On Wednesday, Dec. 22, around 10 a.m., Virginia Department of Historic Resources conservators Kate Ridgeway and Chelsea Blake, along with Sue Donovan, who is conservator for special collections at the University of Virginia, began the detailed process of opening the time capsule discovered inside the Robert E. Lee monument pedestal.
Sue Donovan, a paper conservator from the University of Virginia, slowly picked apart the papers, careful not to damage them. Chelsea Blake examined the coin, which began to tarnish after it was exposed to the air. This was normal work for the conservators. Except this time, there were 25 or so members of the media watching.
Dr. Judith White at the University of Virginia is part of an international team working to speed up the production of “COVID cocktails.” Drug cocktails are combinations of different medicines that are used to attack multiple different symptoms.
Omicron is predicted to fuel “rapid case growth” in Virginia over the holidays and could lead to “a severe surge in February 2022 that is likely to exceed that of winter 2021,” according to the latest report by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which has been tracking the course of the coronavirus in Virginia and modeling its future spread.
UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute – which has tracked COVID-19 trends during the pandemic and conducted infectious disease modeling for more than 20 years – predicted in its Friday update the potential for omicron to fuel a surge that exceeds the devastation seen last winter. This is the worst-case scenario, if Virginia stays on this path while omicron courses through communities. Researchers emphasized how the impact can still be prevented through masking, social distancing and receiving a booster when eligible, which applies to anyone 16 and over who is six months post-second dose of Pfizer or M...
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University of Virginia alumni Donna and Richard Tadler made a gift of $5 million that will be used to create a professorship of entrepreneurship at their alma mater, UVA President Jim Ryan announced earlier this month.
The dressage team at UVA, part of the University of Virginia Eventing & Dressage Team, is looking to raise $3,000 to bring the team to the Intercollegiate Dressage Association Nationals.
(Commentary by James Loeffler, Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History) Charlottesville in August 2017 offered a preview of the America that we would become: a country in which violently racist sloganeering freely mixes with absurd, carnival antics; a culture in which constitutional principles are treated as cudgels with which to crush political opponents; a society in which gun-toting extremists parade openly in the streets in search of enemies to strike, and then claim self-defense if anyone is injured; and an online ecosphere in which virtual hate escalates before spilling over into real-...
In 2014, at the height of the Ebola epidemic, UVA biologist Judith White and her colleagues began working on a way to fight that disease with a drug cocktail. They figured it should be possible to combine medications for various viral groups. As the risk of Ebola fell, so too did funding for this approach, but with the arrival of COVID, White and her collaborators began feeding key information into a computer, allowing them to develop models for crafting different drug cocktails for each viral family.
The whimsical work of acclaimed photographer Rodney Smith is celebrated this month in both the fashion and corporate worlds, coinciding with the 5th anniversary of the artist’s death. Smith first found inspiration while visiting the permanent collection of photography at The Museum of Modern Art during his junior year at The University of Virginia.
Four years before his MLB debut, Phil Gosselin sat in the nosebleeds section of Citizens Bank Park and pictured his future. The Malvern Prep graduate was still a sophomore at the University of Virginia with lofty goals. But as he watched his favorite team, the Philadelphia Phillies, play in the 2009 World Series against the New York Yankees, Gosselin made it his mission to play in that stadium one day.
It’s hard to define someone like Julie Macklowe. Born in Aspen, raised in Colorado, Julie completed her B.A. in Economics and B.S. in Commerce at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce and went on to a career in finance. From structuring leveraged buyouts in Seoul and Singapore to eventually running her own hedge fund in 2006. In 2010 she closed the fund to pursue her own investments in the fashion business, including investing in BaubleBar. In 2011 came her own skincare line, vbeauté. Now, Julie has launched her own American Single Malt.
University of Virginia student Zeinora Babayee came to the US with her family about five years ago, has fond memories of markets in Kabul displaying seasonal fruit in preparation for the holiday, and long nights of family gatherings, where they would read poems by legendary poets Mawlani Balkhi Rumi and Hafiz Shirazi. These days, she says, the holiday means even more to her.
A University of Virginia student is receiving recognition from the Materials Research Society. Chang Liu is working to split water molecules into hydrogen fuel, resulting in gas with less pollution. He was recognized for helping find a cost-effective way to complete the process.
The language in Argentina’s guarantees may have been left intentionally vague to give the government discretion over how to calculate GDP, according to Mitu Gulati, a law professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in sovereign debt contract law. “Regardless of what the contract actually says, the question is whether Argentina’s behavior violated the implicit terms of the contract, which is that everyone must act in good faith,” Gulati said.
Jason Chruma, an organic chemist at the University of Virginia, who was a professor and then an assistant dean at Sichuan University in Chengdu from 2012 to 2020, says that some government safety regulations are not clear, are interpreted differently from place to place and are difficult for the government to enforce. Although he can’t comment on current practices, Chruma says that during his time at Sichuan University, he sometimes saw safety issues firsthand, such as students conducting chemical reactions in hallways because there weren’t enough fume hoods in busy labs.
The budding relationship between athletes and those already involved in the cannabis industry is part of an overall “matching process” that makes sense for both parties, said University of Virginia assistant professor of commerce Paul Seaborn. For cannabis businesses, bringing in an outside investor from the sports realm is a “creative” way to raise capital when federal laws limit the types of bank loans and other funding methods the companies can receive, Mr. Seaborn said.
Kathleen Flake, a professor of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said this sort of formal exit from the church was similar to a renunciation of citizenship. To return to the church, a person would have to be rebaptized. “Renouncing it is a political act; it’s a way of making a political statement, not just a religious statement,” she said.
(Audio) President Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 passed in November with a national pool of $65 billion for rural internet improvements, $100 million of which is allocated for the state of Arizona. This is in addition to another commitment from the state to fund the Arizona Broadband Development Grant Program, ultimately providing $200 million for local communities to construct or improve broadband infrastructure. Christopher Ali, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, says if these funds are spent the same way they have been in the past, rural ...