UVA students are hoping to turn the typical TEDx talk on its head. “We’re changing the conference this year from less of a speaker’s series to more of a conversation,” UVA TEDx Curator Wyatt Zetterberg says.
Civil rights activist Dr. John Perkins, 90, is still inspiring people with his message of gratitude and faith. He spoke Sunday evening at UVA’s Rotunda with the theme: parting words on race and love.
ClimateVoice, launched this weekend at the ClimateCAP conference in Charlottesville, is the brainchild of Bill Weihl, who led Facebook’s sustainability team until leaving the company in 2018. To build that constituency, ClimateVoice will ask students and employees to sign a pledge committing to “prioritize,” “vocalize” and “mobilize” on climate action. That’s one reason Weihl launched his initiative public at the second ClimateCAP summit, an event convened by 18 universities, including Duke, Harvard and UVA, focused on building knowledge of climate change issues among MBA s...
Virginia is commonly recognized as having a quality education system. The U.S. News and World Report ranked the commonwealth No. 8 for K-12 schools and No. 14 for higher education. Some of Virginia’s top universities include Washington and Lee University, the University of Virginia, the College of William & Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University as the No. 1 public arts school in the country.
DNA microscope. A gene therapy for “bubble boy” disease. The restoration of cellular activity in pig brains four hours after death. Nano-robots that might clean teeth better than flossing. These are just some of the 64 important discoveries and inventions included in this year’s STAT Madness, a bracket-style competition to honor the best biomedical research published in 2019. The contest is modeled on college basketball’s March Madness, but rather than head-to-head competition for athletic glory, STAT Madness pits 64 U.S. universities, medical schools, and other institutions against each other...
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.