Dr. Marcus L. Martin is the recipient of this year’s Paul Goodloe McIntire Citizenship Award, given out each year by the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce. Martin — an emergency care physician by trade and former assistant dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine — wears many hats for UVa, including vice president for diversity and equity.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has added the President of the University of Virginia to its ranks. Teresa Sullivan has been inducted as a member of the Class of 2015.
It is called Indigenous Peoples' Day, and it is an alternative to celebrating Columbus Day. The reason is to honor the indigenous people who were here before Columbus arrived. When you look around at some of the statues in Charlottesville, it is clear that the role of Native Americans is downplayed in American history, at least according to Karenne Wood from the Virginia Foundation of the Humanities. Wood says there are moves to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day in Virginia. She says the University of Virginia Native American Student Union is lobbying state lawmakers to of...
Science plays a growing role in crime detection and prosecution, but experts at four universities say a lot can go wrong in the lab, and many people may be wrongly convicted based on bogus claims. Now, the University of Virginia has launched a blog to share research on the subject.
We have a desire to go into space to find out what’s on other worlds and to learn more about dangers such as Cosmic radiation. Nine University of Virginia students have teamed up with NASA to send a cosmic ray experiment 23 miles into space on a giant high-altitude balloon to determine how much radiation is too much. The students have been working on the project for 2 years and the NASA balloon with payload will launch any day now.
The United States’ demographics diversify, so too do the nation’s youth. How best to engage with these young people was the subject of a conference this week hosted by Youth-Nex, a University of Virginia center promoting effective youth development. This year’s conference — the fifth annual — was titled Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities through Positive Youth Development.
A few dozen University of Virginia students questioning what to do after they graduate energetically played a game of Mad Libs on Grounds on Friday night. They weren’t putting off answering the question, though. Instead, they were trying to figure out their futures.
Breanna Munson, who is studying nursing and Spanish at the University of Virginia, first heard the Mayan language K’iche’ in high school. She said her friend’s grandmother, who came from Guatemala, spoke it. “I was intrigued by the fact that Guatemala had this indigenous language,” Munson said. “Something other than Spanish was spoken by millions of people.” Now in her third year, Munson is one of a handful of students learning the language at UVa, thanks to an exchange program with Vanderbilt University and Duke University.
These have not been easy days for Republican presidential candidate John Kasich. A spate of fresh polls shows he is fading not only in New Hampshire but also in his own state of Ohio. In addition, Kasich’s support in New Hampshire has tumbled at the same time that Bush has unveiled a massive TV blitz in the state, relying on his overwhelming financial advantage to launch a war of attrition. “He’s trying to kill Kasich off,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “They’re trying to kill off the credible candidate...
President Richard Nixon believed that years of aerial bombing in Southeast Asia to pressure North Vietnam achieved "zilch" even as he publicly declared it was effective and ordered more bombing while running for reelection in 1972, according to a handwritten note from Nixon disclosed in a new book by Bob Woodward. Woodward cites the work of Ken Hughes of the University of Virginia's Miller Center to show that "the massive bombing did not do the job militarily but it was politically popular. Hughes argues with a great deal of evidence that the bombing was chiefly designed so ...
Larry J. Sabato is not an easy man to stump. The longtime University of Virginia professor has been analyzing American politics for decades, but he says he doesn’t know what to expect out of the bizarre, highly publicized Republican presidential campaign.
Due to the proliferation of devices cropping up in schools, the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia is now partnering with the Jefferson Education Accelerator — an incubator that helps education technology businesses develop — to help product designers evaluate their wares before introducing them into the market. “At the larger level, it’s an effort to bring evidence to bear in the education technology marketing world,” said Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School.
With a reporter's eye and an artist's heart, Svetlana Alexievich writes of the catastrophes, upheaval and personal woes that have afflicted the Soviet Union and the troubled countries that succeeded it. Her writings, characterized by plain language and detail so visceral it's sometimes painful to read, won her this year's Nobel literature prize. "Her goal is to communicate the history of human feeling. The very fact that it transcends any easy category is part of what makes it great," said Andrew Kaufman, a Russian literature scholar at the University of Virginia.
Stephen Colbert has promised to follow Hollywood's example in sucking up to China -- a practice that has become a huge moneymaker for American film studios. In an episode of the "Late Show" this week, the host fawned over China's achievements and vowed to get himself some of that "sweet and sour renminbi." Still, the phenomenon that Colbert is talking about -- Hollywood casting the Chinese in a flattering light in order to do better in that box office market -- is definitely real. Aynne Kokas, an assistant professor of media studies at Unive...
A former University of Virginia triathlete is defending her new nickname Saturday morning at the Ironman All-World Championships in Hawaii. Seeded first in her age group, 24-year-old Cammie Fausey, nicknamed the Ironwoman, says her faith, family, and friends are all among the things that motivate her.
Obesity is linked to a number of cancers, among them cancer of the endometrium, the lining of the uterus. Weight-loss surgery may reduce that risk, according to a new study by University of Virginia researchers.
The United States’ demographics diversify, so too do the nation’s youth. How best to engage with these young people was the subject of a conference this week hosted by Youth-Nex, a University of Virginia center promoting effective youth development. This year’s conference — the fifth annual — was titled Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities through Positive Youth Development.
A few dozen University of Virginia students questioning what to do after they graduate energetically played a game of Mad Libs on Grounds on Friday night. They weren’t putting off answering the question, though. Instead, they were trying to figure out their futures.
Breanna Munson, who is studying nursing and Spanish at the University of Virginia, first heard the Mayan language K’iche’ in high school. She said her friend’s grandmother, who came from Guatemala, spoke it. “I was intrigued by the fact that Guatemala had this indigenous language,” Munson said. “Something other than Spanish was spoken by millions of people.” Now in her third year, Munson is one of a handful of students learning the language at UVa, thanks to an exchange program with Vanderbilt University and Duke University.
Enrolling in healthcare plans under the Affordable Care Act was associated with better treatment outcomes for HIV patients in Virginia, a researcher said here. In an analysis of nearly 4,000 low-income patients over a 2-year period, more than three-quarters were able to suppress the virus, according to Kathleen McManus, MD, of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.