UVA nutrition expert Sibylle Kranz says that for both kids and adults, “weekend dietary intake is very different from weekday. On weekend days, we seem to have more of what we call ‘celebration food.’ It’s birthday parties, or going to the pool and getting something from the vendors there, or families getting together and having big meals.”
The notion of human rights began to take shape after the Holocaust, so it is not surprising that Jews played an important role in their emergence. In his new book, UVA historian James Loeffler explores how a small group of Jewish lawyers and activists from around the world inspired the human rights movement and the creation of entities such as the United Nations that, sadly, have failed to fulfill the promises of their ideals.
Three years ago, Caitlin Murtaugh, a UVA construction project coordinator, started Girls Day to encourage girls to pursue construction trades. This year’s event gave more than 80 girls the chance to learn more about facilities management, get a behind-the-scenes look at worksites and talk with women about careers in typically male-dominated fields.
On Wednesday, Hampton native, UVA alumna and current Charlottesville resident Margot Lee Shetterly received the city’s Distinguished Citizen Medal for drawing national attention to an important chapter to its history in her book “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.”
On Wednesday, Hampton native, UVA alumna and current Charlottesville resident Margot Lee Shetterly received the city’s Distinguished Citizen Medal for drawing national attention to an important chapter to its history in her book “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.”
Alexis Gravely joined the center’s tax policy team in May. Gravely is a rising senior at UVA and the assistant managing editor at The Cavalier Daily, the University’s independent student newspaper. Her reporting on last August’s white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville earned her a Virginia Press Association award for breaking news. She serves as the center’s inaugural fellow from the Emma Bowen Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at diversifying the media by pairing talented students of color with internships at news organizations.
Brace for Republicans in more Trump-favoring conservative states like North Dakota or Montana to "run as big Trump fans," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Stewart, too, has risen on the backs of undocumented immigrants, touting with each political rung he has tried to climb a policy that Prince William County approved in 2007.Three years after Prince William enacted its policy, it paid $385,000 for the University of Virginia to study the effects. Among the findings, according to a 2010 Washington Post article: Hispanics – most of whom were in the country legally – were avoiding the county, and it “did not succeed in implementing an immigration policy without damaging its reputation as a welcoming place to live.”
Scores of Americans may unknowingly have a sensitivity to red meat, which could be raising their risk of heart attacks or strokes, new research claims. But the findings suggest a subgroup of the population may be at a heightened risk for a different reason – a food allergen to a sugary 'toxin', says the research team at the UVA Health System.
CvilleBioHub still awaits approval from the DHCD for $75,000 grant. The nonprofit supports local companies and professionals within the Charlottesville biotech community. The project is supported with in-kind donations from a handful of local biotech companies and UVA’s Economic Development group.
At the University of Chicago about 20 percent of freshmen choose who is in their room and more than half at the University of Virginia. Students use Facebook or college matchmaking apps – or meetings for accepted students – to find roommates.
C. Evans Poston Jr. has been appointed to UVA’s Board of Visitors. Norfolk’s commissioner of the revenue since 2014, Poston ran unopposed in 2017 and was a member of Northam’s transition team. He will replace John G. Macfarlane III beginning July 1. Northam reappointed Rector Rusty Conner and members Barbara J. Fried, of Albemarle County-based Fried Companies Inc., and Dr. L.D. Britt, a professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
"Certainly we’ve seen some problems in primaries for Trump critics in the party," said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, "Being a Trump critic is a hard position to be in in the Republican Party, and I don’t think Sanford’s sometimes criticism of Trump helped him, that’s for sure."
Whether you like it or not, it looks like social media is here for the long haul – and that's just one of many topics taking center stage at UVA as about 200 scholars were in Charlottesville on Wednesday to dissect how technology affects our everyday lives and what we can expect moving forward.
(Podcast) Todd Sechser, an associate professor in UVA’s Department of Politics and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and a senior fellow at the Miller Center, joins host Les Sinclair to analyze the summit.
Stewart, a devoted Trump supporter, beat out Freitas by a narrow margin with nearly 45 percent of the vote. Freitas finished about 5,000 votes behind Stewart with close to 43 percent. Jackson received about 12 percent of the vote. "It could mean that we are going to hear a lot more about Confederate monuments, about how Tim Kaine is an ultra liberal," says Geoff Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics. "Stewart is going to try to make that case to the voters, I don't know if the voters are going to believe."
Former Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, a center-right Republican who has decried the increasingly shrill nature of GOP politics, said on Twitter he was "extremely disappointed" that Stewart had been nominated, adding, "This is clearly not the Republican Party I once knew, loved and proudly served. Every time I think things can't get worse, they do, and there is no end in sight." And Larry Sabato, a UVA political analyst, said Stewart could prove a drag for Republican House candidates, perhaps costing the party two or three seats. Republicans hold seven of 11 seats in the Virginia delegation.
Other experts say that prospectively canceling the exercises serves as a signal to North Korea that the U.S. really does want peace. "This agreement is not the foundation of a grand bargain; it is a screening device," says Todd Sechser, a UVA professor and expert in international security. "By making this reassurance, by suspending military exercises, the U.S. is trying to reassure North Korea that U.S. intentions are not aggressive. Now it's up to North Korea to respond by making substantive concessions on their part." 
One of the reasons state Sen. Jennifer Wexton had five other Democrats running against her in the Democratic primary to take on Barbara Comstock was the feeling that she just isn’t progressive enough. Geoff Skelley at the UVA Center for Politics say that’s because of a growing resistance to compromise. “There are a lot of Democrats, and a lot of liberals who are sort of in hashtag resistance mode. And they don’t want anyone who has compromised.”
Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor, said on Twitter Tuesday that nominating Stewart could cost Republicans two or three U.S. House seats if he loses to Kaine by a large margin. “VA Republicans now have a big problem,” he wrote.