“Our pets lead us to each other,” Richard Warner said of the lead characters he and his wife, Judith Reagan, play in Christian O’Reilly’s “Chapatti.” “Chapatti,” the third production in this year’s Heritage Theatre Festival, opens Thursday evening on the Helms Theatre stage.
It’s relatively easy to conduct and publish research that shows that Medicaid enrollees have worse health care outcomes than those with private coverage or even with no coverage. One such study that received considerable attention was conducted at the UVA Health System. Many other unmeasured differences can skew results, even in studies with such statistical controls. The authors of the UVA surgical study and of studies like it know this, and say as much right in their papers.
Demographers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service are forecasting a sharp increase in Albemarle’s population by the year 2045, but a smaller rise for the city of Charlottesville.
Archeologists have excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion that has astounded even the most experienced social scientists: The living quarters of Sally Hemings, the enslaved mistress of Jefferson, who, historians believe, gave birth to six of Jefferson’s children.Last year, Monticello, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Virginia, hosted a public race summit entitled, “Memory, Mourning, Mobilization: Legacies of Slavery and Freedom in America.”
(First of a three-part series) Longtime UVA athletics correspondent David Teel interviews UVA Athletics Director Craig Littlepage about the state of the Cavalier athletics program. (All three parts are available online)
Despite his role as president of the United States, governor of Virginia, and founder of the University of Virginia, the composition of much of the Declaration of Independence is the enduring legacy of Thomas Jefferson.
A local foundation that made a college education possible for hundreds of Southwest Virginia students now has a library conference room named in its honor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
The scholarship program was established in memory of three children or grandchildren of Dominion employees, who were slain in the April 16, 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech. The scholarships were available to the children of Dominion employees and retirees. Emily Wade, daughter of employee Adrian Wade, was one of the original 2008 recipients. Having completed her undergraduate degree, she now works at the Office of Advancement at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. "The scholarship benefited me substantially during my time at the University of Virginia, where I major...
Adam Haseley's path to the majors, which the Phillies believe will be a quick one, will continue in Williamsport. The first-round pick out of UVA was promoted from the Gulf Coast League on Thursday after playing just three games.
Major League Baseball released the rosters for the 2017 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game Thursday, and three Astros are featured, one of them being UVA alumnus Derek Fisher.
(By John W. York, a research assistant at the Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia)
Lake Monticello resident Cynthia Moore has already received praise for her book “Live, Love, Lead: 10 Simple Skills to Transform Stress,” a book focused on how to become conscious of joy and less inclined to stress. She uses meditation, breathing, shifting perspectives and what she calls emotional brain training, something she teaches at the University of Virginia.
They are likely formed on icy grains in the disk and then released into the gas phase because of heating from stellar radiation or some other means, such as shocks,” says co-author Zhi-Yun Li of the University of Virginia.
Land loss can take place in momentous ways. “You can have large holes that open underneath your feet – they’re very drastic,” says Lindsay Ivey Burden, a geotechnical engineer and UVA professor of civil and environmental engineering, describing an extreme case of land disappearing: sinkholes.
William Quandt, a former National Security Council staffer and professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia.
One of the five experts who reviewed the project, Susan Perdue, has agreed to be a consultant for the papers project. She is founding director of the Documents Compass program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, which provides tools for bringing literary and historical documents to the internet. Jennifer Stertzer, director of the UVA Center for Digital Editing, senior editor at the Papers of George Washington and president of the Association for Document Editing, also reviewed the Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project.
Greg Fairchild has been named to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership board of directors. He is an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where he is academic director of public policy and entrepreneurship.
It took 26 students about two weeks to paint bright geometric patterns, birds, trees and more on the underpass. The mural was inspired by the poem “Dawn Revisited” by Akron-native Rita Dove, UVA’s Commonwealth Professor of English.
After graduating from Marshall University in 1974, he was teaching at military academies in Fork Union and Staunton, Virginia, beginning to refine and develop his own writing voice, when he met John Casey in the spring of 1975. Casey, who deservedly gets credit for “discovering” Pancake and bringing him to the University of Virginia a year later, writes in the Afterword to "Stories," “Breece didn’t know how good he was; he didn’t know how much he knew; he didn’t know that he was a swan instead of an ugly duckling.”
UVA’s Center for Politics has won its third Emmy. “Feeling Good About America: The 1976 Presidential Election,” which the center co-produced with Community Idea Stations, won the award for Best Historical Documentary from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.