UVA has hired Dr. Edward Scott as its deputy athletics director, the school announced Monday. Scott, who has spent the past five years as the vice president and director of athletics at Morgan State University in Baltimore, replaces Ted White, who stepped down in October.  
(Video) Larry Sabato of the UVA Center for Politics joins “The News with Shepard Smith” to discuss what could happen in the midterm election next November.  
(Audio) Brad Wilcox is the director of the National Marriage Project and a professor at the University of Virginia. He talks about how couples have coped throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, how internet searches of “divorce” spike in January, and how living apart may help save a marriage.  
Some great courses opened up. 
 Others not to be missed would be Payne’s Valley, Tiger Woods’ beast of a course at Big Cedar Lodge Resort in the Missouri Ozarks, and Davis Love Design’s thoughtful renovation of Birdwood Golf Course, home of the men’s and women’s teams of the University of Virginia.  
As the clock winds down on 2021 and we approach a new year, it is time to take a look back at what has been yet another successful year for athletics at the University of Virginia. Today, we’re taking our pick of the top five Virginia Cavaliers sports teams of 2021 (in no particular order).  
Bronco Mendenhall was slated to end his six-year run as UVA coach in the Fenway Bowl on Wednesday, but the postseason bout was scrapped on Sunday due to coronavirus issues within the Cavaliers’ program. So instead, Mendenhall’s stay in charge of the Cavaliers finished unceremoniously and abruptly.  
On Sunday, three schools announced that they wouldn’t participate in bowl games: The University of Virginia Cavaliers dropped out of Wednesday’s Wasabi Fenway Bowl “due to the number of COVID cases impacting its roster, preventing safe participation,” the Fenway Bowl said in a statement announcing the game’s cancellation.  
Chef Bin Lu didn’t grow up learning how to cook. In fact, it wasn’t until he started college at the University of Virginia that he started to really even think about it.  
Every morning, [UVA Law alumnus] David M. M. Taffet gets up at 6:30 a.m., takes a walk and spends time journaling. About 8:30 a.m., he wakes his wife, Christie Zwahlen, with a fresh cup of coffee in bed, where they talk about the morning he’s had and the day ahead. The couple founded JukeStrat, a consulting company focused on social impact – helping companies identify, develop and expand opportunities to engage in purpose-driven work that creates lasting change in the world – in corporate and nonprofit entities.  
As the Nov. 2 election results kept trickling in late into the night, Del. Todd Gilbert [a UVA alumnus] and his staff were particularly interested in the results. With a flip of a few seats, Gilbert – the Republican who has represented the 15th District since 2006 and served as Minority Leader since 2020 – had a good chance of becoming Speaker of the House of Delegates, the most powerful position in the legislative body.  
Phillip Jefferson, a professor and administrator at Davidson College in North Carolina, has largely served as an academic since 1990, when he earned his doctoral degree from the University of Virginia.  
American forward [and former UVA star] Daryl Dike signed with West Bromwich Albion of the second-tier English League Championship on the first day of the winter transfer window, agreeing Saturday to a 4 1/2-season contract.  
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Chris Taylor brightened up a young fan’s holiday recently when he made a virtual visit to Children’s Hospital LA. Taylor, a former star for Cox High in Virginia Beach and the University of Virginia, appeared on screen to chat with a young fan who told Taylor he was happy the utilityman re-signed with the Dodgers. He also congratulated Taylor on winning the World Series with the Dodgers in 2020.  
For the second straight year, Ronde Barber is a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The former Cave Spring High School, University of Virginia and Tampa Bay Buccaneers star was among the 15 modern-era player finalists for the class of 2022 announced by the hall of fame Thursday.  
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health [and a UVA alumnus], has retired after 12 years, one of the longer terms in that position. Perhaps not many people know or care, but projects he and his colleagues have researched over the years have touched us all.  
NASA’s new administrator (a UVA Law grad) discusses the space race with China, UFOs, billionaire ‘astronauts’ and building a ‘mission control’ for climate change.  
(Commentary by Chloe Sparwath, fourth-yeart student) The statements, “Happy Holocaust” and “Peace be upon Hitler,” sound like Nazi propaganda from 1940s Germany. But they’re not. These are comments posted in 2021 on the TikTok page of 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, Lily Ebert. According to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, antisemitic hate crimes have doubled since 2020. Each of these incidents occurred in the United States of America over the past year. Why has there not been more outrage and media coverage?  
Research by Elizabeth W. Dunn at the University of British Columbia and colleagues, published in the journal Social Cognition, suggests that men and women react quite differently in the short-term to receiving good and bad gifts. To test their theories, Dunn and colleagues set up two experiments, each with a twist in their tail. In the first experiment participants (students at the University of Virginia) were sat down to chat with a new opposite sex acquaintance for four minutes. After this they were asked to select a gift for their new friend from a list of gift certificates for a variety of...
The Village’s Environmental Advisory Board held an education-focused meeting Dec. 8 at Village Hall, in which current and former Garden City High School and college students participated, discussing their interests environmental and life sciences. Caroline Flanagan is attending the University of Virginia. She was working on her final project for “Sustainable Energy Systems,” overseen by her college professor who is a subject expert who is in consulting work on gas utility lines and local projects.  
It’s just more of the same, said University of Virginia swimmer Abby Kapeller, who was in Minnesota to spend the holidays with her family in Excelsior. “As athletes, we’re more cautious,” she said. “If you get COVID, the whole team shuts down. So, while I’m home, I won’t see friends who aren’t vaccinated. I don’t want to bring COVID to my team. It just feels like it never stops,” she added.