Choosing a dog to take home from the shelter can be difficult. New Indiana University research can help explain why. Samantha Cohen, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Virginia, led the research on dog adoption during her time at IU as a Ph.D. student.
“I think it’s a wonderful testament to the humanity in our area,” said The Health Wagon executive director Teresa Tyson as volunteers began winding down services and striking tents around noon Sunday. “People come in so sick and don’t realize what condition they’re in until we see them,” Tyson said. While patient load this summer was less than the 2,000-to-3,000 level typically seen in the past two decades in Wise County, Tyson said that could be a hopeful sign for medical needs in the area.
Governor Ralph Northam visited hundreds of families in need on Friday in Wise County. He was joined by dozens of doctors, nurses and other health specialists from the University of Virginia.
Small-business owners in Charlottesville are getting hands-on training on how to give their bottom line a boost using Facebook. Facebook is partnering with the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce to show owners how to apply the most up-to-date tools and strategies to market their business. More than 150 folks gathered Friday at UVA’s Darden School of Business to figure out how to take their business to the next level.
Other schools, including the University of Virginia, have also raised their minimum wage to $15 this year.
UVA’s Darden School of Business ranks No. 17.
(Commentary by A.E. Dick Howard, Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law) In May 1776, the Virginia convention, meeting in Williamsburg, took three momentous steps. Its members agreed to draft a declaration of rights for Virginia, they set out to adopt a republican constitution, and they instructed Virginia’s delegates in Philadelphia to introduce a resolution for American independence. The age of rights and of constitutions was well underway.
(Commentary by Leslie Greene Bowman, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello) Over the past few weeks, our local governments have debated whether they should continue to observe April 13, Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, as an official holiday. We respect our local governments’ processes for establishing public holidays. The larger question is whether Jefferson’s legacy remains relevant today – and why.
In 2018, Brandon Kim and a friend, both QuestBridge Scholars, decided to start a program that would offer an all-expenses-paid visit to UVA for high school students who will be the first in their family to attend college and who wouldn’t otherwise be able to tour the school. They called it Hoos First Look, and the program, now in its second year, is gearing up to bring another set of students to Charlottesville.
Morgan Moses had the option to change his jersey from No. 76 when he was first drafted by Washington in 2014. It wasn’t the prettiest number, he remembers thinking as the equipment manager discussed it with him, but the number he really wanted – No. 78, the number he wore at the University of Virginia – was owned by Kory Lichtensteiger at that time. So Moses decided to stick it out with 76, and he decided to do more to make the number his own. It’s tattooed across his back. It’s easy to get lost in asking questions and miss the other details that he sat through four sessions and 32 hours to ha...
(Commentary by Carolyn Lane, rising second-year student and Cavalier Daily journalist) After I graduated and matriculated at the University of Virginia, I found it difficult to leave behind the habits that were so ingrained in my journalistic practices from high school. For years, censorship shaped my work by telling me what stories I could write and topics I could cover – a reality that was impossible to shed simply because I walked out of the campus gates.
Twenty-six people from across the country came to Ashtabula Thursday to help work on a Habitat for Humanity house on Seymour Drive. And they arrived on their bicycles. Bike and Build is a nonprofit group that is traveling this summer from New Hampshire to Washington. It’s a 4,000-mile journey, and the cyclists are stopping in several cities along the way to help with affordable housing projects. Claire Burke, 22, is one of the people making this trip after a classmate at the University of Virginia recommended it. “I heard they enjoyed this program,” she said. “I thought I would like it — helpi...
The 1976 election showed Americans that, thanks to the primary system, someone from outside Washington could win the whole thing — a lesson reinforced in 2016 with President Trump’s victory. That year also showed how much things can change before Election Day. There wasn’t a clear front runner, but favorites included Arizona Congressman Mo Udall and Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson from Washington state. “The overall caution I take from 1976 is that people favored now may not be in that position when the voting starts,” says Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the Univers...
(Commentary) “While bringing local news to an online streaming might feel like the natural next step in news delivery, there could be reasons it ends up more complex than that. “I love the idea of experimenting with local news,” said Christopher Ali, associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. “I’m a huge fan of it, we need to find different ways to keep local news going.”
Today, women are being invited to join at higher rates: Nine of the 23 Jasons who have joined since 2010 are women. Many take on the leadership of studies. "Contributing to Jason is one of the most important things I do," says Sallie Keller, a statistician at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville who joined in 2007 and led Census Bureau and HHS studies.
UVA law professor Mike Gilbert said the decision finally locks the door on litigants making constitutional partisan gerrymandering claims in federal courts. The decision ties up a long string of cases that all ended with the court rejecting such claims without entirely blocking them out in the future. “What’s different today is… this is the end, they’re finally saying we’re just not going to do it and we don’t have jurisdiction to do it, don’t bring us any more of these cases,” Gilbert said.
(Commentary) To quote the lone dissenting opinion University of Virginia professor Elizabeth Meyer offered to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in her opposition to the Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial, “We’re more than wars.” Meyer’s professionally courageous objection forced me to consider something: Would the ghosts of Revolutionary War veterans take umbrage at the absence of a memorial to their war on the National Mall, or would they instead view the existence of the Mall itself as a memorial to their sacrifice?
(Commentary by Christopher Holstege, professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics) Everything is a toxin, or has the potential to be, in the field of toxicology. In the 1500s, Swiss physician Paracelsus, the father of toxicology, coined his famous dictum: “What is there that is not poison? All things are poison and nothing is without poison. Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison.” Lead, however, is toxic at any dose. It serves no purpose in our body. Unlike most other toxins that our body can eliminate through metabolism and excretion, our body has no ability to purge lead....
The UVA School of Medicine says sugar could be the secret to making clothes and other things more durable. Researchers found the strong abilities of sugar in certain acidic hot springs where single-celled organisms exist under extreme conditions. Using an extremely powerful microscope, they discovered huge amounts of sugar covering the organisms. “Some of the clothing we wear, like wool, is a protein and therefore people may be able to engineer new proteins that are covered with sugars to make them similarly indestructible,” said Edward Egelman, with UVA’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecu...