Former UVA basketball star Malcolm Brogdon was named NBA Rookie of the Year Monday night. Brogdon, who was a second-round draft pick (36th overall) by Milwaukee, becomes the first non-first round winner in the common draft era since 1966. Brogdon joins Ralph Sampson (1984) as the only other UVA player to be named NBA Rookie of the Year.
The UVA club men’s rowing team will race in the Henley Royal Regatta on the Thames River on Wednesday.
Kristina Killgrove, a biological anthropologist from the University of West Florida, is preparing for the trip of a lifetime. She’s heading to Italy soon to study skeletal remains of victims of the 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius volcano eruption. Killgrove grew up in Charlottesville near the University of Virginia, which she later attended.
Christopher Ruhm, UVA professor of public policy and economics, contributed to this STAT article.
(By Jack Hamilton, Slate’s pop critic and UVA assistant professor of American studies and media studies) On his new album “Big Fish Theory,” Vince Staples reunites hip-hop with the dance floor.
Johns Hopkins came in at No. 4 for neonatal care; The University of Virginia Children’s Hospital in Charlottesville ranked No. 30; and Inova Children’s Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia, ranked No. 44.
The four ranked specialties are: neonatology (30th), diabetes and endocrinology (34th), orthopedics (tied for 41st) and cardiology and heart surgery (44th).
UVA anthropologist Mark A. Sicoli, an expert on indigenous languages, talks about the rare whistled speech of people in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Two cohorts of 20 to 25 teachers are working at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary to learn techniques to better teach reading and English as a Second Language, and will be certified as reading specialists at the end of the programs.
Chesapeake will surpass Norfolk to become the second-most populous city in Virginia by 2020, according to new projections from the University of Virginia. The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Demographics Research Group made the state-funded population projections. The numbers are shared with policymakers for planning.
On February 24, 1883, seven male patients lost consciousness after receiving their morning liquid medication. Autopsies performed by UVA chemistry professor John Mallet concluded – with the coroner’s jury agreeing – that the medicine had been poisoned with aconitine, a deadly extract of the monkshood plant.
A report from the National Marriage Project (directed by UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox) that looked at more than 1,000 adults found that couples who took time to talk through big decisions together (as opposed to sliding through them somewhat haphazardly) were happier individually and as a couple later on.
The ruling, said UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, means that Blaine Amendments are unconstitutional in at least some of their applications. “The question is how many applications, or which applications,” he said. “The case is not just about playgrounds.” He expects it will be easier for funds to go to religious institutions.
Luca Connolly, a recent UVA graduate and a member of the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition, said she’s not prepared to deny Northam a vote just because of his pipelines stance. Connolly and about a dozen other members of VSEC from six Virginia universities temporarily hijacked the stage at Northam’s primary night watch party to protest the candidate’s pipeline stance.
One of the changes that Henderson enjoys the most is the new and improved signage around the museum. Created in collaboration with UVA graduate psychology students, it provides prompts for parents about how to engage with their children at each exhibit.
Elizabeth Lockwood Atherton: An incoming junior at the University Virginia, she is a Spanish language and culture major and a technology entrepreneurship minor, a member of the Sigma Alpha Lambda Honors Society and the University of Virginia chapter of Love your Melon, an organization benefiting childhood cancer patients.
Miss Julia Murphy Grehan began her summer studying abroad in Lund, Sweden, where she worked with sustainability and business systems. The University of Virginia student will bring back information from this international learning experience for her studies as a systems and information engineer at the Charlottesville school.
(By UVA Ph.D. candidates Sophie Abramowitz, Eva Latterner and Gillet Rosenblith) Even as Corey Stewart’s campaign ended, the fights over Confederate monuments in Charlottesville continued. They might soon reach a new fever pitch, and as they do it’s worth considering an overlooked piece of history around these statues: Their role in displacements of former black residents.
Legally risky, undiplomatic and sometimes wrong, Trump’s Twitter feed is a document for the ages. And historians don’t want to lose it. Argued Russell Riley, co-chair of the oral history program at UVA’s Miller Center for presidential scholarship: “You’re given a much more up-close look at his innate thought processes than I think you’ve gotten from any other president,” he said.
That Jefferson would push back the time of a dinner by several hours is an indication for his respect for religious freedom, even though Jefferson was widely criticized in his time for his accommodation of the Tunisian envoy, said Scott Harrop, a professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and cultures at the University of Virginia.