When I got the assignment a couple of months ago to write about Jefferson and his protégé William Short and their dialogue about race and slavery, the nine murdered worshipers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston were still alive. We’ve lost far too many people to race-inflected violence and outrage in recent years, but this feels different. It feels impossible now to dive in to telling a story about race from 200 years ago without acknowledging at the outset this most recent stain on our nation. This story starts and ends with a mystery document. It’s like a whodunit,” s...
President Barack Obama will nominate Lt. Gen. Robert “Bob” Neller, a infantry officer who commanded Marines in Iraq, as commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced Wednesday. Neller holds a bachelor’s degree in history and speech communication from the University of Virginia as well as a master’s in human resource management from Pepperdine University.
(By Maurie McInnis, a professor of art history at the University of Virginia and author of Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade.) The notion that the flag is a symbol of Southern heritage and nothing more is an ahistorical one. From the moment it was designed it was intended to convey the South’s reliance on the institution of slavery. When it has been revived by later generations, they, too, have imbued it with meaning. But it has always been a symbol of white power and racial oppression.
Remote Area Medical (RAM) will be returning for the 16th year to the Wise County Fair Grounds in Wise, VA during the weekend of July 17-19. RAM is a non-profit, all volunteer organization that provides FREE dental, medical, and vision care to isolated and rural communities in the United States and abroad. The purpose of RAM is to provide FREE care to the uninsured, underinsured, unemployed, working poor, and others that cannot afford to pay.
A professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is leading a team of avian flu researchers. Dr. Lukas Tamm and his team are trying to understand more about how the influenza virus passes from birds to humans. The hope is to create a tool that will predict the risk of potentially deadly outbreaks.
Less than 30 percent of Virginia’s adolescent girls were vaccinated for human papillomavirus (HPV) last year, despite the fact that the Commonwealth was one of the first to pass legislation mandating the vaccine for sixth grade girls. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) wants to know why vaccination rates for HPV—the most common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S., which can lead to at least six types of cancer—are so low among girls and boys, and granted $138,000 to the University of Virginia Health System for a study to map out compliance rates across the state. &ldquo...
The University of Virginia released an updated version of its sexual assault policy Wednesday afternoon to comply with changes in state law. One of the laws requires employees of colleges and universities report sexual assault to the institution’s Title IX coordinator. The coordinator, meeting with a committee, then decides whether it is necessary to report the information to law enforcement authorities.
In light of a few recent allegations and related negative press regarding the University of Virginia men’s swim team, we, the incoming men’s Class of 2019, want to share our perspective. All nine of us stand by the University, the team and our coaching staff. Every single one of us fell in love with U.Va. and remain convinced it represents a perfect place to grow and reach our personal, academic and athletic goals. We are excited to come in and work hard, to do what is necessary for the team and for each other.
WXTJ, a radio station run entirely by University of Virginia students, will begin broadcasting at 100.1 FM to supplement its continuing online broadcasts. A date has not been set yet for FM broadcasting to begin, but station officials hope to have the station going live on FM by the end of the upcoming fall semester.
At age 82 and in “retirement” Jefferson founded the University of Virginia, designing its buildings and curriculum and watching its construction from Monticello by means of a telescope trained on the campus through a clearing in the forest created for that reason.When we took a walk through the campus to see the Rotunda and The Lawn at its heart, we very much felt Jefferson’s presence. In the drama department that was gearing up for this summer’s Heritage Theater Festival we chatted with Robert Chapel, the festival’s producing artistic director, who told us our ex...
She has a varied background in dance and is currently a student of a University of Virginia vocal teacher. The 20-year-old is a rising junior at U.Va., where she studies foreign affairs and Arabic. She hopes to one day serve as an FBI agent and ultimately run for Congress.
Some insist that the risk to tax exemption is “overblown.” Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, believes no administration would go after tax exemption until “gay rights looks like race does today, where you have a handful of crackpots still resisting.”
Following the reaction to the report, one of the researchers — W. Bradford Wilcox, of the University of Virginia — decided to go one level deeper and analyze counties as well.
There is evidence, according to Bradford Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, in support of the argument that conservative Protestant denominations in the South have played a key role in maintaining stable families.
Alon Confino is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and at Ben Gurion University, Israel. Professor Confino received his PhD from Berkley University. He has written extensively and influentially on historical memory, historical method and German history.
The study, conducted by Dr. Mitchell H. Rosner from the University of Virginia’s department of medicine, cites two high school football players who drank too much water and died from exercise-related hyponatremia.
Dr. Mitchell H. Rosner, from the Division of Nephrology at University of Virginia Health System, said that inaccurate statements can lead to dangerous behaviours and subsequent exercise-related hyponatremia.
By S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus at the University of VirginiaIt seems that our climate is mainly controlled by natural forcings, like solar activity and atmosphere-ocean oscillations that are not included in current models. … There is no question here: To protect our civilization from harm, it is vitally important to understand the causes of severe climate cooling and try to figure out how to prevent such cooling episodes, if possible.
One of about six existing dementia assessment centers in Virginia is located at the University of Virginia. Dr. Carol Manning is the director of the Memory and Aging Care Clinic. “We have people from multiple disciplines neurology, neuropsychology, clinical psychology, social work, nursing, we have clinical trials,” she described.
(Our press release) The University of Virginia Health System has opened a high-tech clinical genomics lab that will personalize care for patients, help doctors determine the best treatments for cancers and other diseases, and allow UVA to offer the most cutting-edge clinical trials.