Jeffrey Brown has the story of prominent poet Rita Dove confronting private pains and public strains; home and history. This report on her book, “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” is part of our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
A national survey conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention put the University of Virginia’s medical center and children’s hospital at the top of the list for infant nutrition and care.
The Student Veterans of America at the University of Virginia is collecting donations for refugees from Afghanistan. So far, the organization has raised about $4,000 and dropped off about 60 pounds of donations, including clothing, toiletries, and diapers.
According to Nicole Long, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Virginia, peoples’ memories are linked to each other. Her research leading the university’s Long-Term Memory Lab shows that people look forward to being transported back to an earlier time in their lives where most of the memories that they have from that time point probably skew positively.
University of Virginia: Near the start of the semester, 193 students had been unenrolled for not getting the shots, according to Dr. Christopher Holstege, director of student health and wellness. He said the policy aligns with requirements that students be vaccinated for other diseases such as measles and mumps.
The University of Virginia and Mary Baldwin University are teaming up to train future healthcare professionals to work with children who have autism and other developmental disabilities.
Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics expert at the University of Virginia, said there was clearly a power struggle within the government between Henry and those who supported Moïse.
Far from just being a place of education, the University of Virginia has a rich and fascinating history that has led it to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. At its center lies The Rotunda, a stunning 19th-century property modeled after the Pantheon in Rome.
(Co-written by Kevin Driscoll, assistant professor of media studies) A prestigious, private school in Pretoria, South Africa, recently became a site of protest. Black learners and parents accused Cornwall Hill College of rejecting calls to make its whites-only board more representative of its diverse learner body.
(Written by Helena Zeweri, assistant professor of global studies) U.S. intervention was never going to be the antidote to the Taliban.
Doctors at the University of Virginia are seeing an uptick in child respiratory cases. Researchers at the university noticed conditions like RSV and pneumonia in higher volumes earlier than usual at this time of year.
UVA moved up one spot to 25th nationally, tied with Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. William & Mary ascended one spot to 38th. It’s the second year in a row the two universities have made small gains. Last year, UVA rose two spots, and William & Mary rose one.
Cholesterol doesn’t just clog hearts and arteries. University of Virginia researchers say it also can gum up the brain, sparking a chain of events that lead to Alzheimer’s disease.
University of Virginia Cancer Center has been awarded a Comprehensive Cancer Center designation by the National Cancer Institute. The NCI is the largest funder of cancer research in the world.
United Way Worldwide today has selected Angela F. Williams to serve as its next president and CEO, effective Oct. 15. Williams is a native of Anderson, South Carolina and earned her bachelor of arts degree in American government from the University of Virginia.
Moving from metal to metaphor, recent monuments reveal a shift in how we confront past trauma. At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, a tribute to enslaved Black people who lived and worked there opened in 2020. Yoon’s architectural firm collaborated on the design of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. The low granite ring symbolizes a broken shackle. The stone is engraved with 577 names and 4,000 “memory marks,” wound-like slashes representing enslaved people whose identities remain unknown.
The University of Virginia was full of red, white and blue all day on September 11. The Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) placed 2,977 flags in the UVA amphitheater. This number is to reflect and help us remember and honor the lives lost twenty years ago.
People who received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had “slightly higher” antibody levels than those who received the Pfizer — now formally called Comirnaty — shot, according to a new small study. While both vaccines insert molecules called mRNA that teach our bodies how to produce coronavirus antibodies, the Moderna shot uses more than three times the amount of mRNA than the Pfizer vaccine. This, University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers say, could explain their findings.
University of Virginia students and university President Jim Ryan laced up their running shoes on Thursday, September 9. They ran four miles together starting and finishing at Madison Hall.
"What's happened to the public landscape of Washington is more than the architecture of bollards and the immediate choreography of security and risk adjacent to public buildings,” said UVA architecture professor Elizabeth Meyer. "It's the total change of flow and accessibility that everyday citizens used to have to seats of power."