Lexie Hodges and her mother, Sharon Love, founded the One Love Foundation 10 years after the murder of Yeardley Love, a University of Virginia lacrosse player, by her ex-boyfriend.
The University of Maryland will go all-virtual after Thanksgiving break. Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia will also finish this semester online. UVA says it will require every student to be tested for COVID before leaving campus.
Do all students in the United States have the same access to education? If they don’t, should the federal government be held complicit? UVA law professor Kimberly Robinson recently tackled that question, asking if education should be a constitutional right in her new book, “Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy Regarding a Federal Right to Education.”
Charles Snowden steeled himself for the walk he helped map out with a group of his UVA teammates, feeling its gravity the moment he looked up at the street sign that read, “Heather Heyer Way.”
Claudia W. Allen, a clinical psychologist and the director of the Family Stress Clinic at the UVA School of Medicine, recommended the following script to start things off: “This is a complicated year. I hope that we’ll be able to be together in some way, but I’m concerned about keeping us all safe. What are your thoughts about that?”
Sixteen years ago, a group of people in the Charlottesville area worked to solve a problem within nearby schools: the lack of diversity among teachers. They created a nonprofit, now headed by a University of Virginia alumna, that aims to put more Black teachers into the classroom.
The concept was born of co-founder Steve Rogge’s personal experience as a restaurateur. He said that to buy food and other supplies was a challenge as the search took him to multiple websites and sources. Rogge shared his challenge with Akbasli, a friend he made while at the University of Virginia. The pair then brought on their college friends Lancen Lachance and Willow Noonan to fill out its roster of founders.
Dr. Benjamin Moses, an anesthesiologist and critical care medicine physician at the University of Virginia, has announced his candidacy for the 59th district seat in the Virginia House of Delegates.
It will be “very hard” for Biden to have much sway over policy while not in power, said Barbara Perry, presidential studies director at UVA’s Miller Center, but the Democrat can send signals about important policy decisions, and could hold growing symbolic influence as the soon-to-be leader of the world’s most powerful country.
A University of Virginia professor says the 2020 election results show a lot about the urban-rural divide in America.
The team Biden tasked with transitioning the Labor Department will be headed by former Deputy Labor Secretary Chris Lu, who has deep ties to former President Barack Obama. Lu serves as an adviser to the technology firm FiscalNote and as a fellow at a think tank affiliated with the University of Virginia.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said he appeared to be a “real hit” both during the primaries and for the Biden campaign.
As a part of this program, contracts were awarded to Virginia Tech, UVA Health and Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk in an effort to invest in the future response to pandemics and other public health threats by establishing a structure for collaboration.
Gov. Ralph Northam announced that the Virginia Department of Health and Department of General Services, which oversees the state’s public health lab in Richmond, finalized contracts with Virginia Tech, the UVA Medical Center and Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk to boost capacity to 7,000 tests a day by the end of the year.
It is called diabetic retinopathy, and Dr. Michael Cusick, an ophthalmologist with UVA Health, says many people have no symptoms at all until it’s too late, so screening is really important.
A new study from the University of Virginia found increased Facebook usage among conservatives is associated with reading more conservative sites than they normally do. The effect was less dramatic among liberals.
The University of Virginia held a virtual panel on Monday called “Litigating the Election” aimed at clarifying residual ambiguities and highlighting the lessons learned.
State rivalries are being put aside to remember those who lost their lives serving our country.
Dr. Sam Graham turned 100 last week. His wife, Jane, beat him there by five months. The Grahams met in the early 1940s when both were attending UVA.