The Virginia Cavaliers received an at-large bid to the upcoming NCAA Tournament. They will play in the South Carolina Regional and open play on Friday at noon against South Carolina. You can watch the game on the ACC Network.
As a player, Levy was a star at the University of Virginia from 1988-92 and scored three goals in the 1991 NCAA title game to give the Cavaliers the national championship that year. She was a two-time All-American and the 1992 NCAA Attacker of the Year, which earned her a spot among the top 50 players in ACC history back in 2002.
Harris and McLeod go back to their days together at the University of Virginia, even rooming together when McLeod was a senior and Harris a freshman. "I was kind of like a big bro to him, in a sense, mentored him," said McLeod on Wednesday afternoon. "Coaches told me right then and there, ‘Once you leave, he’s going to be the guy.’ And he proved that."
(Editorial) Shakespeare gives us one example of a young man who is originally considered a lightweight but grows in office into a serious-minded leader who is respected even by his enemies: The rakish Prince Hal’s transformation into the martial Henry V. Virginia history gives us another: The life story of [UVA Law graduate] John Warner, the former five-term U.S. Senator who passed away Tuesday at age 94.
A UVA alumnus is trying to make sure businesses go beyond the American Disabilities Act and become more accessible for people with mobility challenges. “I grew up understanding the different barriers and challenges that people with disabilities face on a daily basis, so I decided to do something about it,” VisitAble CEO Joe Jamison said. “I grew up listening to my father calling ahead to restaurants, movie theaters, hotels to check their accessibility, having to talk with five or six different people before we finally got an answer.”
Sen. Mitt Romney met with President Joe Biden to discuss his family plan, Romney said during a Deseret News and Institute for Family Studies webinar on Wednesday. The event, titled “Cash or Child Care: What Do American Parents Want?” was moderated by Brad Wilcox, a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a sociologist at the University of Virginia.
"He refused to toe the party line on everything and would seek compromise with Democrats where it was in the country's interest to do so," said Larry Sabato, the founder of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Commentary by A.D. Carson, assistant professor of hip-hop) From the earliest days of hip-hop, rap artists have referenced the extraterrestrial to help us escape our earthbound existence.
University officials at UVA Wise have opted to “encourage”, rather than require, COVID-19 vaccinations on campus this fall.
More than a dozen objects that are considered sacred in Australia are being repatriated. According to a release, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is repatriating 17 objects from its collection to Arrernte, Warlpiri and Warumungu communities in Central Australia.
Anne Lee Bennett was 32 years old when she died May 9, 1994, in her home on Beverley Street in the city she loved. The face of Virginia's Easter Seals, Bennett's health problems began when she was 3 years old. Misdiagnosed for years, it wasn't until she was 15 when physicians at University of Virginia Medical Center diagnosed her as having juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis.
Caring for someone with cancer can be a very difficult task on the mind, body, and soul. That’s why UVA’s Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center is inviting folks caring for loved ones to join a virtual book discussion that starts June 1.
UVA Health is continuing its mobile vaccine clinics. On Wednesday, it stopped at the Pantops Shopping Center in front of Food Lion.
The UVA Center of Politics released a report earlier this month showing that incumbent Democrats will already face an uphill battle in 2022 because of redistricting. According to the report, only two Republicans face toss-up races.
Wastewater testing has been critical in slowing the spread of the coronavirus. Now, the same University of Virginia doctors leading the program are saying it has new uses as the pandemic winds down. Dr. Amy Mathers, the UVA physician who led the wastewater testing research, says wastewater surveillance was originally developed to look for polio vaccine breakthroughs. Decades later, it can be used in the same capacity for COVID-19.
Emma Navarro is two wins away from a national championship. The Virginia freshman needed just 61 minutes to earn a 6-2, 6-1 win over LSU’s Paris Corley on Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Women’s Tennis Singles Championship in Orlando. Navarro (23-1) will face a familiar opponent in Thursday’s national semifinal, taking on top-seeded Sara Daavettila (22-1) of North Carolina.
(Commentary) Richmond Public Schools is funding administrators and teachers to get additional (online) credentials as Reading Specialists from Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia. There will be two positions eventually filled at each elementary and middle school: a Literacy Coach and a Reading Interventionist.
The Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act passed unanimously through a Senate committee Tuesday, and Sen. Tim Kaine expects it to become law. It’s designed to provide mental health services for medical professionals, and remove the stigma surrounding their seeking help. Breen, a Charlottesville native and UVA graduate, was an emergency room doctor last year in New York City when the pressure and constant death connected to COVID-19 led to her death by suicide.
Congress is still haggling over Biden’s infrastructure plan, but experts say the proposed funding for highway removal represents a shift in the way the government approaches transportation projects. “As recently as a decade ago,” said Peter D. Norton, a UVA transportation historian, “every transportation problem was a problem to be solved with new roads.” Now, the impacts of those roads are beginning to enter the equation.
(Commentary co-written by Helena Zeweri, assistant professor of global studies) As the Biden administration struggles to meet its self-imposed Sept. 11 deadline to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, Hollywood is offering its own painless, bloodless version of an end to America’s longest war. Since CBS’s new sitcom “United States of Al” premiered April 1, the Afghan American diaspora and social media have been abuzz.