Dr. Dan Gioeli of the UVA Cancer Center, working with local biotech company HemoShear Therapeutics, is creating 3-D models that mimic the microenvironment of pancreatic and non-small-cell lung cancers. The model aims to replicate the complex nature and behavior of a real tumor by incorporating different cell types that are found within them, such as vascular endothelial cells that are exposed to the tremendous shearing forces of blood flow.
A recent UVA study suggests that moving can be associated with “shallower or lower-quality social relationships.” Add to that the notion that people start losing friends at 25, an age at which many young people are still finding new homes, and it becomes easy to see that the idea of making friends can be a rather daunting one.
Chris Long was sitting at his parents’ kitchen table in Albemarle County the night before his first day of classes at the University of Virginia when he logged into his university email for the first time. “It was magical,” he said during his keynote speech at UVA’s Valedictory Exercises on Friday. “I felt like I had opened a portal into a new dimension of knowledge and possibility. I could do anything I wanted. On days like these, we make a lot of promises to ourselves, but they fade quickly, and you know exactly what I’m talking about.” In his speech, Long, a two-time Super Bowl champion, en...
On Friday, as all the festivities kicked off, the graduating fourth years had an opportunity to hear from Chris Long, one of UVA’s most impressive recent graduates, at the Valedictory Exercises. Long, who has helped the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles to Super Bowl titles in back-to-back years, was a standout defender for the Virginia football team.
(Commentary by alumna Khalilah L. Brown-Dean) UVA graduates are very particular about language and tradition. We have Grounds rather than a campus. We refer to students by their status (e.g. first-years, fourth-years) rather than the titles of freshman and senior. Notable alums like Dawn Staley, Katie Couric, Leland Melvin and Chris Long shared the time-honored tradition of hanging out on the Lawn, never the quad.
Teresa Sullivan strode to a podium at Old Cabell Hall, looked down at her notes and then beamed at her final crop of University of Virginia graduates. On Saturday, she focused not on her accomplishments as UVA’s first female president, but instead on the difficulties the University has faced the last four years and the students’ resilience in these challenging times.
Students graduating in this year's class from UVA are getting their degrees after a rocky four years. From the disappearance and death of Hannah Graham, to the recent white nationalist violence from last summer, students faced a different challenge year after year. President Teresa Sullivan called this year's class 'resilient.'
(Commentary by Bob Gibson of UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service) I bet you think the U.S. Supreme Court opened up some interesting possibilities, either dire or opportunistic, when the high court ruled May 14 that states are free to legalize sports gambling.
Researchers compiled a list of characteristics and behaviors that many shooters shared and concluded, “there was no single profile of these kids that would be scientifically reliable,” UVA psychologist Dewey Cornell said. “People say, ‘Well, these kids are victims of bullying, these kids are paranoid, these kids play violent video games, these kids are narcissistic.’ And many of the kids who have committed school shootings have those traits. But so do a million other kids.”
As UVA’s Final Exercises wrapped up, Charlottesville and Albemarle County vendors were feeling a positive impact from the surge of visitors that graduation brought to town.
The rise of screen time might be another factor that has caused Americans to have less sex, said W. Bradford Wilcox, a UVA sociologist, at a recent roundtable discussion for reporters at the American Enterprise Institute, the free-market think tank in Washington. Think of a couple, he said, “and it’s Wednesday night, and they start Netflix going, and they keep watching Netflix and they don’t do ... anything else.”
Barring hail or high water, the University of Virginia says its latest class of graduates will walk the Lawn this weekend.
With a turbulent start to the school year, UVA undoubtedly looks a little different than it did last spring. Although outgoing President Teresa Sullivan and the UVA administration were criticized for not doing more to protect members of the University community from last summer’s white supremacist torch-lit march, the events of Aug. 11 and 12 have served as a catalyst for some policy changes, including requiring non-UVA-affiliated speakers to register before being allowed on Grounds.
A total of $20 million in gifts to UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy will support fellowships for graduate students. On Thursday, a gift of $10 million was announced from Jane Batten, the wife of the late Frank Batten Sr. It will be matched by UVA’s Bicentennial Scholars Fund.
UVA is letting the Charlottesville and Albemarle County community know about its plans for University Hall. UVA architects presented the current plan to the Planning and Coordination Council Thursday.
Due to forecasted inclement weather, UVA’s Valedictory Exercises scheduled for Friday afternoon will move inside to the John Paul Jones Arena.
A UVA graduation tradition is turning controversial. Each year, students carry balloons throughout the commencement ceremony, but, this year, two UVA groups are calling on the grads to ditch the balloons.
(Commentary) To overcome the perception of civic life as one extended shouting match, we need to elevate the good work happening all over the state. “There are a lot more positive narratives out there, but they’re lonely and disconnected,” says UVA professor Philip Zelikow. “It would make a difference to join them together as a chorus that has a melody.”