The first-ever Virginia Festival of the Wheel car show took place at the Sprint Pavilion in downtown Charlottesville on Sunday to benefit the UVA Cancer Center. The event was planned to celebrate cars, but also cancer survivors.
About 100 years after its last full renovation, it’s time to refit and refinish Morven House. Fred Missel, director of design and development for the UVA Foundation, said the project will help maintain the 200-year-old Albemarle County estate and make it easier to host conferences and international groups.
UVA Law alumna Megan Lacy was part of the White House team that worked on Kavanaugh’s nomination, and is a former counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
A fierce advocate of education, Jefferson used his later years to propagate an institution of higher learning. Jefferson began planning the resources for a Virginia state university during his presidential term, writing to the Virginia House of Delegates that a college should not be solely a house but a “village.” In the proceeding years, Jefferson arranged funding, contributed design ideas, and helped shepherd the University of Virginia toward its formal opening in March 1825.
It’s still uncertain, though, whether a yes or no vote on Kavanaugh will be influential among voters in red-state Democrats’ reelections. Eitan Hersh, a political science professor at Tufts University, told me that taking a hard line against Kavanaugh could make it more difficult for those Democrats, because their strategy isn’t purely focused on turning out the base. But Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia who founded the political-forecasting website Crystal Ball, argued that red-state Democrats “aren’t getting but a handful of Republican voters in any event.”
Scientists from around the world called for stepped-up efforts to use forests to keep global warming to the lowest limit agreed by governments in 2015, as a key report on how to meet that goal is finalized in South Korea this week. "Forests really are the unsung hero of our struggle to address climate change," said Deborah Lawrence, a University of Virginia professor and one of 40 scientists who backed a statement emphasizing how the Earth's climate depends on forests.
Asked to comment by Medscape Medical News, Lee Ritterband, professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said the study is "a nice addition to the growing literature on ehealth generally, and Internet interventions for insomnia specifically. It is further evidence that fully automated Web and mobile programs can have significant impact on the lives of many."
The country’s most successful film star has fallen foul of the authorities. “She was one of the first Chinese actresses born after 1980 to stake a claim on international red carpets as an international star dressed by leading designers,” says Aynne Kokas, a Chinese cinema expert at the University of Virginia. “She has arguably been the most successful Chinese actress in building a profile outside of China.”
The Virginia Film Festival returns this fall with a lengthy list of standout films and special guests for its 31st annual festival, to take place Nov. 1 through 4.
Four College of William and Mary law school professors signed a letter published in Thursday’s New York Times that asks senators to deny Kavanaugh’s confirmation after the partisanship he showed in Senate Judiciary Committee hearings last week. The four William and Mary professors join nine of their colleagues from the University of Richmond School of Law and nine colleagues from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Two University of Virginia Police Department officers have been honored for heroic service to the community. Chief Tommye Sutton presented Officer Nicholas Champigny with a Medal of Valor, a Purple Heart and a Life Saving Award. Officer Brandon Smoot was also presented with a Life Saving Award.
NextGen Virginia, an advocacy nonprofit, is trying to get college kids across Virginia to vote in the upcoming election. It held an event called “10 Days Out Day of Action” at campuses all across the commonwealth on Thursday in an effort to push last-minute voter registration before the deadline on Oct. 15. UVA students say current events are driving them to the polls to cast their votes for their Congressional representatives.
(Video) While the Virginia football team has an off week, the schedule never stops for the UVA cheerleaders.
U.S. voters will soon render their verdict on Donald Trump and his ruling Republican Party after two tumultuous years that have deeply shaken the world's oldest existing democracy. "For Democrats, the top issue by a mile is Donald Trump," said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Video) A program at the University of Virginia is hoping to get women involved in STEM by telling the story of a well-known female engineer.
“I think they (national Democrats) just look at the seat and think it’s too Republican leaning for them to win. So if McMurray is going to win, he’s basically going to have to do it on his own, which is probably why it’s an uphill battle for him,” said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics.
When it comes to matters of sexual assault, the question of how a law professor should communicate with her students has weighed heavy on the mind of UVA law professor Anne Coughlin. It's important, Coughlin says, not to trivialize anyone's experience and to approach these issues with respect, regardless of her views on the issue.
Virginia has launched a multi-million-dollar contraception initiative. The Virginia Department of Health says the long-acting reversible contraceptive initiative will give residents of the commonwealth greater access to family planning options. There are 12 facilities participating, including the UVA Health System.
Telehealth and telemedicine programs that assist health care providers in treating people with substance abuse issues will be getting a significant upgrade, thanks to a massive bill passed by Congress and headed to President Trump’s desk. Among those now using the platform is Virginia Commonwealth University, which is partnering with Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia in a telemedicine programs spanning the state.
In the new study, the researchers test the hypothesis that this link exists in the earliest stages of human development. Study leader Dr. Tobias Grossmann and colleagues tracked the eye movements of 7-month-old infants to examine whether their attention and response to seeing emotion in other people’s faces could predict altruistic behavior at 14 months of age. These findings critically advance our understanding of the emergence of altruism in humans by identifying responsiveness to fear in others as an early precursor contributing to variability in prosocial behavior,” said Grossmann, of the ...