The University of Virginia has hit its $4 billion benchmark in its $5 billion Honor the Future capital campaign ahead of its deadline, the university announced this week.
Christopher Ali, a UVA professor and author of the book “Farm Fresh Broadband,” said local providers like Pioneer offer the strongest option for wiring rural America. Their long-term business goals hinge on how to turn, say, $20,000 into a mile of fiber-optic cable in the countryside rather than a return to stockholders.
Kara Hafermalz and Christina Kelly, students at the UVA School of Law, worked with state legislators to draft the act. The students studied other states that previously enacted similar changes and also looked at the Code of Virginia to see where changes could most effectively occur. The team also conversed with K-12 stakeholders and made necessary adjustments to the draft legislation.
Dr. Rachel Moon has spent decades researching sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, and trying to promote safe sleep. It’s a difficult topic to study, but the UVA professor of pediatrics does it for the families she’s met. “Almost every week, I talk to a family who’s lost the baby, and it’s heart-wrenching,” Moon said. “And many times, it doesn’t have to have happened.”
On Friday, Eastern Virginia Medical School unveiled a statue in honor of a long-time surgeon from Suffolk. Dr. L.D. Britt is a Suffolk native [and UVA alumnus, and member of UVA’s Board of Visitors] who joined the EVMS faculty in 1986 after earning his medical degree and a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard. Today, he is the Edward J. Brickhouse Chair in Surgery and has served as chair of EVMS Surgery since 1994.
Six weeks after winning the NCAA championship, the UVA women's swimming team was back on the national stage at the Phillips 66 International Team Trials in Greensboro, North Carolina, looking to qualify for Team USA for the upcoming 2022 FINA World Championships. UVA had three swimmers qualify for Team USA: Kate Douglass, Alex Walsh, and Emma Weyant. Virginia head coach Todd DeSorbo will also serve as the women's head coach for Team USA at the World Championships.
One of the first people Director of Tennis Andres Pedroso met at UVA was a legendary figure on Grounds. Gordon Burris was, and still is, a good person for anyone associated with the University to know. Burris’ contributions to UVA tennis were recognized Saturday when the newest court at the Virginia Tennis Facility was given Burris’ name.
(Book review; subscription required) The title of [UVA history professor emeritus] Olivier Zunz’s biography of Alexis de Tocqueville – ”The Man Who Understood Democracy” – would appear to be a direct appeal to readers who believe democracy is, to use one popular formulation, “under assault.”
Attorney General Miyares announced Friday that he has appointed Cliff Iler as senior assistant attorney general and university counsel to the University of Virginia.
The family of the UVA student who was captured in North Korea and left in a coma returned to the place he called home before his death nearly five years ago. Thursday marked the first time Otto Warmbier’s parents, Cindy and Fred, came back to UVA Grounds since their son’s death.
Among the guest speakers, Suffolk ACCESS alumnus and UVA fourth-year student Brandon Eley offered advice about the college experience. “The goal is not simply for you to arrive at your respective college, but to truly thrive,” he said.
Researchers say Black women are more likely to suffer from insomnia than other groups, but there may be something to help. At the UVA School of Medicine, they created an online sleep intervention program called SHUTi and tested it on more than 300 Black women, finding it was much more effective than a traditional sleep education program.
If you think back on why 2021 was an important year, you might find little to celebrate, but for Bill Shobe, who studies energy economics at UVA, it was historic. “Virginia was No. 4 in the country among the states in installation of solar facilities, and in 2021 we actually generated more electricity using solar energy than we did using coal!” he says.
Chris Paolucci, a UVA assistant professor of chemical engineering, recently received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to help figure out what happens to catalytic materials during reaction, down to their nanoparticles, atoms and ions.
(Commentary by Paul Stephan, School of Law) Pundits have reveled in the prospect of using the Russian central bank funds currently frozen by the U.S. Department of Treasury to make reparations to Ukraine for war crimes and other injuries inflicted by Russia’s devastating and outlaw invasion. How delicious it would be to enforce international law against such an obviously culpable perpetrator, all done by the United States without any outside help!
The University of Virginia has been ranked as the best public college for financial aid. The Princeton Review, which is not affiliated with Princeton University, released its 2022 Best Value Colleges list on Tuesday.
Kate Daniels has long been captivated by the connection between writing and the healing process. After earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, Daniels worked as a nurse’s aide at UVA Medical Center while she was in the process of applying to graduate school. The job was grueling, physically and emotionally, and she found herself writing poetry in the staff break room to decompress from the intense hours spent helping care for terminally ill patients. She did not realize its therapeutic benefit until years later.
“Everyone in the imaging community should really see this as a call to arms to work with our imaging vendor exchange communities to solve this problem for the benefit of patients,” emphasized Dr. Krishnaraj, Chief of the Division of Body Imaging with the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Two international law experts backed vitamin C importers Monday in their bid for another U.S. Supreme Court review of a price-fixing case against a pair of Chinese exporters that was nixed by the Second Circuit, warning that the lower court is in no position to make case-by-case judgments that could impact foreign relations. University of California, Davis, law professor William S. Dodge and University of Virginia School of Law professor Paul B. Stephan, both of whom are former international law advisers to the U.S. Department of State, argued that the Second Circuit ruling made it much more l...
Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said an urban vs. rural divide among voters has gotten sharper in recent decades. Divides on cultural issues have also become starker to voters. “I think that as the Democratic Party has become more sort of clearly associated with cultural liberalism and the Republican Party more associated with cultural conservatism on issues like guns and abortion and energy production,” Kondik said.