It was four years ago that some 200 tiki torch-toting, slogan-shouting white supremacists and neo-Nazis tore a page from the Nazi Nuremberg rallies of the 1930s and marched about the Grounds of the University of Virginia. The march occurred on the eve of the Aug. 12, 2017, Unite the Right rally, and the symbolism and violence of both events shattered the sense of security at UVA and forced the University community to look inward.
All three of those Olympic medalist teenagers, Emma Weyant, Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass, swim for the University of Virginia. Douglass is a rising junior, Walsh a rising sophomore and Weyant will begin her first year in Charlottesville after deferring in 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That trio represents the present and the bright future in the IM events for the United States.
There are plenty of reasons for the Vermont Lake Monsters’ success in recent weeks, but a contingent of commits to UVA certainly hasn’t hurt. Anhtony Stephan, Justin Rubin, and Futures League MVP finalist Ethan Anderson were three of the Monsters’ best position players this season, their first above the high school level. This weekend, UVA head coach Brian O’Connor, who has taken Virginia to Omaha five times in the dugout and once as a Creighton player, made his first ever trip up to see his guys play. O’Connor says it would be tough to be any more impressed by Burlington.
Lt. Margaret “Peg” Stirewalt had obtained her Ph.D. from University of Virginia before entering the Navy as a WAVES. Initially serving as an intelligence officer, she later transferred to the newly established Naval Medical Research Institute in the 1940s where she initiated the Navy’s first schistosomiasis research program.
Veteran federal prosecutors from Virginia’s two prosecutorial districts were nominated on Tuesday by President Joe Biden to become the regions’ U.S. attorneys. Biden named Jessica Aber as his choice for U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, while UVA Law alumnus Christopher Kavanaugh is the president’s pick for the Western District of Virginia, acccording to a White House news release. Both are subject to Senate confirmation.
It's taken years for 20-year-old Austin Houck to get comfortable with who he is. "I have autism and I have ADHD as well; and for a long time that was a really big struggle," Houck said. The Alexandria resident had challenges with learning and problems interacting with people.
A Charlottesville-based public defender and University of Virginia lecturer has been elected to serve on the Virginia Court of Appeals. Lisa Lorish, a UVA School of Law graduate, was one of eight new nominees to the court, which Virginia Democrats voted to expand from 11 to 17 judges.
Supporters, however, say threat assessments give school staff a structured system for the sensitive and serious process of gathering information to evaluate the probability of a student causing harm to others. Without it, there is greater potential for school staff to overreact and make rash decisions that would inappropriately – and perhaps disproportionately – push more students toward suspensions, expulsions or arrests. “It's a question of whether they do them intuitively, impulsively, out of fear and anxiety, or they do them systematically with a standard process,” said Dewey Cornell, a cl...
During the legislative process, additional language was added requiring school districts to follow any CDC guidance “to the maximum extent practicable.” According to Virginai Gov. Ralph Northam, that means all districts must follow the new recommendations put out by the CDC last Wednesday. They include universal masking for all students, staff, teachers and guests regardless of vaccination status. Margaret Riley, a professor of health law at the University of Virginia, says she “tends to side” with Northam’s interpretation. “I don’t think a single legislator, even if an original sponsor... get...
As the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus spreads, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is discussing the possibility of booster shots. A health expert from UVA Health says most people won’t need them. Dr. William Petri says that booster vaccine doses are not currently necessary for the vast majority of the population.
“At the end of the day, if you’re seeing women dying 20% more often in a driver seat belted than a male, that’s something we need to fix,” said Chris O’Conner, CEO of Humanetics, a company that manufactures crash test dummies, referencing a University of Virginia study that found women are 73% more likely to be injured and 18-20% more likely to be killed behind the wheel.
Sunflowers face the rising sun because increased morning warmth attracts more bees and also helps the plants reproduce more efficiently, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, Davis. The research team also included Evan Brown, an undergraduate student supervised by Ben Blackman at the University of Virginia.
A Friday report from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which identifies COVID trends, found the delta variant, lower vaccination rates and more relaxed behaviors among residents are driving the surges in the state’s health districts. The potential aftermath: infections surpassing the record-high set in January within a month.
VisitAble was founded by Joe Jamison in 2019, as he was finishing his degree at the University of Virginia. One of his senior capstone objectives was to start a business – and he knew that he wanted to do something for the disability community.
(By Daniel Willingham, psychology professor) Like many parents, my wife and I limit time on the Internet for our children (ages 12 and 14). They usually respect that limit, so I try not to set the agenda for how they spend the time. And yet … Some content they favor drives me crazy.
With COVID-19 cases rising, UVA Health will begin restricting visitors and visiting hours at the Medical Center and clinics beginning Thursday.
Dawn Staley continues to have an amazing coaching career. Staley, a University of South Carolina head women’s basketball coach and North Philadelphia native, led the United States women’s Olympic basketball team to 90-75 victory over Japan to win the gold medal. The former UVA women’s basketball star has earned six gold medals in her Olympic career. She has won three as a player, two as an assistant coach and one as a head coach.
Wilson Craig, a 27-year-old University of Virginia graduate, left his New York City finance job to follow his dream and become an entrepreneur. Now, he’s projecting annual revenue to top $25 million by August 2022 from the launch of his canned cocktail company Waterbird. Sales recently jumped more than 2,800%, he said.
Joan Kuhl, author of “Dig Your Heels In,” chats with rising golf stars Megha Ganne, Bailey Davis and Riley Smyth about overcoming self-doubt, mental wellness, the push for diversity in their sport and more. Smyth, a senior at the University of Virginia, finished in the top-10 players for four of eight events she competed in this year while also setting the UVA record in 2021 for her 54-hole tourney score.
Also Monday, the House Courts and Senate Judiciary committees announced that they had agreed on eight nominees to fill two vacancies and six new seats on the Virginia Court of Appeals, the second-highest state court. The nominees are expected to be certified in committee votes Tuesday and then formally elected by a vote in the full chambers later that day. The nominees include Lisa M. Lorish of Charlottesville, an assistant federal public defender and appellate specialist for the Western District of Virginia and lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law.