How might human-driven climate change trigger food shortages, water scarcity, armed conflict or future pandemics? Conversely, could a changing environment strengthen bonds of community in some places? A group of scientists recently delivered a major report to the National Science Foundation recommending research priorities to maximize understanding of climate change’s social impact in the U.S. and worldwide. The report, titled “Environmental Change and Human Security: Research Directions,” was presented this week at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans. Collaborato...
In addition to developing a universal vaccine against coronaviruses, researchers say it must be universally distributed. “Having adequate vaccine distribution globally is not really an altruistic undertaking because stopping the spread of COVID-19 around the world is a way of protecting ourselves here,” argued Steven Zeichner, professor of pediatrics and microbiology at the University of Virginia. “If you have some even nastier variant come up in a poor country with inadequate vaccine coverage, it will be here sooner or later.” At UVA, Zeichner’s lab targeted the coronavirus fusion peptide, a ...
As of July 2020, Richmond’s population of children ages 5 to 19 totaled 29,219, according to the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center, which issues the annual projections. Even though the city’s total population jumped more than 12 percent between 2010 and 2020, the Weldon Cooper projection represents a drop of 5,600 school-age children from 2008 and nearly 2,000 fewer school-age children than the center projected in 2012.
Through funds from a community foundation grant, the University of Virginia Police Department partnered with Ebenezer Baptist Church. Together they donated cleaning supplies to Henley Middle School.
Here are the top 10 law schools on the Princeton Review’s “Best Career Prospects” list for 2022:
1. New York University School of Law (no change)
2. Stanford University School of Law (no change)
3. University of Virginia School of Law (ranked #4 last year)
Which law school has best quality of life? Best career prospects? Princeton Review releases rankings
Looking for a law school with the best quality of life? Then you might want to consider the University of Virginia School of Law, which took the top spot in that category in rankings released Tuesday by the Princeton Review.
Julia, 17, a senior from Northern Virginia, who spoke on the condition that her last name not be used to discuss testing candidly, said she earned a 1420 when she first took the SAT a year ago but fell short of that mark on two subsequent tries. Her top score was excellent. Still, she discussed with parents and others the pros and cons of whether to send it. Ultimately, she did. And she was glad to have a choice. “All in all, that was very calming in a way,” Julia said. “It gave me an optimistic feeling. I figured I might as well send it in and hope for the best. It worked out.” She said she i...
On Thursday afternoon, parents of patients at UVA Children’s got to do some secret shopping, thanks to the annual Season’s Treatings event. Each year, UVA Children’s medical staff set up a toy shop inside the hospital so parents can easily pick out toys for their children receiving treatment as well as their siblings.
(Video and transcript) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in UVA’s divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, discusses the spread of the omicron variant.
The University of Virginia reported that early applications were up 17% for early decision and 7% for early action this year. This is the second year in a row UVA has received record-setting numbers of applicants.
Backup quarterback [and UVA alumnus] Kurt Benkert may have taken the victory snap in Sunday’s Packers game against the Bears, but his wife was the true closer of the night. Before Green Bay recorded its 10th win of the season against the Bears, Benkert got to take the field for the first time in his NFL career, kneeling on the ball twice in the final moments of the game. Following the 45-30 victory, the quarterback revealed on Twitter that he received a message from wife Sam, who absolutely roasted his performance.
Reddit got its start after Steve Huffman, now the chief executive officer, and Alexis Ohanian met at the University of Virginia. Reddit diverged from its social media contemporaries like Twitter Inc. and Facebook when it was acquired by Conde Nast in 2006. The magazine publisher later spun off the company, and Reddit went through a pair of chief executives before Huffman returned to the helm in 2015.
For those who love books, “THE OLD U(VA) AND I” (olduvabook.com) is a surprisingly captivating story of Frank Briggs’ undergraduate tenure at the University of Virginia, which really marked the end of an era before the explosion of the Vietnam protests and the youth rebellion manifested in the hippies, which has become the politically correct culture of our day.
Jared Brown, a 30-year-old University of Virginia graduate, was grateful for the gubernatorial pardon he got in October for an assault and underage intoxication conviction that landed him in jail for about a month during his freshman year. “It felt really empowering to be here with other people,” said Brown, one of five people Gov. Ralph Northam has pardoned who shared stories last week at event celebrating Northam’s pardons on Brown’s Island in Richmond near the new Emancipation and Freedom Monument.
(Press release) Global swimwear brand, arena, is proud to announce the signing of its first-ever college athlete, and its second amateur endorsement deal, under the new NCAA name, image, and likeness rules that came into effect July 1. Kate Douglass, a 20-year-old Olympic bronze medalist, currently in her third year at the University of Virginia, is one of the top student-athletes across all college sports.
(Video and transcript) New Virginia head coach Tony Elliott on UVA’s new class but also how the early signing day period and the college football needs to adapt and change. Here is the interview with VirginiaSports.com’s Jeff White.
(Video and transcript) UVA head coach Bronco Mendenhall spoke to UVA’s Jeff White about the 2022 class and his thoughts on the playmakers signed to this year’s class.
Ten players signed with the Virginia football program on the first day of the national early signing period on Wednesday. Both Bronco Mendenhall and Tony Elliott made some comments on the signing recruits, who honored the commitments they made to play for Virginia despite the coaching change.