A UVA employee performed an act of heroism that saved a life. Hannibal Reid and his co-worker were walking on Lane Road Thursday morning when a pickup truck lost control and spun out toward them. In an act of self-sacrifice, Reid pushed his co-worker out of the way and got hit by the truck instead.
Can you imagine a world where robots deliver packages straight to your apartment unit? It might seem like a futuristic innovation straight out of “The Jetsons,” but a Brighton-based company is looking to make it a reality today. Light Line Delivery Corp., co-founded in 2018 by UVA graduate Brett Wagner, is developing autonomous robots that deliver packages from an apartment building’s lobby straight to a tenant’s unit.
It was a monument to the power and glory of colonial France. When the Palais de la Porte Dorée opened in Paris in 1931, every corner of it was designed to extol the colonizing mission: from the bas-reliefs of laborers in faraway lands, to the frescoes of imperial magnificence, to the aquariums swarming with tropical fish. That institution is now led by a man whose family members were among the colonized peoples of sub-Saharan Africa. Pap Ndiaye, a historian and academic of Senegalese and French descent, was last month appointed to revitalize the Palais de la Porte Dorée — an institution ...
UVA alumnus Chris Taylor is now in spring training and working to repeat as a World Series champion. However, before the 2021 MLB season starts, a childhood friend is the focus of Taylor’s time and energy. Taylor says Kyle Profilet, a former classmate and teammate of his who battled cancer for two years, is a driving force behind the inaugural Home Run for Hope, a virtual, one-night-only music event to benefit the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters and Roc Solid Foundation.
Jess Jang, a senior at UVA, was looking forward to traveling to Puerto Rico for what she calls her “last hurrah before leaving college.” However, the pandemic crushed that opportunity. Instead, Jang will be staying safe with her housemates in Charlottesville, but seeing others partying has been hard. “College is supposed to be the best years of your life, and seeing people your age do all this fun stuff while you’re staying safe — I don’t know, it feels like I’m being punished for following the rules whereas other people are taking risks and going out. It’s frustrating.”
(By John Rodden, retired faculty member) Throughout my boyhood a half-century ago, St. Patrick’s Day was eagerly anticipated by the adult men in my family. You might imagine this had to do with their wanting to honor Ireland’s patron saint, who had driven away the snakes and turned the shamrock into a symbol of trinitarian theology. I would have thought so myself if my dear mother hadn’t started to complain about this celebration weeks before the day.
According to Kinney, the consulting firm Deloitte and the Virginia Department of Health assisted the department on a strategy for deploying the vaccine. The department’s medical staff also held weekly consultations with members of the University of Virginia’s infectious disease team regarding vaccine rollout, Kinney said.
Harrisonburg is facing problems as the amount of open land inside the limits dwindles. Virginia has had a moratorium on annexations in place since 1987, according to the University of Virginia Institute of Government. “… The city has seen stalling population growth, according to data from the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
A groundbreaking gene therapy is being developed at UVA to stop the progression of a rare genetic neurological disorder known as Rett Syndrome. The therapy is being developed to improve the overall quality of a child’s life with the disease.
(Press release) Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Gary Peters, D-Mich., along with Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and retired Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., were the most effective Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the recently completed 116th Congress (2019-20), according to new research from the Center for Effective Lawmaking. The legislative effectiveness scores are at the core of the research conducted at the Center for Effective Lawmaking, co-directed by Alan Wiseman, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair and professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, and Craig Volden, professor of ...
Dr. Daniel Becker wakes up around 4:30 a.m. every day, pours a cup of coffee, then disappears into his office for an hour. There, he writes poems before starting his day treating patients. Becker is a physician at UVA’s School of Medicine, and he is among a growing number of American doctors who are embracing the healing power of poetry.
(Podcast) “The Takeaway” spoke with Meredith Clark, an assistant professor at UVA’s Department of Media Studies, about what cancel culture has become and why politicians and celebrities tend to rail against cancel culture in moments where their power is in jeopardy.
(Podcast) “The Takeaway” spoke with Meredith Clark, an assistant professor at UVA’s Department of Media Studies, about what cancel culture has become and why politicians and celebrities tend to rail against cancel culture in moments where their power is in jeopardy.
Bryan Lewis, a computational epidemiologist at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, said the plummeting numbers were a surprise to scientists analyzing the data. “There are about 30 or 40-odd academic groups participating in the CDC’s forecasting hub, and I don’t think any of them predicted the cliff we fell off there,” Lewis said, adding that cases dropped dramatically not just in Virginia, but across the country.
[UVA Ph.D. graduate] Hanan Ashrawi, the distinguished Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, scholar, women’s rights advocate and best-known spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the Western press, quit her senior post in the Palestine Liberation Organization at the end of 2020, calling for political reforms.
[UVA Ph.D. graduate] Hanan Ashrawi, the distinguished Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, scholar, women’s rights advocate and best-known spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the Western press, quit her senior post in the Palestine Liberation Organization at the end of 2020, calling for political reforms.
Robert Wood Lynn, a UVA Law graduate, M.F.A. candidate at New York University and native of Virginia, was awarded the 2021 Yale Younger Poets prize for a manuscript that explores the challenges of a young person growing up in rural Appalachia.
When a University of Virginia medical student noticed there was a lack of volunteers at free clinics during the pandemic, he built a platform that makes it easier for free clinics around the state to find volunteers.
The study is among the first to demonstrate how making predictions affects human memory. Scientists previously suspected that the hippocampus had a role in statistical learning but had not known how it interacts with memory formation. “This paper is a really nice demonstration of the trade-off where the hippocampus is doing both these things,” says University of Virginia cognitive neuroscientist Nicole Long, who was not involved in the research.
When it comes to near-death experiences – or profound experiences when close to death – a few patterns may clue us in to what happens on the other side. One that comes up quite frequently is the idea of “seeing the light,” which is difficult to fully grasp if you haven’t experienced it yourself. Is “the light” just what society imagines the afterlife to look like, or is it real? We of course had to ask Dr. Bruce Greyson, the world’s leading expert on near-death experiences and author of “After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond,” on the mindbodygreen po...