Dozens of people are now better educated about two of the most influential women in Thomas Jefferson's life. On Wednesday, UVA’s Colonnade Club hosted a lecture about the former president's daughter and an enslaved woman with whom he fathered six children. Most history lessons at UVA center on its founder, but this one was different.
Tim Dodson is editor-in-chief of the University of Virginia’s The Cavalier Daily. He oversees about 350 contributors. None, including Dodson, get paid a cent. “It’s a labor of love,” Dodson said. The Cavalier Daily stays afloat through ads and donations from alumni.
The Silver Jews and Pavement members, along with WTJU’s general manager, share how the station has shaped the sounds of Charlottesville and beyond.
Every week, people from all walks of life come to The Haven to break bread with other community members. UVA President Jim Ryan and some of his staff joined in the lunch Wednesday.
In the last half of his life, Thomas Jefferson was influenced by two women: Martha Jefferson Randolph and Sally Hemings. Leslie Greene Bowman, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, praised the women in a speech at UVA’s Rotunda on Wednesday evening, describing their surprising ability to shape the course of their lives.
Just ask The Real Housewives of New York City mom Ramona Singer, who watched her daughter Avery head off to the University of Virginia (she’s since graduated).
(Podcast) This week’s Business of Giving features UVA alumnus Jeffrey Walker, author of “The Generosity Network.” A former executive at JPMorgan Chase, Walker is chairman of the board of the venture-philanthropy group New Profit. “I started meditating in 1973 at the University of Virginia in the middle of a field (his first year at UVA). And I now am the outside chair of the Contemplative Science Center … and we’re building a building right on that spot.”
Larry Sabato, the political scientist who directs UVA’s Center for Politics, warned that the choice could backfire for the GOP if McSally doesn’t act more like McCain.
(Updated column) The new study helps explain the growing polarization of politics in the U.S and other open societies, and what UVA politics professor Larry Sabato recently called the collapse of “fair play” in the political sphere.
While Latter-day Saints may “privately have their doubts and speak of them in private venues,” says Kathleen Flake, head of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia, “assuming a public leadership role in attacking the authority of the prophet will lead to removal of church membership.”
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have identified a protein that feeds human papillomavirus, or HPV, offering an additional path for treating the cause of most cervical and anal cancers.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have made a discovery about human papillomavirus that could lead to new treatments for cervical cancer and other cancers caused by the virus.
“Patients are attracted to the less invasive aspects of focused ultrasound. Now Parkinson’s patients, for whom tremor is their primary disability, have more treatment options than conventional cranial surgery. While focused ultrasound is not curative for Parkinson’s disease, it can provide significant quality of life benefits. Research continues for the other symptoms of Parkinson’s,” said Jeff Elias of the UVA School of Medicine.
Dale Ford, executive chef at Boar’s Head Resort, said their garden will be a great asset to produce fresh ingredients for their meals.
According to the survey, the universities that exhibited the fairest system were the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cornell University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of Virginia.
“These liquids are absorbed pretty quickly,” said Dr. Chris Holstage of the Blue Ridge Poison Center, a UVA toxicologist. “For a toddler who gets into this, if they’re able to drink some of this, it could be deadly.”
UVA psychology professor Timothy Wilson considers our reliance on the unconscious to be the price that we pay for survival as a species. If we were forced always to consider every aspect of the situation around us and had to weigh all our options about what to do, humankind would have died out long ago.
“The research indicates that tax policy does influence decisions about getting married and staying married, but this influence is modest,” said UVA sociology professor Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project.
Lifelong Virginia Cavaliers fan and UVA junior Grant Kersey spent two years as a manager for his school’s men’s basketball team before Virginia head coach Tony Bennett gave him a jersey to dress for home games.
Speculation as to who will succeed Alexander immediately erupted. As political analyst and UVA professor Larry Sabato, pointed out, a plethora of candidates for Alexander’s seat is expected to emerge. Sabato tweeted, “Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) retiring, seat up 2020. Hope springs eternal for Dems, but the early rating for Crystal Ball is Safe R. I asked good source: Which Rs are running now? Answer: ‘Everyone I know.’"