The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia is bringing a one-of-a-kind exhibit to Albemarle County. An outdoor wandering sculpture trail called ‘Breathe With Me’ is on display in Kluge-Ruhe’s backyard.
The U.S. Census Bureau has released the results of the 2020 survey. Two researchers at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia are comparing their projections to the results.
An upcoming presentation will be focused on a lawsuit that was filed following the events of the 2017 Unite the Right rally. According to a release, the University of Virginia Miller Center has partnered with the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy at the UVA School of Law and the Jewish Studies Program at the UVA College of Arts and Sciences.
Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania is seeking a second term as the city’s top prosecutor. Having first been elected to the position in 2017, he said there is still more work to do. Platania is proud to have reduced many first time felonies to misdemeanors and helped advocate for criminal justice reform laws that have passed in the General Assembly. His office has also partnered with the University of Virginia to bring a “Books Behind Bars” program into the Charlottesville Albemarle Regional Jail.
The school sites, which are run and staffed by the Blue Ridge Health District, are one option for young teens. Shots are also available at the health district’s vaccination clinic at the former JC Penney, the University of Virginia’s site at the former Big Lots and through local doctors and pharmacies.
“Normal age-related decline includes things like forgetting names – very, very common. Proper nouns – common to have a harder time with that,” explained Dr. Carol Manning, director of the Virginia Alzheimer’s Disease Center at UVA. But they could also point to reasons why a person might struggle with activities of daily living – managing finances that used to seem easy, remembering recent events or doing things they’ve done many times before.
A Friday update from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute, which monitors COVID trends, said the vaccinated population is at an extremely low risk of contracting the virus. But among those who haven’t received a vaccine, “transmission rates are as high as they were in April.”
The Virginia Cavaliers received an at-large bid to the upcoming NCAA Tournament. They will play in the South Carolina Regional and open play on Friday at noon against South Carolina. You can watch the game on the ACC Network.
As a player, Levy was a star at the University of Virginia from 1988-92 and scored three goals in the 1991 NCAA title game to give the Cavaliers the national championship that year. She was a two-time All-American and the 1992 NCAA Attacker of the Year, which earned her a spot among the top 50 players in ACC history back in 2002.
Harris and McLeod go back to their days together at the University of Virginia, even rooming together when McLeod was a senior and Harris a freshman. "I was kind of like a big bro to him, in a sense, mentored him," said McLeod on Wednesday afternoon. "Coaches told me right then and there, ‘Once you leave, he’s going to be the guy.’ And he proved that."
(Editorial) Shakespeare gives us one example of a young man who is originally considered a lightweight but grows in office into a serious-minded leader who is respected even by his enemies: The rakish Prince Hal’s transformation into the martial Henry V. Virginia history gives us another: The life story of [UVA Law graduate] John Warner, the former five-term U.S. Senator who passed away Tuesday at age 94.
A UVA alumnus is trying to make sure businesses go beyond the American Disabilities Act and become more accessible for people with mobility challenges. “I grew up understanding the different barriers and challenges that people with disabilities face on a daily basis, so I decided to do something about it,” VisitAble CEO Joe Jamison said. “I grew up listening to my father calling ahead to restaurants, movie theaters, hotels to check their accessibility, having to talk with five or six different people before we finally got an answer.”
Sen. Mitt Romney met with President Joe Biden to discuss his family plan, Romney said during a Deseret News and Institute for Family Studies webinar on Wednesday. The event, titled “Cash or Child Care: What Do American Parents Want?” was moderated by Brad Wilcox, a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a sociologist at the University of Virginia.
"He refused to toe the party line on everything and would seek compromise with Democrats where it was in the country's interest to do so," said Larry Sabato, the founder of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Commentary by A.D. Carson, assistant professor of hip-hop) From the earliest days of hip-hop, rap artists have referenced the extraterrestrial to help us escape our earthbound existence.
University officials at UVA Wise have opted to “encourage”, rather than require, COVID-19 vaccinations on campus this fall.
More than a dozen objects that are considered sacred in Australia are being repatriated. According to a release, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is repatriating 17 objects from its collection to Arrernte, Warlpiri and Warumungu communities in Central Australia.
Anne Lee Bennett was 32 years old when she died May 9, 1994, in her home on Beverley Street in the city she loved. The face of Virginia's Easter Seals, Bennett's health problems began when she was 3 years old. Misdiagnosed for years, it wasn't until she was 15 when physicians at University of Virginia Medical Center diagnosed her as having juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis.
Caring for someone with cancer can be a very difficult task on the mind, body, and soul. That’s why UVA’s Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center is inviting folks caring for loved ones to join a virtual book discussion that starts June 1.