The Americans’ medals Wednesday, then, came from not only from Katie Ledecky’s victory in the 1,500 freestyle, and not only from red-white-and-blue teammates – but from navy-blue-and-orange teammates. Abby Walsh is from Nashville and Kate Douglass is from Pelham, N.Y., but they swim together at the University of Virginia – and in Charlottesville, that was enough to promote a watch party at Scott Stadium.
Having one Olympian is a big deal for a university. Two is even bigger. Two in the same event, both who ended up on the same medal podium? Welcome to the University of Virginia’s world. Cavaliers swimmers Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass earned silver and bronze in the 200-meter individual medley on Tuesday, finishing just behind Japan’s Yui Ohashi.
Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass, silver and bronze medalists in the 200 IM, are just the next up in the long, continuous lineage of great American swimmers.
University of Virginia swimmers Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass both won medals for the United States in the 200-meter individual medley on Wednesday at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Walsh, a rising sophomore, won the silver medal with a time of 2:08.65. Douglass, a rising junior, came in just behind her teammate with a time of 2:09.04.
We asked top students from the top business programs – including Sameul R. Lisner and Jeannie Patrice Hirsch of UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce – to share the biggest lessons they’ll take into their careers. From embracing failure to deepening your network, here were the 15 biggest takeaways for the Class of 2021.
When the Indy Autonomous Challenge takes off later this year, all the race cars will look the same – and no one will be behind the wheel. The IAC is a university-led, self-driving car race taking place Oct. 23 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with $1.3 million in prizes on offer. More than 40 schools with 550 students from around the world entered the competition. As of late July, it’s down to 19 universities across 10 final teams – including UVA – totalling more than 200 students.
UVA has launched a new app, called “Guardian,” in the hope of making Grounds a safer place. The app will provide crime alerts and updates, as well as contact information for various safety organizations.
Henrico native and Freeman High School graduate Daniel Lynch earned the first win of his Major League Baseball career Sunday, pitching eight shutout innings as the Royals defeated the Detroit Tigers, 6-1. Lynch, who pitched collegiately at the University of Virginia, struck out four and walked none, while allowing only five hits to stymie the Tigers, who had won seven of their previous nine games.
From a Q&A with former UVA tennis star Somdev Devvarman: “When I joined college at the University of Virginia, the pool was really strong. I got a degree and a scholarship. But I also got to evolve as a person and as a player. I had three coaches, eight or 10 teammates. If we got injured, we had experts to make sure we were fine and back on court. It was the most important part of my tennis life. Those four years really gave me the opportunity to grow, to mature, and become a better player. Tennis is a lonely sport, but to have teammates and be working towards a common goal can work wonder...
For those students who were lucky enough to still do a virtual internship, there were new challenges: Many found it difficult to feel connected with their co-workers and adjust to the new environment while sitting in their apartment or childhood home. Susie Juarez, a 2021 graduate from the University of Virginia, explained that it was difficult to connect with her fellow interns while working in a remote internship during the summer of 2020. “I really didn’t meet any other interns,” Juarez admitted. “People didn’t talk to each other on a daily basis. It was like a bunch of strangers meeting fo...
An examination of more than a decade of observations made by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, a project that is using pulsar timing to hunt for gravitational waves, for example, found no evidence of planets around a set of 45 fast rotating pulsars. The search could have revealed planets as light as the Moon in orbital periods of 1 week to almost 5 years, said Erica Behrens, a graduate student at the University of Virginia who conducted the study during an internship at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. “Since we’ve seen so few, it seems like they’re pre...
At American trials last month, Jacoby was second to King in 1:05.28. In the month since, she traveled to the U.S. training camp in Hawaii — and got better. Who knows how much a teenager can change when put in an entirely new environment and exposed to the best swimmers in the world? “I think it helped a lot,” said Alex Walsh, a first-time Olympian from the University of Virginia who turns 20 later this week. “I think a bunch of us, this is our first or second major international meet, so having that kind of camp just to be able to get to know one another and also bond with the vets and hear wh...
(Video) The U.S. is facing another surge of COVID-19 fueled by the Delta variant and unvaccinated Americans. More than 97% of people admitted to hospitals for the coronavirus weren’t vaccinated. Dr. Taison Bell, an assistant professor of infectious diseases, international health and pulmonary critical care at the University of Virginia, spoke about rare breakthrough cases where vaccinated people contract the virus and what could be next for cities if more people aren’t vaccinated.
(By Margaret Riley, professor of law, public health sciences and public policy) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule is a federal law prohibiting health care providers, businesses and the people working with them – including administrative staff, laboratories, pharmacies, health insurers and so on – from disclosing your health information without your permission. When people talk about HIPAA, they typically refer to the Privacy Rule provision established in 2003, which is just one part of a broader law initially passed by Congress in 1996.
(Commentary) Thomas Talhelm of the University of Virginia led a study of Han Chinese communities that compared the worldviews of people living in rice-growing regions to those in wheat-growing areas. The findings suggested that growing rice leads a culture to become more cooperative, more focused on collective harmony, and more aware of interdependence, while growing wheat creates a culture that places a higher value on independence and individualism.
Engineers at University of Texas at Austin and University of Virginia developed a light detector that can amplify weak light signals and reduce noise to improve the accuracy of lidar. “Autonomous vehicles send out laser signals that bounce off objects to tell you how far away you are. Not much light comes back, so if your detector is putting out more noise than the signal coming in you get nothing,” said Joe Campbell, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia School of Engineering.
UVA swimmer Kate Douglass made her Olympic debut Monday and had a successful preliminary swim of the 200-meter individual medley at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Douglass swam a personal-best 2:09.16 to win her heat over China’s Yu Yiting and Japan’s Ohashi Yui. The UVA sophomore will be the top seed in the event going into the semifinals Tuesday night. Her UVA teammate Alex Walsh was second in her heat to advance to the semifinals.
According to a doctor with UVA Health, if a fully vaccinated person contracts COVID-19 they still need to quarantine. Dr. Costi Sifri says preliminary research suggests the viral load is less in people who are fully vaccinated. However, there is still a chance you can spread the virus even if you have the shot in your system.
When the COVID-19 pandemic sent people inside, medical appointments made the transition to a virtual environment. For the UVA Medical Center, the transition was an easy one. “We have a very long history of providing telemedicine services to citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia,” Director for UVA Center of Telehealth Karen Rheuban said. The pandemic allowed UVA to expand its virtual services.
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus unseated the University of Virginia Medical Center as the best hospital in Virginia in U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of the best hospitals in the nation, which was released Tuesday. Ranked No. 2 in the state, UVA Medical Center ranked nationally in five children’s specialties: No. 36 for neonatology, No. 37 for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery, No. 42 for pediatric diabetes and endocrinology as well as for pediatric orthopedics and No. 43 for pediatric urology. It was also recognized as the No. 1 hospital for children’s care in Virginia.