While UVA’s baseball season came to a close after an improbable run to the College World Series with a loss to Texas Thursday night, the school’s got a winner leading the way off the field and in life. We caught up with UVA Director of Athletics Carla Williams at TD Ameritrade Park earlier this week.
On one of their first dates, Dr. Deidre Downs — a UVA alumna who is the first openly gay Miss America and a fertility specialist — made a bold proclamation to her now-wife, Abbott Jones. Downs “sort of joked that she was the only woman in Alabama who could get me pregnant,” Jones, 37, told The Post. “Because of what [she] does for a living.”
Lucy Mills Hochman and Adam Allen Gillenwater’s love is a battlefield. A historical battlefield, that is. Ms. Hochman [a Daarden student] and Mr. Gillenwater [a UVA lumnus with a master’s degree from the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy], both 31, met in the fall of 2015 working for the American Battlefield Trust, a nonprofit organization focused on the restoration of battlefields from the Civil War, the War of 1812 and the Revolutionary War.
(Video) Christopher Blevins and [recent UVA graduate] Eddie Anderson are two of the country’s top up-and-coming young riders. As it turns out, they are also both recent college students. For the last five years, the two have had to balance the requirements of pro cycling and undergraduate education. In this column and video, produced by Eddie Anderson’s brother, Jack Anderson, Blevins and Anderson discuss how they made it work.
A UVA alumni-founded startup company that makes indoor, hydroponic farming systems has opened its new headquarters and production site in the Scott’s Addition area of Richmond.
Former UVA basketball star Rick Carlisle is returning to the Indiana Pacers as their new head coach. The Pacers have hired Carlisle on a reported four-year $29 million contract after 13 seasons with the Dallas Mavericks.
(Video) Jennifer Lawless, Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Virginia, issued harsh words regarding U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s decision to remain associated with exclusive private clubs.
Experts say questions of labor and safety could remain unresolved years after any potential federal legalization. Despite Amazon's apparent relaxing stance on the issue, those questions could still require years of lobbying and tough calls by the company, and those decisions would come even as Amazon faces brutal labor turnover rates and workers, like those in New York, demand a consistent approach. "When you have a day upon which [nationwide] legalization happens, there's so much to be figured out after that," said Paul Seaborn, a professor at the University of Virginia's business school who ...
Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and a leading expert on religious freedom, went to the heart of the two justices’ objections. “A principal worry about this case from the beginning has been the risk that Philadelphia would simply rewrite its rules or contracts and create a generally applicable ban on refusing same-sex couples, with no exceptions,” Laycock told the Register. “That option is clearly open to the city. The case would resume and head right back towards the Supreme Court.”
As we age, our immune system weakens, rendering us more susceptible to illness. The pandemic has highlighted the fact that obesity can trigger and exacerbate similar immunologic changes even in younger individuals. “The biggest risk factor for about every disease is age,” says Kenneth Walsh, a professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. “A lot of that might be due to the process known as ‘inflammaging.’ When you get to the bottom of lots of diseases, they have an underlying inflammatory component to them.”
Dr. Jim Tucker, the director of the University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies, since the late '90s has been studying children who report past-life memories. And while he finds past life regression therapy interesting, to say the least, he and his colleagues are "quite skeptical of it" and do not recommend it. "Although there is evidence that some young children have memories of a life in the past, such as in the cases we've documented in our work at the Division of Perceptual Studies, there is very little to suggest that past-life regression typically connects with an actual life...
Botanic gardens provide an emotionally rich experience, derived from interacting with plants that are constantly changing and adapting to their own environmental and ecological setting. Simply recognizing that gardens are living things—with soil, microbes, plants, and animals—elicits feelings of elation in people because they are drawn to care, as Beth Meyer, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Virginia, suggests in an essay published recently in the Journal of Landscape Architecture.
The approach turns the normal publishing timeline on its head: Authors write manuscripts laying out only their hypotheses, research methods, and analysis plans, and referees decide whether to accept them before anyone knows the study’s results. The innovation is that this guarantees publication for even the most mundane findings. “The decision [to publish] … is based on the importance of the question, and the quality of the methodology you’re applying,” says Brian Nosek, a UVA psychologist and an advocate of registered reports.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) Currently, one party controls all of the statewide elected executive offices in 36 of the 50 states. Candidate decisions by down-ballot executive officeholders in Florida and Missouri could make Republican statewide sweeps easier in those states, and Democrats may have opportunities to sweep more states on their side.
If you hear a siren in town Tuesday, don’t worry, it’s just proof that it’s working. The University of Virginia will test its emergency notification system between 10:50 and 11:05 a.m. Tuesday, including its siren and public address systems, as well as text message, Twitter and internet feeds.
The administration has sought to move quickly on domestic terrorism prevention measures and began implementing some of its new strategy before it was even completed, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Homeland Security adviser and deputy national security adviser to President Joe Biden, said at a virtual event hosted by the University of Virginia on Wednesday.
The University of Virginia’s Young Alumni Reunion is set to return on October 16. The event took last year off due to the coronavirus pandemic. YAR will be held at the Ting Pavilion on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. The alumni association says it is especially excited to bring the classes of 2020 and 2021 together.
It had been six years since the Cavaliers had been to the College World Series, and Virginia fans were clamoring to get back on the scene. Among those fans is Cricket Morris, a Wahoo fan from Richmond. Cricket and her husband John, a former track and field athlete from Virginia, traveled to Nebraska with an extra good luck charm: a magic bean of sorts.
Making it to Omaha and the College World Series is a dream of every college baseball player. It’s a special trip for the families of those athletes, too.
Virginia’s season of improbable comebacks finally ended late Thursday night. The Cavaliers, who started ACC play 4-12 and lost the first game of their regional and super regional before advancing to the College World Series, fell 6-2 to No. 2 Texas in an elimination game. It’s UVA’s first loss in seven NCAA Tournament elimination games this season. Like it has all season, the Cavaliers fought valiantly to keep its season alive.