There are 27,115 of them and they’re coming straight into town. University of Virginia students will return to Grounds this week for in-person classes, club events, athletic contests and all of the social life the school has to offer.
A Richmond-based startup company that offers shoppers an online tool to compare various cosmetic and skin care products recently completed a $1.7 million capital raise from investors. The investment round comes as Brandefy, founded in 2017 by University of Virginia graduate Meg Greenhalgh Pryde, is planning to introduce its own skin care products for sale on its mobile app.
Leny and Tata Talasan prayed every night with their four daughters for a new home in El Salvador City, Philippines. Funded by a $45,000 grant from the Philadelphia-based Papal Foundation through the Daughters of Jesus congregation, the family was among 30 to build a secure new house. His and other families expressed their gratitude to the foundation’s global benefactors and promised to “repay you with all our prayers,” Leny said through the foundation’s website. “That story brings a tear to your eye,” said [UVA alumnus] David Savage, who last month was named executive director of the Papal Fou...
(Commentary by Evan Sandsmark, doctoral student in religious studies) Conservative pilgrims to Orban's Hungary, like Tucker Carlson and Rod Dreher, dream of a 'Christian democracy' in America, too. But their hug for Hungary's illiberal strongman, like their embrace of Trump, is all about opportunism.
Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said that O’Halleran’s district currently leans Democratic, with 36.2% of voters registered as Democrats to 32.4% registered Republicans. But he said “if Yavapai County gets put back in, O’Halleran could have a much more red district” in District 1, which covers most of northern and eastern Arizona.
Redrawing district lines is driven by a constitutional requirement that each district have about the same population. In April, the Census Bureau reported that the state’s population grew 15 percent to more than 3.1 million. “If you're a Democrat, I think the reasonable goal is how do you keep the delegation three-to-one Democratic for the rest of the decade,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Christopher Ali, associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, says that second-class service creates, essentially, second-class citizens. "The idea that we just need to get something to rural America rather than nothing at all, shortchanges everyone who's living there," he said. "I have met people who were paying $300 a month for an internet connection that was no better than what I had in 2005."
A case out of New York awaiting review grapples with the question of whether the state can require religious employers to provide insurance coverage that includes abortion, said Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School. Like the transgender case, the court hasn’t said whether it will agree to hear the matter. “There is a steady trickle of these kinds of cases,” Mr. Laycock said.
Dr. Zan Zaidi, physician executive for UVA Health community hospitals, which includes the group’s facilities in Manassas and Haymarket that were previously owned in partnership with Novant, said new cases were “almost exclusively” unvaccinated people. He said some vaccinated people have contracted the virus, but “it’s exceedingly rare.”
Dr. Cameron Webb, a practicing physician at the University of Virginia and a senior policy adviser for equity on the White House’s COVID-19 Response Team, noted during the video conference that the percentage of cases among African Americans has been proportionate to the group’s population, about 13%. But, Webb cautioned, “That’s not telling the full story. We’re still seeing that deaths are higher in the Black community.”
Tim Heaphy, a Virginia senior assistant attorney general, is taking a leave of absence in order to serve as chief investigative counsel to the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Heaphy, who also is counsel to the University of Virginia, previously served a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth, and as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia.
(Commentary by John Rodden, professor emeritus) If you want to impress an acquaintance from western Germany with your German language ability – and frighten an elderly eastern German – try out this mouthful: Stacheldrahtsonntag. Yes, that’s one of those typical seemingly endless multisyllabic German words. But it’s a lot more than that. Translation: “Barbed Wire Sunday.” Most Germans know what it means – and every German over the age of 65 cannot forget the day it happened – and where he was and what she was doing.
While Virginia's population growth outpaced the national average, especially in northern Virginia, demographer Hamilton Lombard at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper said the state's growth is not as rapid as it has been in past decades, especially in northern Virginia. “It's the slowest growth we've had overall since the Great Depression,” Lombard said.
Research has found that disparities are getting worse between states when it comes to the use of medications to prevent HIV.
You might stumble across college application do’s and don’ts on a popular social media app. University of Virginia Associate Dean of Admissions Jeannine Lalonde has taken to TikTok to share some insight on what sticks out on a college application, specifically at UVA.
Biden also said Charlottesville is “an example of how this is the work of all of us” as he noted religious leaders who held a prayer service the night before the rally and marched in the streets the following day. “When the Neo-Nazi marchers passed Charlottesville’s only synagogue, Beth Israel, the congregation continued worship services, stood up to the hate, and helped their neighbors. And we should never forget the courage of that small group of University of Virginia students who stared down the mob and did not flinch.”
Christopher Ali, a UVA associate professor of media studies who congressional Democrats have called to testify on broadband issues, said the deployment funding in the bipartisan bill may not be enough to get the job done. “Forty-two billion is certainly nothing to sneeze at,” Ali said. “A lot of good will be done at $42 billion, so long as the right protections are in place. It will not connect everybody, though.”
(Editorial) Virginia’s system of higher education funding is “irrational, inequitable and unjust,” according to a new report from an independent think tank. Education Reform Now – which gives special emphasis to issues affecting low-income students – says the commonwealth’s funding policies both are inconsistent and nontransparent. And it echoes an overarching criticism that has been cited for years: The state simply doesn’t give enough money to higher education, period.
“The opportunity for 18- to 22-year-olds to deploy real capital without personal risk is a pretty unique experience,” said Ronak Rijhwani, 21, a rising senior at the University of Virginia and co-president of the school’s McIntire Investment Institute. “It forces us to conduct due diligence and adopt strict best practices that we probably wouldn’t if we were paper trading or investing small amounts of money from our personal accounts.”
You’d be surprised at how many student-athletes seek out mental health counseling. “You can see something like the first panic attack happen, or there’s just so much that it gets overwhelming, and they can’t get out of bed, or there’s the daily struggle. And through conversations, they realize, ‘Wow, I’ve been struggling with this for years. And by the way, now that I think about it, my mom probably has a lot of these tendencies, and my siblings do, too,’” said Dr. Siobhan Statuta, a sports medicine primary care specialist at UVA Health and associate professor at the UVA School of Medicine.