To his successor, former head football coach George Welsh is the man who put Virginia on the map. “He’s the person who elevated Virginia football to the level where the expectations were that we should win,” said Al Groh, who replaced Welsh after he retired following the 2000 season. “He saw the potential in Virginia when really there was not a high level of success to indicate that before he got there.” Welsh, 85, died in Charlottesville on Wednesday in the presence of family members, according to a press release from UVA.
It is almost impossible for anyone who didn’t live through George Welsh’s coaching tenures at Navy and Virginia to understand how extraordinary his work was from 1973 to 2000. Welsh, who died Wednesday at 85, went 189-132-4 in 28 seasons at those schools, numbers that only scratch the surface of his remarkable legacy.
Tropical forests store about a third of Earth's carbon and about two-thirds of its above-ground biomass. Most climate change models predict that as the world warms, all of that biomass will decompose more quickly, which would send a lot more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But new research presented at the American Geophysical Union's 2018 Fall Meeting contradicts that theory. Stephanie Roe, an ecology Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, measured the rate of decomposition in artificially warmed plots of forest in Puerto Rico. She found biomass in the warmed plots broke d...
According to He, the babies — twin girls named Lulu and Nana — were genetically modified as embryos with a gene-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9. In fact, the gene that He deleted in the embryos — CCR5 — is known to assist in white blood cell function, Mazhar Adli, a geneticist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said. He may also have failed to adequately inform the babies' parents about potential risks prior to obtaining their consent to the gene editing.
The immune system is a marvel, working to keep the organs in the body healthy. Until recently, though, scientists thought the immune system was less proactive with one particular organ — the brain, or central nervous system. “The understanding was that the two systems don’t interact with each other — or should not interact with other — and they would only interact with each other in pathologies,” said Jonathan Kipnis, head of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia.
Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. will visit the University of Virginia as the UVA President's 2019 Speaker for the Arts. Odom originated the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway hit "Hamilton." He is expected to discuss his life and career and the impact of the arts on education when he visits UVA's John Paul Jones Arena on Jan. 19.
Western Albemarle High School hosted the third annual 'Play for Preemies' showcase Saturday to raise money for neo-natal intensive care units. Twelve basketball teams played throughout the day in six different games, where organizers raised money through ticket sales and concessions. The money raised during this year's showcase will benefit the NICU units at UVA Children's Hospital and Carilion Clinic Children's Hospital.
You may not even be aware some biases exist. I recommend taking the Implicit Association Test created by a team of researchers from Harvard University, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington. This assessment measures the strength of links you make between various concepts such as race, gender, sexuality, religion and age.
The Large Binocular Telescope is located in southeastern Arizona at the Mount Graham Observatory. The LBT consists of two telescopes placed side by side. It began operations in 2004. The LBT’s mirrors have an aperture size of 330 inches. It is a joint effort between several institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, University of Arizona, University of Virginia, and many others.
President Donald Trump has named a Charlottesville post office for Army Capt. Humayun Khan, a fallen University of Virginia graduate.
CNN's April Ryan will be the keynote speaker for the 2019 Community MLK Celebration. Ryan, a White House correspondent, will speak at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Paramount Theater. Ryan’s appearance is part of a series of events honoring the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Jan. 19 to Feb. 1.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved focused ultrasound as a treatment for a symptom of Parkinson’s disease, opening up the pioneering treatment for widespread use. Studies at UVA, which partners with the Charlottesville-based Focused Ultrasound Foundation, laid the groundwork for the approval.
(Commentary by T. Donna Chen, faculty affiliate at the School of Engineering’s Link Lab and Center for Transportation Studies) The black Ford Fusion hybrid with a tiara of laser sensors looped twice through a four-mile stretch of a changing Washington as it vacuumed up data to build a citywide network of self-driving cars.
At UVA, most applications arrive by Nov. 1 for the first round of freshman admissions. There were about 25,000 early hopefuls for the public flagship university’s Class of 2023, up 17 percent from the previous year.
Jennifer Lawless, a UVA politics professor, said the 2020 election will not be about "one woman versus the male presidency we’ve always had." Instead, "It’s going to allow for a really serious conversation about the extent to which Americans are sexist."
Even though the votes may be there to overturn the Arizona case, some think the court may not want that fight. But it’s risky for the justices to overturn such a new precedent. It makes it look like the meaning of the Constitution depends solely on the membership of the court, Saikrishna Prakash, a constitutional scholar at the UVA School of Law said.
“I shall not be returning home quite yet,” Capt. Andrew Luck noted last weekend, soon after the Indianapolis Colts claimed an unlikely playoff spot with a victory over the Tennessee Titans in the final game of the NFL’s regular season. “Our unit was victorious in the hard fought, rain-soaked battle. … Jubilation.” The parody account, which has been active for several years, works so well because of its authenticity, its earnest embrace of Civil War nostalgia. “It rings true and the language sounds like it’s from the 19th century,” said Caroline Janney, a history professor at the University of ...
Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. will visit the University of Virginia as the UVA President’s 2019 Speaker for the Arts. Odom originated the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway hit “Hamilton.” He is expected to discuss his life and career and the impact of the arts on education when he visits UVA’s John Paul Jones Arena on Jan. 19.
(Video) Peter Ochs, a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia, talks about the need for interfaith dialogue and the Jewish community in Charlottesville.
(Commentary by Bernie Carlson, Vaughan Professor of Humanities and chair of UVA’s Engineering & Society Department) In October, the New York Times reported that the Australian mining tycoon, Clive Palmer, was pressing ahead with his plans to build a replica of the RMS Titanic for his Blue Star Line. Would sailing on the Titanic II be a happy dream or an ugly nightmare?