The founder of the local chapter of Black Lives Matter, UVA professor Jalane Schmidt, said, "This is their way of thumbing their nose at us."
Non-profits in Central Virginia made Easter special for families whose children are at the UVA Medical Center.
Charlottesville nonprofits are working together to meet a growing demand for lodging for families of patients at the UVA Children’s Hospital.
The UVA’s Pulmonary Hypertension Center has been recognized as a Center of Comprehensive Care by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.
Infants under the care of baby sitters, relatives and friends were also more likely be placed in a sleep setting with potentially dangerous objects, such as toys, blankets and sleep bumpers, according to the study published April 2 in the Journal of Pediatrics. "If someone else—a baby sitter, relative or friend—is taking care of your baby, please make sure that they know to place your baby on the back in a crib and without any bedding," said study author Dr. Rachel Moon of the UVA School of Medicine.
Mofre than 400 people gathered at UVA's amphitheater on Easter for a sunrise church service.
The existing health care center at UVA-Wise will see a complete overhaul, which is suspected to be completed as early as June. The clinic will be upgraded with the aid of $273,000 from University of Virginia to support telemedicine as well as telehealth care.
A class on promoting peace and bridging separation between people from different backgrounds brought dozens of people together at UVA. These peace dances were part of a six-week program hosted by UVA’s Contemplative Sciences Center.
“In my research, when I look at various social clubs and labor organizations in African-American life, you see a lot of distinctions,” says Claudrena Harold, a UVA professor of African-American studies and history.
The Cavaliers have mastered losing with dignity and rededicating themselves each season with the same acumen they’ve mastered coach Tony Bennett’s Pack-Line defense. And while the program and its fans wish they had less experience with disappointing March endings, Bennett’s players are grateful for his grounded approach.
Virginia coach Tony Bennett had hoped to be here this weekend with a No. 1 seed preparing to play his team’s first Final Four in 34 years. Instead, he found himself trying to reconcile a terrific four-plus months — good enough to bring him here to collect the trophy as The Associated Press men’s college basketball coach of the year — with the fact the Cavaliers fell to UMBC to become the first No. 1 seed to lose to a 16-seed in NCAA Tournament.
City of Promise invited its helpers, as well as people it helps, to its annual Game Changers Luncheon at the Carver Recreation Center Thursday. David Temple, one of UVA’s first African-American graduates, was the keynote speaker.
In a recent move freighted with symbolism, China recently declined to accept containers full of U.S. recyclables that it was supposed to process, said Aynne Kokas, a UVA assistant professor of media studies. “That's a profound message of literally 'keep your own trash,'” Kokas said.
The growth in Northern Virginia is largely due to large employers located there and in Washington, said Hamilton Lombard, research specialist at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, which worked with the U.S. Census Bureau on the population estimates.
Setting up visiting days and orientations requires the preparation of large amounts of food, printing thousands of pamphlets, providing rooms for thousands of students, and cleaning up after the events – all of which can take a toll on the environment. Which is why UVA teamed up with Black Bear Composting to tackle one waste stream: bedding.
In an eccentric sport whose teams spend four quiet months straining and grinding to construct merit, whereupon everyone agrees to spend three loud weeks in a 68-team semi-crapshoot to mint legacies, to determine which coaches get plummer jobs and to ascertain who gets the joy, the Associated Press Coach of the Year award went to Tony Bennett of Virginia here Thursday.
Danielle Collins’ favorite player, for as long as she can remember, has been Venus Williams. Clearly, she wasn’t star-struck when facing her idol. Collins, a former Virginia standout, got the biggest win of her pro career Wednesday night, shocking the eighth-seeded Williams 6-2, 6-3 in the Miami Open quarterfinals.
What do you do when you catch your first glimpse of a college player who has joined the tour? If you’re like me, you look for the flaws. What was it that kept them from believing, like virtually all top players believe, that they were ready to turn pro when they were in their teens? With Danielle Collins, the 24-year-old UVA graduate who faced Venus Williams in Miami on Wednesday, there’s a raw quality to parts of her game.
In the online publication OncLive, Dr. Traci Hedrick, co-director of the Enhanced Recovery Program at the UVA Health System, writes that since her system’s implementation of enhanced recovery protocols in patients undergoing major colorectal surgery in 2013, the hospital has seen an average reduction of two days for hospital stays, an 80 percent decrease in opioid use and a 50 percent reduction in complications. In addition, “there was a $6,567 per patient reduction in total hospital costs,” Hedrick wrote.
The investment underscores how the uncertain political climate is forcing the GOP to spend on races that should be easy Republican wins, especially after a shocking Democratic upset in Pennsylvania’s 18th District earlier this month. “I’m skeptical the Democrats can actually win, [but] the more activity there is on the Republican side, the more indication it is actually competitive, because the parties are the ones with the best numbers,” said Kyle Kondik, a UVA elections analyst. “Losing Pennsylvania 18 was pretty embarrassing for Republicans. This would be worse.”