A symposium at the University of Virginia this week will try to make history relatable and personal through a series of speeches, discussions and events about race and higher education.
(By Brian Balogh, history professor and co-host of the nationally syndicated podcast “BackStory”) Last week President Trump signed several executive orders, including one that expands access to “Association Health Plans.” We really can’t blame the president for not knowing the scope of associations, though.
“The two biggest factors are the flexibility of your hamstrings and and the range of motion of your hip joints,” says Jeffrey Jenkins, a physiologist at the UVA School of Medicine. “But the other big factor is the relative length of your arms and your torso to your legs.”
The UVA Breast Care Program now has some extra cash to put toward supporting breast cancer research. A Charlottesville family donated $270,000 to the program following its annual Women’s 4-Miler.
(By Mark Edmundson, professor of English) Milo’s coming: What are we going to do? That question was being urgently asked at the University of California at Berkeley not long ago. Milo Yiannopoulos, right-wing jester and provocateur, was scheduled to speak on the campus. I’m not against Yiannopoulos and company having the right to speak, far from it. But should universities be sponsoring them?
Despite having the blessing of Gov. Terry McAuliffe and an unpopular president weighing on his GOP challenger, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam's 2017 gubernatorial campaign is being warned about a November "surprise" that could deliver a stunning defeat and potential blow to McAuliffe's 2020 bid. The hometown political guru, the UVA Center for Politics ‘Crystal Ball,' said that GOP challenger Ed Gillespie could be that surprise. Noting questionable polling, Northam's lackluster support and past gubernatorial campaigns showing a late conservative surge, the Center's Geoffrey Skelley wrote in the Crystal...
"One concern that is kind of hard to be able to analyze is: Where is African-American turnout for Democrats? Barack Obama becomes a very nice surrogate ... where [attracting] those extra few votes really could count," says Geoffrey Skelley, an elections analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. Northern Virginia, Skelley adds, "is perhaps the most critical part to the entire ballgame for Democrats. If turnout [there] lags in some way, that could be game-over for Democrats.”
(By Ira Bashkow, UVA associate professor of anthropology) The recent violence in Charlottesville likely won’t be the last attempt by white supremacists to stoke racial conflict. An anthropologist offers insights to other communities that might face similar challenges.
(By Cale Jaffe, assistant professor and director of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic at the UVA School of Law) Last week the Trump administration took action to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which had been the Obama administration’s signature program for reducing carbon pollution linked to climate change-related impacts such as more destructive hurricanes and longer wildfire seasons. For Virginians eager to build a diverse and resilient energy industry here at home, Trump’s action is a blind leap in the wrong direction.
SPICMACAY is a student-run organization that focuses on bringing Indian culture and music to UVA’s Grounds. On Sunday night, they filled an auditorium to listen to poetry and classical music performed by an acclaimed Indian singer as well as famous musicians.
The UVA Medical Center is expanding its vascular center and moving into a new facility Monday. It will host patients in a new location and receive more advanced equipment.
The outpatient trial was led by Frank Doyle and Eyal Dassau from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and included collaborators at the William Sansum Diabetes Center in Santa Barbara, California; Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; the University of Virginia's Center for Diabetes Technology; and the University of Padova.
Projects funded through Science Everywhere participated in a research study conducted by University of Virginia professor Robert Tai, who is analyzing the results to better understand the impact this type of outside-class learning experience has on student engagement and success.
According to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, nearly one in five Virginians will be age 65 or older by 2030. The trend is no different in Henrico County.
A team of American and Italian researchers successfully piloted a novel artificial pancreas system that showed improvements in two key measures of folks living with the metabolic disorder. The project team extended across the country – and the world – to include Jordan Pinsker from the William Sansum Diabetes Center in Santa Barbara, Calif.; Ananda Basu at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.; Boris Kovatchev of the University of Virginia’s Center for Diabetes Technology; and Claudio Cobelli from the University of Padova in Italy.
Today, university leaders will gather where Jefferson and James Madison and James Monroe did 200 years ago to lay the cornerstone of this renowned public university. Jefferson’s ideals and his vision for this school he founded are well known, as he sought to transform American higher education. At the centennial, a five-volume history of UVA looked back with pride on decades of illustrious achievements. But the bicentennial comes at a remarkable time in the history of this state flagship school.
UVA’s Young Women Leaders Program hosted a food drive to benefit the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank at the Whole Foods Market in Charlottesville on Sunday.
A former U.S. first lady and Secretary of State will be headlining a conference on women's leadership in November. Hillary Rodham Clinton will participate in UVA's Forum on Women's Global Leadership, which will take place Nov. 13 and 14. The two-day symposium will bring in leaders from across the United States and the world to explore the role of women in 21st-century democracy.
Off to its best start in a decade, the Virginia football team is inching closer to becoming nationally ranked.
Off to its best start in a decade, the Virginia football team is inching closer to becoming nationally ranked.