UVA President Jim Ryan closed out the school year with a video message to thank the community for their compliance throughout the pandemic and to offer some good news. Ryan announced that UVA will be able to offer merit salary increases for staff in the coming year, which follows a University decision to enact a salary freeze amid financial hardships.
(Editorial) That shattering sound you hear is the smashing of stereotypes. Give credit to UVA professor Andrew Kaufman and his colleagues, Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail Superintendent Martin Kumer and Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania. And when the program they’re sponsoring begins this fall, especially give credit to students from UVA and to participants from the jail. These two unlikely groups will come together as co-equals to study the challenging subject matter of Russian literature.
UVA Health doctors say more than half of the adults in the area are fully vaccinated and the numbers keep climbing. About 69% to 75% of adults in Charlottesville and Albemarle County have received at least one dose of vaccine. In about two to three weeks, the vast majority of people in the county or city will be fully vaccinated.
Emily Klein had checked off more than half of her college bucket list: Tailgate for a sporting event. Have a meal with a professor. Vote in an election. The list, filled with 120 activities to complete by graduation day, was given to UVA’s Class of 2020 just as their senior year started. Klein had planned to finish the remaining tasks near the end of the spring semester, when her workload would be lighter. That semester, of course, was upended by the pandemic.
When Emma Navarro takes the court, the Virginia women’s tennis team knows it has a chance.
The works were created by gallery owners (and spouses) Marti Haykin and Marc Snyder of Unity. The couple met in a printmaking workshop as undergraduates at the University of Virginia.
A polymer-based insulator that conducts heat well and has an ultralow dielectric constant – two properties seldom seen in the same structure – could help dissipate waste heat in computer chips. Researchers led by Patrick Hopkins of the University of Virginia and William Dichtel at Northwestern University have now overcome this obstacle by producing high-quality, wafer-scale, 2-D COF films linked via sheets of a polymer (boronate ester) just one atom thick.
(Video) Dr. Paul Targonski is the medical director at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women and a member of the UVA Health faculty. As part of our "VADOC in Focus" video series, Targonski discusses the development of the COVID-19 vaccines, vaccine hesitancy and concerns, and the role each individual plays in reducing the spread of COVID-19.
As the party prepares to pick its nominee this weekend, the race embodies the collapse of Republican power in a state that has tilted more sharply to Democrats than perhaps any other. Larry J. Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said the Republican candidates for governor this year fit into three categories: “Trumpy, Trumpier, Trumpiest.”
The Virginia GOP, eager to halt a statewide losing streak that's gone on for more than a decade, are putting their hopes behind a candidate for governor set to be picked on Saturday. The nominating convention brings an end to a primary race that has everything to do with Trump. Between the four major candidates among the seven total, it is "Trumpy, Trumpier and Trumpiest," said Larry Sabato, the founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Pete Snyder is just one of seven GOP candidates who have thrown their hat in the ring ahead of Saturday’s convention. Beyond Snyder, three other candidates are seen as frontrunners: businessman Glenn Youngkin, former House of Delegates speaker Kirk Cox, and firebrand state Sen. Amanda Chase, who attended the Jan. 6 “Save America” rally that preceded the storming of the U.S. Capitol and recently sued her State Senate colleagues after they censured her for her “pattern of unacceptable conduct.” Army veteran Sergio de la Peña, former Roanoke sheriff Octavia Johnson, and think tank CEO Peter Doran...
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals why sleep can put people with epilepsy at increased risk of sudden death.
According to the study, Do conversations end when people want it? our talks or talks do not end when we wish. The research was led by Adam M. Mastroianni, from the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, with other specialists from the University of Pennsylvania and UVA.
Joyce Crenshaw Henderson pushed a stroller along the smooth brick walkway, its sunshade pulled down to shield her 3-month-old grandson from the intensifying sun rising in a cloud-dappled blue sky. Her path was clear past the newly dedicated Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia to her left and, to her right, roomy rows of white plastic chairs directed toward a lectern. The baby’s presence was a suitable reminder of why Henderson and other descendants were gathered Wednesday morning: Gov. Ralph Northam ceremonially signed HB1980, which establishes the Enslaved An...
Research has found out why sleep can put people with epilepsy at an increased risk of sudden death. Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine looked at how sleep and seizures slow the heart rate.
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is pleased to announce the winners of six of the 2021 Regional Student Conferences. Region I Winners - Masters Category: 2nd Place – “Employing CARS to determine flame temperature of ethylene/air counterflow diffusion flames,” Sean Alberts and Chloe Dedic, University of Virginia.
9. Past Life Phobias. One UVA study found that some children who claim to recall their previous lives suffer “unusual” phobias that they say are related to those past lives – and specifically the way they died. For example, a child might have an intense fear of water that she attributes to drowning in her past life.
Health officials are warning that COVID-19 vaccination rates have declined by 30%, leading to an increase in cases. UVA anesthesiology and critical care medicine associate professor Dr. Ebony Hilton says misinformation has led to vaccine hesitancy and to a political divide in vaccinations.
(Video) There are new signs the U.S. is on the road to recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Cases and deaths have plummeted to the lowest point in months. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at UVA Health, discusses U.S. efforts and the nation's role in the global fight.
Annaliese Griffin was driving to get ice cream with her best friend TaKiya “TK” Howard on Monday night when she realized they were near another friend’s house. They decided to stop and say hi to Tyler “TY” Johnson, who lives in Englewood. The three high school seniors talked about prom, heading to college and basketball – all three have committed to playing Division I basketball in college (Griffin at UVA). About 11:55 p.m., they heard a gunshot.