Last week, Robby Andrews upset Matthew Centrowitz, the reigning Olympic champion and former University of Oregon standout, for the U.S. title at 1,500 meters in Sacramento, California. The 26-year-old former UVA standout's winning time at Hornet Stadium was 3 minutes, 43.29 seconds.
May UVA graduate Leah Smith recorded a World Championships-qualifying swim Wednesday in the Phillips 66 National Championships and World Championships Trials at the Indiana University Natatorium.
Kathleen Flake, a UVA professor of Mormon studies, said that the LDS Church relies largely on volunteers and probably hasn’t needed to offer the same kinds of incentives as larger businesses.
Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says Republicans first used a statewide primary back in 1949.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia promotes visual literacy as part of a broader, comprehensive education for all and seeks to enhance its visitors' perceptions and understanding of world cultures throughout history and of art as an enduring human endeavor.
UVA was among 193 U.S. hospitals to earn the 2017 National Cardiovascular Data Registry ACTION Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for providing high-quality care to heart attack patients based on national guidelines and recommendations from the ACC and the American Heart Association.
The University of Virginia Medical Center has received $8.6 million in federal grant money to help advance lung transplant research.
Southwest Virginia health officials continue to see increases in Hepatitis C linked to drug abuse in the region. That issue leaves community leaders looking at new options to combat the consequences of the epidemic. Right now, they are using telemedicine services through the University of Virginia.
John B. Boles, author of “Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty,” mentions Peter S. Onuf and Annette Gordon-Reed, who published “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” last year. “Another group – and Onuf and Gordon-Reed are among those – who say, Look, here’s an imperfect person, a very complicated kind of person, but let’s look at him holistically and in context and see if we can’t have a more sophisticated, better-nuanced understanding of him.”
(By Sarah Milov, UVA assistant professor of history) Congress has never passed a Non-Smokers’ Rights Act. Instead, 41 states and 1,354 cities have enacted laws to protect the health of citizens. They did so in response to the sustained activism of men and women who argued that the government was not doing enough to protect their rights.
(By Craig Volden of UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Alan E. Wiseman of Vanderbilt University) Our new data analysis suggests that senators’ success in moving bills through the legislative process has declined markedly over the past several decades, undermining the Senate’s capacity to resolve public problems.
Well before Monday night’s announcement, Jason Terry knew Malcolm Brogdon would be delivering an acceptance speech. Terry, chatting with a reporter in a John Paul Jones Arena practice gym on June 14, had already put the NBA Rookie of the Year competition to bed.
Kristen London played D-I basketball (she was a guard at the University of Virginia) and now is representing the U.S. in the Women’s World Championship tackle football tournament.
After leading the ACC in batting and on-base percentage this season, former UVA star Adam Haseley had no trouble taking the next step on Tuesday. The Phillies’ first-round pick went 3-for-4 in his Minor League debut to help the GCL Phillies edge the Yankees, 8-6, in the first game of a Gulf Coast League doubleheader in Tampa, Florida.
It was a battle between an NBA Hall-of-Famer and a UVA legend. Ralph Sampson and his family came back to win on “Family Feud.” The $25,000 prize will go to the UVA Cancer Center.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have received more than $8.6 million in federal grants to support efforts that could dramatically increase the number of lungs available for transplant – and then save the lives of the people who receive them.
Dominion has also entered into a contract to sell the output of a 17 MW solar facility to the University of Virginia and the Darden School of Business.
Nearly every locality in the coalfields region will lose population through 2040, with Buchanan County projected to be the state’s fastest-shrinking locality, according to the latest projections from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
A new forecast from the University of Virginia predicts the state could have 10 million residents by 2040, but will reach that figure at one of the slowest rates in the past century.
UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan is urging students, staff and faculty members to stay away from a Ku Klux Klan rally scheduled for July 8 in Justice Park, formerly known as Jackson Park.