(Commentary by Neeti Nair, associate professor of history) The National Archives’ “Annexe” is, for most scholars of the 20th century, [India’s] National Archives. The “Research Room” is where we spend years conducting archival research for our dissertations and, later, books. This is a space of national integration, if you will, where primary sources can be knit together to weave the story of a ministry, its relationship of give-and-take with states across India, and explain the crafting of a national policy.
The third project is a one-year collaboration with the University of Virginia and George Mason University. The research team received a grant from the Virginia Commonwealth Cyber Initiative to address threats from autonomous vehicles as they become victims of emerging cyber attacks. The Smart City project integrates two novel mechanisms: city-scale video intelligence for detecting attacks and multi-agent reinforcement planning for reacting to attacks and non-cooperative vehicles.
Age increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's -- the risk doubles every five years after 65. The state's share of residents who are 65 and older is expected to increase to 19% by 2030, according to the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
In a weekly report monitoring COVID trends, the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute noted the pockets of low coverage, adding that “unvaccinated individuals continue to be at risk from COVID-19 with new Variants of Concern increasing the risk of transmission, severe illness and death.”
An analysis by Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics characterized 19 Democratic-held House seats as toss-ups for 2022, compared to just two held by Republicans. If these seats were to split right down the middle between the parties, the GOP would jump to a 222-213 majority – an edge equivalent to the Democrats' current margin.
From their very first coos and smiles, many parents wonder where their babies got their unique mannerisms from. Now, according to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, researchers are saying that the individual behavioral traits actually develop the moment a baby is born. "Our main findings show that soon after birth, greater connectivity between frontal and parietal brain regions is linked to improved behavioral regulation in human infants," Dr. Toby Grossmann, study co-author from the University of Virginia and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sc...
A formidable field walked out to the blocks for the women’s 400-emter individual medley. Three 2016 Olympians dove in for a chance to compete at another Games, including Olympic gold medalists Margalis and Leah Smith. But Emma Weyant, a 19-year-old who watched the Rio Games with her Sarasota Sharks teammates at home on TV, beat them all. The future UVA Cavalier came to Omaha simply wanting to swim her best in a final deep with talent.
What's it like to go from a quirky lockdown reliever, who's little known outside his own bullpen, to becoming an instant national college baseball folk hero? Over the past week, that's exactly what's happened to Virginia closer Stephen Schoch, thanks to the Cavaliers' dramatic win in the Columbia Regional and an interview that the righty gave after icing a midday 3-2 elimination game victory over South Carolina.
As Zack Gelof’s eighth-inning solo home run sailed out of Founders Park, Virginia players and coaches momentarily forgot how to act in public. The Cavaliers were understandably excited, having broken open a pitcher’s duel to keep their season alive with their fifth consecutive elimination game win. UVA defeated Dallas Baptist 4-0 to force a third and decisive game in the Columbia Super Regional. The two teams will square off Monday at 1 p.m.
Albemarle will become the last of the local police departments to launch such a program, following the Charlottesville Police Department, which started outfitting all sworn personnel with body-worn cameras in 2018, and the University of Virginia Police Department, which did so in 2015.
Marijuana will be legal in Virginia in less than three weeks, but it’ll still be banned on Virginia Tech’s campus. The University of Virginia is still evaluating the policy implications of the legislative change and, if necessary, will make changes prior to July 1.
Robert Tata was a two-sport star athlete at UVA and a successful high school football coach who won more than 100 games in stops at Norview and Granby in Norfolk. As it turned out, Tata was just warming up. He retired as a coach in 1980 and embarked on a political career during which he again drew the limelight. The quick-witted Tata became a popular and outspoken Republican legislator, representing Virginia Beach’s 85th district in the House of Delegates for 30 years until 2014. Tata died late Friday. He was 91.
"The data is pretty impressive,” says Dr. Jennifer L. Kirby, associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at UVA Health. “We have a limited amount of tools in our toolbox when it comes to the treatment of overweight and obesity. The addition of semaglutide is excellent news."
COVID-19 had ravaged R.J. Redstrom’s lungs, scarring his tissue and straining his ability to breathe. He lay on an ICU bed at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital last summer, an air mask over his mouth and a tube up his nose. For a month, he had been quarantined in a sterile, lonely room. He had just weeks to live. “He was on death’s door,” said Dr. Hannah Mannem, a lung transplant specialist at UVA Health. “He wouldn’t have made it out of the hospital without a lung transplant.” A team from UVA arrived at Henrico Doctors’ and sedated him for transportation to Charlottesville.
Two current members of UVA’s governing board, whose terms expire on June 30, were reappointed to their slots by Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday and two new members will join the panel July 1.
William F. Clinger Jr., a nine-term Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who vigorously pursued two investigations into wrongdoing by the Clinton administration and two decades later said that Donald J. Trump, his party’s nominee, was unqualified to be president, died on May 28 in Naples, Fla. He was 92. Clinger earned a bachelor’s degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1951, served four years in the Navy and was discharged as a lieutenant. He worked as an advertising executive for the New Process Company, a mail-order clothing business in Warren, before enrolling in the University of Virgi...
UVA (33-24) will face the Patriots (40-16) at Founders Park in Columbia, South Carolina — the same site where the Cavaliers won the NCAA regional in dramatic fashion. Their 4-3 victory Tuesday over Old Dominion on Devin Ortiz’s walk-off homer in the bottom of the 10th inning capped a remarkable run after the Cavaliers lost their regional opener to host South Carolina and had to win four straight games.
Idaho’s newest federal magistrate judge, Raymond Patricco Jr., was sworn in during a brief ceremony Friday morning at the federal courthouse in Boise. Patricco, 51, graduated from Harvard University and received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Reverberations continued to spread Thursday from the Memorial Day killing of a gay Blacksburg man whose alleged attacker, a Hokie linebacker, told police that he’d lashed out after discovering the person he met for a sexual encounter was not a woman. To charge a hate crime, prosecutors would have to determine whether the defendant acted with a bias as defined under the law, according to Timothy Heaphy, who is now chief counsel at the University of Virginia.