The School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia announced Friday the appointment of its first female dean, Jennifer L. West. She will start July 1.
Jennifer L. West, an associate dean of engineering at Duke University, will become the first woman to lead the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, officials announced Friday.
The study – conducted by the Royal Horticultural Society in collaboration with the University of Sheffield and the University of Virginia – found that more frequent gardening was also linked with greater physical activity supporting the notion that gardening is good for both body and mind.
For the first time since 2017, the Virginia men’s tennis team is back on top of the mountain in the ACC. The top-seeded Cavaliers defeated North Carolina, 4-3, on Sunday in the ACC Tournament championship match in Rome, Georgia.
Plans to return fall semester at the University of Virginia to near pre-pandemic normal are based on faculty, staff and students getting vaccinated for COVID-19, and school officials are encouraging everyone to get their shots.
Located on Almeda Farm at 749 Salem Church Road near Boyce, the Blue Ridge Center for Therapeutic Horsemanship is a nonprofit organization that has been working since 2007 to help people overcome mental, physical and emotional disabilities. Its founder and executive director is Marjorie L. Youngs, a Clarke County resident with a master’s degree in special education from the University of Virginia who has been involved with therapeutic horseback riding for 34 years.
The Richmond Kickers reached the pinnacle of U.S. soccer in just its third year of existence. The team won the 1995 U.S. Open Cup, a yearly tournament open to any team in the country. “The camaraderie of that team as the year went along, how we came along, how the team got formed,” said goaltender Jeff Causey, who played for the team after graduating from UVA. “It was just something that took off.” But that title was now 26 years ago and the next generation is already here. Jeff Causey’s sn, Austin Causey, has now signed with the Kickers.
[Former UVA men;s soccer star] Daryl Dike is the name on everyone's lips in the Championship. The 20-year-old has been a revelation since joining Barnsley on loan from Orlando City, with the Yorkshire club now hoping to take advantage of their option to buy the forward at the end of the season on a permanent basis. However, the Tykes are acutely aware that after six goals in seven games, the United States international has caught the attention of several Premier League scouts in recent weeks.
J. Miles Coleman from the UVA Center for Politics said that if there's any Republican who could beat Democratic front-runner Terry McAuliffe, it would be the millionaire Republican, Glenn Youngkin. Coleman says that Youngkin has done a significant amount of fundraising, which could make things interesting. "I've heard that he's racking up delegates. If Youngkin is the nominee, we could be looking at a very expensive race here in Virginia. Are the Democrats favored? Yes. Is it going to be a coronation? I don't think so," Coleman said.
(Commentary) “I resent when people present themselves as saints and others as sinners,” said UVA politics analyst Larry Sabato, adding that voters should be suspicious of economic power because sooner or later it is leveraged for favors only elective officials can deliver.
Many of the House Republicans who spoke on Thursday took pains to deny that their opposition to D.C. statehood was at all rooted in fear of admitting a state with a majority Black population. Instead, they chose to stick to arguments about how D.C. statehood would be a “Democrat power grab”. But a veteran observer of both D.C.-area and national politics – UVA Center for Politics founder Larry Sabato – said that those members “doth protest too much” when asked about such protestations on Thursday. “Anybody who would assume that race has dissipated as a factor in their evaluation of this b...
(Commentary) Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said that Congress and the people regarded FDR’s plan to pack the court as “an undemocratic power grab.” Let us hope the same is true today, but we can’t count out future efforts to normalize this radical idea.
(Commentary) In fact, shame is rife on campuses in the United States and elsewhere. Mark Edmundson, a veteran English professor at the University of Virginia, describes a “culture of hip,” in which “passion and strong admiration,” particularly for what one encounters in school, must be suppressed if they arise and hidden if they can’t be suppressed. If other students roll their eyes at the nerd who responds enthusiastically to a professor’s plea to dig into Dante, it isn’t necessarily because they resent her intelligence. They may be just as clever as she is. The nerd’s offense, of which she i...
China’s ascent over the U.S. had been widely anticipated. The Chinese film industry reached an “inflection point” around 2016, when its technology and storytelling skills became as competitive as those of Hollywood, says Aynne Kokas, a Chinese cinema expert at the University of Virginia.
What Netflix also has is scads of data on the habits of its 207 million subscribers, which gives it a competitive advantage in the crowded streaming universe, notes UVA professor Aswin Punathambekar. "That allows the company to understand viewership patterns beyond the usual demographic factors," Punathambekar said. "This does shape decisions about the kinds of series to commission or add to the library," he said.
(Transcript) KAHN: The country is not capable of holding credible elections anytime soon, says political science professor at the University of Virginia, Robert Fatton. ROBERT FATTON: The idea of having elections at this time, you know, is absolutely crazy. You can't have elections given the conditions in Haiti.
Richard Bonnie, a UVA law professor, said the case “signals clearly that the new conservative majority of the Supreme Court will not expand the reach of the Supreme Court’s Eighth Amendment decisions barring harsh sentences for juveniles.”
The decision signals that the high court's new conservative majority will not expand the reach of the court's Eighth Amendment decisions concerning sentences for juveniles, according to professor Richard Bonnie of the UVA School of Law. "The only hopeful sign for those who support those decisions is that Justice Kavanaugh's opinion for the court did somersaults to avoid saying that it was overruling any of the court's previous decisions," he said.
Moderna arm, aka COVID arm, is an itchy, raised, red rash circling the injection site. Dr. Richard “Hal” Flowers, a UVA assistant professor of dermatology, said the arm rashes are the most commonly reported skin reaction. They fade away after a few days, though it’s not quite clear what’s triggering them.
"COVID deaths are deaths that can be prevented by a simple vaccination, so it's really to your benefit and the entire community’s benefit to get vaccinated and to do so now," said Dr. Costi Sifri, the director of hospital epidemiology at UVA Health.