Fifty students have been selected for the 22nd Century Scholars scholarship program, which launches on July 1. The UVA Center for Politics along with the Miller Center, the Weldon Cooper Center/Sorensen Institute, the Democracy Initiative, and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy announced the students on Tuesday. According to a release, this program is one to rising second, third and fourth-year students at UVA and UVA Wise who have to apply to participate in a multi-faceted summer internship with participating partners.
Study abroad programs are returning to UVA. However, you better start planning now if you want to go in 2022. Passport processing times are significantly delayed at about 18 weeks, or 12 for expedited processing.
The year 2020 was supposed to be a big one for the University of Virginia women’s swimming and diving team. The signs all pointed to the Cavaliers fighting for an NCAA title and the team’s big names putting together some big swims. It didn’t happen. But instead of lamenting what could have been, the Cavaliers recognized their youth and turned their focus toward 2021. And 2021 couldn’t have been much better in Virginia.
U.S. Army doctor Walter Reed, the youngest-ever graduate of the UVA School of Medicine, helped the world conquer yellow fever – and earned an enduring place in history.
In spring 2020, UVA officials were left scrambling as thousands of students lost summer internships overnight due to the then-burgeoning COVID-19 pandemic. Those precious 10- to 12-week gigs, during which students lay the groundwork for their post-college careers, were suddenly gone. In 36 hours, UVA’s Launchpad program was born.
After kicking around in retirement for a while, [UVA alumnus] Herman Moore decided to get into the world of business. He’s the CEO of Team 84, a marketing and advertising company based in Metro Detroit named after the number he wore with the Lions. The former NFL receiver has set down roots in the Motor City, where he lives with his wife Angela and his sons Aaron and Ashton.
Q&A with UVA electrical engineering Ph.D. graduate David Garrett, who discusses his invention, HEYKUBE.
A push to make bicycling safer is underway in Albemarle County, and it could have a ripple effect across the commonwealth. Rachel Hightman is a rising fourth-year at the University of Virginia. Two years ago, she lost her sister in a biking accident. “I myself have actually been struck by three cars. Twice I was in a bike lane on Preston Avenue and on Main Street,” Hightman said. “I experienced the lack of safety, kind of every day when I’m out and about in Charlottesville.”
“Stoicism is thus from the outset a deterministic system that appears to leave no room for human free will and more responsibility,” wrote Gregory Hays, associate professor of classics at the University of Virginia, in the introduction to his translation of Meditations. “In reality the Stoics were reluctant to accept such an arrangement, and attempted to get around the difficulty by defining free will as a voluntary accommodation to what is in any case inevitable.” Hays described it like this: Imagine that we are like a dog tied to a moving wagon. “If the dog refuses to run along with the wago...
“Of course, the Catholic block in the United States, it’s a big chunk of the electorate and it’s also a group that’s pretty divided politically,” said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes elections at the UVA Center for Politics. “There are plenty of American Catholics who think maybe that Pope Francis basically is too liberal on certain things. It’s not like every single Catholic is a thousand percent with the current pope.”
A unique Virginia law dating to 1938 that allows hunters to go on other landowners’ property without permission to retrieve hunting dogs continues to raise hackles throughout the eastern part of the state and could be put in jeopardy by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. But Julia Mahoney, a law professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on property and constitutional law, told the Mercury that she was “skeptical that Cedar Point is going to have a significant impact on right to retrieve and similar regulations. The right to retrieve is limited in time, limited in scope, a response...
(Commentary) Across the globe and throughout history, families have been the source of economic and social stability. Particularly in the United States, two-parent nuclear families are the leading preventers of poverty and abuse. In a February 2020 article in the Atlantic, University of Virginia professor Brad Wilcox and Brigham Young University associate professor Hal Boyd note: “One federal report found that children living in a household with an unrelated adult were about nine times more likely to be physically, sexually, or emotionally abused than children raised in an intact nuclear famil...
After the civil rights movement, many Southern states coded once explicitly racist policies into laws that drove mass incarceration, says Talitha LeFlouria, professor of African American studies and an expert on mass incarceration at the University of Virginia. Law and order politics and the war on drugs produced wide racial sentencing disparities, many of which persist today. For example, despite equal usage, Black Alabamians are four times more likely than white Alabamians to be arrested for marijuana possession.
(Podcast) Dr. Ebony J. Hilton is a critical care doctor, anesthesiologist, and associate professor of both at the University of Virginia. For weeks, she has warned about the danger posed by the Delta variant. She is deeply concerned it will cause outbreaks in unvaccinated populations across the country, what she calls a pandemic within a pandemic. In this week’s Petrie Dish, host Bonnie Petrie talks with Dr. Hilton about the Delta variant, what a pandemic within a pandemic might look like in the United States, and what we can do to prevent it.
In 1971, a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australia’s remote deserts changed the face of global contemporary art. The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia opened a new exhibition on June 24 titled Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past & Present Together): 50 Years of Papunya Tula Artists that shares and celebrates their story, a story of humble beginnings and great success that continues to this day.
Two scientists from the University of Virginia’s Department of Cell Biology contributed to a new finding that aims to help people further understand how mammals develop. They’re growing a mouse embryo in a dish. It now has a beating heart and is developing muscles, blood vessels, and a nervous system.
Researchers at the University of Virginia are crafting a real-life mouse from stem cells, and it’s starting to grow.
Science fiction’s promise of creating organs for study or transplant is another step closer to reality, thanks to a tiny, manmade embryonic mouse in a University of Virginia School of Medicine laboratory.
In a lab, developed at University of Virginia School of Medicine by Christine and Bernard Thisse, a mouse embryo has a heart that beats. The embryo? Made out of embryonic stem cells.
(Commentary by Matthew Crawford, senior fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) The convenience of the smart home may be worth the price; that’s for each of us to decide. But to do so with open eyes, one has to understand what the price is.