A top exercise researcher at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has revealed how our bodies ensure the proper functioning of the powerhouses of our cells. The findings could open the door to better treatments for many common diseases, including Alzheimer’s and diabetes.
(Letter to the Editor) UVA Health is mandating that all employees be vaccinated by Nov. 1. Likewise, University of Virginia students are required to be vaccinated in order to attend college this year. So exactly why was there a football game at Scott Stadium on Sept. 4 with over 42,000 fans in attendance, many of whom were unmasked?
The resolution states that if Adams 14 later asks the state to amend the order, that plan must include plans to continue working with subcontractors that have been effective, including the University of Virginia, and must also address how the district will resolve complaints with the Office for Civil Rights regarding the needs of English language learners.
At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, a tribute to enslaved Black people who lived and worked there opened in 2020. Yoon’s architectural firm collaborated on the design of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. The low granite ring symbolizes a broken shackle. The stone is engraved with 577 names and 4,000 “memory marks,” wound-like slashes representing enslaved people whose identities remain unknown.
University of Virginia students and University President Jim Ryan laced up their running shoes on Thursday. They ran four miles together starting and finishing at Madison Hall. Matt Weber organized the event to provide students a chance to know their school president personally. It was also a chance to get to know other running enthusiasts on Grounds.
Young Americans for Freedom at the University of Virginia will display 2,977 American flags at McIntire Amphitheater to remember those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. The ceremony will consist of a presentation of the flags, a locally produced rendition of the National Anthem and a prayer-led by Dan Moy, a local Ret. Colonel of 27 years. A moment of silence will be held at 8:46 a.m., the time when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, and then attendees will be released by the sounding of taps.
The University of Virginia Alumni Association announced that Truist Wealth made a $1 million gift. The gift was to honor S. Buford Scott, a businessman and an alumnus of UVA. The award is part of the Ridley Scholarship for a fully in-state cost of attendance for a young Black student at UVA.
Piedmont Virginia Community College and the University of Virginia have partnered to provide scholarships for specific transfer students. This group of PVCC students will transfer to UVA and have been awarded scholarships covering full in-state tuition and fees. PVCC is designating 10 of its recent graduates as Piedmont Scholars.
The University of Virginia has opened a space on Grounds for veteran students. UVA set the goal for a veteran space in 2014, and while this is one step forward, there's still more work to be done for the center and the military community on Grounds.
The University of Virginia officially opened its Veteran Student Center Thursday. The center aims to provide support student veterans and active duty ROTC students at the University. UVA President Jim Ryan says he hopes it can be a space veterans can share their stories.
For the last 18 months, 29 university teams have competed in a unique autonomous vehicle event. The Indy Autonomous Challenge is a $1.5 million prize competition among universities to program Dallara AV-21 racecars and compete in the world’s first autonomous racecar event at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway, currently scheduled for Oct. 23. With six weeks to go until the final race event, the competition has reached the last stage. There are only 10 Dallara AV-21 racecars available to race. Thus the remain 21 university teams have been consolidated into ten race teams – including one from...
“If governments want to gain political and sometimes personal interests for their people and institutions, corruption spreads,” says Vamik Volkan, an emeritus professor of the University of Virginia, a leading expert on political psychology and on the roots of worldwide conflicts. “If there were a war with another country, corruption would be permitted to gain political interests,” Volkan tells TRT World.
Unaffiliated voters make up the largest percentage of registered voters in Boebert’s current 3rd Congressional District and clearly lean conservative, but Republicans hold an advantage over Democrats. Unaffiliated voters in Boulder and Larimer counties, which would be in the proposed 2nd District, also tend to lean more liberal. “Any district that has Boulder in it is going to be very hard for any Republican to win,” said Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
It’s a growing tactic over the last few election cycles as influencers spanning the gamut of right-wing reactionary YouTube pranksters to socialist TikTok stars have decided to throw their hats into the electoral ring, finding plenty of hype and little success. “If a politician can speak to that constituency through skillful (and not cringey) use of insidery memes and language, it signals that they understand and are committed to all of that,” Lana Swartz, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, told me last week. “It can be a very powerful message that transcend...
Thanks to the law in Texas and concerns that the conservative-majority Supreme Court may soon overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion is now a major topic of conversation in the Virginia gubernatorial race—and it will likely help fire up potential McAuliffe voters in the waning weeks of the campaign. “This has happened at a time that is almost perfect for Terry McAuliffe and the other Democratic candidates in Virginia,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center of Politics at the University of Virginia and editor in chief of Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
“I was talking to one of my Republican friends a month ago, and he said basically what Youngkin needs to do is he needs to get the Trump turnout in the rural areas, but he needs to perform like Romney in the suburban areas,” said J. Miles Coleman, an assistant editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “But, you know, each election is a different event. So you can’t just take the best parts of each coalition.”
The nation’s largest Confederate monument, a statue of General Robert E. Lee, was removed in Richmond on Wednesday. Dr. Jalene Schmidt, a University of Virginia professor and local activist, says she is relieved, to say the least. She feels it has been a long time coming. “In 1890 in the year that this statue went up, there were Black people who raised their objections,” she said.
The nation’s largest Confederate monument, a statue of General Robert E. Lee, was removed in Richmond on Wednesday. Dr. Jalene Schmidt, a University of Virginia professor and local activist, says she is relieved, to say the least. She feels it has been a long time coming. “In 1890 in the year that this statue went up, there were Black people who raised their objections,” she said.
“Psychologists are leading the charge in changing their individual behaviors and the structural components that lead to questionable research practices, including misconduct,” said Brian Nosek, PhD, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia and a proponent of the open science movement as a bulwark for improving credibility. “Most changes have occurred in journals so far. Funders and institutions have begun to change, but there’s still a lot to do.”
One of the complex issues in this case is that it didn’t happen in the context of a normal police encounter. That’s potentially very important. As the Supreme Court articulated, the Fourth Amendment requires “a careful balancing of ‘the nature and quality of the intrusion on the individual’s Fourth Amendment interests’ against the countervailing governmental interests at stake.” As University of Virginia law professor Rachel Harmon has identified, in use of force cases, the government’s interest is generally limited to law enforcement, order maintenance and public safety, and officer safety.