UVA’s student-run Arts Board Committee has invited New York-based artist Ed Woodham, founder and director of Art in Odd Places, a collaborative arts festival, to be the artist-in-residence. Woodham will give two talks this month on the significance of art in public space. In the spring, he’ll collaborate with students, artists and the community to create an Art in Odd Places festival in Charlottesville.
UVA researchers who have studied LEAP and its effects found that schools that run the professional learning program as designed had greater growth in the portion of students scoring ‘proficient’ on state tests.
“I am living proof that anything is possible if you have the nerve and the imagination to believe it can happen.” So said Carla Williams, who was introduced earlier this week as the University of Virginia’s incoming athletic director. She’s spent 30 years working toward this pinnacle.
The significance of the selection of Carla Williams as Virginia’s new athletic director was not lost on the appointee. “Yes, I am an African-American female,” Williams, 49, said. “I see that every morning when I wake up and look in the mirror.” Williams, previously the top assistant at the University of Georgia, is the first African-American woman to hold the position of AD at a school in a Power Five conference.
Carla Williams, a longtime athletics administrator at the University of Georgia, was introduced as the new boss of Virginia’s athletics department in a press conference at John Paul Jones Arena. Displaying confidence, grace, and a fire that fueled her ascension from athlete to coach to administrator, the 49-year-old mother of three charmed her audience.
At the community recreation center in LaGrange, Ga., playing basketball and football against the boys, Carla Williams developed a competitive drive. It pushed her to become a 1,000-point scorer for the Georgia women’s basketball team. It drove her to become a Final Four assistant coach with the Bulldogs. And it’s fueled her steady rise through the ranks of college athletics administration.
A researcher at UVA’s School of Medicine has received nearly half a million dollars to research how specific diets are related to breast cancer. Melanie Rutkowski, of the UVA Cancer and Carter Immunology Centers, was awarded $450,000 by the breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen to examine whether a chronic disruption in the microbiome, the group of bacteria in the gut, can hurt the immune system’s ability to battle breast tumors.
A national organization has given a UVA researcher funding for research to combat breast cancer. The Susan G. Komen organization has awarded a $450,000 grant to fund Melanie Rutkowski's work that may lead to doctors prescribing a specific diet to prevent the spread of the disease.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation has awarded the University of Virginia $450,000 for breast cancer research. The grant will allow researchers to harness bacteria in the gut that could help fight against cancer.
Past research has shown delivery of testosterone via the nostrils can be effective and safe. A UVA study reported in the journal Andrology revealed 90 percent of patients treated with a gel had normal blood testosterone levels after daily use for varying lengths of time. The study also found that the men's impotence lessened, their mood improved and the proportion of body-fat tissue dropped over one to three months.
Voices from Southern universities and historical preservation organizations joined UVA and the Charlottesville community to discuss slavery and history as part of the “Universities, Slavery, Public Memory, and the Built Landscape” symposium.
UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan says the only kind of legislation he could see hurting Facebook’s business would be new European-style data protection laws that give users of services like Facebook more say over how data about them is collected.
“Your bang for your buck is going to go a lot farther than it will in Northern Virginia, for instance.” That’s Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics. “So I think that to some degree the dollar amounts match the seats that are most competitive. But it's not always true. Some of that just comes down to the individual candidates.”
The Sacramento Kings have hired former WNBA coach Jenny Boucek, a former UVA standout, as an assistant coach for player development, the team announced Friday. The hiring makes Boucek one of two women currently on the full-time staff of an NBA team, along with San Antonio assistant Becky Hammon.
In an event organized by UVA and the Miller Center, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof reflected on the reasons of the white supremacist violence in August and in the nation.
A fascinating new analysis from the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service quantifies a stunning demographic and economic transformation of the nation's largest metropolitan areas over the past quarter-century.
Just over six weeks following the announcement that athletic director Craig Littlepage was retiring, Virginia shared in a piece of history with its selection of his successor. Carla Williams, deputy athletic director at Georgia, has accepted an offer from Virginia and will become the first African-American female AD at a school in one of the Power Five conferences.
Virginia has hired Georgia deputy athletic director Carla Williams to succeed Craig Littlepage as the Cavaliers’ athletic director, sources said Saturday night. Williams, who was expected to become the next athletic director at Georgia, will be the lone black woman athletic director in the Power Five conferences. She also will be the first head of the Virginia athletic department since Dick Schultz who is without close ties to the university.
"Thank you. This is the correct decision. Please do not allow exceptions for any agency of government," tweeted Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics and author of a book about Kennedy, who has urged the president to release the files. "JFK files have been hidden too long."
The man who in 1970 got the University of Virginia to finally admit women into undergraduate classes died Sunday at his Maryland home. John C. Lowe, 80, of Bethesda, was a defense attorney and community leader during his decades living and working in Charlottesville. He was an advocate and an optimist, his family and friends said, committed to believing the best in life.