Cairns’ NCAA Championship winner Kody Stattmann feared his University of Virginia were going to fall short of playing off for the national championship. “It was really, really nerve-wracking,” the freshman guard said on RSN Breakfast Club on Melbourne radio on Thursday morning.
If Ledecky needed a reminder of what is still possible at her seasoned age, it appeared in the lane next to her Wednesday night. Leah Smith, a 23-year-old University of Virginia product and a two-time Olympic medalist, rode Ledecky’s heels for the entirety of the 16-lap race — actually beating Ledecky over the race’s second half — to post a personal-best 8:16.33.
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility will launch an Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft April 17 — and the launch may be visible across the East Coast. ODU students worked with peers from Hampton University, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech to design the satellite, and worked with members of the local aerospace industry as well.
Breadworks is working with Community Consultants of Darden to come up with recommendations on how to turn business around. Five UVA Darden School of Business students are working on the final plan and conducting customer surveys to see what’s working and what can be improved.
Amanda Gibson’s project, “Credit is Due: African Americans as Borrowers and Lenders in Antebellum Virginia,” won her a two-year predoctoral fellowship at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.
“What we’re seeing today in America is that upper middle-class Americans are much more likely to get and stay married compared to less-educated, working-class Americans - that’s the marriage divide in brief,” Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, said.
“This highlights the fact that there’s an inherent conflict of interest for the agency to appropriately audit its boss,” George Yin, a UVA law professor and former Joint Committee on Taxation chief of staff, said.
“The story arc is so vast that it can appeal to a variety of viewers at once,” added Lisa Woolfork, a literature professor at the University of Virginia who teaches a “Game of Thrones” course.
“The [event horizon] announcement is pretty exciting and is something we’ve been waiting for for a long time,” Al Wootten, an ALMA scientist who studies early star and planet formation, said. “A lot of aspects of UVA went into the array and making the science possible.” UVA’s Microfabrication Laboratories, part of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, also fabricated detectors for most of the radio receivers on the telescopes.
“5G is not going to happen in rural America, not for a long, long time,” said Christopher Ali, an expert on communication policy at UVA’s Department of Media Studies.
Michael McConnell, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Virginia, is investigating what role these deletions and duplications of DNA, called copy number variants, play in neuropsychiatric disease.
In 2003, Howard Epstein, a terrestrial ecologist at the University of Virginia, and colleagues looked to the satellite record, which now held another decade of data. Focusing on Alaska’s North Slope, the researchers found that the highest NDVI values, or “peak greenness,” during the growing season had increased nearly 17 percent between 1981 and 2001, in line with the warming trend.
Recently digitized census records are shining a new light on population data from the 1860s. “We do this for the 21st century. I didn’t see any reason why we couldn’t do something similar for the 19th century,” says Hamilton Lombard at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at UVA.
Sihabudeen Palliyalil, research scholar in the Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences at the University of Hyderabad, has been invited to present a paper, “Religion, Power and Representation: Locating the ‘Political’ in Indian Union Muslim League,” at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia. He will present the paper in the graduate conference on ‘Democracy and Religion’ being organized by UVA on April 12.
A UVA organization is helping survivors of domestic violence get legal help this weekend. Trauma attorneys from four Richmond-based legal clinics will travel to the Women's Center on the UVA Corner Sunday. Each attorney will offer four hours of free consultations.
Producer, songwriter, philanthropist and entrepreneur Pharrell Williams will return to Charlottesville to keynote the University of Virginia’s 2019 Valedictory Exercises. Williams, a Virginia Beach native, will address UVA’s graduating class at 3 p.m. May 17 on the Lawn. The event is free and open to the public. UVA also will present class gifts and awards at the event, which is the traditional kickoff of graduation weekend.
With the Cavaliers now national champions, the UVA Office of Trademark and Licensing is extra busy approving new design requests from vendors.
Cuatlacuatl is living and working in Charlottesville and teaching art classes at UVA. He works in a variety of media – illustration, animation, painting, installation – and throughout the month of April, as the Tom Tom Festival artist-in-residence at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, he’ll exhibit some of his own work and lead a number of community art projects.
Both Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson understood public education as the secret formula for the success of a young republic. Franklin and Jefferson established the first public higher-educational institutions – the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia – on a merit-based system similar to the Confucian scholar-official system in ancient China.
(Commentary) The University of Virginia men’s basketball team won the national championship against greater odds than nearly anyone outside the program realizes; with a roster of student-athletes who fit into the fabric of UVA, who succeed in class, who have ambitions beyond basketball, who don’t carry themselves with the above-the-law swagger of a typical college-age celebrity, and who, presumably, did not ask for a briefcase of cash on arrival.