William Quandt, a former National Security Council staffer and professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia.
One of the five experts who reviewed the project, Susan Perdue, has agreed to be a consultant for the papers project. She is founding director of the Documents Compass program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, which provides tools for bringing literary and historical documents to the internet. Jennifer Stertzer, director of the UVA Center for Digital Editing, senior editor at the Papers of George Washington and president of the Association for Document Editing, also reviewed the Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project.
Greg Fairchild has been named to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership board of directors. He is an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where he is academic director of public policy and entrepreneurship.
It took 26 students about two weeks to paint bright geometric patterns, birds, trees and more on the underpass. The mural was inspired by the poem “Dawn Revisited” by Akron-native Rita Dove, UVA’s Commonwealth Professor of English.
After graduating from Marshall University in 1974, he was teaching at military academies in Fork Union and Staunton, Virginia, beginning to refine and develop his own writing voice, when he met John Casey in the spring of 1975. Casey, who deservedly gets credit for “discovering” Pancake and bringing him to the University of Virginia a year later, writes in the Afterword to "Stories," “Breece didn’t know how good he was; he didn’t know how much he knew; he didn’t know that he was a swan instead of an ugly duckling.”
UVA’s Center for Politics has won its third Emmy. “Feeling Good About America: The 1976 Presidential Election,” which the center co-produced with Community Idea Stations, won the award for Best Historical Documentary from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
The American College of Cardiology has recognized the University of Virginia Health System for its care of heart attack patients.
The four ranked specialties are: Neonatology: 30th; Diabetes and endocrinology: 34th; Orthopedics: tied for 41st; and Cardiology and heart surgery: 44th.
Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery provides outcomes that match those of conventional sternotomy without increasing use of resources, and lower costs after surgery offset potentially higher operation costs, according to a single-center, propensity-matched analysis of almost 500 patients presented at the meeting sponsored by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. “Minimally invasive mitral surgery has excellent outcomes with fewer transfusions and less time ventilated in this representative cohort,” said Dr. Robert Hawkins of the University of Virginia, in reporting the results.
One novel therapy undergoing testing in clinical trials is a synthetic form of lacritin, a protein that stimulates basal tear production. More than two decades ago, NEI-funded researcher Gordon Laurie, a UVA cell biologist, set out to identify a naturally produced eye substance to combat dry eye. At the time, dry eye research focused on inflammation. “Our goal was to find out what’s going on before the inflammation starts,” he said.
A new UVA summer program exposes high school students from around the U.S. to the history of slavery and its legacies.
In order to get more young women interested in construction and the building trades, UVA’s Facilities Management department has participants shadow facilities employees in various planned events throughout the day.
The memorial is the University of Virginia’s answer to the question many other colleges face: How should an academic institution reconcile its physical ties to slavery or the Confederacy with the desire to become a welcoming campus?
UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science is hiring more faculty in the growing field of Internet of Things, a network of internet-connected devices including smart watches, such, as the Fitbit and smart speakers, such as the Amazon Echo. The university also is home to the Link Lab, which focuses on IoT research.
Jefferson saw himself as a Christian in what he thought as the truest sense, as one who saw Jesus as a moral exemplar. Making a new Bible, he called it “The Life And Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.” The Smithsonian exhibit includes both a Bible that Jefferson cut apart and one he created from his pasted clippings.
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.