WGCA Honorable Mention All-Americans: Beth Lillie, Senior, University of Virginia.
The ball hit the net at center court and fell back on the side of Miami’s Estela Perez-Somarriba. Emma Navarro, a first year from the University of Virginia, let out one subdued fist pump as she went to greet her coach at mid-court. With that failed volley, Navarro clinched the 2021 NCAA singles tournament in straight sets, taking down Perez-Somarriba, 6-3, 6-1.
After a 2020-21 season spent playing games in near-empty stadiums due to COVID-19 restrictions, the University of Virginia’s athletic programs will welcome fans back in full force for the upcoming 2021-22 season.
The University of Virginia men’s lacrosse team couldn’t find the back of the net in the fourth quarter of their NCAA championship semifinal game against North Carolina on Saturday, but it didn’t matter. The Cavaliers defense held in the final three minutes of regulation, securing a 12-11 victory over the Tar Heels and sending UVA to the national title game on Memorial Day.
Virginia fans must have been holding their breath as the clock ticked toward zeroes, but with a huge save by goalie Alex Rode, they finally could exhale.
With all the NCAA action concluded in Orlando, Florida we take a closer look at women's Division 1 singles champion, Emma Navarro and key highlights about her on-court career thus far.
Sara Daavettila from the University of North Carolina, Katarina Jokic of the University of Georgia, University of Virginia's Emma Navarro and Estela Perez-Somarriba from the University of Miami are the four finalists for the Class of 2021 Honda Sport Award for Tennis as announced by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA).
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the bestselling essay collection Trick Mirror, which has been translated into eleven languages. She was the recipient of a Whiting Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, and the 2020 Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer's Prize. She graduated from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Charles Harris, Natividad Medical Center’s chief medical officer, has been named interim chief executive and will be replacing longtime CEO Dr. Gary Gray, who will be retiring June 5. Harris was graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in history.
Commonwealth’s Attorney candidate Ray Szwabowski wants to meet a national moment and movement by supporting calls for criminal justice reform from within the criminal justice system. He plans to establish a Conviction Integrity Unit and partner with groups like the Innocence Project to explore potential wrongful convictions and release people wrongfully incarcerated. While studying at the University of Virginia, he was also a member of the Innocence Project.
On Sunday, Biden honored the sixth anniversary of his son Beau's death in remarks at a pre-Memorial Day event. 'This is a hard day for us,' Biden said while speaking to veterans and families of fallen military members during remarks at Veterans Memorial Park near the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Beau Biden, who attained the rank of major, joined the Delaware Army National Guard in 2003 and attended JAG School at the University of Virginia.
McClernon added a flourish in her first official league game on May 16, her over-the-top ball finding Morgan in the 84th minute to earn a draw against the Washington Spirit. For a player who didn’t record an assist in four years at the University of Virginia (one goal in 88 games, including 67 starts) it was an unexpected memento of her long-awaited NWSL home debut.
Trepp, a leading provider of data, insights, and technology solutions to the structured finance, commercial real estate, and banking markets announced today the winners of its Future Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Leaders Awards program for undergraduate students: Grace Miller, Bachelor of Science in Commerce with concentrations in Finance and Real Estate, University of Virginia; Andrew Williams, Bachelor of Science in Commerce with concentrations in Finance and Real Estate, second major in Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia.
Twenty-five students are set to participate in the Governor’s Fellows Program this summer. The new class includes students from universities all over the state: Maya Link, University of Virginia.
(Commentary) The letter reflects a concern that “legitimate scientific criticism can be squelched by behaviors that go beyond scholarly debate,” says University of Virginia social scientist Brian Nosek, one of its authors. Threats like these are a “substantial threat to science as a social system,” adds Nosek, who has led a push for greater replicability in science.
Florida is emerging as a national battleground in the fight over congressional redistricting. Republicans and Democrats are organizing and raising money, hoping to influence the drawing of new district lines in the state. “The bottom line is most of us expect Republicans are going to not only draw a seat that’s favorable for a Republican candidate, but also modify other districts that are helpful to Republicans,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center on Politics.
(Video interview) The U.S. has vaccinated 40% of its population against the coronavirus. As Meg Oliver reports, the major strides in the nation's recovery come just in time for a holiday weekend. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at the University of Virginia, joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss the latest.
Annie Kim is a poet, lawyer and violinist. Her books are “Eros, Unbroken” (2020), winner of the 2019 Washington Prize and recently named as a finalist for the 2020 Foreword INDIES Poetry Book of the Year, and “Into the Cyclorama,” winner of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2016). Kim works at the University of Virginia School of Law as the assistant dean for public service.
In 2010 Clay Mathematics Institute announced that Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician then at the St. Petersburg Department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, had proved the conjecture and, along the way, had also solved the late mathematician William Thurston’s related geometrization conjecture. “The proof required new tools, which are themselves giving far-reaching applications in mathematics and physics,” says Ken Ono, a mathematician at the University of Virginia.
(Video) Wall Street's banking chiefs faced tough questions this week on how they are addressing diversity within their ranks and advocating for social justice. University of Virginia Professor of Business Administration Martin N. Davidson assesses progress made so far. He speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts in "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia."