Shane Simpson recently had the phrase “bet on yourself” tattooed on his forearm. It’s the product of a journey during which the Easton Area High School graduate has had to prove himself every step of the way. Simpson will have another opportunity to do just that on Wednesday as he participates in the University of Virginia football program’s pro day in front of an audience of NFL scouts.
The NFL Draft isn’t only about height, weight and traits. It’s about obstacles and handling oneself well under pressure. Charles Snowden hasn’t had the typical draft journey. Snowden, 22, sustained a broken right ankle in November, ending his senior season. At the Senior Bowl in January, he couldn’t partake in on-field drills. Come Wednesday, his Virginia Cavaliers will do their pro day, but Snowden, despite significant progress, will be limited to the bench press.
(Audio) Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Dr. Damita Brown (in exile): A.D. Carson, award-winning hip-hop artist and assistant professor of music at University of Virginia, joins us to talk about race, music and arts, his new album, “I used to love a dream” and his outstanding rap dissertation, “Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions.”
“This critical point in life, when autistic kids are hitting puberty and going through adolescence, is really under-researched,” says Kevin Pelphrey, a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia.
Former resident Ashley Deeks has been named White House associate counsel and deputy legal advisor to the National Security Council. She is the E. James Kelly Jr.-Class of 1965 Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and director of UVA’s National Security Law Center.
Christopher Ali, an associate professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies, agreed that the current system of divvying up the money in the Universal Service Fund isn’t working for rural areas, but the problem isn’t small, inefficient companies.
Infectious disease experts are still worried that a rise in more infectious variants could result in a spring surge before most of the population has been vaccinated against the disease. “That’s a nightmare for me. And it’s a predictable one,” Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA infectious disease specialist, said last week.
(Video) For the fourth year in a row, Great Harvest Bread Café is hand baking “honey bunnies” with money from each purchase going to benefit UVA Children’s.
Family and friends call Dave Champion’s remarkable recovery from an extreme case of long-hauler COVID-19 nothing short of a miracle. “Champ,” as friends and clients call the popular Virginia DJ, took his first steps on Feb. 10, one day after a double lung transplant at the UVA Medical Center.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is working to develop guidelines for preventing serious brain injuries in military members and they’re asking a University of Virginia researcher to help. Dr. James Stone is an imaging expert at UVA Health and has been studying traumatic brain injuries in service members as well as how blast exposures affect the brain.
More than 2 billion people are infected with Toxoplasma gondii, a brain parasite, particularly spread by cats, or contaminated meat. But most hosts of this parasite will never show symptoms in their lifetime. Until recently, we didn’t know why so many people were affected by this parasite without developing symptoms. An answer was given, and we owe this discovery to the UVA School of Medicine.
Even as Americans are lining up for highly effective COVID vaccine, UVA scientists are working on a new approach to protecting the public. Their new vaccine could be better for three big reasons.
A new discovery may help prevent heart attacks and strokes caused by plaques that form within human arteries. Scientists at the UVA School of Medicine say strengthening the fibrous caps that overlay atherosclerotic plaques could help.
Scientists peering into the beating heart have solved a decades-old, fundamental mystery about how the heart works. The revelation could herald the development of new treatments for heart diseases — the leading cause of death worldwide. Researchers from Eastern Virginia Medical School, Florida State University and UVA have observed a tiny muscle filament during a crucial stage in a beating heart for the first time. The research was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The medical world recently came one step closer to preventing heart attacks and strokes, thanks to a lucky accident at UVA. When New York University postdoctoral fellow Alexandra Newman was a graduate student at UVA’s School of Medicine, she beheld something no eyes before hers ever saw.
University of Virginia officials announced on Tuesday that students may gather outside in groups of up to 25, provided everyone wears a mask and social distancing is observed. UVA Dean of Students Allen W. Groves, in a message emailed to students posted on his office’s website, said the decision to increase the outdoor gathering limit was made because COVID-19 cases are declining. The indoor limit for students is still set at six.
Milwaukee Bucks two-way forward (and UVA alumnus) Mamadi Diakite has been named to the 2020-21 All-NBA G League First Team and the 2020-21 NBA G League All-Defensive Team, the league announced today. Diakite was also selected to the NBA G League All-Rookie Team and finished second in G League Rookie of the Year voting.
If there was one thing former football player Ahmad Hawkins was not, it was a runner. A sprinter, maybe, given his time playing wide receiver and defensive back at UVA, followed by a decade of professional football, mostly in the Arena Football League. But not a runner.
Mobility data, compiled from cellphones, showed more Virginians returning to work, dining out and using transit in recent weeks. In a report from the UVA Biocomplexity Institute, which has tracked COVID-19 trends for more than a year, researchers noted the possibility of a more sustained peak in the summer if Virginians relax their behaviors. “Vaccines do have an impact, but they need time to work,” the report said.
(Podcast) Host Doug Kacena dives in to a thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation with artists Ashley Eliza Williams (a UVA alumna) and Andrew Jensdotter. The three trade thoughts and ideas for integrating play and curiosity into artistic experimentation, keeping your own traditions alive while bringing in the new, working with collaborators, and allowing your work to change as your life changes.