A University of Virginia fourth-year student has died after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. Twenty-one-year-old Margaret Lowe of Nashville, Tennessee passed away Tuesday evening at the UVa Health System.
The University of Virginia, the commonwealth’s flagship institution of higher learning, has been in crosshairs of the media more in the past five years than at any time in the school’s modern history. That spotlight has drawn attention to issues at UVa that are both specific to the university and indicative of changes and issues sweeping through higher education in the United States.
The 2015 Chamber of Commerce Jobs Report is out, and it looks like good news for the Charlottesville area. The report shows retail is part of the largest employment category, and, as always, the University of Virginia helps make Albemarle County this region's top job engine.
It has been almost one year since University of Virginia student Hannah Graham was abducted and murdered. Since her death, her friends have decided to fulfill one of Graham's dreams, not only as a tribute to her, but also to spread an important message.
Starting freshman year of college is an incredibly stressful time for most people, said Tim Davis, director of counseling and psychological services at the University of Virginia. From the outside, college looks so carefree, he said, “sitting under a tree reading a book, throwing Frisbees, all that stuff.”
Wired magazine published a story showing maps of the racial segregation of America -- and Detroit is "among the most segregated cities in America," the magazine notes. The map is the work of Dustin Cable of the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, and draws from 2010 census data. Accounting for all levels of zoom, Wired notes, the map includes more than 1.2 million PNG files, a total of some 7 gigabytes of visual data.
An ocean of ink has already been spilled on Donald Trump and his meteoric rise in American politics, so much so that you would be forgiven for thinking there was nothing left to be said about the outspoken, controversial billionaire who is the front-runner in the race to be the Republican presidential nominee. But, swirling in the ether of social media, a University of Virginia professor brings us something rather novel. On Monday, Bruce Holsinger, a medievalist and professor of English, came up with the Twitter hashtag #BeowulfTrumpand proceeded to embark on a series ...
The State Department released another big batch of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails on Monday night. They don’t appear to contain any shocking policy revelations. Of the 4,368 documents released, 125 included sensitive and possibly classified information, according to State. That information was redacted to keep it from public view. “I wake up to drip, drip, drip ... not water droplets but Clinton emails. And only 25% of undeleted emails have been released," tweeted University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato on Tuesday morning.
University of Virginia student Margaret Lowe died Tuesday, one day after she collapsed while running at Lannigan Field, the university informed students and staff via email. Lowe, a fourth-year student from Nashville, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, the email indicated.
Through innovative technology, those around the world without clean drinking water can now drink clean water by using the Drinkable Book. Dr. Theresa Dankovich, a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, invented the bactericidal paper, pAge, for her PhD at McGill University in Canada. Dankovich went to the University of Virginia for her postdoc research position where she tested the filter papers in the field in South Africa.
Tom Scott, the greatest athlete in the University of Virginia’s history, passed away Monday at the age of 84.
A new theater in Charlottesville is right on track to open up just in time for the upcoming Virginia Film Festival. Organizers have seen a lot of work go into the new space. "I’ve seen a tremendous amount of energy around this in the last month or so," said festival director Jody Kielbasa. "The facade is almost finished inside and I know they're hard at work on the inside to get those seats in and the screens ready."
A massive effort to test the validity of 100 psychology experiments finds that more than 50 percent of the studies fail to replicate. This is based on a new [U.Va.-led] study published in the journal “Science.”
Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia have performed the first focused ultrasound treatments in the United States for dyskinesia associated with Parkinson's disease.
Right now, when you use Wi-Fi to try to figure out what the kids are listening to these days on this newfangled Apple Music (that might just be me), radio waves transmit the data between your computer and router. This often works just fine, but some people require wireless boosters to get the signal in their basements, for example. A team of former graduates from the University of Virginia think it’d be better if we could just connect to the Internet through our light bulbs.
Construction for a new regional firearms training center for Charlottesville and Albemarle Police on Milton Rd. is making progress. Once complete the facility will help train Charlottesville, Albemarle, and University of Virginia Police Officers.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge (BBBS) and Madison House’s Big Siblings Program are forming a new partnership. Student volunteers through Madison House will benefit from training and coordination with the professional staff of BBBS. An independent non-profit organization founded by University of Virginia students in 1969, Madison House coordinates the efforts of more than 3,000 UVA students each year as they volunteer more than 110,000 hours at approximately 170 local sites, partnering with a range of local organizations and agencies.
Downtown D.C. incubator 1776 has officially launched a $12.5 million seed fund to invest in pre-Series A ventures in five highly-regulated sectors that characterize most of 1776’s members: health, education, energy, transportation and “smart cities.” The newly-closed fund’s earliest investments include Philadelphia-based edtech startup ApprenNet, which today announced a $1.8 million round led in part by the University of Virginia’s Jefferson Education Fund.
The University of Virginia Women's Center has selected Farzaneh Milani for its 2015 Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award. She is the chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Culture and is also been the previous director of Women, Gender and Sexuality at UVa.
The University of Virginia Women's Center has selected Farzaneh Milani for its 2015 Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award. She is the chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Culture and is also been the previous director of Women, Gender and Sexuality at UVa.