Allen W. Groves has helped University of Virginia students react to difficult times in his 14 years as dean of students, including student murders, the unexpected firing of a school president, torch-lit Nazi attacks and a pandemic. Now he’s taking those lessons learned to Syracuse University as that school’s senior vice president for student experience.
Autonomous vehicle experts who reviewed the video footage of the 41-minute trip posted on YouTube by the Waymo passenger say it shows a series of gaffes by the Waymo self-driving technology. “The first one was understandable. The second was strange. The third one was jaw-dropping and the fourth one I threw up my hands,” said Noah Goodall, a UVA scientist who researches vehicle communication and automation.
A UVA Health medical team is making big strides in post-COVID-19 treatment, which helps many patients dealing with long-term symptom recovery
[UVA alumna] Val Ackerman’s crowning achievement is the WNBA. In the mid-1990s, the idea of a women’s professional basketball league inspired skepticism. A successful, sustainable women’s basketball league? Such a prospect provoked even more doubt. Yet, Ackerman successfully shepherded the WNBA into American sports culture.
Glenn R. Croshaw, a Virginia Beach circuit court judge and former representative in the Virginia House of Delegates, has died. Croshaw, 70, served in the House of Delegates from 1986 until 1999, when he lost a bid for re-election in that year’s statewide swing to the GOP. He worked as a lawyer at Willcox and Savage until he was elected a circuit court judge in Virginia Beach in 2011. He earned a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia after graduating from East Carolina University.
The No. 13 Virginia women’s tennis team saw its season come to an end on Sunday with a 4-1 loss to No. 3 Georgia in the NCAA Tournament Round of 16 in Orlando.
The Virginia women’s lacrosse team’s season came to an end with a 13-8 loss to Notre Dame in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday at Arlotta Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.
The No. 3 Virginia rowing team won all five grand finals to capture its 11th consecutive ACC championship Saturday on Lake Hartwell in Clemson, South Carolina.
Virginia men's lacrosse team rallies past Bryant in the fourth quarter to advance in NCAA Tournament
Trailing by goal at the end of the third quarter, its promising season being threatened by unseeded Bryant, the fourth-seeded Virginia men’s lacrosse team gathered in a circle on the field, called together by captain John Fox. Then, the Cavaliers (11-4) went out and played a dominant fourth quarter, rallying past Bryant for a 13-11 win in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on a cold and rainy afternoon at Klöckner Stadium.
Kentlake High School senior Baeza Lakew has received a prestigious Jefferson Scholarship to attend the University of Virginia. It is one of the most highly selective merit scholarships in the nation and is worth more than $293,000 over four years. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia selected Baeza as one of 38 recipients of the award. She will commence her studies in the fall at the Charlottesville school.
A third-year nursing student at the University of Virginia comforted a Louisa County mother during labor complications and delivery. She has now reconnected with that mother. "I'm grateful we have been able to connect beyond that day," said UVA nursing student Madi Wilson.
(Commentary) When we try to break down the setting in which we find ourselves, the outer and the inner, we can soon become overwhelmed by the sheer amount of rich information and experiences around us. It’s in these moments that we learn to focus our attention on what’s important and ignore the superfluous. Timothy Wilson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, estimates that our brain receives 11 million ‘bits’ of information in the form of sensory experiences each second.
(Editorial) Health officials are alarmed at the number of poisonings they’re seeing, often in people who thought they were collecting wild ramps to spice up their meals. Instead, they were grabbing and ingesting false hellebore, a noxious look-alike plant. “This is my twenty-second year at the University of Virginia, and we’ve only had two cases prior to this past year,” said Dr. Chris Holstege, medical director of the Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health.
"That’s going to be a place that Biden is going to be tested and Democrats are tested with Trump no longer in office," Kyle Kondik, who analyzes House elections at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said of the two Michigan congressional districts. He added that he would consider both seats toss-ups for next year under current conditions.
“If Virginia was going to elect a Republican, this is the type of year that they would do it,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter produced by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “We see the Democrats as favored, but it’s not going to be a slam dunk. They’ll have to work for it.”
Larry Sabato, political science professor at the University of Virginia, acknowledged that Youngkin was not the most pro-Trump candidate in the field, but he said Youngkin still tied himself too closely to the former president to be viable in the general election in a state where Trump is deeply unpopular with moderates and lost by 10 points last year. He described the GOP candidates as "Trump-y, Trumpier and Trumpiest," with Youngkin as the "Trump-y" candidate.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said: “Liz Cheney has positioned herself to be a prominent spokesperson for the old-style Republican, but also a very conservative party that does not kneel before an authoritarian, which is what the others are doing. She deserves the position that she has has just earned. Now, that’s not to say she’s going to be elected president: she’s pretty far to the right. But how can you not admire her for sacrificing the power she has now and maybe her seat?”
But he won’t be appointed without a fight. Students and faculty are organizing to oppose him, for reasons including Perdue’s utter lack of experience in university management, his proud embrace of climate change denial, and his record of using his power to tamp down independent research by public scientists. “Sonny Perdue might be the least distinguished, least prepared potential university leader I’ve seen in my life,” says Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and a longtime observer of university governance politics.
With the adoption of affordable smartphones and social media, consumers got the tools to talk more openly with their friends about money, says Lana Swartz, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia who has written about the transformation of payment services into social media. Now transactions have become messages about all of human interactions, good or bad. It could be rent and nights out, or betrayal and even crime. "Money is really social," Swartz said. "But it doesn't mean just one thing."
UVA Health Chief Epidemiolost Dr. Costi Sifri said in a Friday morning call with reporters these new guidelines are a day we all have been waiting for. Sifri said this is why these COVID vaccines are so important so that we can safely get back as close to normal as possible.