installation that allows visitors to wander through a sea of brightly colored hanging ribbons. “It took around 24 miles of ribbon to hang the piece,” recalled Matthew McLendon, the former Ringling curator of modern art, who worked with the artist to involve students in the project. He was recently named director at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia.
Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, spoke at UVA Thursday morning to a group that included young professionals from the Middle East and North Africa, who are here through the UVA Center for Politics’ Leaders on Democracy Fellowship.
When he was a UVA law student, Edwin Fountain rarely gave any thought to the odd statue between Clemons and Alderman libraries. It’s a tribute to James McConnell, the former student who volunteered as a fighter pilot for the French Air Service during World War I. Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of McConnell’s death.
UVA students now have a new space to relax. The 1515 Student Center officially opened Thursday. Its name comes from the building's address, 1515 University Ave., right on The Corner.
At UVA, the conversation connecting slavery’s past to present-day issues is quickly developing. As co-chair of the President’s Commission on Slavery and the University, Professor Kirk Von Von Daake has been charged with spearheading the University’s recognition of slavery and transforming mere acknowledgement into continuous integrated education.
The 30-year-old comic started doing improv comedy in college at the University of Virginia as a founding member of the campus group Amuse Bouche before moving to New York City, where she performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade.
Mamadi Diakite was born in Conakry, Guinea and is a forward at University of Virginia.
London Perrantes sat in front of his locker in the Virginia locker room Wednesday afternoon with a wry smile on his face. He is the Cavaliers’ leader – their captain, their point guard, their top scorer – the guy his teammates look to when things get difficult.
Brooks Pate, a UVA professor of physical chemistry, has won the university’s top prize for faculty entrepreneurship, annual Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year Award from the University’s Licensing and Ventures Group.
The impact of unconscious bias on health and wellness in America is the focus of a two-day symposium that kicked off Wednesday UVA. The symposium is addressing solutions for unconscious bias, which often negatively affects how a patient receives medical treatment.
The Washington, D.C. based non-profit Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has awarded the University of Virginia a $1.9 million grant to study the effectiveness of two programs. Researchers will study the programs by implementing them in Danville, though the programs will serve people in Pittsylvania County and in Caswell County, North Carolina as well.