[UVA alumna] Kathryn Budig isn't a fan of labels. She's one of the most renowned Vinyasa yoga teachers in the world, but she's been known to pepper burpees and jumping jacks into otherwise traditional flows. She preaches the beauty of sweat, grit, and strength, but will regularly wrap herself in the fluffiest fabrics and glammed-up fashions, as evidenced by her Instagram. So when you ask Budig - who married sports journalist and author Kate Fagan after divorcing her husband - to define her sexuality, she's not super stoked to do so.
The long wait finally ended Tuesday night for [UVA alumnus] Ernie Clement. After making his Major League Baseball debut Sunday when he served as a pinch-hitter for the Cleveland Indians in their 6-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners, Clement was in the starting lineup for the first time in the big leagues Tuesday, and he made it a memorable night. During the Indians 7-2 victory over the Orioles at Progressive Field, Clement recorded his first major league hit, a lined single up the middle in the fourth inning off Baltimore starter Matt Harvey.
For [UVA Law alumnus] David Leitch, the job of general counsel at Bank of America was a busy enough job before the Covid-19 pandemic. But, almost overnight, Leitch and his team had to grapple with the legal practicalities of most of the bank’s 200,000-plus workforce working remotely.
Deepfakes are becoming a big deal on the internet, and now a team of University of Virginia students are finding ways to detect them. Deepfakes are computer-generated edits of people that are made to look real. They can be misleading. UVA third-year Zach Yahn says his team’s technology can make a real difference in stopping potential misleading information from being spread.
Dr. Anita Clayton, Chair of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences with the University of Virginia School of Medicine, believes Zuranolone could be effective as a “short-course” for major depression therapy. “This will empower my patients to think differently about their depression and treatment and to rapidly return to their life,” Clayton said.
“Segregation laws kept Blacks off beaches,” explains Andrew W. Kahrl, professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Virginia. He is author of “The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South.” “The very idea of African Americans enjoying leisure spaces alongside whites was a challenge to Jim Crow because it implied equality.” Out of necessity, says Kahrl, “African American activists and businesspeople created their own beach communities.”
A Senate panel confronted Amazon and Google officials Tuesday over growing concerns that the Internet of Things gives tech giants an unfair competitive edge by creating a stranglehold on consumer data and access to smart home devices. The panel also heard from two academics, Matt Crawford, research fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and Jonathan Zittrain, professor of law and computer science at Harvard University, who warned of concentrated power and privacy consequences of giving tech firms too much intrusion into consumers' homes.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe discussed his new health care plan at the UVA Medical Center on Tuesday. His newly released plan strives to tackle rising costs and make health care more affordable and accessible for all Virginians. “I rolled out my plan, I came to see the folks who are delivering that care, and I want to know how we can take the University to the next level,” said McAuliffe. “This is the best medical facility in the entire world right here, but you gotta take it to the next level.”
UVA Children's has been ranked the top children's hospital in Virginia.
Eight children’s hospitals in Virginia received recognition Tuesday in the U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of the top pediatric facilities in the nation, regions and states. First in the state and seventh in the mid-Atlantic region is UVA Children’s, which was ranked nationally in five pediatric specialities: neonatology, pediatric cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes, orthopedics and urology.
According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, about 10 million people suffer from osteoporosis and another 44 million have low bone density. Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine are studying this silent, brittle-bone disease and may have found new insight to battle it.
he University of Virginia swimming and diving team had four swimmers advance to finals in their respective events on Tuesday night at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials.
A new development partnership aims to help a Spanish-language media and content company's employees. UVA and Univision Communications Inc. announced the partnership on Monday. According to a release, it will help the company expand employee access to higher education and develop its workforce.
Virginia Tech president Tim Sands and athletic director Whit Babcock were signatories on a letter sent to Gov. Ralph Northam dated May 19 urging him to issue an executive order that would allow in-state student-athletes to capitalize on their name, image and likeness. The Roanoke Times obtained a copy of the letter through a Freedom of Information Act request. University of Virginia athletic director Carla Williams, who is well-versed on the name, image and likeness topic as part of the NCAA federal and state legislation working group, helped compose the letter based on input she received from...
While prior White House experience is not uncommon for aides, the high number of top staff who served in the last Democratic administration is striking, said Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center. "I think it shows that Biden really places an emphasis on prior experience," she said, "because if you talk to people who have worked in the White House, they will tell you that it's unlike any job they've ever had, that really nothing can prepare you for it, except for having worked in the White House before."
UVA history professor Philip D. Zelikow, the lawyer who led the inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks, has quietly laid a foundation for a nonpartisan commission to investigate the coronavirus pandemic, with financial backing from four foundations and a paid staff that has already interviewed more than 200 public health experts, business leaders, elected officials, victims and their families.
(Podcast) Life becomes richer by subtracting things from it – something often overlooked. That’s according to Leidy Klotz, associate professor at the UVA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and author of the book “Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less.”
A 68-year-old restaurant on the University of Virginia Corner closed its doors for good at midnight on Saturday. College Inn confirmed the closure through a Facebook post. The owners say their lease is up and they're retiring, but they add that the restaurant could resurface somewhere else in the future. Reports from the Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review say that Chipotle plans to take over the location.
Mobile native Paige Madden appears headed to Tokyo for the 2021 Summer Olympics. Madden finished second in the women’s 400-meter freestyle on Monday night at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, qualifying for one of two spots on Team USA alongside world-record holder Katie Ledecky. U.S. Olympic officials must still formally select the second-place finishers for the 26 available men’s and women’s spots for the Tokyo games, though mathematically Madden appears to be a lock to make the team. (Current UVA swimmer Paige Madden finished third.)
On this episode of the History As It Happens podcast, University of Virginia historian William Hitchcock discusses the complicated legacy of the liberation for the liberated: the people of France, Belgium and the Netherlands who suffered death and dislocation as Allied forces fought Hitler’s Wehrmacht on the beaches, through hedgerows, and house by house in cities and towns.