Bells tolled Wednesday afternoon at the UVA Chapel commemorating Liberation and Freedom Day, the start of a long path to freedom for enslaved laborers. It was there, on March 3, 1865, when town and University officials surrendered to Union troops making their way south, the first step to emancipation of enslaved laborers. In a virtual panel called “Marching Toward Emancipation: Commemorating the Arrival of Union Troops in Charlottesville,” hosted by the Lifetime Learning program at UVA’s Office of Engagement, historians and researchers reflected on the importance of the historic date.
Paul Mensah, a Ghanaian resident in the U.S., led a team of Pfizer scientists, engineers, and technicians to develop a vaccine to combat the coronavirus across the world. Mensah, who earned a Ph.D. from UVA, is a chemical engineer and vice president of the Bioprocess Research and Development Group at Pfizer in St. Louis.
Steve Huffman is an American entrepreneur and businessman who achieved a remarkable level of success in the business world before reaching the age of 30. Young entrepreneurs may benefit from learning about Huffman and the choices that he made that gave him an edge on getting ahead in his career. Here are 10 things about the UVA alumnus that you probably didn’t know.
Dawn Staley quickly covered her mouth in embarrassment. She cursed while telling the story of how she got kicked out of a convenience store when trying to buy lottery tickets. The moment came and went in a blink, a second in almost an hour’s worth of one-on-one conversations with The Athletic spread out over the last month. But it is a succinct way to tell a long story, which is how the head coach of the United States women’s national team and the No. 7 South Carolina Gamecocks [and a UVA alumna] finds herself at the confluence of so many forces in a moment so filled with tension.
Although rapidly decreasing COVID-19 case numbers among UVA students led administrators to lift stay-at-home orders for students on and off Grounds last week, the school’s Greek-life leaders are continuing to restrict in-person activities for fraternities and sororities.
“Empty nose syndrome is a paradoxical sense of nasal obstruction,” explains Dr. Spencer C. Payne, associate professor in UVA’s Department of Otolaryngology. “Paradoxical because, by all measures, the nose appears really open, but the person suffering from it feels as though they can’t breathe or that air is not moving through the nose. And because the physics of airflow through the nose is kind of complicated, it’s hard to know if they’re truly experiencing nasal obstruction or if they’re just truly not sensing the flow of air through the nose,” he says.
Five years ago, curators began a monumental effort to reconstitute all 30 pieces of “Struggle” and organize a traveling exhibition. While finding Panel 16 last fall was seen as a once-in-a-lifetime event, the discovery of Panel 28 gives curators hope for a total reunion. Now there are just three panels missing. “Finding the second [painting] was against all odds,” said Elizabeth Hutton Turner, a UVA art history professor who co-curated the show at Peabody Essex Museum. “The fact that they were discovered in such quick succession makes me hopeful. We should be able to find them all – but we hav...
Five years ago, curators began a monumental effort to reconstitute all 30 pieces of “Struggle” and organize a traveling exhibition. While finding Panel 16 last fall was seen as a once-in-a-lifetime event, the discovery of Panel 28 gives curators hope for a total reunion. Now there are just three panels missing. “Finding the second [painting] was against all odds,” said Elizabeth Hutton Turner, a UVA art history professor who co-curated the show at Peabody Essex Museum. “The fact that they were discovered in such quick succession makes me hopeful. We should be able to find them all – but we hav...
The controversy surrounding Burr intensified on May 14 when he resigned as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, a day after FBI agents seized his cellphone from his home. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said in May that “from the day this story broke, Burr’s case always seemed the most serious, and it was so treated by the press.”
Without a rule change to avoid the so-called “filibuster” obstacle, the Democrats, and Joe Biden, will have to find the support of at least 10 Republicans if they want to approve their next big projects: police reform and immigration, gun legislation … an almost inconceivable prospect in such a divided Congress. Democrats “will be more and more angry when they see that the Senate kills all their priorities,” predicts Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia.
With Congress bitterly divided, a 50-50 Senate dramatically impacts the power realities in Washington. Stalemate looms. Still, for Biden, “this is far better than it might have been if Democrats had lost even one of the Georgia Senate seats”, said UVA professor Larry Sabato, referring to two runoff elections that could have left Republicans in control of the Senate.
(Video) Dr. Teresa Babineau, associate professor of family medicine, and J. Corey Feist, CEO of the UVA Physician Group, discuss ways to address physician burnout during the pandemic.
A UVA professor has received the prestigious $10,000 Rilke award for her poetry collection on what it means to be Black in America. “‘White Blood, a Lyric of Virginia’ is about the legacies of racism and the era of enslavement in the upper South,” Kiki Petrosino said.
Frequent exposure to minor explosions may increase the risk of brain injury and inflammation among members of law enforcement and the military, results of a recent study led by UVA researchers show.
Scientists removed cholesterol from the membranes of the most dangerous Ebola viruses and found that it heavily reduced their success in embedding in cells, directly demonstrating for the first time that the lipid is a crucial component to Ebola infection.
While attending UVA, I learned a bit about the oddly shaped metal structure that symbolizes the former home of Catherine “Kitty” Foster. Only now, though, did I realize that Foster, along with 31 other African Americans, was buried in the rolling mounds next to her memorial. Foster’s resting place is one of many overlooked facets of local Black history on the Reparations Fun Run/Walk that’s being held during Liberation and Freedom Days, which celebrates the arrival of Union army troops in Charlottesville, and the emancipation of over 14,000 enslaved people on March 3, 1865.
The Virginia Film Festival will run from Oct. 27 to 31. Festical organizers also announced Wednesday that a final decision has yet to be made on the presentation format of this year’s festival.
There were 13 new cases of COVID-19 reported at UVA on Monday. Of those cases, three are not among students.
Taking multivitamins or probiotics will not harm anyone about to get their COVID-19 vaccine, but there’s not much research to suggest that it will support the immune response the body produces after getting the vaccine, according to UVA Heart and Vascular Center registered dietitian Katherine Basbaum.
Robert Arthur Rankin, 71, a native of Richmond, Virginia, who shared a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing at The Miami Herald, died Wednesday. He received an M.A. in government from UVA in 1974.