UVA has removed Lambeth Field from a list of possible sites for new softball complex after receiving input from the community. A team from UVA held meetings with students, professors and neighbors from the University Circle and Venable neighborhoods.
College and university athletic directors aren’t among those cheering the tax overhaul. They’re among the biggest losers. Dirk Katstra, executive director of UVA’s Athletic Foundation, says that despite the stereotype that colleges are awash in money, “most Division I schools don’t make money.”
The UVA Board of Visitors will move forward with an ambitious “hospitality plan” to turn the land surrounding the Cavalier Inn into a hotel and conference center, performing arts center and classroom space.
When Thomas Jefferson, recently widowed, was appointed minister to France in 1784, he brought his eldest daughter, 11-year-old Martha, with him. Martha thrived in Paris, where, to her father’s distaste, aristocratic women were well-educated and vocal about their political opinions. Several years later he sent for Martha’s sister Maria, directing his 14-year-old slave Sally Hemings to accompany the younger girl, as her maid, on the long journey across the ocean. Paris would have been revelatory for Hemings, too: According to Jefferson’s records, she received wages for her work, and she likely w...
While hundreds of people marched through the streets of the University of Virginia’s quaint campus in Charlottesville, Va., in August, many of them in support of white supremacy, violently protesting the removal of a nearby Robert E. Lee statue, Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long watched helplessly, appalled at the events unfolding in his hometown. Long wasn’t finished. He put his money where his mouth was in September by pledging six game checks from his $1 million salary for 2017 to fund two scholarships in Charlottesville. Long, a 10-year veteran who played at the University ...
Researchers have learned that a bizarre accumulation of mutated stem cells in bone marrow increases a person's risk of dying within a decade, usually from a heart attack or stroke, by 40 or 50 percent. They named the condition clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential or, more simply, CHIP. "It is beginning to appear that there are only two types of people in the world: those that exhibit clonal haematopoiesis and those that are going to develop clonal haematopoiesis," said Kenneth Walsh, who directs the haematovascular biology center at the UVA School of Medicine.
Presidential historians at UVA’s Miller Center say President Donald Trump has an opportunity to show the country he's fit for his role at his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Presidential Studies Director Barbara Perry expects to hear plenty of positive superlatives from Trump to describe the state of the union, despite deep partisan divisions in the country. She says, however, that he has the ability to be presidential when it’s needed.
Bloomberg reported Monday that President Trump exploded in anger at a statement from the Justice Department warning that it would be “extraordinarily reckless” to publicize what’s come to be known as the Nunes memo without a security review. In response, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly conveyed Trump’s anger to Justice Department officials and “lectured them on the White House’s expectations,” according to the report. Saikrishna Prakash, an expert on the separation of powers at the UVA School of Law, cautioned in a phone interview that there were not enough publicly available detail...
Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the UVA School of Law, said appointing a special prosecutor in a case with an officer-involved shooting is a must. “It is strongly recommended that prosecutors appoint special prosecutors in investigations of police,” Garrett wrote in an email Tuesday.
A local researcher is embarking on a two-year study to try to understand how young people develop their political views and reasoning. Kevin Meuwissen, an associate professor at the University of Rochester's Warner School of Education, hopes his research will inform how politics is taught in schools. A UVA study used an analogy to characterize a common approach to political thinking. "Their analogy is that people tend to behave more like lawyers defending clients (their ethical and cultural values) rather than behaving like scientists investigating open public policy questions," said Meuwissen...
The national prominence of opioid abuse, and a local organization’s outreach effort, has led a local women’s philanthropy organization to host a panel of experts on the topic on Feb. 27. Dorrie Fontaine, dean of UVA’s School of Nursing, will moderate the discussion. Panelists include Dr. Paul V. Targonski, associate professor of medicine and public health at UVA.
A new paper by UVA economist Christopher Ruhm suggests that economic conditions can only help explain a small fraction of the increase in drug mortality rates. This is potentially good news that could offer hope in the fight against drug deaths.
Doctors say some of the medications people take to combat the viral infection could actually slow down their recovery. “You can overdose on certain medications, and one of the biggest ones that's in multi-symptoms and a variety of different medications is Tylenol. And it’s pretty easy to overdose on Tylenol,” said UVA primary care physician Dr. John Davison.
Thomas Jefferson believed with more certainty than any of the other Founding Fathers that it was architecture that provided the ideal way for new nation-builders to express greatness. “From the Grounds Up: Thomas Jefferson’s Architecture & Design,” a new exhibition at the Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, explores the aspirational ways that Jefferson tried to forge that identity into something both cultured and uniquely American.
The UVA men’s basketball team (20-1, 9-0 ACC) remains ranked No. 2 this week in the Associated Press poll behind first-place Villanova (20-1).
While politicians on the left and right often talk a good game about reaching across the aisle, there are powerful factors pushing back against bipartisanship cooperation, particularly as the midterm elections get closer. "The election year dynamic is the most important aspect," said Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics. "So I'm highly skeptical that you're going to see the president able to lead a bipartisan effort to move many elements of his agenda forward in an election year."
As the Trump administration and the nation prepare for President Trump's first State of the Union message on Tuesday, local political experts say he has a lot of work to do. Political analyst Geoff Skelly at UVA’s Center For Politics says despite what Trump says in his speech, his history of changing his mind on the issues will follow him.
Larry Sabato, the well-known founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, had a different – albeit sarcastic – suggestion. "Why not sell each paragraph to the highest bidder?" he asked, rhetorically, on Twitter, suggesting it could say: "This section brought to you by..."
Trump’s desire to dismiss Mueller last June, confirmed by three people familiar with the matter, highlights new political problems for the president, but probably won’t increase his risk of being charged with obstruction of justice, according to legal specialists. That sort of explanation won’t satisfy other people, who tend to think the president is corrupt, said Saikrishna Prakash, who lectures on presidential power at the University of Virginia law school.
President Donald Trump aims to use his State of the Union address Tuesday night to boost funding for his 2020 re-election campaign, promising to display the names of campaign donors during a live broadcast of the speech. “Why not sell each paragraph to the highest bidder?” joked Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.