Michael McConnell, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Virginia, is investigating what role these deletions and duplications of DNA, called copy number variants, play in neuropsychiatric disease.
In 2003, Howard Epstein, a terrestrial ecologist at the University of Virginia, and colleagues looked to the satellite record, which now held another decade of data. Focusing on Alaska’s North Slope, the researchers found that the highest NDVI values, or “peak greenness,” during the growing season had increased nearly 17 percent between 1981 and 2001, in line with the warming trend.
Recently digitized census records are shining a new light on population data from the 1860s. “We do this for the 21st century. I didn’t see any reason why we couldn’t do something similar for the 19th century,” says Hamilton Lombard at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at UVA.
Sihabudeen Palliyalil, research scholar in the Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences at the University of Hyderabad, has been invited to present a paper, “Religion, Power and Representation: Locating the ‘Political’ in Indian Union Muslim League,” at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia. He will present the paper in the graduate conference on ‘Democracy and Religion’ being organized by UVA on April 12.
A UVA organization is helping survivors of domestic violence get legal help this weekend. Trauma attorneys from four Richmond-based legal clinics will travel to the Women's Center on the UVA Corner Sunday. Each attorney will offer four hours of free consultations.
Producer, songwriter, philanthropist and entrepreneur Pharrell Williams will return to Charlottesville to keynote the University of Virginia’s 2019 Valedictory Exercises. Williams, a Virginia Beach native, will address UVA’s graduating class at 3 p.m. May 17 on the Lawn. The event is free and open to the public. UVA also will present class gifts and awards at the event, which is the traditional kickoff of graduation weekend.
With the Cavaliers now national champions, the UVA Office of Trademark and Licensing is extra busy approving new design requests from vendors.
Cuatlacuatl is living and working in Charlottesville and teaching art classes at UVA. He works in a variety of media – illustration, animation, painting, installation – and throughout the month of April, as the Tom Tom Festival artist-in-residence at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, he’ll exhibit some of his own work and lead a number of community art projects.
Both Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson understood public education as the secret formula for the success of a young republic. Franklin and Jefferson established the first public higher-educational institutions – the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia – on a merit-based system similar to the Confucian scholar-official system in ancient China.
(Commentary) The University of Virginia men’s basketball team won the national championship against greater odds than nearly anyone outside the program realizes; with a roster of student-athletes who fit into the fabric of UVA, who succeed in class, who have ambitions beyond basketball, who don’t carry themselves with the above-the-law swagger of a typical college-age celebrity, and who, presumably, did not ask for a briefcase of cash on arrival.
(Video) Along with the basketball team returning from Minneapolis, hundreds of University of Virginia fans also made their way back to Charlottesville on Tuesday.
The size of the crowd surprised Coach Tony Bennett and the team, he told members of the media after the event. Fans packed into the parking lot, climbed on trees and stood in the nearby parking garage for the event, the opening salvo of the celebration. A much larger event will be held Saturday at Scott Stadium.
For those of us who love the school and the commonwealth, the growing feeling of dread as the score ran away from us was no less intense for being familiar. We really needed a win—or at least not another historic loss. The past few years in my home state and at my alma mater have been marked by tragedy, scandal, violence and racism. I know basketball does not heal all wounds. But having something to hope for wouldn’t hurt either. And hope is exactly what Coach Tony Bennett and the young men of Virginia basketball gave us this March. Their journey to the school’s first-ever national championshi...
It’s 1 a.m. on Tuesday, and Virginia basketball has just won the national championship. I can’t believe it. As a 10-year-old, I used to pretend to be Virginia forward Cornel Parker when I was shooting hoops in my driveway, lining up the game-winner in the national championship game. I made countless elbow threes to secure the title for the Hoos, but driveway fantasy is a long way from hardwood reality. I’m giddy. What a night. What a team.
Upon winning the NCAA championship on Monday night, coach Tony Bennett of the University of Virginia knew just who to thank. His first words after taking the title were “Thank you. I’m humbled, Lord,” Fox News reported.
Predictably, sleep wasn’t on anyone’s agenda Monday night/Tuesday morning. Living the moment, as remarkable as any could be, was. So when the University of Virginia’s national champions arrived home a little on the groggy side, they were taken aback by the welcome. It began with a fire-hose salute at the airport and ended with a few thousand of their closest friends outside John Paul Jones Arena.
Anwar and Laura Allen closed their cookie business early Tuesday afternoon and brought their three children to John Paul Jones Arena for a taste of sweet redemption. Both are UVA graduates who have waited years for the men’s college basketball national championship that finally arrived Monday night. But they’re also Charlottesville residents who are rejoicing that the world is focused on their city and university for a much different reason than a year and a half ago. Then, a violent white nationalist rally that turned deadly put the city in a different kind of national spotlight.
Since Monday night, when Virginia beat Texas Tech in the NCAA championship game, the word “redemption” has been frequently used to describe this year’s much better season ending. It’s a word that fits for reasons that go well beyond basketball. But there’s another word that fits, too. After Monday’s big championship win, UVA coach Tony Bennett said the word that best described his team was “faithfulness.”
The excitement continues to build over the UVA men's basketball team clinching a first national championship. Cheers from Charlottesville made their way to Capitol Hill as Virginia lawmakers relish victory.
Rural broadband is vital for economic development, raising house values, keeping local businesses connected and attracting new businesses, said Christopher Ali, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. It is important, too, for the growing field of telehealth, Ali said via email.