Well before Monday night’s announcement, Jason Terry knew Malcolm Brogdon would be delivering an acceptance speech. Terry, chatting with a reporter in a John Paul Jones Arena practice gym on June 14, had already put the NBA Rookie of the Year competition to bed.
Kristen London played D-I basketball (she was a guard at the University of Virginia) and now is representing the U.S. in the Women’s World Championship tackle football tournament.
After leading the ACC in batting and on-base percentage this season, former UVA star Adam Haseley had no trouble taking the next step on Tuesday. The Phillies’ first-round pick went 3-for-4 in his Minor League debut to help the GCL Phillies edge the Yankees, 8-6, in the first game of a Gulf Coast League doubleheader in Tampa, Florida.
It was a battle between an NBA Hall-of-Famer and a UVA legend. Ralph Sampson and his family came back to win on “Family Feud.” The $25,000 prize will go to the UVA Cancer Center.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have received more than $8.6 million in federal grants to support efforts that could dramatically increase the number of lungs available for transplant – and then save the lives of the people who receive them.
Dominion has also entered into a contract to sell the output of a 17 MW solar facility to the University of Virginia and the Darden School of Business.
Nearly every locality in the coalfields region will lose population through 2040, with Buchanan County projected to be the state’s fastest-shrinking locality, according to the latest projections from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
A new forecast from the University of Virginia predicts the state could have 10 million residents by 2040, but will reach that figure at one of the slowest rates in the past century.
UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan is urging students, staff and faculty members to stay away from a Ku Klux Klan rally scheduled for July 8 in Justice Park, formerly known as Jackson Park.
Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at the UVA School of Law, is joining The Volokh Conspiracy as a co-blogger. Prakash is one of the country’s leading scholars of the law and history of presidential power.
The University of Virginia Foundation recently announced that Love Golf Design, the golf course architecture firm founded by Davis Love III and his brother Mark, will build a new course on the site of the existing Birdwood Golf Course. The firm’s work on the layout is part of a multi-year improvement plan for the Boar’s Head Resort, the Virginia golf team’s facilities and the historic Birdwood Mansion.
(Commentary) Number crunchers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service last week painted a picture of the state 23 years on. Virginia will have a population of 10.2 million – it’s now approaching 8.5 million – and will become the nation’s 10th-most-populous state, up from 12th, overtaking Michigan and New Jersey.
Former Virginia standout Malcolm Brogdon is the NBA’s Rookie of the Year. The Milwaukee Bucks guard earned the award on Monday night, beating out finalists Joel Embiid and Dario Saric, both of the Philadelphia 76ers.
On Monday night, Milwaukee Bucks guard Malcolm Brogdon was named Rookie of the Year at the inaugural NBA Awards in New York City. When he was announced as the winner ahead of Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid and Dario Saric, the former University of Virginia star celebrated the moment with his mother, team owners Wes Edens and Jamie Dinan as well as Bucks president Peter Feigin before heading up to the stage.
Former UVA basketball star Malcolm Brogdon was named NBA Rookie of the Year Monday night. Brogdon, who was a second-round draft pick (36th overall) by Milwaukee, becomes the first non-first round winner in the common draft era since 1966. Brogdon joins Ralph Sampson (1984) as the only other UVA player to be named NBA Rookie of the Year.
The UVA club men’s rowing team will race in the Henley Royal Regatta on the Thames River on Wednesday.
Kristina Killgrove, a biological anthropologist from the University of West Florida, is preparing for the trip of a lifetime. She’s heading to Italy soon to study skeletal remains of victims of the 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius volcano eruption. Killgrove grew up in Charlottesville near the University of Virginia, which she later attended.
Christopher Ruhm, UVA professor of public policy and economics, contributed to this STAT article.
(By Jack Hamilton, Slate’s pop critic and UVA assistant professor of American studies and media studies) On his new album “Big Fish Theory,” Vince Staples reunites hip-hop with the dance floor.
Johns Hopkins came in at No. 4 for neonatal care; The University of Virginia Children’s Hospital in Charlottesville ranked No. 30; and Inova Children’s Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia, ranked No. 44.