Like most young baseball fans, Parker Staples' room is covered in Nationals gear, but unlike most 9-year-old kids, Parker's room is at the UVA Children's Hospital. Parker got the chance to sign with the UVA baseball team just a month after finishing chemotherapy.
Peggy Whitson, an Iowa native, spent more time in space than any other U.S. astronaut. On Earth, Idaho native Lisa Davis oversees U.S. operations of Siemens, a powerful German-based conglomerate. Mississippi native Oprah Winfrey grew up to become one of the most powerful and influential women in the world. They join TV host Katie Couric of Virginia in a new report that lists the most inspirational women in the world. Couric, a University of Virginia graduate, began her career in journalism as an assistant at the ABC network.
UVA also received a grant from NEH, receiving $460,000 to produce 52 Classroom Connection radio episodes with educational outreach campaigns. UVA’s Waitman Beorn, a lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History, also received $6,000 in a summer stipend grant for research and writing “Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv[, Ukraine].”
Could it be an investigation that peters out without expanding beyond Rosenberger and spreading through the GOP legislature? Maybe. "We'll have to wait to see if this scandal has legs like the Crofters scandal in 1970 and Coingate in 2006,'' says Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics and a native Ohioan. "It has potential."
A UVA neuroscience lab may have discovered how to load immune cells into the brain to battle neurodegenerative diseases without the need for radiation. The researchers were able to send macrophages – large immune cells that target and destroy infections – into the brains of mice, a feat previously believed impossible without radiation.
Across Charlottesville, UVA also planted a tree and recognized Yen House, a dormitory, on Friday. The building has been renamed to honor Yan Huiqing, known as W.W. Yen, the first Chinese student to earn a degree from UVA, who went on to serve as China’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union and as a delegate in the League of Nations before serving as China’s premiere five times. At noon, Jefferson medals were presented to David Adjaye, an architect, and Frank Easterbrook, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, as well as Fowler.
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is set to speak at UVA's College at Wise on May 5, the College of William and Mary on May 12 and Virginia State University on May 13.
Students from UVA beat nine finalist teams in cybersecurity simulations modeled after real-world business scenarios in the 2018 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship last weekend. The team formed a few months ago and had never competed in a large-scale cybersecurity competition before.
In November 2015, a UVA-led research team was awarded a three-year, $3.56 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to design a 50-megawatt SUMR turbine that can reduce the levelized cost of offshore wind energy by as much as 50 percent by 2025.
UVA research found that leaders who were considered “self-sacrificing” and “helpful” were viewed as especially inspirational and motivational and their employees were more helpful to their colleagues and more committed to their teams.
UVA is in the midst of a hiring and spending surge to implement what it calls the first cloud-based human resources system in the state. The project, called UFirst, aims to merge and synchronize more than 70 human resources programs and offices into one system.
Vulnerable Republicans have abandoned re-election bids from Florida to California, with more congressional retirements this year than at any point since World War II, except for 1992, according to Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. "Democrats should be able to pick up a significant chunk of the 24 seats they need to win the House just from open seats," Kondik said.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg CEO spent two days testifying before Congress this week about the social media platform's privacy issues and massive data breach, but UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan summed up the issue in a single sentence. "The problem with Facebook is Facebook," he said.
Last year, some Virginians who got their insurance through Optima Health, a company owned by Sentara Healthcare, saw a massive spike in premiums. They’re still trying to figure out why their rates rose up to 170 percent. Dr. Rick Shannon sits at his desk at the University of Virginia, studying a map of the state that appeared in the local paper. As head of Health Affairs at UVA, he’s concerned about a dramatic increase in premiums for individual and single-family coverage in communities served by Sentara. That’s the parent company of insurer Optima Health and hospitals in five different parts ...
Well-coached, Zuckerberg offered his apologies, but Facebook has offered them repeatedly in the past. Indeed, he has become a professional apologizer. Democrats and Republicans both noted that the Facebook CEO has promised changes before and that nothing significant ever seems to happen. Other observers were similarly blunt. “When over and over [Facebook] keeps doing things that infringe on user privacy, at some point, apologies become empty words,” Gabrielle Adams, a professor at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, told The Washington Post.
The new legislation offered Wednesday would allow judicial review of Mueller's dismissal or that of any special counsel, to ensure it was for "good cause." Some law professors, such as UVA’s John Duffy, say the proposal conflicts with the principle that the Constitution vests all executive power in the president, "not just some fraction of it." Duffy said the framers of the Constitution believed impeachment the sole remedy for any presidential wrongdoing.
Legal experts said Concord’s apparent attempt to challenge Mueller’s charges could be a way for documents and details about the special counsel’s investigation to be released in discovery. Russia could potentially glean information about how the U.S. gathers intelligence, or even about its sources, according to Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, a UVA professor of law and Miller Center Senior Fellow. “Two things could happen. Now that they know this is being contested the government could decide it’s not worth us revealing this information and we’re not going to prosecute these people,” Prakas...
The Community Investment Collaborative and UVA’s iLab also awarded mentorships to two contestants. The iLab awarded the team behind Whipped Cream LLC a spot in their summer incubator program. The skin care company began when Christina Brock-Fortune, who had eczema, grew frustrated with her prescribed treatments.
According to the ratings done by UVA’s Larry Sabato, only 90 House seats out of 435 are considered competitive, with the incumbent party having even a risk of losing the seat. The other 80 percent of the body are in safe Democratic or Republican seats – and in many of the Republican ones especially, you have to take extreme hardline positions to survive a primary, stances with which even most Republicans don’t always agree.
Cognitive scientists have known for decades that simply mastering comprehension skills doesn’t ensure a young student will be able to apply them to whatever texts they’re confronted with on standardized tests and in their studies later in life. One of those cognitive scientists spoke on the Tuesday panel: Daniel Willingham, a UVA psychology professor who writes about the science behind reading comprehension.