“The Delta variant, which has ravaged India, is gaining traction in the U.S. and Virginia,” says the latest weekly report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. “Unvaccinated individuals, including those with a previous COVID infection, remain at risk from this variant.”
(Book review) Alan Taylor, the distinguished University of Virginia historian, has spent his career upending the conventional story in favor of the more sordid and useful truth. His latest, “American Republics,” a refreshing survey of our country’s tumultuous early years, forms a trilogy with two earlier works, “American Colonies” (2001) and “American Revolutions” (2016). Together they represent an enormous contribution, distilling an ocean of historical scholarship into a thoughtful and compelling narrative of three centuries of the American experience.
(Editorial) 5. Grow the University of Virginia’s College at Wise into a research university. Universities have been called “the steel mills of the 21st century” for their role as economic engines — and research universities are the biggest and best steel mills of all because they’re the ones generating spinoff industries.
The UVA Police Department has arrested a man in connection with a burglary. According to police, John Wayne Jordan of Charlottesville is facing charges for a burglary that occurred at Madison Hall on June 24.
There will be a partial lane closure on Emmet Street beginning next week. Charlottesville officials say the closure will be near Ivy Road where a contractor is going to be relocating a natural gas pipeline. This is to accommodate UVA’s Ivy Corridor Project.
People who live near the University of Virginia may hear its emergency notification system going off on Tuesday. According to a release, UVA will be testing all components of the system, including the sirens, between 10:50 a.m. and 11:05 a.m.
Brian O’Connor led the Virginia baseball program to its fifth College World Series appearance this season. Carla Williams, UVa’s athletic director, has rewarded O’Connor for a job well done with a contract extension, which was announced Saturday.
University of Virginia baseball fans, friends and family got together at Disharoon Park at noon on Saturday to welcome back the Cavaliers after a hard-fought journey in Omaha. Coach Brian O'Connor's main message to the crowd was Virginia baseball is back.
UVA athletic director Carla Williams, who is in her fourth year on the job, remains a staunch defender of some aspects of the NCAA’s amateurism model, but recognizes much of college athletics is due to be modernized.
Michaela Meyer finished fourth in the 800 meters final at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials late Sunday night in Eugene, Oregon, missing an Olympic berth by 0.16 seconds. Meyer, a graduate student in nursing at UVA and the 2021 NCAA champion in the event, finished in 1:58.55, a personal best for her by over a second. The top three runners make the Olympic team. (Note: UVA alumnus Henry Wynne also fell just short in his attempt to make the U.S. team in the 1,500 meters, finishing fifth.)
Shops may come and restaurants may go, but the local vibe on the Corner carries on. The recent closing of the College Inn, a restaurant with a 53-year history on the quaint strip of commercial properties across the street from the University of Virginia, has caused concern on social media among long-time residents and UVA alumni. The loss of the eatery, combined with last summer’s closing of the Corner’s iconic Littlejohn’s Deli, has some worried about a change in atmosphere in the University-centric shopping district.
While UVA’s baseball season came to a close after an improbable run to the College World Series with a loss to Texas Thursday night, the school’s got a winner leading the way off the field and in life. We caught up with UVA Director of Athletics Carla Williams at TD Ameritrade Park earlier this week.
On one of their first dates, Dr. Deidre Downs — a UVA alumna who is the first openly gay Miss America and a fertility specialist — made a bold proclamation to her now-wife, Abbott Jones. Downs “sort of joked that she was the only woman in Alabama who could get me pregnant,” Jones, 37, told The Post. “Because of what [she] does for a living.”
Lucy Mills Hochman and Adam Allen Gillenwater’s love is a battlefield. A historical battlefield, that is. Ms. Hochman [a Daarden student] and Mr. Gillenwater [a UVA lumnus with a master’s degree from the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy], both 31, met in the fall of 2015 working for the American Battlefield Trust, a nonprofit organization focused on the restoration of battlefields from the Civil War, the War of 1812 and the Revolutionary War.
(Video) Christopher Blevins and [recent UVA graduate] Eddie Anderson are two of the country’s top up-and-coming young riders. As it turns out, they are also both recent college students. For the last five years, the two have had to balance the requirements of pro cycling and undergraduate education. In this column and video, produced by Eddie Anderson’s brother, Jack Anderson, Blevins and Anderson discuss how they made it work.
A UVA alumni-founded startup company that makes indoor, hydroponic farming systems has opened its new headquarters and production site in the Scott’s Addition area of Richmond.
Former UVA basketball star Rick Carlisle is returning to the Indiana Pacers as their new head coach. The Pacers have hired Carlisle on a reported four-year $29 million contract after 13 seasons with the Dallas Mavericks.
(Video) Jennifer Lawless, Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Virginia, issued harsh words regarding U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s decision to remain associated with exclusive private clubs.
Experts say questions of labor and safety could remain unresolved years after any potential federal legalization. Despite Amazon's apparent relaxing stance on the issue, those questions could still require years of lobbying and tough calls by the company, and those decisions would come even as Amazon faces brutal labor turnover rates and workers, like those in New York, demand a consistent approach. "When you have a day upon which [nationwide] legalization happens, there's so much to be figured out after that," said Paul Seaborn, a professor at the University of Virginia's business school who ...
Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and a leading expert on religious freedom, went to the heart of the two justices’ objections. “A principal worry about this case from the beginning has been the risk that Philadelphia would simply rewrite its rules or contracts and create a generally applicable ban on refusing same-sex couples, with no exceptions,” Laycock told the Register. “That option is clearly open to the city. The case would resume and head right back towards the Supreme Court.”