K McCarthy opened The Phoenix in August 1977 in Charlottesville after graduating from UVA with a degree in economics. McCarthy today owns women’s specialty clothing stores The Phoenix and Ruby, which are located in Carytown.
In softball, Williams, who also served as an assistant coach at Hylton High School, went on to play four years at the University of Virginia and was a four-year all-ACC Academic selection at Virginia. She has been awarded a Fulbright English teaching assistant grant and will spend the 2017-18 academic year in South Korea, where she will teach at Namseoul University.
Charles Davis, a UVA student and a member of the Cavalier football team, was returning from an early-morning workout when he stopped to pick up coffee for his mother. He matched all five numbers to win $100,000 in the Virginia Lottery’s Cash 5 game.
The GOP itself is deeply divided over the health-care bill, with moderates concerned about expansive cuts to Medicaid and conservatives saying the bill falls far short of repealing Obama’s Affordable Care Act. And Democrats, said Larry Sabato, director for UVA’s Center for Politics, have little incentive to enter the fray while the GOP wars with itself.
“It’s perfectly possible here to protect the rights of same-sex couples and religious dissenters, but neither (conservative nor liberal justices) seem much interested in doing that,” said Douglas Laycock, a leading religious liberty scholar and UVA law professor.
Review by Jack Hamilton, UVA assistant professor of American studies and media studies.
“Our pets lead us to each other,” Richard Warner said of the lead characters he and his wife, Judith Reagan, play in Christian O’Reilly’s “Chapatti.” “Chapatti,” the third production in this year’s Heritage Theatre Festival, opens Thursday evening on the Helms Theatre stage.
It’s relatively easy to conduct and publish research that shows that Medicaid enrollees have worse health care outcomes than those with private coverage or even with no coverage. One such study that received considerable attention was conducted at the UVA Health System. Many other unmeasured differences can skew results, even in studies with such statistical controls. The authors of the UVA surgical study and of studies like it know this, and say as much right in their papers.
Demographers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service are forecasting a sharp increase in Albemarle’s population by the year 2045, but a smaller rise for the city of Charlottesville.
Archeologists have excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion that has astounded even the most experienced social scientists: The living quarters of Sally Hemings, the enslaved mistress of Jefferson, who, historians believe, gave birth to six of Jefferson’s children.Last year, Monticello, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Virginia, hosted a public race summit entitled, “Memory, Mourning, Mobilization: Legacies of Slavery and Freedom in America.”
(First of a three-part series) Longtime UVA athletics correspondent David Teel interviews UVA Athletics Director Craig Littlepage about the state of the Cavalier athletics program. (All three parts are available online)
Despite his role as president of the United States, governor of Virginia, and founder of the University of Virginia, the composition of much of the Declaration of Independence is the enduring legacy of Thomas Jefferson.
A local foundation that made a college education possible for hundreds of Southwest Virginia students now has a library conference room named in its honor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
The scholarship program was established in memory of three children or grandchildren of Dominion employees, who were slain in the April 16, 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech. The scholarships were available to the children of Dominion employees and retirees. Emily Wade, daughter of employee Adrian Wade, was one of the original 2008 recipients. Having completed her undergraduate degree, she now works at the Office of Advancement at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. "The scholarship benefited me substantially during my time at the University of Virginia, where I major...
Adam Haseley's path to the majors, which the Phillies believe will be a quick one, will continue in Williamsport. The first-round pick out of UVA was promoted from the Gulf Coast League on Thursday after playing just three games.
Major League Baseball released the rosters for the 2017 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game Thursday, and three Astros are featured, one of them being UVA alumnus Derek Fisher.
(By John W. York, a research assistant at the Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia)
Lake Monticello resident Cynthia Moore has already received praise for her book “Live, Love, Lead: 10 Simple Skills to Transform Stress,” a book focused on how to become conscious of joy and less inclined to stress. She uses meditation, breathing, shifting perspectives and what she calls emotional brain training, something she teaches at the University of Virginia.
They are likely formed on icy grains in the disk and then released into the gas phase because of heating from stellar radiation or some other means, such as shocks,” says co-author Zhi-Yun Li of the University of Virginia.
Land loss can take place in momentous ways. “You can have large holes that open underneath your feet – they’re very drastic,” says Lindsay Ivey Burden, a geotechnical engineer and UVA professor of civil and environmental engineering, describing an extreme case of land disappearing: sinkholes.