UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative capped off its first year of existence Monday with a keynote for its summer undergraduate program. The two-month program, mostly for third- andinvestigate cutting-edge questions of computer science, engineering and data science.
A nursing student at UVA is shining a spotlight on the hidden stories with Filipino nurses in Central Virginia. Ren Capucauo, the project director, said he was inspired to put together the exhibit by his mom, who is a Filipino nurse. The exhibition Capucao is putting together includes a film, photo exhibit, and an interactive migration map to show how nurses migrated from the Philipines to Virginia.
Beyond looks, female leaders seem to be held to a higher standard in all arenas. Look at former Vice President Joe Biden, now contending for the Democratic nomination for president, catching up on policy on the fly, flubbing appearances and apologizing for myriad missteps over a decades-long career. While Sen. Elizabeth Warren pushes out detailed plan after detailed plan, running essentially her own think tank. Yet her electability is in doubt because of one possible political mistake ― DNA testing. (Oh, and also her gender, of course.) “For decades, Biden’s schtick has sort of been he says wh...
The “Gutenberg Bible,” the early edition of the Christian holy scripture that was printed and distributed en masse due to the printing press revolutionized by Johannes Gutenberg, remains a symbol of world literacy and documentation. However, other valuable printing methods paved the way to it. “Prior to paper, there were clay tablets,” said Dr. W. Bernard Carlson, Professor in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia.
The massive art installation, called “Inside Out Cville: This is What Community Looks Like!,” was unveiled Sunday in conjunction with Charlottesville’s Unity Days. The 120 black-and-white portraits stretched down Second Street Southwest, directly off the Downtown Mall. The photos featured the faces of such people as Councilor Wes Bellamy, Planning Commission Chairwoman Lisa Green, activists Katrina Turner and Rosia Parker, and University of Virginia professor Walt Heinecke.
U.S. Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land, won’t be the last retirement in Congress if recent history is any indication. In years after a big power shift in the U.S. House, the number of retirements for the former ruling party typically spike. Since 1990, on average 11 Democrats and 12 Republicans retire from Congress every two years. “Serving in the minority is no fun,” said Kyle Kondik, of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
“The [waxing] business is clearly covered” under the Equality Act, University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock tells National Review in an email. The only question is whether a judge might find an exception once American salon owners were taken to court. “Some personal privacy defenses have been read into Title VII for jobs dealing with intimate body parts. But it’s hard to be confident the same thing would happen with the Equality Act. And here it’s the business, not an employee or customer, seeking the exception,” Professor Laycock adds.
A recent court ruling in Norfolk makes one of the remaining defense arguments for Charlottesville City Council's vote to remove two Confederate statues look more uncertain. A Norfolk judge recently dismissed a similar lawsuit by activists who wanted to move a Confederate monument. Still, a University of Virginia law professor says there is some differences in the cases. Richard Schragger says arguments in the Norfolk case came from activists in a civil complaint, and the Charlottesville arguments came from the city and its councilors.
Powhatan officials don’t want or expect explosive, Short Pump-style development, but the county’s population has been climbing steadily over the past few decades. In 1990, its population was 15,328, and it’s projected to hit 29,909 by 2020, according to estimates from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Finding cancer in one breast often leaves a woman with a difficult choice - lose one breast or both. If not, what is the risk? Now an experimental program at the University of Virginia is giving women and their doctors a new framework for making the best choice.
Unnecessary medical tests can add to a patient’s costs, discomfort and anxiety as more and more tests cascade in an effort to chase the cause of a symptom. A doctor may order those tests out of a worthy desire to take care of a patient, according to University of Virginia researchers, but when the tests are not needed, they don’t add much value.
Rental scooters provide a new transportation alternative but if riders get careless they could finish their trip in an ambulance. And the University of Virginia is working to memorialize the contributions of enslaved people. Those have been among the most read stories over the past week at the Virginia Public Access Project's VA News link.
As the District and parts of Northern Virginia gentrify, lower-income families must look for less expensive homes in older suburban areas, such as the neighborhoods around Stonewall, said Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
The founder of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics is not surprised that Dan Coats will retire in mid-August as the Director of National Intelligence. Larry Sabato notes the 75-year-old former U.S. Senator from Indiana has frequently clashed with President Trump over foreign intelligence assessments.
High schoolers from across Virginia will be on Grounds at the University of Virginia for the next several days. The Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology (BLAST) conference offers hands-on science and engineering activities for students to explore career paths.
A longtime Suffolk care provider is closing the book on more than 40 years of treating patients in the community. Dr. Joseph Verdirame of Bayview Physicians Group in Suffolk will retire at the end of July. A UVA alumnus, Verdirame has been practicing internal medicine at Lakeview Medical Center since he first came to Suffolk in 1977 at the age of 27.
On Friday, Ledecky also had the unfamiliar blur in her peripheral vision of her American teammate Leah Smith leading for much of the race and beating her to the wall for the first time ever in a major 800 heat. The University of Virginia product turned in a top qualifying time of 8:17.23.
On Sept. 13, the Virginia men’s basketball team will celebrate the first national championship in program history by raising the new national championship banner and giving members of the program their championship rings during “A Night With the National Champions” event at John Paul Jones Arena.
(Commentary by Anya Karaman, English and history major) At a juvenile detention center in Fes, it feels like summer camp all year round. There, “maximum security” is an open, white building complex; “delinquents” are watering plants and planting seeds; and the only guard in sight, if you’re lucky, is a wild peacock patrolling the grounds. For many of us, the term “juvenile detention center” does not strike summertime sentiments. But in Fes, the all-boys Center for the Protection of Children deviates from the norm in more ways than one.
Toby Heytens: The 1993 SSHS graduate was salutatorian of his class. He is also a 1997 graduate of Macalester College (St. Paul), where he majored in history and communications. At Macalester, he helped found and captain the mock trial team. In 2000, he graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he held the highest grade-point average in the law school's history for a decade. Heytons is credited with writing several legal documents that are often cited. His employment history includes law clerk in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.; professor at the University of Virginia Sch...