Former Virginia basketball standouts London Perrantes and Anthony Gill both wrapped up play in the NBA’s Orlando Summer League on a high note on Thursday. Perrantes had 11 points, five rebounds and two assists for the Miami Heat in their 91-72 loss to the New York Knicks, while Gill finished with eight points and six rebounds for the Charlotte Hornets in their 86-78 victory over the Orlando Magic.
On Thursday afternoon, Sampson visited the UVA Cancer Center to present his winnings from “Celebrity Family Feud.” Joining him were the likes of Craig Littlepage, Tony Bennett and Barry Parkhill, among others.
The women’s team will be led by an Olympian who has just about done it all. Christine Roper was born in Jamaica, where her father was a beach resort manager, and was once a boarding advisor at St. Michaels University School. She scuba dives and was an NCAA rowing champion at the University of Virginia.
A bit of “dramatic change” led Jenny and Daron Hollowell to form their new musical project Nights & Weekends and create the debut album “Music for Marriage” (out Aug. 25). The Hollowells – she’s a novelist (“Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe”) who got her M.F.A. at the University of Virginia, and commentator; he’s a founding member of White Iris, guitarist in Four Hundred Years, and executive producer for Best Coast, FIDLAR – had moved to Los Angeles with their two young children, now ages 8 and 5, and had gone through some job changes.
Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the former Poet Laureate of the United States is one of three inaugural winners of the Roosevelt “Rosey” Thompson Award from U.S. Presidential Scholars Foundation.
George Shields, provost and a professor of chemistry at Furman University, and UVA’s Brooks H. Pate have established a strong collaboration that has resulted in four publications on small water clusters since 2012, including two in Science. This collaboration, instigated by Pate, is built on a strong foundation of mutual respect, and was only possible because of the previous highly cited work of Shields and his undergraduate researchers.
“It sure doesn’t sound good,” Dr. Christopher Holstege, the chief of UVA’s Division of Medical Toxicology, said of the snortable chocolate, adding that he was especially concerned for people who have asthma or children with growing lungs.
Here to ask and answer the query are academics Daniel Ansari and Daniel Willingham. Willingham is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992, and whose research focuses on the application of cognitive psychology to K-12 schools and higher education.
The authors, led by a team from the University of Virginia, say that larger babies have up to 130 percent increased odds of being overweight or obese later in life.
Consider the architects who designed the buildings where University of Virginia law students have labored mightily during the past 200 years.
The first opponent of Republican Rep. Scott Taylor has announced his candidacy for Virginia’s second congressional district. Democrat Dave Belote, a veteran, UVA graduate and chair of the Virginia Beach Democratic Party, announced on Wednesday he will run against Taylor in 2018.
Alexis went to school in Ellicott City, Maryland, before graduating from the University of Virginia in 2005 with degrees in commerce and history. He’s most famous for co-founding social news website Reddit. Along with partner and fellow Virginia graduate Steve Huffman, the innovator set up the now-global name at the age of just 22.
(By UVA student John Patterson, an intern with Loudoun Now) Foreign Trade Zone 137 turned 30 this year, and through decades of stimulating the region’s import-export business, it’s established a central yet little-known role in Loudoun’s economic development.
The UVA Center for Politics rated Democrats the most vulnerable party. Although Republicans currently carry a narrow majority, Democrats are defending the most Senate seats during the 2018 cycle.
The University of Virginia – which Virginia considers a state agency – has had apprentices in its facilities department for 35 years. Last fall, 500 people applied for the program, and just 13 were hired, giving it a lower acceptance rate – 2.6 percent – than the university itself.
Our mission is to empower the next generation of global leaders through education, collaboration, and digital networking. We unite two of America’s premier universities, William & Mary and the University of Virginia, William Short’s Morven, and the homes of three Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, James Madison’s Montpelier and James Monroe’s Highland.
It was not by happenstance that Davis Love III was seated at the head table at Boar’s Head Pavilion a couple of weeks ago, the evening that University of Virginia COO Pat Hogan announced the redesign of Birdwood Golf Course. Love – the 2016 U.S. Ryder Cup captain and the winner of 21 PGA Tour events during his illustrious golf career – is also in the golf course building business with his brother, Mark, and lead architect Scot Sherman.
New research from the University of Virginia suggests smartphone dependency has consequences beyond the physical. It is eroding societal trust.
(Commentary) The evidence is in “The Millennial Success Sequence” published by the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies and written by Wendy Wang of the IFS and W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia and AEI. The success sequence is this: First get at least a high school diploma, then get a job, then get married, and only then have children.
Free agent Mike Scott, a former UVA standout, has agreed to a one-year, veteran minimum deal with the Washington Wizards, reportedly worth $1.7 million.