Maybe 10 minutes after the MLB Draft, a number Kyle Whitten didn’t recognize popped up on his cell phone. Knowing this call might be important, Whitten wisely answered his phone. Landon Lassiter, the Tampa Bay Rays’ area scout, was on the other line with an offer. Did Whitten want to sign as a free agent with the Rays?
The Nashville-based artist (born Rachel Braig) continues her rise in the music world. After teaching herself how to play piano at age 11, she secured her spot in songwriting programs at Berklee College of Music and New York University’s Steinhardt School. After graduating early from the University of Virginia, she packed her bags and relocated to Music City to work as an in-demand songwriter. In 2019, she decided to step out into the spotlight on her own, releasing her first EP, “Second Thoughts.”
Meghan O’Leary’s athletic career cannot be measured by conventional norms. Now she gets to prove that point one last time. “Ten years ago, this wasn’t even on my radar … to become an Olympian,” O’Leary said. “It feels pretty special to be headed to my second Olympics. The last year has been one of incredible ups and downs, which also makes this moment all the more special.” The 36-year-old O’Leary took up rowing after college at UVA and defied long odds to become a 2016 Olympian. She is set to compete in a different rowing event at the Tokyo Olympics.
Dutch rower and 2010 UVA graduate Inge Janssen advanced with her women’s quadruple sculls team to the final after finishing second behind Germany in their preliminary heat on Friday at the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo. American Meghan O’Leary, a 2008 UVA graduate, finished fifth with her quadruple sculls team in the same heat. The U.S. will have another opportunity to advance to the final during the repechage heats on Sunday morning. New Zealand’s Hannah Osborne, also a former UVA rower, advanced to the semifinal of the women’s double sculls with her partner Brooke Donoghue after winning their...
Jan Vogler, a post-doctoral research assistant at the University of Virginia, earned his doctorate from Duke under McCubbins, who served as Vogler’s dissertation committee chair. Vogler met McCubbins during a research design class, where he found that he “liked [McCubbins’] engagement and his critical thinking a lot. … In academia, no matter where you go and present your research, people will engage with it very critically. It’s important to have someone who really engages with your work, not just someone who looks at it superficially. He looked at our work in a very detailed, thorough way … h...
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said: “Look, I accept hypocrisy – it’s a big part of politics – but this is just dripping with hypocrisy. They stood up and said on or shortly after Jan. 6 that it was a terrible thing and that these people must be brought to justice and now I think they’re going to award them presidential medals of freedom! It’s just beyond belief but it’s designed for one thing. They know that they’ll never convince independents, much less Democrats, of their ridiculous point of view about Jan. 6. This is designed to shore up Republicans and to please Trum...
From after World War II up until the early ‘70s, the United States had what was commonly considered consensus budgeting, according to Craig Volden, a professor of public policy and politics at the University of Virginia. “The president, the appropriations committee, folks in Congress and so on had pretty much a common view about what they wanted to do with the budget,” Volden explained. Volden noted that they thought spending should be addressed to the greatest public needs, taxes shouldn’t get the public too upset, and that the budget should be balanced in the long term.
A University of Virginia lecturer is missing after her wrecked car was found in a park, authorities said. Julia Christine Devlin, 55, who works in the college’s economics department, was last seen on security footage in her white Lexus sedan entering Shenandoah National Park in Charlottesville on July 14, park officials said. Three days later, the smashed sedan was discovered off Skyline Drive in the park – with Devlin nowhere to be found, officials said.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) To the extent that partisan gerrymandering is a problem in American democracy – and not everyone believes that it is a problem – it’s not necessarily because the intent of would-be gerrymanderers has become more nefarious, but rather because their handiwork is arguably more effective now than it’s been in the past.
William Barr revealed himself to be an angry man, not a hatchet man, and if he occasionally wielded the hatchet for Trump, he did it on his own terms and for his own purposes. In 2001, when he sat for an oral history with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, he thought of Congress as merely annoying, likening its members to “infants,” and believed that, while the press was biased against Republicans, it had on balance been fair to him, if not to the president he served.
A clinical trial is underway at UVA for a possible COVID-19 treatment. The study approved by the Food and Drug Administration consist of a team of UVA researchers who are testing a new anti-inflammatory therapy for COVID-19 patients.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine says it has discovered a process that will hopefully lead to new treatments for seizure-related brain injuries.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have found a process in the brain they hope can be used to treat seizure-related brain injuries.
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, the White House homeland security adviser, fielded a question on antifa and domestic terrorism at an event last month sponsored by the University of Virginia. The questioner asked if the Biden administration “acknowledge[s] that antifa is a domestic terror threat.” Sherwood-Randall didn’t directly answer the question, instead reiterating the administration’s all-of-the-above approach. “We are looking at any group that uses violence to achieve its political ends,” she replied.
Gov. Ralph Northam recently granted an absolute pardon to Bobbie Morman, a Norfolk man who was wrongfully convicted in 1993 for shooting a gun out of a car. Morman spent 22 years in prison despite the fact no one was hurt in the incident He owes his freedom in large part to the University of Virginia School of Law’s Innocence Project.
(Commentary by Josh Mound, postdoctoral fellow) The recent ProPublica exposé about billionaires’ almost-nonexistent tax bill was just the latest to reveal how little the ultrarich pay in taxes. We need to attack the wealth and power of the rich – and that means massively increasing taxes on them.
Attorneys leading the charge in a landmark rally lawsuit said during a University of Virginia event Thursday that they hope the case serves as a deterrent to future acts of white supremacist violence.
Few teams in any Olympic sport face more pressure this month than the U.S. women’s basketball squad. It has won six straight Olympic gold medals and is favored to win a seventh. First-time Olympic head coach Dawn Staley knows all about pressure, both as a player and a coach. Whether Staley was starring as a point guard at Philadelphia’s Dobbins Tech, the University of Virginia, in two professional leagues and several Olympics, or serving as head coach at Temple and currently South Carolina, she has enjoyed one successful moment after another.
The 57-year-old cyclist, who was killed in a car attack at Balboa Park on Tuesday, was identified Wednesday as a prominent architect and planner who oversaw the planning and design of several San Diego State University facilities. Laura Shinn worked as SDSU’s director of facilities planning and was serving as the 2021 president of the board of directors of the American Institute of Architects’ San Diego chapter. She also was a founding member of the Women in Architecture group in San Diego. Shinn received a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Virginia in 1985 and a master’...
In a story that seems tailor-made for a Hollywood movie, 2016 DeForest graduate Logan Michaels has been living his own fairytale as he finished up his collegiate baseball career at the University of Virginia. In his final season with the Cavaliers, Michaels helped lead Virginia to an appearance in the College World Series. … Michaels’ baseball career is not over yet. He had hoped to be drafted during last week’s MLB Draft, but signed with the Baltimore Orioles after not being selected.