In addition to being the first woman to graduate from UVA’s engineering program, Kitty O’Brien Joyner also became NASA’s first female engineer in 1939. During her 32-year career, she specialized in the mechanics of wind tunnels, including testing new aircraft designs prior to being used in flight.
Vern Yip seems equally at home in a variety of places: in front of a global television audience with previous stints as a celebrity interior designer for TLC’s “Trading Spaces” and as a judge on HGTV’s “Design Star”; behind a drawing board creating a host of decor items such as bath towels, pillows and fabric; and at the computer writing design books. Perhaps his favorite place to be, though, is at the eclectic, elegant dream home in Buckhead he shares with his husband, Craig Koch, their two children and five rescue dogs.
Tiffany S. Mickel is blazing new paths as the first African-American editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review, and she hopes to ensure an accessible, equitable and informative resource for others.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented time for businesses. But for one business started by a UVA student, the business suddenly saw itself in the right place at the right time. For the fundraising platform, business suddenly started booming during the pandemic.
Others, including UVA Center for Politics founder and Director Larry Sabato, connected the statue to the book of Exodus. In the Old Testament story, the Golden Calf was worshipped by the Israelites in the absence of Moses as he went up to Mount Sinai. In the Bible, God punished those who worshipped the golden structure instead of him, destroying the calf and killing about 3,000 people.
A phone call from a medical school mentor paved the way for Dr. Norm Oliver’s next step: joining the Department of Family Medicine at the UVA School of Medicine. Among those who took notice of Dr. Oliver’s words and actions there was Dr. Cameron Webb, who was an undergraduate student at UVA at the time. “He was in leadership in the health system and he was speaking out against social injustice,” Webb said. “Again, it was just great to see that in real life, in real time, right in front of me and know that that’s a path that I could walk.”
We sat down with Dr. Adam Winick, a UVA associate professor of vascular and interventional radiology and interventional radiologist at UVA Radiology Vein and Vascular Care Gainesville, and asked him to shed some light on interventional radiology, medicine’s best-kept secret.
After having a tight restriction on visitors following the surge of COVID-19 cases over the holidays, the UVA Medical Center is now adjusting its policy. Starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, UVA Medical Center will once again allow one visitor per patient. The easing of restrictions comes as the coronavirus outlook in Central Virginia improves.
After having a tight restriction on visitors following the surge of COVID-19 cases over the holidays, the UVA Medical Center is now adjusting its policy. Starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, UVA Medical Center will once again allow one visitor per patient. The easing of restrictions comes as the coronavirus outlook in Central Virginia improves.
While protons populate the nucleus of every atom in the universe, sometimes they can be squeezed into a smaller size and slip out of the nucleus for a romp on their own. Observing these squeezed protons may offer unique insights into the particles that build our universe. Researchers hunting for these squeezed protons at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have come up empty-handed, suggesting there’s more to the phenomenon than first thought. Ninety nuclear physicists representing 27 institutions contributed to this experiment, including two graduate...
(Podcast) Fiona Greenland, a UVA assistant professor of sociology, talks about her new book, “Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy.”
When adjusted for age, Latinos ages 20-49 in Virginia are dying at nine times the rate of Asian Americans, who are dying at the lowest rate, according to a report from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute.
These different kinds of thinking are the subject of a paper I co-authored recently in the journal PNAS, which has an interesting back story. Zachary Irving is a brilliant young philosopher now at the University of Virginia, well-trained – as philosophers have to be – at thinking about thinking. He is especially interested in the kind of unconstrained thought we have when our mind wanders. Is mind-wandering really distinct from other kinds of thought, like simple distraction or obsessive rumination? And why do we do it so much?
Soon after psychologist James Coan suffered a “widowmaker” heart attack at the age of 49, he was lying on a hospital table in cardiogenic shock with a 50-50 chance of survival. “While I was there, apparently dying, one of the things that happened was a nurse held my hand,” Coan said. “It sort of burned in my memory as an extremely gentle and humane thing to have done.” Coan, a UVA psychology professor, now teaches a course called “Why we hold hands.”
WVU sociology professor Jim Nolan agreed with James Madison, the primary author of the Second Amendment, that citizens should have a right to bear arms. But, this right is not without limits and should not extend to college campuses. Nolan said Madison believed this because it was recorded in the October 1824 minutes of a meeting of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, of which he and Thomas Jefferson were members. At this meeting the board resolved that “No student shall, within the precincts of the University … keep or use weapons or arms of any kind …”
The number of daily new COVID-19 cases at UVA has fallen drastically from records set just a week ago. The UVA COVID Tracker says there were 26 new cases reported on Wednesday, with all but two of those cases being among students.
The temporary restrictions that were set in place at UVA 10 days ago due to an increase in COVID-19 cases are now being eased.
After essentially locking down Grounds for 10 days, UVA will allow students to gather in groups of six or less and will relax other restrictions.
Dr. Bryan Lewis, an epidemiologist with UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, said, “The flu has just been fully interrupted by people wearing masks, staying home, by the reduced number of children in schools, etc., and I think a lot of people also got the flu vaccine as well. And so all of those forces combined have really stopped the flu in its tracks.”
In 2007, [UVA alumna] Deanna Van Buren visited a historic African American church in Oakland, California, for a birthday program honoring Martin Luther King Jr. An architect, Van Buren listened with rapt attention as the renowned activist Angela Davis, and her sister, attorney Fania Davis, spoke about restorative justice.