D.J. Bickers remembers the last time the UVA men’s basketball team won the ACC title in 1981. He was in fourth grade and watched the final home game against Maryland at U-Hall with his father, a former UVA football player who instilled in his son a fierce loyalty to the school. “I have not seen […]
D.J. Bickers remembers the last time the UVA men’s basketball team won the ACC title in 1981. He was in fourth grade and watched the final home game against Maryland at U-Hall with his father, a former UVA football player who instilled in his son a fierce loyalty to the school. “I have not seen […]
A 20-year old mountain climber scales the world’s seven highest summits in support of gay and lesbian rights. A fourth-year computer-engineering student at UVA is recognized by many around the world as the king and founder of his own country. And a junior at Harvard University is appointed by Hillary Clinton to the U.S. National […]
This story is part of our 2014 health issue, which also includes articles on concussions in young athletes, rhabdomyolysis, and gluten intolerance. Just over four years ago, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force—an independent, federally funded panel of physicians—rocked the cancer community when it changed its breast cancer screening guidelines, recommending that women get mammograms […]
This story is part of our 2014 health issue, which also includes articles on mammography, rhabdomyolysis, and gluten intolerance. Helmet? Check. Shoulder pads? Check. Tiny biometric brain injury sensor? Check. You won’t see the quarter-sized computerized devices tucked behind their ears, but more than 100 local high school and college athletes are donning the sensors […]
After months of rumors, innuendo, leaks and mea culpas, the other shoe has finally dropped in the ongoing gift scandal surrounding former first couple Bob and Maureen McDonnell. On January 21, 2014, both were named as co-conspirators in a federal indictment that alleges, among other things, that they—separately and together—are guilty of wire fraud, false […]
The year in living… 6 Chefs moved from one restaurant to another Musical chefs, anyone? Charlottesville’s food and drink scene is ever changing, and this year, at least half a dozen chefs switched kitchens. Renowned sushi chef Hihishiro Tauchi left Ten to open Kokoro, Curtis Shaver swapped his post at Duner’s for one at […]
I can barely feel my toes, and I’m wishing I’d grabbed an extra sweatshirt before leaving the house. I’ve just spent entirely too much money on an 8″ pepperoni pizza and a Diet Pepsi in a souvenir Cavaliers cup I have no intention of keeping, and the November sun is blinding me as I squint at […]
In 10 months, a massive helium balloon will drift upward from the New Mexico desert to the edge of space, expanding to the size of a football field before it reaches a stopping point 23 miles above Earth. On a platform attached to it will be a tiny sub-orbital satellite, the result of nearly a […]
Last Tuesday afternoon, 300 people assembled cross-legged on the Lawn outside UVA’s Rotunda as famed spiritual leader and M.D. Deepak Chopra led a mass meditation session. “Hold your hand up like this,” he said into his mic. Up went hundreds of fists. If the hand was a brain, “this would be your spinal cord, and […]
Funding for the National Institutes of Health was thrust into the spotlight last week as canceled clinical trials for cancer patients became another flashpoint in the ongoing government shutdown standoff in Washington, D.C. The agency may serve as a high-profile pawn in a partisan budget battle, but for local researchers who depend on NIH grants, […]