Amber McBride is an English professor at the University of Virginia and holds an MFA in poetry from Emerson College. Her poetry has been published in several literary magazines, including Ploughshares and The Rumpus. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her dog, Shiloh. “Me (Moth)” is her young adult debut. She will be giving two talks at the Virginia Festival of the Book on March 19.
Anyone who is 18 or younger will be able to attend University of Virginia baseball games for free for the rest of the regular season. UVA made an announcement Thursday, saying it would begin with Friday’s series opener against Boston College. To claim free youth tickets, fans must buy a minimum of one paid ticket.
(Video) University of Virginia junior Kate Douglass had a phenomenal start to her individual program at the 2022 Women’s NCAA Championships, blasting her way to the fastest swim of all-time in the 50 freestyle preliminaries.
The Virginia women’s swimming and diving team continued its stellar start to the NCAA Championships on Thursday night, winning three events while setting two American and NCAA records on the second night of action at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta.
“Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing,” makes the case that cities with more green space, water features, street safety and social hubs and less congestion, noise, pollution and physical discomfort can make residents healthier and happier. If that seems like common sense, Jenny Roe, co-author of the book (and professor and director of UVA’s Center for Design and Health), who has been working passionately in the field of human-centered design for more than 15 years, doesn’t disagree. But it took a global pandemic, she says, before “the world was ready to listen.”
Today one in seven Virginia residents are age 65 or older. By 2030, the University of Virginia anticipates that figure will be nearly one in five. In more rural parts of the state the elderly already exceed 30% of the population.
The most provocative of the five research papers in this March edition of RIJ’s Research Roundup has to be Michael Doran’s “The Great American Retirement Fraud.” A professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, Doran faults US tax policy for subsidizing what, in his opinion, is a deceptively regressive defined contribution system of thrift.
Peter Belmi, a professor at UVA’s graduate business school, begins his recently published article with the story of a woman who sued Walmart, because she felt her boss was sexist. “Her supervisor abused her and several other women in her department on a daily basis and called women ‘good for nothing,'” he recalls. But a federal judge ruled against her, because he argued the guy was a jerk to men as well.
The festival’s first in-person event in three years was held at the University of Virginia Bookstore. Dozens of people — all in masks — were on hand to hear from three authors who have researched the Civil War era.
The University of Virginia has been ranked as the top college or university in Virginia for best value. SmartAsset released its eighth annual Best Value Colleges Study, which compares institutions by using five metrics, including scholarships, starting salary, tuition, living costs and retention rate. According to a release, this is the third year in a row that UVA has come in in the top spot.
A retired Delaware Supreme Court justice who made waves as both the youngest person appointed to the state’s highest court and the longest-serving justice died on Tuesday. He was 75. Justice Randy Holland grew up in Milford and graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a master of laws in the judicial process from the University of Virginia Law School.
(By alumnus Mike Schoultz) Do you feel that traveling enhances your continuous learning and curiosity? Perhaps visiting Charlottesville Virginia and Thomas Jefferson will help you in this answer. Let me elaborate.
Most Americans associate the name James Patterson with the world’s bestselling mystery and thriller author. In Marion, the name calls to mind an equally prolific figure who has dedicated more than six decades to the health and well-being of his community. Affectionately known as “the Good Doctor,” [UVA school of Medicine alumnus] Dr. James E. Patterson celebrated his 90th birthday March 8 with the staff of the Mel Leaman Free Clinic, where he serves as medical director and still sees patients one day a week.
The fourth-year VCU School of Medicine students [both UVA alumni] want to complete their residency programs in the same city.
A pair of professors at the University of Virginia believe the United States should switch to permanent standard time, not permanent Daylight Saving Time. On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill to making Daylight Saving Time year-round by unanimous consent. It now heads to the House of Representatives for consideration.
According to the CDC, older, unvaccinated adults are the most likely to suffer serious complications from COVID-19—so if you're over 60, make sure to stay up to date on your vaccinations and boosters. "The huge risk factor is age," says William Petri, immunologist at the University of Virginia. "If you're under 45, your chances of dying are almost nonexistent, and then it increases exponentially."
Dr. Bill Petri, an immunologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said in an interview that two things may mean we’re not out of the woods just yet — new variants arising and vaccine or natural infection acquired immunity being short-lived. “The best estimates are that immunity against reinfection could be as short as three months or as long as five to six years, and the best bet is there’s probably about a year and a half or so,” he said. “So if that’s true, that’s really good news, because then that means that that would probably take us into the fall or even the winter with ...
According to University of Virginia history professor Paul Barolsky, in his journal article “Machiavelli, Michelangelo, and David” (2004), Italy had a longstanding tradition of portraying the biblical figure of David as a protector of both society and culture. Aiming to depict him as a guardian, Michelangelo rendered David taller, more handsome, and more muscular than Bible passages suggested.
“Money feeling strange in 2021 is based on a decade of money slowly feeling strange for lots and lots of different people throughout the world,” said Lana Swartz, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia who focuses on money. “We’re at a stage where the government and financial institutions are revealed to be less dependable than we ever imagined they would be, so why not YOLO?”
Despite intense division, Americans have always found a way to come together in times of crisis. And as bad as things are now, they are are nowhere near as bad as they were in the years leading up to the civil war, said Justene Hill Edwards, an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia.