With 17 seniors on the roster and 14 returning starters in the fold, the Highland Cavaliers were pegged for a fourth-place finish in the Mountain East Conference preseason football coaches poll and could be a dark horse in the rugged 11-team NCAA Division II league. The team opens the season on Thursday night at Glenville State.
In the weeks leading up to the 2016 football season, new Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall focused his attention on his team and figured that would be the best approach as FCS foe Richmond loomed.
Commentary by Aaron Spence, superintendent of Virginia Beach City Public Schools since June 2014. He attended UVA, where he received a bachelor’s degree in French studies, a master’s degree in secondary education and a doctorate in educational administration and supervision.
Carson Price is the featured artist for September at the RTD Gallery at the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Her work will be on display starting Sept. 1. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from James Madison University and the University of Virginia, respectively, and then worked within the local nonprofit sector, including stints at The First Tee-Chesterfield, Camp Hanover and the Wilton House Museum.
Uber has chosen Dara Khosrowshahi, the chief executive of travel booking website Expedia, to be its new chief executive. “A lot of start-ups get going on the energy of the founders, but now they have to really professionalize,” said Lynn Isabella, an associate professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
A new exhibit at the University of Virginia's Brown Library aims to raise awareness for a problem plaguing ocean ecosystems. It features 18 sculptures made from discarded fishing nets retrieved from the ocean.
A study published Monday in Child Development suggests that bonds from adolescence might have an outsized role in a person's mental health for years. “[They were asked] how much trust there is, how good communication is and how alienated they feel in the relationship,” says Rachel Narr, the lead author on the study and a UVA doctoral student in psychology, says that when she watched videos made in the early years of the study of the teens asking their best friends for advice or support or talking through a disagreement, it was easy to tell which relationships were strong.
Researchers from the UF College of Pharmacy, the UF Department of Chemistry and University of Virginia collaborated on a two-year study to understand the antiviral properties of the Coprinus comatus mushroom, also known as the “shaggy mane.” During the study, they uncovered the mushroom’s ability to detect and destroy leukemia cells.
In 2016, Mayor Mike Signer helped to form an Open Data Advisory Group of city staff and representatives from the University of Virginia and local businesses and nonprofits.
In a study led by UVA’s Catherine Bradshaw and published in May in the journal Pediatrics, researchers looked at data from 10 years of student surveys about bullying in Maryland schools. They saw a decrease in 10 of the 13 indicators of bullying they were measuring.
UVA alumnus Dr. L.D. Britt has a vivid childhood memory of his family packing both lunch and dinner before going to the doctor in Suffolk. The surgeon, now 66, just landed the grant of a lifetime to study health care disparities in surgery patients across the country.
“We need to dig deeper to understand what's going on,” said Joellen Schildkraut, a professor of public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine, who says she is uncertain about talc's effect on the ovaries. “We really need to understand the mechanism, if there is one.”
J.C. Aragone, who played No. 5 singles for UVA’s NCAA-championship winning team in the spring, wasn’t even sure he’d be in the qualifying draw last Monday, as he needed several other players to withdraw with injury to get in. But with his three-set triumph over Australia’s Akira Santillan Friday, Aragone, 22, booked his spot in the main draw alongside fellow Cavalier Thai-Son Kwiatkowski.
On Wednesday, Taylor Reveley III, the president of the College of William & Mary, sent the following email to all the school’s faculty and staff members, and students: “On Saturday, Aug. 12, early in the course of the events in Charlottesville and their aftermath, I put the following statement on William & Mary’s website and released it to the media: ‘The images and reports from Charlottesville this weekend have been deeply disturbing and tragic for our Commonwealth. Freedom of thought and expression are central to a functioning democracy. Violence and hate are not. Bigotry has no plac...
Before Herman Moore was a Detroit Lions star, he was an All-American at the University of Virginia. Moore was so moved by the images rolling across his TV – of white supremacists and Nazis marching through the streets where he rose to stardom – that he returned to Charlottesville to help the city begin to heal.
Having leeway to vote against the president on certain issues in order to preserve voter support back home has been common under past administrations. According to Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, there’s good reason for that.
Robert Salzar, a UVA blast injury biomechanics specialist, told Nature that blast trauma is usually not instantly deadly. Instead, he suggested, the pressure waves may have killed the crew indirectly by knocking them out and causing the Hunley, with no one conscious to steer it, to sink.
As UVA demographic researchers noted on their website, StatChat, “Not only are other options opening up for high school grads, but there are also just fewer warm bodies to go around.”
From those who stood their ground near the Rotunda, looking out for each other and distracting torch-wielding white supremacists from marching on a nearby church, to a young journalist who spent a week covering the events at UVA so her fellow students could stay informed, UVA students, faculty and staff are lending their voices to the conversation in a major way.
As the debate rages over what role Confederate monuments do – and should – play in commemorating U.S. history, Jennifer Allen says we can learn a lot from Germany. Allen is an assistant professor of German history at Yale University, and she specializes in something called memory politics. She also attended the University of Virginia, located in Charlottesville, where violent clashes earlier this month over a statue of Robert E. Lee brought this debate back into the national spotlight.