UVA students are teaming with students from Charlottesville High School to build an art installation out of single-use plastics.
UVA researchers at hope to use text messages to help clinicians detect an increased risk of suicide attempts in real-time.
Kathleen O’Connell, a census official in the Charlottesville area, said the bureau is working with universities to manage outreach. “Both UVA and JMU are coordinating outreach on their campuses and will be sending communications to both students and their families to let them know where and how they should be counted,” she said.
“I was watching the national championship game and I thought to myself, ‘You know what? I’ll give myself an ultimatum. If we win the national championship game, then I’ll commit to UVA tonight,’” said first-year student Olivia Hale. “So then we did, and I committed to UVA that night, and there was my decision.” She said a lot of her friends were also influenced by the win.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan said in a column published Wednesday that threats against a black student who expressed her views regarding a multicultural center on campus are “reprehensible.” Ryan further said that he saw the student’s comment that there were “too many white people” at the newly renovated Multicultural Student Center “as a statement of concern that one of the few places traditionally ‘for’ students of color would turn into a place dominated by white students.” At the same time, Ryan reiterated that the MSC “will and should remain open to all students.”
A former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives will be in Charlottesville on Friday. Paul Ryan will talk about his time in Congress and the current state of American politics at in the Dome Room of UVA’s Rotunda.
Many of Sanders’s policy priorities were central to McGovern’s platform 48 years ago, starting with health care. “McGovern called health care a human right and backed a free-at-the-point-of-service, single-payer health-care plan,” says Joshua Mound, a UVA historian who has written about the similarities between Sanders and McGovern.
When German academic Hajo Funke received word he was selected to be a visiting professor at UVA, he hastily began preparing. When the consulate returned his passport, it was accompanied not by a visa, but by a letter that said a decision about his visa had been delayed for three to six months, jeopardizing the two classes he was set to teach.
Political experts say that Sanders has moved to the left along with the rest of his party after the issue became a major vulnerability for him in his 2016 primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, who found and exploited Sanders' rare vulnerability on the left. "Bernie shifted with the Democratic Party (even as an independent)," Professor Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said in an email. "And he saw in 2016 his gun record could be a real detriment to his presidential ambitions."
McLean, Virginia-based Perthera Inc. received $500,000 and $1 million in matching funds to support development of its precision oncology platform. Todd Bauer, a UVA professor of surgery and project team lead at Perthera, said the company has the most advanced platform for a precision oncology approach to treating pancreatic cancer.
The motion also includes a personality assessment carried out by Dr. Sara Boyd, a clinical and forensic psychologist from the University of Virginia, which suggests that Manning is constitutionally incapable of acting against her conscience. “Manning exhibits long standing personality features that relate to her scrupulousness, her persistence and dedication, and her willingness to endure social disapproval as well as formal punishments,” Boyd wrote.
Regarding The Atlantic’s provocative headline, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake,” W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, said, “It’s a mistake to think you can go it alone as a nuclear family. In the last century, too many Americans have tried to go it alone. It’s certainly the case that many hands of kin and kith make the work of family life lighter.”
“Bloomberg was the foremost loser. To be blunt, he was terrible. It’s been about a dozen years since his last debate, so I didn’t suppose he’d shine. But I never expected him to look timid and act nervous. Bloomberg was the new pledge in the fraternity. The hazing was inevitable. His deer-in-the-headlights look was not. He was mayor of ferocious New York City for three terms, after all. Not to worry, his massive TV ad buy will soon take over again, and, lucky for him, the spots reach far more people than watched this debate,” said Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Polit...
Sabato Downgrades Odds for Gardner, Jones: Sabato’s Crystal Ball, published by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, updated race rating for two incumbents today. Republican Cory Gardner‘s race in Colorado went from a Toss-Up to Leans Democratic, while Democrat Doug Jones’ bid to keep his Alabama seat looks even tougher, going from Leans Republican to Likely Republican. The analysis also said that “Republicans remain favored to hold the majority.”
Post-surgical geriatric patients with four distinct characteristics are most likely to be readmitted to a hospital, UVA researchers have found.
Barbara Kelly, a pioneer in the advancement of women’s athletics, passed away this week in her hometown of Garner, North Carolina. Kelly became Virginia’s first full-time female athletic staff member in 1971 when she was appointed assistant director of intramurals and physical education. One of the driving forces behind the development of a national class women’s athletic program at Virginia, she spent 38 years as a member of the Virginia athletics department staff, retiring in 2009.
University of Virginia's School of Medicine received the largest amount of funding in the school's history from the National Institutes of Health, according to an announcement from UVA Health Systems. In fiscal year 2019, NIH provided $146.3 million in funding. The funding backs an ambitious research effort to pioneer new treatments and cures while helping doctors better understand and prevent disease.
UVA is ranked 10th on a list of more than 200 schools for the number of students receiving Fulbright scholarships and is the top public school in the list. This is the fourth time in five years and the third year in a row that UVA has been included on the list, and marks the first time the university has broken into the top 10 ranking for schools that award doctoral degrees, according to the university.
These UVA and Virginia Tech engineering students are headed to an international robotics competition
This week, a 14-person team of students from the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Virginia Tech headed to Abu Dhabi to participate in an international robotics competition. The Virginia team of undergraduate and graduate engineering students named VIrginia Cooperative of auTOnomous Robots (VICTOR) is being led by UVA robotics researcher Tomonari Furukawa.
UVA law professor and legal scholar Dayna Bowen Matthew will serve as the next dean of George Washington University’s law school and become the first woman to hold the post.