A new UVA study shows exercise could be a crucial way to slow or prevent vision loss. Researchers found exercise reduced the overgrowth of blood vessels in the eyes of a group of lab mice by 45%.
A new UVA study shows exercise could be a crucial way to slow or prevent vision loss. Researchers found exercise reduced the overgrowth of blood vessels in the eyes of a group of lab mice by 45%.
The Declaration of Independence is near and dear to the University of Virginia. Literally. The university owns two copies of a rare early printing of the declaration, and “Declaring Independence: Creating and Recreating America’s Document” is a permanent exhibit on display in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.
Paul Barringer, who served as Tech’s president from 1907 to 1913, wrote a 1900 speech called “The American Negro: His Past and Future,” in which he argued that “savage” Black Americans had been improved by slavery. He advocated for political disenfranchisement and the prohibition of Black people from becoming teachers or pursuing higher education. Last year, the University of Virginia, where Barringer served as chairman of the faculty from 1896 to 1903, removed his name from the wing of its hospital.
The University of Virginia was able to welcome some of its returning football players to the Grounds on Sunday. These Wahoos are opting to participate in a voluntary workout period.
Throughout Western history, one of the most stubborn obstacles to scientific progress was the intimidating authority of the Church over scientists and other scholars. Jefferson was a strong advocate for separating not only church from state, but for protecting scholars from censorship by religious authorities. One of his great accomplishments was the founding of the University of Virginia, which he pointedly designed to be centered around the library, at a time when other universities were centered around churches.
(Commentary by Ken White, associate dean at the School of Nursing, and Tim Short, a palliative care physician at UVA Health) COVID-19 has changed our work, making it less of a specialty and more of a desperately required competency. We have seen our fellow clinicians unsteadied by the end-of-life care they feel underprepared or unprepared to give during this pandemic. But these days, we all are palliative care providers, ready or not.
Walkability is so important that the future of Tysons may depend on whether people can safely and easily get around on foot. But how do you know if an area is walkable? Andrew Mondschein, a professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental planning in UVA’s School of Architecture, may have some answers. He has been teaching there for six years, and has been studying walkability in Tysons for about as long.
While Washington Nationals reliever (and UVA alumnus) Sean Doolittle might not be a household name outside of the nation’s capital, the MLB pitcher has a pretty solid résumé. He’s spent eight seasons in the big leagues, appeared in two All-Star games, and won a World Series title. He’s also made a bit of a name for himself on social media.
(Commentary by Guian McKee, associate professor of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) In just a few months, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted deeply troubling failures of American democracy. Among the most revealing is the pandemic’s demonstration that debates about the future of the U.S. health care system have been tragically narrow in their focus on health insurance coverage alone.
“What Disney has to do is figure out how to make itself matter, how to get in front of audiences in very different ways than it has in the past,” said Carmen Higginbotham, a UVA professor who is one of the country’s leading experts on Disney and popular culture.
(Commentary by Melody Barnes, co-director of UVA’s Democracy Initiative) I live on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, but Monument Avenue wasn’t meant for me. My own experience carries the imprint both of white supremacy and the efforts to overcome it.
Jenny McHugh loved art as a kid, taking classes for about 10 years. But as she grew older, her creative tendencies took a backseat to other interests, including competitive gymnastics. Thanks in part to the urging of her mom, the UVA geraduate began tapping into her artistic side again as an adult. In April, McHugh launched Campbell + Charlotte, a fine-jewelry business with the tagline, “Serious jewels for those who don’t take themselves too seriously.” Designs range from playful to bold to updated classics.
The Virginia 30 Day Fund, a Charlottesville-based nonprofit, announced Wednesday it has disbursed 500 “lifelines” – or $3,000 forgivable loans – to small businesses in Virginia that have financially struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike federal PPP loans, which can take up to a month to make decisions, Snyder promises applicants to the Virginia 30 Day Fund an answer on funding within three business days. The application review process is powered by a mix of 50 alums from UVA’s Darden School of Business and William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business.
The Virginia Film Festival has added six new members from the film industry and the community to its VAFF Advisory Board, including three with University of Virginia ties.
Sagar Sapkota, who is headed to UVA to study mechanical engineering, said he was proud to have been given the opportunity. “I’m really happy that I’m going to college, because my parents have sacrificed a lot for me and my brothers,” he said. Sapkota is one of 31 graduating seniors from the AHC Inc. College and Career Readiness program who are headed off to colleges across the region and across the nation. All are residents of one of AHC’s local apartment communities. Combined, the students were accepted into 135 institutions of higher learning, and received scholarship offers valued at about ...
(Commentary) So, now that Amy McGrath has won the Democratic nomination to challenge Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell in the fall, what is she going to do with it? Not much, if you listen to the analysts who are paid to handicap this sort of thing. Both Sabato’s Crystal Ball, ramrodded by Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and the Cook Political Report, see the ultimate outcome as likely Republican.
(Commentary) All signs point to a system beyond reform. “You see lots of people putting forth a hopeful idea of a new, humane social media platform to rescue us – one that respects privacy or is less algorithmically coercive,” Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies, said recently. “But if we’re being honest, what they’re really proposing at that point is not really social media anymore.”
Stephen Eubank, a professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, said he had read a copy of the paper and found the conclusions well supported. He said he wouldn’t be surprised if the fatality rate from COVID-19, though higher than that for other infectious diseases, turns out to be not as high as some feared. “Especially in the early days of our experience of a novel disease, the case fatality rate is always biased upward because you don’t know what the denominator is,” he said, referring to the number of people infected.
(Commentary co-written by Douglas Laycock, Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law) Tuesday’s ruling in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue came as no surprise. The Montana Supreme Court had invalidated a state tax credit for donations to organizations supporting students in private schools, solely on the ground that some schools benefiting from the program would be religious. The state court relied for its authority on a state constitutional provision that singled out religious schools for exclusion from generally available funding, however indirect. The U.S. Supreme Court held t...