UVA alumnus Malcolm Brogdon played a big role in the Milwaukee Bucks’ playoff win Friday night. But after the game he was more excited about a larger contribution. On the set with TNT’s “Inside the NBA” crew, Hall-of-Famer Charles Barkley made a surprise $45,000 donation to Brogdon’s Hoops2O initiative, which raises funds to build water wells in East Africa.
Trump seems to have a stronghold on his party that no candidate can shake. As Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center put it, Trump has simply proven, time and time again, "that all previous rules do not apply." "When we look back at the lessons of history, they may repeat themselves, but they haven't so far," Perry said.
Shortly after the flyby, New Horizons returned images that revealed MU69 to have an odd two-lobed structure, earning it the nickname “the snowman.” It later transpired that the two lobes were actually flattened disks, believe to have stuck together early in the Solar System. “The New Horizons flyby of MU69 is humanity's first look at one of the building blocks of our Solar System,” says Anne Verbiscer from the University of Virginia, one of the co-authors on the paper. “We knew very little about this object before the flyby.”
Northern Virginia has the highest levels of education. But that’s only one way to look at the data. Spencer Shanholtz at the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service says a closer look at the numbers show something kind of surprising.
Jews in Virginia and across the country are facing troubled and perilous times, says professor Phyllis Leffler. The University of Virginia professor of 30 years, an expert in public history, oral history and the Jewish history of Charlottesville traveled to Colonial Williamsburg Wednesday to deliver a lecture on the history of Jews in the state.
Two shows in New York offer profoundly different views of art from Indigenous Australia, and establish the stakes for exhibiting work made very far from our white cubes. At Gagosian through July 3, the radiant show “Desert Painters of Australia: Works from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia and the Collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield” features 10 artists, mostly of the Pintupi people, whose understanding of time, land and value operates in productive tension with that of the global art world.
Researchers with the University of Virginia have detailed the discovery of a potential new pain reliever that shows promise for offering relief without the addiction potential of existing opioid pain medication.
Researchers are seeking non-addictive chronic pain treatment options that produce few or no negative side effects. Ken Hsu, a chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, and his graduate student, Myungsun Shin, has identified an enzyme that "chews up fat" molecules to produce chemical signals that control inflammation.
Some of the most effective painkillers are often a double-edged sword. While they might offer significant pain relief, some may also lead to the development of an addiction. This has led researchers to try to discover new medication that can offer chronic pain relief, but allow for the patient to stop when they need to. Now, researchers at the University of Virginia have announced the discovery of an enzyme that “chews up fat” molecules to produce signals that control inflammation.
More than 25,500 temporary detention orders were ordered in fiscal year 2018 — a rise of 294% since 2013 — and law enforcement transported 99% of the people who had a TDO, according to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. The region that includes Hampton Roads had the second-highest amount of TDOs issued after Southwest Virginia. Out of every general district court in Hampton Roads, Suffolk had the highest number of TDOs per 1,000 people in FY16, according to a February University of Virginia Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy report.
University Hall, the Cavaliers’ former home, is in the throes of deconstruction, and it’s scheduled for implosion next weekend. On Thursday, the school gave fans a chance to take home one (or a handful) of the thousands of bricks that have been removed from the “House that Ralph built.”
"Before we make a decision on if and how this might be used, we will need to hear more about the specifics and details," said Greg Roberts, UVA’s dean of undergraduate admission. "We are pleased that the College Board is offering ideas and tools designed to try to level the college admission playing field."
Andre Cavalcante, a UVA assistant professor in the departments of Media Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality, says that while he saw the app as a “playful experience,” it could also be seen as using gender identity as a “commercial gimmick.” “The app turns users into extreme simplifications, into cartoonish renderings of men and women,” Cavalcante says.
People in Charlottesville are claiming a piece of history at the former home of the Hoos basketball team. On Thursday, UVA staff members handed out bricks from the soon-to-be demolished University Hall.
The changes in brain structure and connectivity that occur between the ages of 10 and 25 present adolescents with unique opportunities for positive, life-shaping development, and for recovering from past adversity, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. “The adolescent brain undergoes a remarkable transformation that underpins amazing advances in learning and creativity,” said Richard Bonnie, Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, and chai...
The University of Virginia Medical Center has earned a top rating from a national patient safety ranking organization, following the trend of a majority of the state’s hospitals.
If you want your own slice of Cavalier athletics history, the University of Virginia will distribute bricks from the exterior of University Hall for free Thursday evening.
The 2019 Virginia football team is fit for primetime. At least, that’s what the new ACC Network believes. The Cavaliers will open the year with three night games televised on the league’s new television station.
For the first time in nearly two decades, Virginia universities will not be increasing tuition for next year. The shift is because of a budget maneuver by lawmakers. UVA is among the schools that have frozen tuition and mandatory fees.
UVA students will celebrate academic accomplishments this weekend with a variety of events leading up to and following ceremonial walks down the Lawn as part of the annual rites of graduation. The events will help fill area hotel rooms and restaurants with friends and family of the 7,090 students who are receiving diplomas.