Area nonprofits can now apply for grants to support community health initiatives. The funding is being made available by a partnership between the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation and the UVA Health System.
The review of Charlottesville’s nonprofit funding process is nearly complete, but a public comment on Monday night has altered the timeline. Before the City Council was scheduled to vote on its next steps, Walt Heinecke suggested that the city focus nonprofit funding in the priority areas identified by UVA President Jim Ryan’s University-Community Working Group: jobs and wages, affordable housing, health care, and education.
UVA kicked off its first-ever Presidential Ideas Festival Tuesday with insights into the executive office from former diplomats and dignitaries and an announcement of a new umbrella institute at UVA to promote democracy.
The OHM team includes Dr. Akash Kumar, initially the CTO, but has now moved on to an advisory role. At present, 32-year-old co-founder Ayush Bharti, 32, an MBA from UVA’s Darden School of Business, is the CTO.
Democrats should try to find a decent candidate to run against Amash, as the district "definitely leans right but is sneakily competitive," said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. "Kent County is going to be an important weather vane in the Michigan presidential and Senate races — it seems to be trending Democratic even as much of the rest of the state outside the Detroit Metro area is trending the other way," Kondik said.
Sybrina Fulton joins the growing ranks of women running for office after losing a child to gun violence. “People who have been active in the politics arena have a better sense of what it takes and more familiarity with elected officials, and so these mothers can look around and say to themselves, ‘You don’t have to have a million different credentials. If you have the passion, if you have the vision and if you’re willing to work hard, you can succeed,'” said Jennifer Lawless, a UVA political science professor.
Studying social class is tricky. First there’s the matter of definitions. “Most people would say they are middle class,” said Peter Belmi, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a lead author of the study. But how can that be?
Adding mental health services might improve a broad array of health outcomes for patients with HIV, according to a recent study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Researchers compared how a subset of patients at UVA’s Ryan White HIV/AIDS Clinic fared before and after the clinic expanded its mental health services in 2013. UVA nearly tripled the number of clinic patients receiving mental health care, from 385 in 2012 to 1,183 in 2014.
“Advantages beget advantages.” That’s the conclusion of a series of studies from researchers from Stanford University and the University of Virginia published Monday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes. “Individuals with relatively high social class are more overconfident,” they concluded. And, they said, others buy into it.
A multidisciplinary research effort funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, involving scientists from the University of Virginia and several other institutions, is developing gas-to-liquid technology to convert the components of natural gas to liquid products at lower pressures and temperatures than those utilized in current industrial processes.
K-12 educators are invited to attend an institute that will help them “demystify computer science.” St. Anne's-Belfield School and UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development are hosting the Computer Science Institute in July. It is open to teachers from all disciplines.
More than 7,000 students collected a diploma from the University of Virginia this weekend-- among them Dallas Ducar, who had two previous degrees from UVA. This one was especially meaningful – marking an academic and personal triumph.
During her year helming the University of Virginia’s Lawn, Joan Lee said she tried to make the heart of UVA more close-knit and inclusive.
Just a small amount of dynamite will bring down 5,000 pounds of concrete from University Hall’s iconic clamshell roof on Saturday. With a push from a plunger, a series of charges drilled into the structure will explode, bringing the roof down and simultaneously moving it away from other buildings, according to Joshua Campbell, president of Renascent Inc., the company tasked with the iconic University of Virginia structure’s demise.
The cardiac Cavaliers struck again, as No. 3 seed Virginia rallied from five goals down to beat unseeded Maryland, 13-12, on Matt Moore’s goal with 3:15 left in overtime. The win punched the Cavaliers’ first ticket to the Final Four since 2011, when they beat Maryland to win the national championship. UVA will face Duke or Notre Dame next Saturday in Philadelphia.
The University of Virginia got its ticket punched Saturday for Philadelphia and the NCAA’s “final four” of men’s lacrosse. The Cavaliers erased a big deficit and stunned Maryland, 13-12, in overtime in the NCAA Quarterfinals at Hempstead, Long Island, New York.
The University of Virginia has won its 10th consecutive ACC Rowing Championship. The Cavalier women edged Duke 95-90 in the overall team standings over the weekend at Lake Hartwell, South Carolina.
Chris Long on Feb. 2 stood on The Fox Theatre Stage and delivered a message that transcended the physical feats he achieved in his 11-year NFL career. Long delivered the speech in Atlanta after winning the 2019 Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. The night would serve as one of his final public appearances as a professional football player. Saturday evening, the Virginia legend announced his retirement in a Twitter post, alongside an image of him raising a red solo cup against a picturesque landscape.
A Central Virginian whose jersey was retired by the University of Virginia is retiring after 11 years in the NFL. Chris Long, son of Hall-of-Famer Howie Long, announced Saturday night in a tweet that he's stepping off the football field.
One of the University of Virginia graduates took some time on Sunday to reflect on the transitions in her life while preparing for one more. Dallas Ducar is a transgender nurse practitioner getting her third degree from UVA in psychiatric mental health.