A new exhibit has opened in the basement of UVA’s Pavilion X. “Untold Stories of Pavilion X” follows both the lives of those who built the pavilion and those who lived in it.
Growing up in Davidson, Amanda Sambach picked up golf at 7 years old and didn’t compete in tournaments until she was “11 or 12.” As an eighth-grader she committed to the University of Virginia, which she now calls home as a freshman in Charlottesville. Sambach and UVA teammate Beth Lillie have qualified for this year’s playing of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. As opposed to practicing alone, having a teammate working toward the same goal in preparation for the same tournament this year is a positive for Sambach.
(By Shawn Grain Carter, who earned undergraduate degrees in African American studies and women’s studies) A mother never wants to funeralize her beloved child. It’s simply not the natural order of things. But coping with my grief forced me to reckon with the constant emotional pain of supporting my daughter, who received a diagnosis of a rare sarcoma called malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor or MPNST. There is no cure for sarcomas, especially an MPNST sarcoma. However, it’s important to share our tragic stories of resilience and grief to empower other families to embrace the unknown and l...
Attorney Courtney Keehan didn’t grow up wanting to become an attorney. Passionate about building design, she spent her youth planning a future as an architect. Keehan’s aversion to the law dissolved during her third year at the University of Virginia as she participated in a design studio tasked with revamping the Yamuna riverfront in New Delhi, India. During this process, Keehan fell in love with environmental law.
J. Miles Coleman, a political cartographer at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, described the 2010 election as a “generational year” for Republicans that the Democrats just haven’t been able to reverse. “You didn’t really get the same kind of flips in 2018 and 2020 for the Democrats,” Coleman said. “One of the under-reported stories of 2020 was the Democratic lack of success in state legislatures.”
“The expectations have hurt Biden.” Dr. Larry Sabato is the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. He said expectations that the pandemic would ebb and inflation abate ran up against reality, and voters may take that frustration to the ballot box. “Other problems can be dealt with. Inflation will certainly come down in time, but how fast? For Biden and the Democrats it had better be quickly. Otherwise they’ll pay the price in November.”
But there’s only so much the president can do in corralling his party’s caucuses on the Hill, experts say, noting that Manchin hails from a state that voted heavily for Trump. And some things – like gas prices and new COVID-19 variants – are largely out of his hands. “People want instant answers, and they want instant cures for their problems,” says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “It’s not (always) his fault … but of course, he gets blamed for all of that.”
The changes caused by an abnormal thyroid can be subtle, said Dr. Robert Carey, an endocrinologist and dean emeritus of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. “Thyroid disorders creep up on you,” he said. “They occur so gradually they’re quite often not detected until you come to a physician. But the risks of ignoring them are largely cardiovascular.”
Leonard Schoppa, professor of politics at the University of Virginia and a senior adviser to the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future, highlighted the long-term effect of the bans, and said that activities including summer programs will be canceled, and that many academics will struggle to raise funds for overseas research in the timeframe available.
The U.S. is investigating Moise’s killing because the plot appears to have been at least partially financed and organized in Florida. “The U.S. seems to be moving seriously in the direction of at least finding what happened in Miami with the security agency, the Haitian Americans, the Colombians, and the people from Haiti,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti expert at the University of Virginia.
The vaccine mandate in Virginia versus the rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court can be a little confusing. “I actually would say the vaccine mandate has not been lifted,” law professor Margaret Riley said. Riley teaches law at the University of Virginia. She says you have to look at both of the Supreme Court rulings from last last week.
Rich Schragger, professor of law at the University of Virginia, said that Youngkin’s posturing is likely an empty threat. Under the Virginia Constitution the governor does not have the power to force school districts to abide by an executive order, Schragger said. The most influence Youngkin has is appointing a Superintendent of Instruction and the Virginia Board of Education who supports the order.
(Commentary) Does the power to arrest need to be exercised? Or put simply, do we need to arrest? In a recent article on the issue, professor Rachel A. Harmon of the UVA School of Law wrote: “In a liberal society, government coercion that intrudes upon individual freedom must be justified. To be legitimate, our practice of arrest should be at least plausibly necessary to achieve important public aims, the costs of arrests should be broadly proportionate to the ends they serve, and the harms of arrests should be distributed fairly.”
New research suggests that using alternative means to promote interleukin 25 in patients with recurrent C. difficile infection could enhance the benefits of fecal transplants. C. difficile infection causes life-threatening diarrhea and often impacts patients in hospitals and nursing homes as a result of long-term antibiotic use, according to a press release from the UVA of Medicine.
Scientists from the UVA School of Medicine have developed a gene therapy to treat Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, and potentially prolong survival for people with the condition.
ACE inhibitors work by blocking angiotensin II, an enzyme that narrows blood vessels and raises blood pressure. A study by University of Virginia scientists suggests that in the long run, these blood pressure management drugs may be taking a toll on kidney health, eventually leading to irreversible organ damage.
“You can’t underestimate the degree to which our democratic crisis is changing the view of the rest of the world,” said Eric Edelman, a career Foreign Service officer who served in senior State and Defense Department positions under both Republican and Democratic administrations. “Dysfunctionality . . . violence . . . the assault on democratic institutions are spilling into the way in which the rest of the world is looking upon us,” Edelman said last week at a forum on Biden’s first-year foreign policy at UVA’s Miller Center.
1. University of Virginia. About the program: The 30-credit online master’s in electrical engineering at UVA does not require a research thesis. Prospective students can try an online class before applying.
(Commentary, video by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project) Virginia just swore in its new governor, Republican Glenn Youngkin, and on this edition of “Family Matters,” we evaluate his come-from-behind victory and what role empowered parents of schoolchildren played in his campaign.
Spurred by the current anti-racist and Black Lives Matter movements, several universities – including UVA – have renewed or ignited their passion for addressing the question: How do you accurately and empathetically describe the lives of the enslaved individuals bound to a university or institution of higher learning?