In Ghana’s Northern Region, families obtain water by taking buckets to the local water source and back home. That water source, however, has been contaminated with human and animal waste. In 2008, Kate Cincotta founded the non-profit Saha Global, for which she is now executive director and helps women learn to treat and sell clean, affordable water to their community. Cincotta developed an interest in international development at UVA, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering and engineering business.
Experts say the inclusion of the Taiwanese flag in “Top Gun: Maverick” may suggest a shift in Hollywood away from its culture of deference to China’s red lines. “There have been several recent instances of big-budget U.S. films not getting into the Chinese market. Studios are aware of this and are making business decisions,” said Aynne Kokas, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and author of “Hollywood Made in China.”
(Subscription may be required) The next two years will be busy for the University of Virginia as a suite of construction projects wrap up, according to an update to the Board of Visitors on Thursday. “We’re going to be doing a lot of ribbon cuttings,” said Colette Sheehy, senior vice president for operations at UVA.
The man who led the UAE’s mission to Mars, Omran Sharaf, has been elected as the director of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Sharaf earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 2005.
The UVA Cancer Center is giving nonprofits and other groups across Virginia grants of up to $10,000 to support projects that address cancer education, prevention, and detection.
(Editorial; subscription may be required) UVA law professor Richard Bonnie is part of a group that looks for the reasonable compromise in the gun safety debate. “What keeps you going is the hope that you can find a middle ground to make some steps forward,” Bonnie said a few days after an 18-year-old used an AR-15 assault rifle to slaughter 19 fourth-graders and two adults in a Texas elementary school.
Four years ago, Allison Louise Elias, a gender historian and assistant professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, learned that in the 1950s, women were welcomed into business schools as the wives of businessmen enrolled in then-new executive business programs – short, intensive courses for men aspiring to leadership positions. Think of it like a “finishing school” for executive wives, says Elias.
Danielle Collins graduated from UVA in 2016 with a degree in media studies. But what she really needed as she embarked on a career in professional tennis was a better understanding of money. Today, she is a Top 10 player and a powerful advocate for financial literacy.
A project brought to the University of Virginia by three members of the women’s soccer team – Rebecca Jarrett, Lacey McCormack, and Laughlin Ryan – hopes to shape a new narrative for student-athletes. Founded last year, UNCUT at UVA is a storytelling platform that seeks to highlight the humanity of student-athletes – beyond their jerseys and competition statistics.
(Subscription may be required) For more than 30 years, Julie Bargmann, a landscape architect, founder of D.I.R.T. Studio (Dump It Right There) and a UVA professor of landscape architecture, has focused on contaminated and forgotten urban and postindustrial sites, dedicating her practice to addressing social and environmental justice.
Virginia’s COVID-19 cases keep climbing. Just one metric from the Virginia Department of Health and the UVA Biocomplexity Institute shows every health district in the commonwealth is in the middle of a “growth” or “surge” trajectory.
(Subscription may be required) Affordable housing isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the University of Virginia. But it’s top of mind for UVA officials who have pledged to support the development of 1,000 to 1,500 affordable housing units in Charlottesville and Albemarle County over the next decade.
Patricia M. Lampkin will become Northwestern University’s interim vice president for Student Affairs beginning Aug. 1, the University announced today. Lampkin served as vice president and chief student affairs officer at the University of Virginia until she retired in 2021. She spent four decades at UVA, the last 19 as vice president.
UVA psychologist Shige Oishi had been studying happiness for 20 years, when one summer, he decided to pause and take stock of the wealth of accumulated research. Among his biggest insights was the role our connections with others played in the quality of our lives.
Violent incidents involving guns have increased across all of America since the pandemic started – not just in schools. “Gun violence is like a flood, and when your community is flooded, all your buildings take on water,” said Dewey Cornell, a psychologist and director of UVA’s Virginia Youth Violence Project. Schools are still among the safest places for children, Cornell emphasized. But he also thinks mass shootings in schools will continue unless America addresses its longstanding shortage of school mental health workers.
The first year of medical school represents a new start for your learning, and new beginnings usually come with a number of unknowns. Jesse Cochran, who just completed his first year at UVA’s School of Medicine, offered some insight on his experiences for incoming students.
(Video) Just as COVID-19 vaccines were rolling out, Dr. Taison Bell spoke about why Black Americans were getting vaccinated at lower rates than white Americans were. More than a year later, we checked in with Bell, a UVA assistant professor of medicine and an intensive care unit doctor, about the state of the pandemic and changes that have occurred in the health equity conversation since then.
In an essay inspired by history professor Claudrena Harold’s Finals Weekend keynote address, Sam Patten, the parent of a Class of 2022 graduate, reflects on education and social change.
While it’s still early in election season, J. Miles Coleman, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said it’s pretty clear that Republicans are less likely to fail with Trump’s blessing. “If I’m a Republican running for office, I would rather have Trump’s endorsement than not,” Coleman said, adding that Trump’s support is “maybe not as powerful as it was in 2018.”
[UVA alumnus] Bill Walker has become convinced that his second cousin intentionally crashed due to profound depression over his fading racing career. While Walker struggles to accept that Kreis would take another life while taking his own, he nevertheless has devoted 50 years to examining what happened that Friday morning at The Brickyard.